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HEARD ON MORNING EDITION
by Juana Summers
The Fourth of July is a day when a lot of us reflect on the promises of this country. But right now, we're confronting the fact that those promises are not equally fulfilled. The U.S. is experiencing a reckoning over the fact that the promises of America are not fulfilled equally. NPR's Juana Summers had a series of conversations with Black Americans to ask what patriotism means to them as they share how they experience patriotism ahead of the July Fourth celebration.