Semiquincentennial Blues
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Teach Truth & Sing the Blues: Jesse' Songbook for Survival
This is Jesse Hagopian's newsletter, "Teach Truth & Sing the Blues": Dispatches from the frontlines of the struggle for antiracist education, social justice organizing, and creative expression.
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500-Year-Old Slave Revolt of 1526 Redefines Freedom as US Turns 250
Before 1776 or 1619, enslaved Africans seized freedom in 1526 on land that would become the United States.
500-Year-Old Slave Revolt of 1526 Redefines Freedom as US Turns 250
Before 1776 or 1619, enslaved Africans seized freedom in 1526 on land that would become the United States.
Singing The Blues For A Better World At The Fort Wroth African American Music Festival
The Blue Tide performs at Fort Worth African American Music Festival (FWAAMFest)—tracing the music back to ancestral land, memory, and the unfinished struggle for freedom
In Era of Book Bans and War on History, Sinners Reveals What US Tries to Forget
Sinners deserves to win Oscars: It’s a blues poem, a freedom cry, and a love letter to powerful culture.
Affordability Crisis Deniers Must Be Replaced by Workers’ Power
A nation that can feed its billionaires but not its children has an economic system built to protect cruelty.
ICE Out Now!: Melting the ICE Age with Social Movement Heat
Jesse Hagopian delivered this speech at a rally organized by Seattle educators for immigrant rights and to defend students from being kidnapped by federal agents.
In 2025, They Tried to Ban the Truth—We Taught It Louder
My new Truthout essay demonstrates how more educators came to understand that education has never been neutral — it either liberates or subjugates. And many are joining the freedom struggle.
Baristas on Strike on the Front Page. Starbucks’ “Here’s to Baristas” Holiday Ad on the Back — Anything to Avoid a Union Contract.
The struggle baristas are brewing is part of a larger fight for worker's power.
A SNAP Decision: Eat the Rich
A poem by Jesse Hagopian