As we get into July this week, we've got lots on our minds. Independence Day is this Friday, and it feels like a prime time to reflect on the first six months of the year. So much has changed—and certainly not for the overall good—and yet we must keep pushing and fighting. If there is anything we can glean from the history of America, in spite of its many flaws, is that you keep fighting for your rights and sense of freedom and peace. Independence is something to commit to, to advocate for, to practice and express.
I encourage you all to make some time this weekend to reflect, remember, absorb, and integrate what independence in America means for you and yours, and how you can continue to push along for it.
Be strong, Philly!
Kyle V. Hiller
BSR associate editor
Parenting toward what I know our country can be.
Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey
As a kid, Jill Ivey loved donning American flag fashion for the Fourth of July. Today, with her own child born between two Trump administrations, she marks the holiday in a different way, as a parent resisting injustice.
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