Professor Carl Tone Jones, M.Ed., - The Independence Day Project is a shared vision from like minded activists, scholars, community organizers and revolutionaries who see a need to create a new path for the independence of members of the African diaspora. The current power structure that is in place has created such a system that it is layered in protections and fail safes that prohibits access to wealth, power and freedom from the Black and Brown communities that have been exploited the most.  Sponsored by:  Vanguard Student Newspaper, LEADS and the Center for Student Leadeship Development