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Explore articles, commentary, news, and events related to July 4th, Independence Day, and reflections on Frederick Douglass and his historic speech, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”

Commentary, Articles and Essays by Dr. Ron Daniels

Celebrating July 4th: Toward a Season of Resistance

By Vantage Point Articles

The June 17th Day of Direct Action (DODA) spearheaded by the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) is history.  “Drum Majors for Justice,” primarily from the Northeast where IBW has worked to form drug and criminal justice policy reform collaboratives, marched to the gates of the White House to demand that President Obama end the racially-biased and destructive “War on Drugs” that has so severely damaged Black families and communities and led to mass incarceration of Black people.

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