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They saved their largest mission project. Which is now georgetown university. In this groundbreaking account, professor swarns follows one family through nearly two centuries of enslavement to uncovering the harling story of the Catholic Church in the united states. Rachel is a journalist, author and associate professor of journalism at new york university, who writes about race and Race Relations as a contributing writer for the New York Times. Her articles about georgetown universitys roots in slavery touched off a National Conversation about americas universities and their ties to this painful period in history. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for humanities, the ford foundation, the Leon Levy Center for biography, the Biographers International organization, among others. As a correspondent for the times, she reported from russia, cuba, guatemala and southern africa. And covered emigration and president ial politics and motion Michelle Obama and her role in the
The korean war armistice was signed in july 27, welcome back to washington journal. The korean war armistice was signed in 1967, and hereto reflect on that event is a director of International Affairs at the George Washington university. Professor, welcome to the program. Thank you for having me. Lets start with how the korean war began. When did it start and what were the events that led up to it . First, the terms of the events that led up to it, if you want to understand the origins of the korean war you have to also look at korea between the period of 1910 to 1945 when it was under japanese colonialists. The reason you have to work at that period is because japanese colonialism really created varied deep social and political divisions between koreans. There are many koreans who suffered in a lot of different ways under japanese colonialism. But there were also some koreans who benefited in different ways. So when world war ii ends in 1945, korea is very deeply divided as a society.
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We are so excited to. Be here to celebrate. Rachel il swarns for the 272 the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic church. In 1838, a group of americas most prominent catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, which is now georgetown university. In this groundbreaking account, professor swarns follows one family through nearly two centuries of indentured servitude and enslavement to uncover the harrowing origin story of the Catholic Church in the United States. Rachel swarns is a journalist, author and associate professor of journalism at New York University who writes about race and Race Relations as a contributing writer for the New York Times. Her articles about georgetown universitys roots in slavery touched off a National Conversation and about Americas University days and their ties to this painful period in history. Her work has been recognized, raised and supported by the national endowment, the humanities, the