Juneteenth is a combination of the words ‘June’ and ‘nineteenth’, which represent June 19, 1865, the day that Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, announcing the end of slavery based on President [...] Continue Reading
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(Editor’s note: This is an essay from Black Marxism and American Constitutionalism: From the Colonial Background through the Ascendancy of Barack Obama and the Dilemma of Black Lives Matter, 4th ed., [...] Continue Reading
Military-Industrial Complex and Eisenhower’s Warning
When the Trump White House released its budget and called for a $1.5 trillion line for military spending, it reminded me of a farewell address from Jan. 17, 1961. President Eisenhower warned the [...] Continue Reading
Anne Moody: Soldadera of the Deep South Civil Rights Movement
The Black Past in American History Anne Moody was born on Sept. 15, 1940, on a rural plantation in Mississippi owned by a Mr. Carter. In her famous autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi, [...] Continue Reading
Paul Robeson: The Tallest Tree
(Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a new monthly column). Paul Robeson was born in Princeton, N.J., on April 9, 1898. His mother, Maria Louisa Bustill, was married to Reverend [...] Continue Reading
The Black Past in American History: Then and Now
(Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a new monthly column. In the current political climate, Black history is contested terrain.) When one reflects upon American colonial history, one [...] Continue Reading
A Lonesome and Unnecessary Death
According to the recent Congressional testimony (Dec. 17, 2025) of former special prosecutor Jack Smith, Donald Trump was the “most culpable and most responsible person” for the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol [...] Continue Reading
Trump’s Attack on Black History
During his first term in office, Donald Trump took a tour of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and was guided by Lonnie Bunch. Bunch is the first Black American [...] Continue Reading
MLK and His Legacy in Fresno
The September 2025 issue of Vanity Fair magazine features Bernice King’s essay entitled “The Fight to Protect MLK’s Legacy.” She begins her essay with these words: “…on March 28, 1968, I celebrated my [...] Continue Reading
Race and Racism in American History
The President’s military D.C. parade on June 14—which was sparsely attended versus the millions who turned out for the No Kings Day throughout the nation—was missing an honorary contingent of marching [...] Continue Reading
Black Men in the Mexican Revolution
BY MALIK SIMBA President Trump on March 27 signed an executive order requiring the Smithsonian Museums, and in particular the African American History and Cultural Museum, to restore “Truth and [...] Continue Reading
Dialectics of Black Ideology in Age of White Reactionaries
Soon after the Russian Revolution of 1917, a number of American Blacks emigrated to Bolshevik Russia, the new pro-worker state. One noted emigre was a Minneapolis postal worker named Homer Smith Jr., [...] Continue Reading