Provided the video. Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us for what promises to be a timely, eliminating roundtable discussion looking back on the 50th anniversary of the successful struggle to elect newarks first black mayor, kenneth gibson. Elected in june of 1917, is an 1970,stration marked his administration was part of a wave of political to 1974. Ion from 1967 his history is vital right now as black lives struggle against Police Violence against george floyd, breonna taylor, and the attempted murder of jacob blake have found a call for black liberation ball raising familiar questions about the roles of electoral politics and black freedom struggles. Electionago, gibsons came on the heels of the 1967 rebellion in newark, the Police Beating about unarmed man sparked an uprising against White Supremacy and its enforcers in blue and its enforcers in blue in the jim crow north. Racism,anizing around renewal projects, and countlessl injustice, beatings had gone unpunished
About and that is interpretation at Little Round Top. Joshua lawrence chamberlain. Why did we choose this topic . I think i pushed it. Last fall, chris took my civil war class out to Little Round Top. Notid an incredible job just telling us about what butened at Little Round Top he did an insightful job of helping my students understand the construction of historical narratives. Focusing on chamberlain and the different accounts from Joshua Chamberlain. Way ford up a different my students to understand. I want to do a quick plug. Is aould note chris Gettysburg College alum. 2006. While at gettysburg, i believe is when you started to do some volunteer work for the park . No. My first year at the college, i worked at [indiscernible] i got an internship at the park, that was my First National park experience. I fell in love with it and i have been fortunate to be able to make a career out of it. Its a wonderful journey. I wish i was a student now. The program does Amazing Things across th
Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us today. Todays Education Brain trust is called from brown to fisher, increasing racial diversity to improve Educational Equity. I am melanie newman, the chief Public Engagement and Communications Strategist for the nacp Legal Defense fund, the organization i am proud to say i work for and that is responsible for brown and fisher. So i want to give a little bit of hello . Oh. I want to give sorry. I want to give a little bit of background about myself. I am, ive been with the Legal Defense fund since march of this year but worked in the Obama Administration and on the hill for quite some time. But this issue and the reason i am happy to be here with all of you today is personal to me. I am originally from new orleans but also went to school in selma, alabama. Which im sure all of you are familiar with. My father, dr. Norwood, was the first black School Superintendent in selma, alabama [applause] thank you. And when he in 1987
A san Antonio Walmart parking lot. The youngest victims were just 15 years old. We will get the latest. Then 50 years ago, rebellions broke out in the cities of newark and detroit. 43 people died in detroit, 26 and newark. Thousands were arrested. In 1967 alone, there were 160 rebellions that made when you have resistance at that level, you cannot call it a riot. It is people rebelling against oppression and against exploitation. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On capitol hill, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has scheduled a vote on the republican Healthcare Plan today after multiple previous efforts to put the republican legislation to a vote failed amid dissent within the republicans own party. Arizona republican senator john mccain is set to return to washington, d. C. , for the vote, only a week after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. The senate will technically b
Are hospitalized in san antonio, texas, where dozens of undocumented immigrants were discovered packed in the back of a sweltering tractortrailer in a san Antonio Walmart parking lot. The youngest victims were just 15 years old. We will get the latest. Then 50 years ago, rebellions broke out t in the cities of newark and detroit. 43 people died in detroit, 26 and newark. Thousands were arrested. In 1967 alone, there were 160 rebellions that made when you have resistance at that level, you cannot call it a riot. It is people rebelling against oppression and against exploitation. Amy all t that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On capitol hill, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has scheduled a vote on the republican Healthcare Plan today after multiple previous efforts to put the republican legislation to a vote failed amid dissent within the republicans own party. Arizona republican senator john mccain is se