Good afternoon, everybody. I want to welcome everyone to this afternoons panel. Public history and public memory, talking about slavery at president ial plantations. Im jennifer morgan, im a professor of history at new york university, where i work on colonial History Office enslaved people. Im very excited to be part of this afternoons conversation. Though my role here is primarily to facilitate and to learn, the presenters here have all spent their careers working in public history and have been at the front lines of important efforts to situate the president ial plantations back into the history of slavery or to situate slavery back into the history of the president ial plantations. Im not entirely sure i went back and forth on how to say that. Im not entirely sure is the right way to say it, but what i think is the crucial thing to say is that we are considering the processes that have erased the obvious location of the enslaved in the histories of the presidencies and everyone her
To situate the president ial plantations back into the history of slavery. Or to situate slavery back into the history of the president ial plantations. Not entirely sure. I went back and forth on how to say that. Im not entirely sure which is the right way to say it. The crucial thing to say is that we are considering the processes that have raised the obvious that heavy raced that have erased obvious location of the enslaved in the histories of the presidencies. Everyone here on this panel, and many of you in the audience are involved in efforts that precisely do not assume slavery is some sort of addition or add on to the president ial histories, but the two are inextricable. To that end im excited to hear each of this afternoons speakers talk about the work they are undergoing at the president ial plantations. I will introduce all of them now in the order in which they will speak. We planned the presentations to allow for significant time at the end for the panelists is to panelist
Calorie protesting the removal of the Confederate Flag. Durch johnson leads into round three of the st andrews open first to gaza where six cars have been blown up. Six people have been injured. The vehicles belonging to senior officials from the ruling group. Well go to gaza. What can you tell us about the attack . The first comes out of gaza was for a while by the son of the interior ministry in gaza. He said a series of explosions and cars were blown up this morning, and they belonged to activists in the palestinian factions, and he didnt clarify who is behind this attack. But he described these groups or the ones who behind these explosions as criminals, and he said that the security have started their investigations, and he and security will assist who is behind the attacks, and the explosions. Anyway the situation in gaza right now. If coming after the explosions theres not a statement by the group, a claim of responsibility, which was six cars in front of six houses in a neighbo
Record. Plus we meet the people working with technology to save the sounds of the past. Houthi fighters have fired artillery shells into the port city of aden. The latest casualty count is more than 40 dead and 170 injured. The attacks come two days after the government in exile has been recaptured from houthi forces. Speaking to us from aden. As well rebel fighter put it, they started openingly artillery on the residential area. To the north of aden it is densely built and heavily populated with reffege ease from other areas of aden who fled during the past two months. We have now confirmed around 48 dead and 182 injured. Out of the 48 dead at least 10 children are fatalities. So, this area has seen some clashes before because its at the entry point of aden but now it seems that the fighting has intensified in the past 48 hours. Much of the fighting has now also switched to tiaz yemens Third Largest province and the key strategic region. Ntasha gname has this report. A fireball lights
And london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 7am in singapore, pm in london and 7pm in washington dc, where the investigation into alleged russian interference in last years us president ial election has laid its first charges. Paul manafort, the Trump Campaigns former manager, was taken into custody, accused of Money Laundering and conspiracy against the United States. A former business associate of mr manafort has also been indicted, and a former adviser to mr trump has admitted lying to the fbi. Our north america editor, jon sopel, has this report from washington. Reporter mr manafort, are you turning yourself into federal authorities today . This wasnt how it was meant to be. Lawyer mr manafort has no comment. Over a year ago the multimillionaire Paul Manafort was Donald Trumps Campaign Chairman and a figure of huge influence. Today, hes been ordered to an Fbi Field Office to face the most grave charges. Normally talkative, today, much more tight lipped. The indictment runs