About to take off, is mainly a command post exercise. Command post for combined forces with north korea and links them all together with all of the other commands helpghout the peninsula, the new leaders arrive on the peninsula learn how to work together. This is mainly a coordination activity of the commanders. What is the purpose . Is this in reaction to the recent rationing ratcheting up of rhetoric between the United States and pyongyang . Or is this different . Longterm thing done for decades. Usually in the june and july timeframe. By august, youre ready to get the people in the command posts working with each other and trying to establish good relationships. Does it have other political limitations, certainly, but primarily a training effort. Host some people believe given the heightened tensions between and north states korea, that maybe these might be postponed. A piece says north korea has warned that this will cause a catastrophe by holding their annual joint military drill
Little did we realize that our analysts would be addressing president elect trump. We are fortunate that we have five historians who have a sense of public purpose and would like to discuss and reflect on some of the major Public Policy imperatives and context that the new administration that will be faced with. As laid out in the program, we will follow the alphabetical order. First is a scholar of the middle east who has written about u. S. Arab relations. Among other topics. The next is of the Harvard University Kennedy School whose work covers the intersection of race and Public Policy. His Research Deals with the construction and policing of criminality in the United States. Our third speaker is my colleague, margaret omara. I always want to say it like maureen ohara, and she always corrects me. She is currently focusing on the relationship between hightech and american politics. She has recently published a tuesdays foral elections. The next is author of the much acclaimed book e
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Rainy day in washington, d. C. I am honored to be the chair of this panel which attempts to answer the simple, yet in many ways, complex question, what is africanamerican religion. Africans in america, the vast majority, were by law chattel, to be bought and sold, exploited unapologetically and often cast aside once every ounce of value had been extracted. But unlike the livestock that was listed alongside them on the state inventories and at auctions, this peculiar brand of property fought to assert and preserve their humanity, in their relations with each other, in the establishment and operation of their social institutions, and especially in their sacred beliefs. Peoples of african descent adopted a belief system that adopted their ethnicities in the particular circumstances that shaped their lives and labor. Time and experiences altered and redefined the beliefs and practices familiar to the ancestors. The descendents of these men and women adopted new ways of looking at the world
Brought to the tasks. They are truly visionaries. It is unfortunately dont have the opportunity of having this conference in the new museum space. But when you look over at the National Museum of African American history and recognize that a few short years ago, there was nothing there, and what lonnie has accomplished is mindboggling. The idea that lonnie and jim have had about making this engagementand an with the past as a central aspect of opening the museum to the American Public is really quite terrific. I must say i feel uneasy standing up here at this moment. This is the last session of a long conference day. And as stimulating as the conference has been thus far, from my own experience, i know what happens at this point [laughter] everyone is sort of flagging. Youre thinking about fresh air. You are thinking about a drink. And are probably exhausted at having all sorts of people appear chattering away. The good news is i think you will find the presentations in this session ve