The Promise We Broke: Racism, Power, and the Cost of America's Unfinished Ideals

Every morning, millions of Americans stand, place their hands over their hearts, and recite the same promise:

One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The words are simple. The reality is not.

What happens when a nation continues to repeat a promise it has never fully kept?

In this bold and unflinching work, Brandy H. Williams challenges the stories we tell ourselves about progress, merit, and equality-and exposes how systems of racism are not relics of the past, ...