The people in and around houston who again find themselves dealing with serious damages due to flooding. May they and those many First Responders be safe as they begin the recovery of their community. May all that is done be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house her pproval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. Madam speaker. The speaker for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon seek recognition . Mr. Blumenauer pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, i demand a vote on the speakers approval of the journal. The speaker the question is on the approval of the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favor please say aye. Opposed, no. The ayes have it. The journal stands approved. Mr. Blumenauer madam speaker. The speaker for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon further seek recognition . Mr. Blumenauer i object to the vote on the grounds that a q
Thanks for being with us on cspan3s American History tv and let me begin with that question. Who was redoshi . Well, redoshi was a west african born women who very sadly was kidnapped in 1860 and is believed to be the last as far as we can tell, the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. Its believed that she was yoruba, she was kidnapped in a slave raid. Possibly as young as 12 years old and she was taken. In the film, which we are about to see, just a brief glimpse of her and her name in the film is sally smith. Can you explain . Yes, so she was bought by a name called washington smith and he gave her his name, it appears that four survivors were bought by him and they all were given his name basically. And sally i guess its a diminutive, its sort of a name that you give to a child or to an animal, sort of his way of dehumanizing. And what was the clotillda . It was the last slave ship to reach the u. S. It was in 1860. It was for many years dismissed as a hoax, but archeolo
Glimpse of her and her name in the film is sally smith. Can you explain . Yes, so she was bought by a name called washington smith and he gave her his name, it appears that four survivors were bought by him and they all were given his name basically. And sally i guess its a diminutive, its sort of a name that you give to a child or to an animal, sort of his way of dehumanizing. And what was the clotillda. It was the last slave ship to reach the u. S. It was in 1860. It was for many years dismissed as a hoax, but archeologists actually discovered it in mobile bay just less than two months ago. Many of the survivors formed their own community in mobile known as africa town. Their descendants still live there today. And when you heard about that discovery in mobile, alabama, what was your initial thought and what can we learn from its artifacts . Yeah, well, its so important. It validates the experiences of survivors of the cotilda, it validates the stories of their descendants. Its a Poo
hello again, everyone, thank you so much for joining me. i m fredericka whitfield. major breaking news, moments ago the cdc s vaccine advisory panel voted if favor of authorizing the pfizer and moderna covid vaccines for children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. the white house says those vaccines will now be available in states as soon as next week. cnn s miguel marquez has been following this key vote. miguel, this is a welcome moment for many parents across the u.s. and a lot of pediatricians who had been hoping for this. reporter: a lot of people across the country hoping for this. look, it is not clear how significant uptake will be, given where we are in this pandemic. but certainly this was the last big tranche of americans who weren t able to be vaccinated, almost 20 million of our youngest, most vulnerable americans who will now soon be able to get two different vaccines. they had a long meeting today, they took a lot of questions. they had questions and s
Francisco is honoring our service men and women today. From the areas local news station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning news at 7. Good morning. Thank you so much for being here and joining us here on the kron 4 morning news. Im stephanie lin. Its saturday. May the 25th. Lets get your day started with a look at the weather with dave sphar i good morning, stephanie. Good morning, everybody. And starting things off. It looks like were back tracking into spring even though were in unofficial start of summer can take us a while to start really feeling like that yet again. But for today, we do have that fog cloudiness right around the immediate bay and its snuck into some of the valleys inland to now, thats should on balance mix out for most locations will be a little stubborn at the coast. And thats a stubborn right now, as you can see, the east bay shoreline. But this will probably parse away long before leave you today. Heres a look at our satellite picture in most of the major traf