How the Word Is Passed

We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.

Why are politics so consumed with the past?

I had sung the Black National Anthem countless times, but hearing those words reverberate around me in this place, on this day, moved me in a new way.

For some Americans, history isn’t the story of what actually happened; it’s the story they want to believe.