US@250: Pride, Reckoning, Aspiration with Dr. Ted Johnson

As we officially enter America’s 250th year, we’ll begin by examining the contradictions of America’s history around our guest’s US@250 initiative themes of “pride, reckoning, & aspiration.” Join us online January 27, 7:00-8:30pm EST for the continuation of UNUM: Democracy Reignited as we welcome Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Johnson.

Ted’s life, service, and scholarship are a love letter to America—both when he confronts our failure and takes pride in our accomplishments. Navy veteran Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Johnson, his family name a legacy first chosen to honor the new possibilities for Black Americans many presidents ago, writes about a football game when he stood during the National Anthem and his son—on the field as a player—chose to kneel. Both, he argues, are acts of love of country. Ted’s life, service and scholarship are a love letter to America—both when he confronts our failure and takes pride in our accomplishments.

Ted leads the New America’s US@250 initiative that “seeks to reimagine the American narrative with a focus on three themes: pride in the nation’s progress, reckoning with historical and contemporary wrongs, and aspiration for a better future.”