Three Quick Links for Saturday Afternoon

Three Quick Links for Saturday Afternoon

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Descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts from his famous speech, "What, to the American Slave, Is the Fourth of July?" [npr.org]

When the Fourth of July Was a Black Holiday. "The Fourth became an almost exclusively African American holiday in the states of the former Confederacy - until white Southerners...snuffed these black commemorations out." [theatlantic.com]

Is the Fourth of July worth celebrating? "After Juneteenth, it's hard to overlook the hollowness of American freedom." [thenation.com]

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