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  • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
    F$$K the Fourth: Declaring Our Collective Independence from the Sinking Ship of U.S. Empire
    01 Jul 2026
    Douglass called the Fourth of July a hollow mockery in 1852, and nothing has changed except that the empire is now more corrupt, more unequal, and more at war than the founders imagined.
  • Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
    Slaveholders Who Signed the Declaration of Independence: Washington, Jefferson, and the People they Owned
    01 Jul 2026
    Black Agenda Report editors Margaret Kimberley and Ann Garrison discuss the personal and institutional hypocrisy that allowed those who said, "All men are created equal," to be slaveholders.
  • Elias Isquith
    White supremacy and slavery: Gerald Horne on the real story of American independence
    01 Jul 2026
    It's time to revisit America's heroic creation myth and what really happened in 1776, author-historian tells Salon
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