They talk about them going back to africa. But you have top understand these people, most of them, they were americans. They have been here for three, four, five generations. So it wasnt like they were just going home. They were going back to the continent that their ancestors originally inhabited. It was quite the risk. And so they took their culture, what they knew here there. Some of them took the bad aspects, too. The slavery, but that was all they had ever known. And they built houses like this one because after all, theyre the ones who built this house. There were a lot of, basically, greek revival houses that the freed slaves built in mississippi and africa and across the river was louisiana and liberia which was settled by freed slaves from louisiana. There was a georgia, there was a virginia, a kentucky, and maryland county. And all of those people came from those states in the u. S. Explore the history and literary life of jackson this weekend saturday at noon eastern on cspa
Controversial new power to suppress dissent. And amid heightened security, nigerians appear to choose a new government. Good evening and thank you for joining us on al jazeera america. Im imran garta. And im randall pinkston. Antonio mora has the night off. Swift end to the saudi run air air strikes. Shia hughts are said to be advancing in southern and eastern yemen. Omar saleh has the story. The head list on friday was diverse. Air defense pat ris air base runway, supply routes and weapons depot. We were attacked by the coalition. Now, the air base is under control of the yemeni army. We continue, we will continue to target their movement, their concentration of forces until we clarify all the areas that they are controlling now. Reporter in the meantime, yemens president abd Rabbu Mansour hadi arrived in egypt to attend the summit. He is recognized as yemens legitimate leader, he had called for intervention and will probably seek more military and Political Support from arab leaders
For the last two years, frontline has watched what looked like a revolution. protestors shouting from a dictatorship to democratic elections. Dr. Mohamed morsi. Dr. Mohamed morsi. Unfortunately, he was no mandela. From the overthrow of a new president. They were chanting against morsi, they were chanting against the Muslim Brotherhood, and some people were chanting for the military. To the military taking control. What happened to egypts revolution . Was the military responding to the will of the people or making this all happen . And what will come next . With sisi, we have something much more ominous, much more dangerous. Global posts charles sennt reports for frontline. We got to really go this way. Come on. On egypt in crisis. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from and by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant, and
For the last two years, frontline has watched what looked like a revolution. protestors shouting from a dictatorship to democratic elections. Dr. Mohamed morsi. Dr. Mohamed morsi. Unfortunately, he was no mandela. From the overthrow of a new president. They were chanting against morsi, they were chanting against the Muslim Brotherhood, and some people were chanting for the military. To the military taking control. What happened to egypts revolution . Was the military responding to the will of the people or making this all happen . And what will come next . With sisi, we have something much more ominous, much more dangerous. Global posts charles sennt reports for frontline. We got to really go this way. Come on. On egypt in crisis. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from and by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant, and
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