What is expected to be one of the hottest days on record. Is also the hundreds day 100th day of the Trump Presidency and people are concerned. People are here talking about Climate Justice. Last night at a forum at Howard University was a discussion about Climate Justice and climate racism. Climate disruption is the topic everywhere. We are standing in front of the ous kent along where a News Conference is happening, of the leaders who will be marching today. There are thousands. I wanted to start by going to 350. Org. Of good morning. You standing between the capital and the washington monument. Your thoughts on this day and why so many are gathered. It is an important day. It is the 100th day of the Trump Administration. We have seen nothing but bad news for people in the planet. That is why so many will come. Amy who came up with this . That is what is wonderful. It is truly a coming together of labor, health groups, environmentalists, community groups, over 900 organizations are ma
Dr. Coles our second speaker is casey clabough. Casey is a professor at Lynchburg College and editor of the james dickey review and is english graduate director. A richmond native who grew up and appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume best creative nonfiction of the press texas review and a variety of other things. One of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. Hes had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. He has published over 100 works in anthologies and periodicals, such as the sewanee review, the virginia quarterly review and so on. Author of confederados a novel of the americas. The confederates that left the u. S. At the end of the war and went to brazil. I remember from 30 or 40 years ago reading an article about that. Bill maybe wrote that and i have never heard of it and i got interested. Im looking for to hearing his top. His talk. His talk today is entitled, confederados. Casey clabough. [applause] professor clabough than
And appomattox county, he has editor of the multivolume best creative nonfiction of the press texas review and a variety of other things. One of the editors of the encyclopedia of virginia, which is online. Hes had a number of fellowships and received a number of awards. He has published over 100 works in anthologies and periodicals, such as the sewanee review, the virginia quarterly review and so on. Author of confederados a novel of the americas. The confederates that left the u. S. At the end of the war and went to brazil. I remember from 30 or 40 years ago reading an article about that. Bill maybe wrote that and i have never heard of it and i got interested. Im looking for to hearing his top. His talk. His talk today is entitled, confederados. Casey clabough. [applause] professor clabough thank you, dr. Coles. Thank you all for being here and for inviting me. So extend the last speaker eloquent comment about the end of the war being a time of beginainty, id like to with that. That
Last until the Pipeline Leak can be prepared thank you for kathryn brown. On ken smith prices go up but according to the governor pat mccrory North Carolina could see willie soon. The governor said based on updates from Colonial Pipeline a bypass is being constructed to allow fuel supply operations to return to normal. We spent the day talking with gas station owners to see if theres need to worry. And this, what did you find out . Reporter employees say they are watching and waiting just like everyone else but to give you an idea of how serious this is we stopped at one gas station in the price around 4 00 was posted at 2. 09 we stopped back a few hours later at 7 00 and it had risen to 2. 25. The owner is concerned about how long it will last. He says his options are deal with it. You have to do what you have to do. The owner of the station shares the same attitude and he will do what he has to do in hopes the problems was also. For now prices are higher in supply is low. Normally he
He has also had the joy to experience today. I think he is eager to go back south of the james. Emmanuel grew up in did what he county. Dinwiddie county, so petersburg was home for him. Volunteering at the Petersburg National battlefield where he became a seasonal, worked there for a number of years and became a permanent historian. He has beenm there 14 years sharing this story which has largely been forgotten. The stories of the people affected by the presence of those armies has gone untold. Fortunately, emmanuel has brought that story to the forefront and is here to talk about one of the other enduring legacies of the war, the Freedmens Bureau. The question, what is going to happen with all these emancipated slaves . The Freedmens Bureau was an attempt to deal with that. It was a very complicated answer. Emmanuel dabney, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] emmanuel i am not sure how people deal with this traffic on the north side of richmond. It seems like whenever you leave richmond,