What It Means to Be Patriotic 

This Independence Day, as we gather around the grill and watch fireworks with our friends and families, we wanted to revisit a conversation Audie had with Baratunde Thurston, writer at Puck News and host of the PBS show America Outdoors.
What does it mean to love this country despite its divisions? How can we come together and hold space for the complexity of the American story? And what would those conversations sound like if we did?
Baratunde Thurston (www.baratunde.com/) is a writer, host and executive producer of the PBS television series America Outdoors (www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/b...) , creator and host of How To Citizen (www.howtocitizen.com/) , and a founding partner of the new media startup Puck. His comedic memoir, How To Be Black (www.baratunde.com/howtobeblack) , is a New York Times best-seller.
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