“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester ...
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What did the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act do?

After attempts to pass President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda stalled in Congress, lawmakers in the latter part of 2022 enacted scaled-back legislation that increased taxes on large ...