What's the American Story?

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i think we can ask if you really wont to understand what is the real american story, for me, is when people said they were trying to make America great back in ta day. And that's, and that's actually inthat's in cuoted in the document. Yet, although i think that most people would agree tat there has been progress in terms of human rights and civil rights since 17 76,. it has been scratching and clawing and fighting all the way right against a reactionary force that have won a whole lot of the time.

“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