My talk to incarcerated men and their families at a Black History Month celebration
by Peter Bohmer, February 11, 2026
This is the 100th anniversary of Black History Month. It should be this month and every month of the year.
Thanks for inviting me. I am continually impressed by the intelligence, creativity and talents of the inmates here.
The U.S. is a racist capitalist society, a system where the great majority of the world’s people are exploited by the wealthy 1% who profit off their labor. This is the history of the United States and it is out in the open today with the Trump regime.
Some important reforms have been won through collective struggle by slaves and abolitionists, by the women’s movement, the labor and Civil Rights and Black Freedom struggle, the anti-Vietnam war movement, the Chicano movement, the anti-apartheid movement in support of the struggle in South Africa, among others…