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Podcast: On The Issues With Michele Goodwin
Episode: Independence for the Rest of Us (with Guests Heather Lende, Rep. Attica Scott & Rep. Leslie Herod)
Description: What does independence mean for the rest of us? Women have long asked this questionâas have groups that have felt or experienced being shut out, excluded, colonized or enslaved. On July 5, 1852âa time in which the U.S. reaped benefit from the enslavement of kidnapped and trafficked Black people from the shores of AfricaâFrederick Douglass put it this way: âWhat to the slave is the Fourth of July?â That was long ago, before the Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War and ratification of the 13th Amendment. However, the questionâwhat does it mean to be free, equal an...