Joy Harjo is a poet and musician, and a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the Poet Laureate of the United States, from 2019-2022.
WMBR will air a much longer excerpt of this inspirational speech by Frederick Douglass, read by the renowned actor Ossie Davis, on the Nightly News next Monday, July 4, 2022, from 5:30-6:00 p.m. By the way, I hear Frederick Douglass has done an amazing job.
& bonus drop-in, because you cannot celebrate the Fourth of July without including Louis Armstrong, who claimed that holiday as his own birthday (a false claim, it turns out).
