Black Agenda Report's Danny Haiphong examines the lies at the root of the story America tells itself - as the corporate media obscures the reality of social relations at the base of American power, our collective notions of exceptionalism and innocence mask the exploitation that occurs around us everyday, and the exploiting class at the top of American society.
Danny is author of the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake NewsâFrom the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror from Skyhorse Books.
The illegal slave trade continued right up to the Civil War, requiring US authorities to ârecaptureâ and then expel the human cargo.
Bernie Sanders is slightly more popular among black Democratic voters than white ones.
Teachers in the school district that was supposed to be the model for education reform just rebelledâand won.
Activists keep winding up dead under questionable circumstances, but Black St. Louis is a stressful and violent place.
Air pollution is disproportionately caused by white Americans' consumption of goods and services, but disproportionately inhaled by blacks and Hispanics.
