This Fourth of July, “Democracy Now!” remembers Frederick Douglass‘ defiant Independence Day address, read by James Earl Jones during a performance of Howard Zinn’s “Voices of a People’s History of the United States,” and the life and legacy of legendary American folk singer Pete Seeger, who died this year at the age of 94.

‘Democracy Now!’:

— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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