Coxe, senator, and all of our distinguished guest, welcome. I have a great honor to serve as chief executive officer for preservation virginia. Deskhalf of president ial preservation virginia board of trustees, i share our appreciation for friends and partners gathered today and Technology Leadership of the administration, the General Assembly, american revolution, and the James Northam foundation. As special appreciation to our partners in the National Park service, the representatives, and members of the family society. Today, we commemorate the events that occurred on the site 47 years ago the distinguished speakers who follow me will capture the importance of these proceedings and the direct influence still felt today. Hope it will define this place with the persistent efforts of women who ensured its preservation. Within these walls would have been lost were not for the vision and dedication of women. 1889, they founded the association for the preservation of virginia antiquity. T
Changes to the side that lost to the hosts japan on saturday. And after over 140 years of racing, towcester, the course where ap mccoy rode his 4000th winner, has been permanenetly closed. It went into Administration Last year, its 10 race days in the calendar will be re allocated. Eight months on from surgery on his hip, the former tennis world no. 1 andy murray has had his second win on the main tour since returning to singles. He has beaten the world number 13 Matteo Berrettini 7 6, 7 6. Hes through to the second round of the china open in beijing, he will now meet british no 3 cameron norrie. Just not being in pain now is making tennis a little bit more fun so the practice and the preparation for tournaments, its a lot easier. You know, the last few years, that really wasnt the case and i was finding it all really stressful, wasnt getting much enjoyment out of it. So, you know, its a little bit different now, which is nice. Well done to him. Thats all from sportsday. Coming up in a
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
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
Share our appreciation for friends and partners gathered today and acknowledge the leadership of the administration, the General Assembly, american evolution and jamestown your town foundation. Our special appreciation to our partners managing historic jamestown, the National Parks servic service, tribal represents, descendants and members of the society. On this site 400 years ago. Twishd speakers to follow me will kpir the importance of those proceedings and the direct influ i will focus on the persistent efforts of women. It would have been lost if not for the vision and dedication of women. In 1889, mary Jeffrey Gault and Cynthia Tucker coleman founded the association for the preservation for virginia antiquities. Now known as preservation virginia. Their goal was to save and restore disappearing larnd escapes and buildings that embodied our colonial divisions. Successfully securing powder magazine and Mary Washingtons fredericksburg home, the women established an organization, the