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Fourth of July: Frederick Douglass, America’s Ill-begotten Founding Son

Friday, July 3, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

America turns 250 as Trump turns the Fourth of July into a vanity grift of passports, pageantry, caste, and resentment. iPINIONS contends that Frederick Douglass, America’s ill-begotten Founding Son, still exposes the country’s original sin and its ongoing failure to honor the promise of equality. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/fourth-of-july-frederick-douglass Read more.

Trump Is Making Juneteenth More Cause Than Commemoration

Friday, June 19, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trump stripped Juneteenth and MLK Day from the national parks’ free-admission calendar while making his birthday a free-admission day. iPINIONS notes that’s not an administrative tweak. That’s a confession. Meanwhile, Obama opened a monument to Black achievement as Trump wages war on Black history. Read the full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-is-making-juneteenth-more-cause Read more.

Why My New Profile Pic Says More About Papa Renty Than Me

Wednesday, July 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

I hate taking selfies. But I finally caved, and ended up being happily upstaged by the image of Papa Renty. He’s a Black founding father too many want to whitewash from history. iPINIONS explains the backstory behind my new profile pic. Read more on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/my-new-profile-pic-says-more-about Read more.

Trump Marks Juneteenth by Removing Bust of MLK and Eliminating Civil Rights

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

He once flaunted the MLK bust like a prop. Now he’s removed it, while gutting DEI and pretending Juneteenth is woke fiction. iPINIONS exposes how Trump is now erasing the civil rights of Black Americans as brazenly as he once exploited Black voters for political gain. Read my full post on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-marks-juneteenth-by-removing Read more.

A Dream Deferred?  No, America Was Never America to Blacks…

Monday, January 17, 2022 at 6:53 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

No doubt we are all familiar with the dream Martin Luther King Jr had for his four little children. But, in so many ways, that dream has become a nightmare. Nothing betrays this fact quite like his namesake, MLK III, being all over TV last week damning two white Democratic senators to hell for blocking… Read more.

Juneteenth and Reparations for Slavery

Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at 6:56 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Juneteenth and reparations for slavery Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. It stems from slaves in Galveston, Texas, not being informed of their emancipation until June 19, 1865. That was two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. What about reparations? The US House of Representatives… Read more.

Frederick Douglass Is the ‘Greatest Figure America Has Ever Produced’

Monday, October 15, 2018 at 7:42 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

I have been making this claim for decades. It’s based primarily on the fact that Frederick Douglass personified both the contradictions and promises that define America’s founding documents. And he did so like nobody else has or ever could. Unfortunately, even black historians have been so indoctrinated with white historiography, they invariably try to qualify my… Read more.