JULY 4, 2020
'July 4, 2020, will be commemorated this year against the backdrop of America's Third Reconstruction, our latest effort to make Independence Day meaningful as a celebration of a republic no longer in the grips of anti-Black racism and white supremacy. This requires confronting the brutal history and contemporary evolution of white supremacy and the extraordinary ways the American, and not just the Confederate, flag has been wielded as a weapon against racial equality in this nation.'
Peniel Joseph – Professor of Public Affairs; Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin