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What's Often Forgotten About the Freedom of the Fourth
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Fireworks are loud, simple, and temporary. Freedom is none of those things. I’m Napoleon Bradford, and I’m asking a question most of us were never taught to sit with: when did you become free, and freedom from whom? If your answer is “July 4th, 1776,” stay with me, because for millions of Americans that date has never been fully true historically, legally, or socially. We walk…