National Public Radio (NPR) ended a more than three-decade tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence on Monday, July 4.
NPR has read the Declaration of Independence live on Independence Day since 1988. However, on Monday, the publication hosted historians Annette Gordon Reed and Jill Lepore to discuss “the meaning of equality in this document.”
“This founding document wasn’t the whole story. So this July 4th we hear some of the ways Americans have used the Declaration since 1776,” said host Steve Inscape.
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“Following last summer’s protests and our national accounts on race, the words in the document land differently,” NPR . said.
The federal government has set aside $30 million to fund public broadcasting in 2021, According to the New York Times.
“NPR is an independent, not-for-profit, membership organization of separately licensed and operated public radio stations throughout the United States,” Public Broadcasting Corporation Says.
