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  • Juneteenth: America’s Other Independence Day
    April 20, 2021
    | Bill Moyers

    (Recorded at Carnegie Hall on June 19, 2019) Juneteenth marks the day in 1895 when slaves in Texas learned they were free. Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation two and a half years earlier, but many states ignored it, and it wasn’t until two months after the Civil War ended that Union troops arrived to enforce emancipation. The 19th of June became Juneteenth as every year growing numbers of African Americans recall with jubilation their ...

  • Racism in America
    April 1, 2021

    Slavery is our nation’s original sin; the treatment of people of color a blot on the history of a country “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Here, a variety of Moyers conversations with Michelle Alexander, Bryan Stevenson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maya Angelou, David Simon, and others offer a useful primer on the history of racism in the United States and its continuing impact.

  • Letters From an American
    Silencing Black Voters, Again
    March 29, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Today, Republicans talk about “election integrity,” but their end game is the same as that of the former Confederates after the war: to keep Black and Brown Americans away from the polls to make sure the government does not spend tax dollars on public services.

  • Letters From an American
    The Southern System
    March 27, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Georgia's new voter suppression law has deep roots.
  • Letters From an American
    As Maine Goes, So Goes the Nation
    March 15, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Happy Birthday Maine
  • Inequality
    The Incalculable Debt That America Owes Black People
    February 26, 2021
    | Bruce Bartlett

    The Biden administration is reviving the legal and moral case for slavery reparations.

  • History
    Frederick Douglass and Ulysses S. Grant on Reconciliation and Its Pitfalls
    January 28, 2021
    | Stephen West
    The post-Civil War years teach us the perils of heeding calls for reconciliation while ignoring those for justice.
  • Letters From an American
    The GOP — Is Not the Party of Lincoln
    November 15, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Men like Abraham Lincoln organized to overturn the idea that they were mindless workers, doomed to menial labor for life. In 1859, Lincoln articulated a new vision for the nation, putting ordinary men, rather than elite slaveholders, at the heart of national development.

  • For the Record
    Lest We Forget: The Birther Lie
    August 14, 2020
    Donald Trump rode to power on the wings of a dark lie — one of the most malignant and ugly lies in American history. Bill Moyers and four historians on Donald Trump and white supremacy.
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Amiri Baraka
    July 3, 2020
    The Why's and the Wise


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