July 4, 2025 | Cascade Publishing House

✊🏾 Six Men in the Echo Chamber

A Call Still Ringing

📍 Introduction

“America listens best when its contradictions are loud.” Six men stood in different eras and spoke in various tones. Still, all shouted into the same chamber: A nation that promises liberty while testing it against cruelty, silence, and erasure. Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin each faced America’s broken mirror. And in that reflection, they didn’t see defeat. They saw a challenge. read more

Jon Ossoff and the Quiet Reformation of the Democratic Party

In a political landscape often dominated by spectacle and soundbites, Jon Ossoff offers something rare: a quiet, deliberate kind of leadership rooted in investigation, reform, and generational clarity. Since his historic election to the U.S. Senate in 2021, becoming the youngest Democratic senator in nearly four decades, Ossoff has steadily carved out a role that blends progressive values with pragmatic governance. read more

Frederick Douglass and the Broken Promise of Freedom

🕯️Mourning in America

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before a crowd in Rochester, New York, and delivered a message that pierced the American conscience: “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.” While the nation celebrated liberty, Douglass mourned its failure to extend that liberty to all. His speech, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?, was not a condemnation of hope, it was a lamentation of hypocrisy. read more