We are inside the Casemate Museum, aptly named because we are actually inside a casemate. A casemate is nothing more than a vault inside a fort wall. So you are actually inside the fort wall, kind of unique for museums at this point in time. We will walk you through the museum and talk to you about the interesting history that occurred here. Some of our stories will deal with the virginia indians, the africans that first arrived here, and their plight during the American Civil War. Thousands and thousands of years ago, the natives of this land started to migrate. They migrated as far west as mexico and the Mississippi River valley. They migrated as far south as south america and essential and central america. They migrated all the way here to Point Comfort, where fort monroe is located today. They were hunters, they were gatherers, and lived a very successful and prosperous life here. In 1607, the english came here. By that time, they had learned and massed the art of cultivation. The
John lewis. We will start by reading the story from the New York Times this morning. Rning. The New York Times reports it like this. Lewis,ntative john bloodied as selma and across the historic south, and who is carried a mantle of of moral authority into congress, died on friday. He was 80. This was confirmed by nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. Stagewis announced he had stageiotic cancer four pancreatic cancer. I have fought for human rights he nearly my entire life, said. Mr. Lewis was a valiant stalwart of the Civil Rights Movement. Later,an a halfcentury after the killing in may of george floyd, mr. Lewis welcomed the resulting demonstrations against Police Killing of black people and more broadly against systematic racism in all corners of society. It was very moving to see hundreds of thousands of people from all over america and around the world take to the streets, to speak up, to speak out, to get into what i call good inuble, mr. Lewis told cbs june. Dro
Your vote is your voice. We are going to be talking about the records of the southwest Voter Registration project. They are the oldest and largest nonpartisan latino Voter Registration project in the country. The collection contains the first 20 years of the organizations existence. They are still in existence today. It is a deep and wide collection if you are interested in learning about Voter Registration, particularly in minority communities. The organization was started in 1974 by willie velasquez. William velasquez. He is from san antonio. As a young man, he was heavily involved in the chicano movement. When he was in college he was founders of the mexicanamerican youth organization, which was involved in doing Voter Registration drives at local colleges and also involved in high school walkouts. This was in the late 1960s, early 1970s, the height of the chicano movement. The beginning and height of it. He was really interested in Voter Registration and getting the Latino Communit
To tonight at the event, calvin baker talking about a more Perfect Union race integration, and the future of america. Tonights event is part of our ongoing event series, bringing authors during a difficult time. And this event. The you and a button. Included a link to our website. Or you already have a book or would like to contribute to this series, we included in that button. Send to us at this time. If you participated, technical glitches may come up. We will solve any issues. I am pleased to introduce tonights speaker, novelist and journalist, author of four claims novels with the finalists for best fiction and he previously taught at Middlebury College in san francisco. New York Times Magazine and elsewhere. The Senior Editor at world books, New York Times bestselling author michael smith. Before this we would see. A more a more Perfect Union race integration, and the future of america, captivating portrait of the historic united states. Spanning the first conference. Incremental
We will get to that conversation in a minute. The former National Security advisor has a link the excerpt lengthy excerpt of his book online. Trumphe writes the conversation with xi reflected not only the incoherence in a trade policy but the confluence in trumps mind of his own political interest in u. S. Natural national interest. Trump co. Mingled the personal and the national not just on trade questions but across the whole field of National Security. I am hardpressed to identify any significant trump decision during my white house tenure that wasnt driven by reelection calculations. Martha raddatz has an interview on sunday. The network released clips of her interview. Here is john bolton talking about Vladimir Putins perception of President Trump. Describeuld you Vladimir Putins relationship with trump . I think Vladimir Putin thinks he can play him like a federal. He doesnt think he is faced with a serious adversary. I dont think he is worried about donald trump. Donald trump se