So you can make up your own mind, created by cable in 1979, cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Hello everyone. Welcome back to barnes noble upper west side. Im really excited you are all here tonight, we have an amazing author who will be here talking about her book and i hope youre as excited as i am. For those of you who do not know her and awardwinning journalist and professor at New York University who has written extensively about diversity in news media and the art world. She is the author of spectacle, it when the naacp image award and the black journalist white media which one the press club award for media criticism. Both the books are available on the table as well. Her articles interviews are published in major media including the washington post, New York Times, guardian, nation and the chronicle of higher education, lets face it she knows what shes talking about. In your latest release diversity inc
1619, ship over arrived carrying stolen African People taken from angola. Here, they were sold and sold again. The first enslaved African People who were not granted the same freedoms that would be given to white landowning they joined the thousands of virginias first people, the members of the Virginian Indian tribes who would also wait centuries to have the same freedoms. These commemorations of the First Representative Assembly in the free world, we have to remember who it included and who did not. Virginia,e paradox of of america, of our representative democracy. A full accounting demands that we confront and discuss those aspects of our history. It demands that we look not just in time for hundred years in the past, but at how our commonwealth and country of all dover the course of those four centuries. Over they evolved course of those four centuries. Joining us now is cassandra newbyalexander. She teaches at norfolk state university. We appreciate you being with us here on cspan
Rooted in the simultaneous pursuit of liberty and enslavement. Because just a few weeks after that first General Assembly in 1619, ship over arrived carrying stolen African People taken from angola. Here, they were sold and sold again. The first enslaved African People who were not granted the same freedoms that would be given to white landowning columnists they joined the thousands of virginias first people, the members of the Virginian Indian tribes who would also wait centuries to have the same freedoms. Hold so today as we hold these commemorations of the First Representative Assembly in the first free world, we have to remember who it included and who it did not. That is the paradox of virginia, of america, and of our representative democracy. A full accounting demands that we confront and discuss those aspects of our history. It demands that we look not just to point in time for hundred years in the past, but at how our commonwealth and our country evolved over the course of thos
Pursuit of both liberty and enslavement. Because just a few weeks after that first General Assembly in 1619, a ship arrived carrying stolen African People taken from angola. Here, they were sold and sold again. The first enslaved African People who were not granted the same freedoms that would be given to white land owning colonists. And here those enslaved africans joined the thousands of virginias first people, the members of the Virginian Indian tribes who would also wait centuries to have the same freedoms. So today as we hold these commemorations of the First Representative Assembly in the free world, we have to remember who it included and who it did not. That is the paradox of virginia, of america, and of our representative democracy. A full accounting demands that we confront and discuss those aspects of our history. It demands that we look not just for hundredn time 400 years in the past, but at how our commonwealth and our country evolved over the course of those four centuri
Want to get your calls and comments on the style of President Trumps Foreign Policy. You can join in. If you support his approach is 2027488000. If you oppose it, 2027488001. You can also join us on social cspanwj cspan at or facebook cspan. A very busy program to talk about including our look at 400 years ago the first ever the first africans arriving in virginia. There were slaves in other parts of what was then the spanish colonies in florida, we will focus on 1619 later in the program. He will begin with the president as he arrives at the g7 summit. Headlines, trump orders u. S. To stop bleeding china. The president ordering companies to find an alternative to china to do business after the country slapped tariffs on u. S. Imports. Trump has no legal of four authority to force companies to abandon china and it was unclear what he could do to weed out packages containing fentanyl. The president of the National Retail Federation Said that it would be unrealistic to expect u. S. Compa