Thanksgiving: Lincoln, the Civil War, FDR and some little known facts
While many believe that Thanksgiving Day is related to the mythical 1st Thanksgiving of the Pilgrims, that linkage wasn’t actually made until later.
BY CHEGITZ
Native Blood: The Myth of Thanksgiving
Every schoolchild in the U.S. has been taught that the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony invited the local Indians to a major harvest feast after surviving their first bitter year in New England. But the real history of Thanksgiving is a story of the murder of indigenous people and the theft of their land by European colonialists–and of the ruthless ways of capitalism.
BY MIKE ELY
What to the slave is the fourth of July?
“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.”
By FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Legacy of the Black church: Excerpts from 9 Letters
“The Black church has historically been a space where the liberation dreams of the African-American nation have been given expression through sermon, song, and political action.”
By MIKE ELY
From the wall of the Communards
“Each year we remember and tell the story of the first socialist revolution. Vive la Commune!”
By MIKE ELY
Kasama book club continues: Learning from the Panthers
“Perhaps now more than at any time during the intervening decades, the politics and revolutionary defiance of the Panthers seem fresh, urgent, and timely.”
By RYAN