Independence Without Liberation: Telling the Truth About Freedom in America

As fireworks light up the sky this Fourth of July, we pause to ask: What to the slave is the Fourth of July? Inspired by Frederick Douglass’s timeless question, Anneshia Hardy, Executive Director of Alabama Values, delivers a powerful reflection on the difference between freedom and true liberation.

Anneshia calls on us to shift the narrative, reclaim our histories, and invest in a collective future rooted in love, honesty, and self-determination. This is more than a holiday message — it is a call to action, to become the architects of our own deliverance, no matter how much this nation resists our truth.

Watch now, and join the movement for liberation beyond independence.