A special 4th of July episode featuring Dr. Cornel West.  Dr. West talks about American democracy and how the humanities can inform the ongoing struggle for justice and equality.

Further Reading (direct links at anchor.fm/dphi): Full text of Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", The Heroic Slave, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Paideia, Curtis Mayfield, Socrates, William James, African American Spirituals, The Isley Brothers,  Samual Beckett, the rightwing nativist party mentioned in the introduction, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Dr. West's canonical books, Race Matters and Democracy Matters.

Thanks to Kelsey Percival, Hannah Warner, Julia Archer and Gabriel Grinsteiner.  For more about D-phi and our live events, visit dphi.org.