What to the Immigrant Is the Fourth of July? - Non Profit News

What to the Immigrant Is the Fourth of July? - Non Profit News

Image credit: AcidTestPhoto Independence Day has historically come with complicated feelings, particularly for marginalized people. It’s hard to ignore the fact that many in this country were not free on July 4, 1776—and that many are not fully free today. Although oppressed people have done the work of moving this country closer to its professed ideals, the work of liberation continues. I wrote this article back in 2016, inspired by Frederick D…

What to the Migrant is the Fourth of July?

In 2025, 173 years after Frederick Douglass gave his 1852 Independence Day speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” we can update his famous question and ask another question: What to the Migrant is the Fourth of... The post What to the Migrant is the Fourth of July? appeared first on Where Peter Is.