Bound in wedlock slave and free black marriage in the nineteenth century. It was published in 2017. A book about African Americans and marriage in the 19th century. The winner of multiple awards, including the Mary Nicholas prize. A variety of prizes that, the list goes on and on. Let me also mention her first book. To enjoy my freedom, southern black womens lives and labors after the civil war. Another multiple prize winning book and wonderful book about African American women in the post emancipation south. Dr. Hunter has agreed to come here today and talk to us specifically about the history of emancipation, the end of slavery during the civil war. A topic that was that is always on peoples agenda for teaching and discussion, but was particularly widely discussed earlier this summer on the anniversary of juneteenth. That is kind of what got us started thinking about inviting her to speak with us about that history, which is complicated, exciting, and always kind of in need of clarif
Alert to its highest level. Translator we will up the mobilization of the military operation from 3,000 to 7,000 soldiers on the ground. Macron visited the scene of the attack at notre dame basilica on thursday. He pledged to protect freedom of religion. The attacker was detained after being shot and wounded by police. One woman was a victim in her 60s who had been praying in the basilica. The others are a man in his 50s and a woman in her 40s. The alleged tacker is a 21yearold tunisian national. He said the suspect repeatedly shouted god is great in arabic while being treated at the scene. The bloodshed comes less than two weeks after a teacher in a paris suburb was attacked with a knife. The teacher had shown his students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in a class of freedom of expression. European Union Leaders condemned the attacks, calling on the International Community to work towards dialogue and understanding among communities and religions, rather than division. Chinas com
But many queions remain. The news came on the same day thtotal number of u. S. Infections tped 10 million. We will speak toulitzer ize winning journalist laurie gaett. Weill look at the death of palestinian chief negotiator saeb erekat who has died from covid. Then fears are growing that the Trump Administration is moving to overturn the election of joe biden. On monday, attorney general william barr authorized new probes into voter fraud as republican lawmakers are backing trumps decision not to concede to the president elect. President trump is 100 within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and wait his legal options. Amy we will speak to kristen clarke, president of the Lawyers Committee for civil rights under law. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. Attorney general william barr upended Longstanding Justice Department policy on monday by announcing federal prosecutors could investigate
Looking as carefully as is humanly and scientifically possible, we have put the state of mississippi into the Carter Carter column, and that is that. The electoral vote, by our calculations, 272 electoral votes to 153 so far for gerald ford, the opponent. Election 1976, day of decision. This is Richard Scanlon in washington. With me here today in our studios is professor Howard Penniman of georgetown university, mr. Stephen hess of the brookings institution. Today, we are going to try to discuss tuesdays bicentennial president ial election here in the United States. Not every last vote has even been counted now, though the provisional final totals are posted behind me, both in electoral and in popular votes for mr. Carter and for president ford. As you know, in this bicentennial president ial election, as in all of our elections in the long history of the republic, the actual winner is determined not by the millions of people who vote for but ratheror ford, by the 51 elections held in
Here in the bay area county registrars are busy processing ballots, but theres also a growing sense of anxiety from many voters. Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana reports in San Francisco on voter turnout and voter stress. Reporter just two days till polls close on election 2020, and county registrars offices across the bay area are already busy processing ballots. But for some voters there is still a pretty high level of anxiety. I am anxious in the sense that in light of the new voting, you know, vote by mail, we wont know whats going to happen till much later than tuesday. It becomes contested, violence, unrest, things like that. Reporter however you decided to keep track of the election, whether watching the news around the clock or checking updates, psychologists agree on one this can. Voters from all parties have been reporting high stress levels because of the election. Its been at times divisive and at other times bizarre. There are boundaries around how much of the conversations y