They should have called you the founding director. As we say around here. Her first book a fragile freedom African American women and emancipation published by yale extremely well regarded and important study of an understudied topic up to that point and so the perfect person to take on the challenge to recover the story of owna judge lets give erica a big round of applause. [applause] theres no other place i should be giving this talk. Good evening, everyone. Happy black history month. Here i am. So, first, let me make offer a few thank you. Of course to Dunn Bradford who invite saidd invited. Meechlt i think there is invited me. I think there is no better place to give this talk. I would like to thank emily for helping me with arrangements. It has been a very, very busy week. This book just came out on tuesday of last week. And so as an academic, doug said my first book was published with Yale University press and this book is more of a set of crossover trade books for a larger, more
Special exhibition that is titled determine, the 400year struggle for black equality. It is part of the statewide commemoration of the 400th anniversary of significant events that happened in virginia. And fundamentally shaped the course of American History. It is called american evolution 2019. And the determined exhibition is a legacy project of that statewide commemoration. And in particular, determined commemorates the 1619 arrival of the africans in virginia. It looks at the ensuing 400 years and traces the legacy of slavery in virginia through emancipation, segregation, the modern Civil Rights Movement up until the present day. One of the unifying themes is the struggle for equality. It explores various ways in which black virginians have fought for equality and that means freedom from enslavement and oppression. Whether that means fighting for equal justice and equal access for opportunities. It is for the consideration of humanity. The exhibition covers a broad chronological ar
And a strong red flag law. Here is congressional reaction. In mexico, deb haaland, a democrat, tweeted, i am ready to make a change, i am ready to end hate and gun violence in every town. Democratic congressman of rhode island said, moms demand rally recess rally today asking our are our lives worth more than the contributions of the nra . If so, Mitch Mcconnell should do something and allow the senate to take up the background check bills we have already passed in the house. A member of the judiciary committee, jim jordan, tweeted, the problem with red flag laws if you are guilty until proven innocent. It is the same inverted standard that bob mueller tried to apply to president trump, but that is not how Justice Works in our country. On wednesday, september 4, the House Judiciary Committee convenes to consider a number of gun violence prevention bills. Watch live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, online at cspan. Org, or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Announcer tonight, on q
Rooted in the simultaneous pursuit of liberty and enslavement. Because just a few weeks after that first General Assembly in 1619, ship over arrived carrying stolen African People taken from angola. Here, they were sold and sold again. The first enslaved African People who were not granted the same freedoms that would be given to white landowning columnists they joined the thousands of virginias first people, the members of the Virginian Indian tribes who would also wait centuries to have the same freedoms. Hold so today as we hold these commemorations of the First Representative Assembly in the first free world, we have to remember who it included and who it did not. That is the paradox of virginia, of america, and of our representative democracy. A full accounting demands that we confront and discuss those aspects of our history. It demands that we look not just to point in time for hundred years in the past, but at how our commonwealth and our country evolved over the course of thos
Pursuit of both liberty and enslavement. Because just a few weeks after that first General Assembly in 1619, a ship arrived carrying stolen African People taken from angola. Here, they were sold and sold again. The first enslaved African People who were not granted the same freedoms that would be given to white land owning colonists. And here those enslaved africans joined the thousands of virginias first people, the members of the Virginian Indian tribes who would also wait centuries to have the same freedoms. So today as we hold these commemorations of the First Representative Assembly in the free world, we have to remember who it included and who it did not. That is the paradox of virginia, of america, and of our representative democracy. A full accounting demands that we confront and discuss those aspects of our history. It demands that we look not just for hundredn time 400 years in the past, but at how our commonwealth and our country evolved over the course of those four centuri