Scen on radio comes to you from the center for documentary studies at duke universityfrom p x. Next time, more history. We go to my home town up north and tell the story of a bloody war on the prairie. And o exactly how the people who look like me priede the land that i grew up on.
“All men are created equal.” Those words, from the Declaration of Independence, are central to the story that Americans tell about ourselves and our history. But what did those words mean to the man who actually wrote them? By John Biewen, with guest Chenjerai Kumanyika.
Key sources for this episode:
Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People
Ibram Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning
The Racial Equity Institute