Remembering legacies of trauma and resilience, this 4th of July:
“To reckon is to remember; to remember is to turn toward the history of this country with curiosity, and a true desire to face the patterns of brutal exclusion that bring us to this moment. What happens if, to honor this country’s promise of greatness, we ask ourselves a set of deeper, perhaps more difficult questions: What does it mean to belong to one another, as a community, and as a country? How can we encourage each other to bravely acknowledge the suffering of the past caused by government-sanctioned racism? Where, in our lives now, are we bystanders, and when are we brave?”