I will give you a quick pop quiz. We will bee easy as done discussing it but we will be taking it. You will also have the pop quiz for tbone and weasel. Lets start with August Wilson. August wilson was born frederick april 27, 1945. His mothers name was daisy wilson. She was a cleaning lady. Fredericks name was august kittle. Race is always one of the things we are discussing as we look at these plays. His father, Frederick August baker, hes a german is white or european. His mother is a black woman named daisy. She is a cleaning lady. We are talking about a mixed relationship. His mixed identity is a part of what he is working on when he is writing. How he is negotiating africanamerican existence is a part of who and what he is as he is working. It is part of the mission he is undertaking. He is the fourth of the six children. District in the hill of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. Toot of what wilson is going talk about deals with the great migration. I mentioned that in this class before.
I imagine for me this will be an emotional panel. We are taught in this country to honor our soldiers. Country toht in this protect our soldiers. I want to remind the audience that these are our soldiers. [applause] while i grew up reading about each and every one of these movements, be it the black Panther Party, the black arts movement, i would never have imagined that i would be pointed on a movement such as mine that would call us terrorists. That would make us enemies of the state. Nobody, unless you have had that experience, understands what that does to your spirit, to your body, to the people around you. I have taken the last six years of this iteration of our black Liberation Movement to go back and either read, listen to yalls talks, it is more than an honor. It is a historical moment to be on stage with you. Im going to start with you. Mr. Sanchez. [applause] oftentimes, people try to put us in a box. You are only black, you are only woman, you are only artist, you are only
Fantastic day. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] tvthis is America History where every weekend we spent 48 hours exploring our nations past. Isthe cspan cities tour exploring the american story as we take book tv in American History tv on the road with the support of our Comcast Cable partners. Coming up in the next hour and 15 minutes, the story of how this Central Michigan town became a state capital. Minutes we will have a job or of the state capital, which is been in continuous use since 1879. Learn aboutll lansings rich history. We begin at the turner dodge home. James turner was a pioneer. It was not until the state legislature designated this area that he came with other folks into the capital. You might have expected a more sensible approach. We did not do that. We had 10 months to build the capital city and that was a
Jeffrey special representative of the u. S. For syria engagement can any of americas policies in that country deliver a successful outcome. James jeffrey welcome to. The sake of context here we go back to december last year the announcement by president. He had won basically over isis in syria and little u. S. Troops would be coming home from syria was costly and misleading and it was misunderstood by everybody. Made it clear at the time to us. He wasnt losing the bubble as we say on the fight against isis which. Recognized could. Constitute itself nor was he. Loses interest in syria he said at the time a that the United States would maintain its air cover over the not be that u. S. Special operations personnel he made this point very clear publicly and ill be on the side airbase in telling the president and secretary of defense are you going to meet with an issue so. That we would continue to deploy special forces troops into northeast syria to go after isis if they started showing si
Story tonight in San Francisco where a driver strikes 5 people in the west portal neighborhood earlier today. 2 of the victims died at the scene and one of them was a child. Emergency crews responding to the deadly crash that forced you, lois street and west portal avenue to shut down today. This happened just after 12 40pm, according to San Francisco fire, the driver was traveling eastbound a new low when that person crashed into a bus shelter where 4 people were standing walk San Francisco, a pedestrian advocacy, Nonprofit Group says a man and a toddler were killed and a woman and a baby were among the injured taken to the hospital. This happening as dozens of people were in the area. Many witnessing the tragic car accident. Its a whole bunch and is here. Sirens going fire trucks. It was simply just chaos here. A bunch of crowds. Everything was nothing like this has ever happened. San Francisco Mayor london breed stopped by the area to pay her respects in earlier she posted on the so