Happy Fourth of July

Happy Independence Day from Edwin, Carol, and Team Black. We'll be back on July 10 to launch Edwin’s newest book, Israel Strikes Iran.

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In 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered an Independence Day address to the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society, asking, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” 

There are at least three notable recordings of this speech: one by Mr Douglass's descendants, one by James Earl Jones, and one by Ossie Davis.