Fine Print
Each issue offers a mix of updates, reflections, upcoming events, and ways to take action, all told with the clarity, care, and cultural fluency you expect from Embrace.
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The Fine Print: A plea to protect public memory
The 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence has inspired the revisiting of stories from our shared past.
It is in its retelling that history becomes part of public memory—public memory is the successful transformation of history from a static record into a dynamic narrative that circulates among people in the present moment.
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The Fine Print: Building the map to the ballot and beloved community
Now is not the time to bemoan how our votes don’t matter. It’s time to prove that they do, both by showing up just like we did in 2020 and fighting any attempt to stop us.
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The Fine Print: Ibram X. Kendi and the Chain of Ideas
For many people, America’s rapid authoritarian turn came out of nowhere.
Not Ibram X. Kendi.
The author of Stamped From the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist shows in his new book Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age that America’s anti-democratic policies are part of a worldwide trend—one that long predates the current administration.
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The Fine Print: Ta-Nehisi Coates takes America to task
In an age where fewer Americans trust the government than 70 years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates reminds us that the road to reestablishing that trust heading into its next 250 years must be bold, consistent, and inclusive.
The Fine Print: Telling the whole history of America’s 250th anniversary
The juxtaposition of how the United States has chosen to celebrate its 250th birthday is a perfect encapsulation of our current moment:
The Fine Print: The truth-telling power of Black music
While introducing the Obama Presidential Center on the South Side of Chicago last Thursday, Former President Barack Obama didn’t use his time at the podium to call out the current president, address detractors, or stoke anger.
He did what he’s spent much of his career doing: trying to inspire hope.