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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.

MLK Day in MAGA’s Jim Crow 2.0 America

Monday, January 19, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

On MLK Day, Donald Trump isn’t honoring MLK’s legacy; he’s dismantling it. From scrubbing MLK Day and Juneteenth from the National Park Service calendar, to whitewashing American history under an Orwellian “sanity” order, to weaponizing DEI bans as grievance-driven affirmative action for Whites, Project 2025 amounts to a full-scale rollback of civil rights. iPINIONS damns… 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.

Observing MLK Day

Monday, January 18, 2021 at 6:39 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would marvel at America’s schizophrenic march towards the Promised Land of his famous dream. After all, America elected its first Black man as president in 2008; elected its first Black woman as vice president in 2020; and, even closer to his home and heart, elected… Read more.

Observing MLK Day

Monday, January 21, 2019 at 7:37 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would bemoan that America remains so far from the Promised Land of his famous dream. It speaks volumes in this respect that President-elect Trump marked observations of this holiday two years ago with a racist rant against MLK protégé John Lewis. I commented in “Observing… Read more.