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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…
Mark P. Fancher
African and Indigenous Peoples: An Alliance for Defense, Survival and Revolution
23 Nov 2022
The day known as Thanksgiving is an opportunity to remember how the settler colonial state began its genocide against both indigenous people and enslaved Africans.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The End of American Thanksgivings: A Cause for Universal Rejoicing
23 Nov 2022
Glen Ford wrote many powerful essays, but his unflinching analysis of the history of the holiday we call Thanksgiving endures nearly 20 years after he wrote it.
Mark P. Fancher
Indigenous Peoples’ Land - Stolen Fair and Square
23 Nov 2021
Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday, in which exceptionalism and selective amnesia are celebrated.
Don Fitz
A Statue of Hatuey
22 Jul 2020
Hatuey led the first guerrilla warfare against European invasion of the western hemisphere.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Settler Colonialism and the Second Amendment
17 Jan 2018
“The violent appropriation of Native land by white settlers was seen as an individual right in the Second Amendment of the U.S.