And monticellos historic interpretation manager, Brandon Dillard, discuss how depictions of both slavery and jeffersons life have changed over recent decades. Thomas Jeffersons Monticello recorded this program and provided the video. Good afternoon. My name is Brandon Dillard and i am the manager of historic interpretations at monticello. In previous live streams, i am behind the camera reading questions from our audience as they come in, so we can engage with you while we are talking to our first person, interpreter actor bill barker, who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do Something Different this week. Given the National Conversation and given that it is all around us, we know 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed. We reopened this weekend. And in recent weeks in the united states, millions of people all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different forms of racial injustice, whether it is raciallymotivated Police Violence or racia
Around the world in the wake of the murder of george floyd many are now asking how the Political Movement it catalyzed conformant true change and perhaps even revolution one woman who knows exactly how hard the struggle against systematic oppression and racial capitalism is the legendary black panther activist professor angela davis whos fight for equality in the sixtys and seventys led then president Richard Nixon to refer to her as a dangerous terrorist she joins me by skype from oakland in california thank you so much professor angela davis coming on going on the ground can i just ask you right at the beginning theres a lot of quoting of the great writer James Baldwin at the moment he actually wrote an open letter to you what did he mean when he said our bodies must render impossible the corridors of the gas chamber. Well of course James Baldwin was. Not only with a scent writer but also he was involved in a whole range of social justice issues and he took up my case wrote an open l
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