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 News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror from Skyhorse Books.
Beginning with the Slave tax, the US has overburdened Black communities with taxes for services that they often don’t get.
The academic laboratory of the Venezuelan coup is housed at Harvard. “Behind every US-backed war on a foreign people there will be a body of scholarly work.”
Black theologian Howard Thurman’s Pilgrimage of Friendship deeply influenced the worldview of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Blacks and Palestinians share a common struggle against colonialism; Venezuelan elections the most transparent in the world; the "hard work" of becoming a billionaire is exploitation.
“The hard work of becoming a billionaire is called exploitation,” said William Anderson, co-author of “As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation.” Anderson
