36 min

On Crazy We Built a Nation (Seeing White, Part 4‪)‬ Scene on Radio

    • Documentary

“All men are created equal.” Those words, from the Declaration of Independence, are central to the story that Americans tell about ourselves and our history. But what did those words mean to the man who actually wrote them? By John Biewen, with guest Chenjerai Kumanyika.


 


Key sources for this episode:


Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People


Ibram Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning


The Racial Equity Institute


 

“All men are created equal.” Those words, from the Declaration of Independence, are central to the story that Americans tell about ourselves and our history. But what did those words mean to the man who actually wrote them? By John Biewen, with guest Chenjerai Kumanyika.


 


Key sources for this episode:


Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People


Ibram Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning


The Racial Equity Institute


 

36 min