Five links: to an essay from Otherwords via ScheerPost; to a transcript of an author interview from Salon; via Black Agenda Report and ScheerPost; to video from Black Agenda Report of an interview of the same author; to a book review from the Nation; and to a commentary from Black Agenda Report. (Scroll down for ALL OF IT 6-28-26.) — MCM

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FROM JULY 1  At 250, American democracy is under siege, by Mitchell Zimmerman | Otherwords / ScheerPost  This Fourth of July marks the 250th birthday of a new kind of nation state — based not on ancestral ties to a land or on the territorial reach of monarchs, but on shared principles about the rights of citizens and the purpose of the state.  READ MORE . . .

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FROM DATE UNCERTAIN  Gerald Horne on the real story of American independence. Interview conducted by Elias Isquith | Salon / Black Agenda Report / ScheerPost  If University of Houston professor Gerald Horne is right in his new book, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America, Isquith writes in his intro, “then the traditional narrative of the creation of the U.S. is almost completely wrong.” READ MORE . . . 

Click HERE for video of another interview of Horne, entitled “The farce of you lie,” by Margaret Kimberley of Black Agenda Report.

Click HERE for a review by Horne in the July/August issue of the Nation of historian Joseph J. Ellis’s The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding (2026). 

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FROM JULY 1  Barack Obama, George Washington and the 4th of July, by Margaret Kimberley | Black Agenda Report  The 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence once again raises the issue of the lies that were taught as historical fact and how those lies impact Black people to this day. READ MORE . . .

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MAY BE CONTINUED