radio for the 4th (a day early)
Jul. 3rd, 2020 02:25 pmA yearly activity is listening to the NPR folks read the Declaration of Independence. I guess because tomorrow is a weekend day, it happened today:
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/883024992/npr-reads-the-declaration-of-independence
A correlated event that I've done a couple of times is people taking turns reading Frederick Douglass's
"What to a slave is the 4th of July?"
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/2019/07/02/
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/2018/07/05/
Also on NPR, his descendants doing it this year
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/884832594/video-frederick-douglass-descendants-read-his-fourth-of-july-speech
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/883024992/npr-reads-the-declaration-of-independence
A correlated event that I've done a couple of times is people taking turns reading Frederick Douglass's
"What to a slave is the 4th of July?"
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/2019/07/02/
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/2018/07/05/
Also on NPR, his descendants doing it this year
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/884832594/video-frederick-douglass-descendants-read-his-fourth-of-july-speech