Declaration of Independence's list of grievances feels eerily familiar in 2025

Declaration of Independence's list of grievances feels eerily familiar in 2025

For a lot of us, this Fourth of July feels impossible to celebrate.  It’s always been complicated. The soaring ideals etched into America’s founding documents have too often come with a silent asterisk, a quiet caveat that “liberty and justice for all” didn’t really mean ALL. Generations of Black, Indigenous, immigrant and other marginalized Americans have carried that contradiction, living with both the broken promises and the undeniable contri…