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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
"What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" read by Ossie Davis
03 Jul 2024
On July 5, 1852 Frederick Douglass was asked to speak on the topic of the nation’s independence celebration. Now known as What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, the speech was a stinging…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Terrible Origins of July 4th
03 Jul 2024
The causes of the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence are rarely taught in this country. The American colonists chafed under British rules limiting their settlements and feared they would end…
Jacqueline Luqman
What To the Exploited Working Class and Poor in a Capitalist Dictatorship Is the Fourth of July?
05 Jul 2023
The 4th of July celebration is a relic of American exceptionalist ideology. There is very little independence in a capitalist dictatorship.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Slaveholders Who Signed the Declaration of Independence: Washington, Jefferson, and the People they Owned
06 Jul 2022
Black Agenda Report editors Margaret Kimberley and Ann Garrison discuss the personal and institutional hypocrisy which allowed those who said, "All men are created to equal," to be slaveholders.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Terrible Origins of July 4th
29 Jun 2022
The causes of the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence are rarely taught in this country. The American colonists chafed under British rules limiting their settlements and feared they would end…