This book the anatomy of blackness, sites of slavery in the age of the leather. And then came last year the much diderot and the art of thinking freely which is now in paperback and im holding it up. Its a beautiful cover. Andrew, how did you go from, im curious about the through lines of the three books. How did it start with the first book which is about an intellectual history of monstrosity in literature and ideas which have a lot to do with bitter row, to what the enlightenment figures thought about race and onto the third book diderot and the art of thinking freely . First, thanks, jim pick a truly great to be here today. I have always been attracted to which my call intellectual history, tracked down an idea over time, both of the affects people and the people are affected by the idea. So very quickly about this first book, how to monstrosity was incredibly important for people of the 17th and 18th century because it was this hotly contested topic. Was god responsible for human
So please reduce your speed john. Well as you can see over the bay bridge robin weve got a mix of cloud cover and sunshine now you can see thats a mix over San Francisco. Things are gradually getting more and more bright but as you also noted weve had some drizzle this morning so roadways are a bit on the slick side. More and more clear skies into the afternoon means a better chance to enjoy some of our cooler temperatures today, were still in the midst of some moderate to get air quality now thats definitely better than we have been will still be holding on to these moderate conditions through the weekend and likely into the start of next week too. Another spare the air alert in effect today and tomorrow, 50s and 60s for our current temperatures, a cool start a bit of a grey start and then later on today just a nice and comfortable finish with 60s for your highs and San Francisco and oakland and 70s in san jose. A member of congress have a duty to take all necessary action to preserve
Appearance of sunshine yet again and daytime highs comfortably back in the 60s and 70s. Robin. Thank you john we have some problems to talk about starting off in San Francisco, all of a sudden caltrans started blocking lanes on one on one. And it sort of threw everyone for a loop because were like whats going on theres no you dont mention of construction that supposed to be happening. But they have several lanes close all of a sudden on southbound one o one at cesar chavez in San Francisco, at least the 3 left lanes and so this is definitely doing some damage to your morning drive southbound 1, one is awful. It is backed up onto just about the whole stretch of the central freeway, its backed up onto the westbound skyway so youre going to hit this heavy traffic as soon as you exit the upper deck of the bay bridge from fremont street all the way out to the scene there at south one o one, its just awful and northbound traffic has a view of the southbound activity so northbound one oh one
Shrank stories about individuals who led slavery volts, educated fellow free people, and participated in abolitionist on harpers welcome to the Virginia Museum of history and culture in richmond, virginia welcome to our latest special exhibition which is titled determined, the 400 years struggle for black equality. This exhibition is part of a statewide commemoration of the 400th anniversary of significant events that happened in virginia and fundamentally shaped the course of American History that statewide commemoration is called american evolution 2019 and the determined exhibition is a legacy project of that statewide commemoration. And particular, a determined determined commemorates the 16 19 arrival of the first recorded captive africans in virginia. Then it looks at the instilling 400 years and traces the legacy of the beginning of slavery in virginia through emancipation and segregation, the modern civil rights movement, up till the president they. One of the unifying themes o
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