And i just want to say that this book, americas black capital, is a really profound new way of looking at the history of atlanta. And so its only fitting that his first author talk in atlanta, be here at the Atlanta History Center are many of you all already have read the book, but some of you all might not might not be aware of his background. But professor ober is, a professor of history, and hes also the founding director of the center for the study popular music at the university of and he received his ph. D. From indiana university, bloomington and he received his undergraduate degree a bachelor of art in history from, Morehouse College and. Hes previously two books. His first book was black power radical politics and he wrote hip hop revolution. The culture and politics of rap. So this is his third book. And having read his first book, it was a great book. But this book broke new ground. And without further ado, i want to welcome to the stage dr. Jeffrey oji obaa. Good everyone t
Is aprofound new way of looking at the history of atlanta. And so its only fitting that his first author talk in atlanta, be here at the Atlanta History Center are many of you all already have read the book, but some of you all might not might not be aware of his background. But professor ober is, a professor of history, and hes also the founding director of the center for the study popular music at the university of and he received his ph. D. From indiana university, bloomington and he received his undergraduate degree a bachelor of art in history from, Morehouse College and. Hes previously written two books. His first book was black power radical politics and African American identity, and he wrote hip hop revolution. The culture and politics of rap. So this is his third book. And having read his first book, it was a great book. But this book broke new ground. And without further ado, i want to welcome to the stage dr. Jeffrey oji obaa. Good everyone to say its a pleasure to be here
welcome to belfast and the lyric theatre where tonight, the play agreement will mark a moment 25 years ago that changed every aspect of life here in northern ireland forever the signing of the good friday or belfast agreement. it brought peace to northern ireland, but it has been an imperfect peace. the agreement guaranteed power sharing in government between nationalist and unionist communities. but for more than a third of its lifetime, there hasn t been a sitting government at stormont. these halls at the lyric have captured huge moments of symbolism both big and small. ten years ago, martin mcguinness, northern ireland s former deputy first minister, a former ira commander, shook hands with queen elizabeth here, a moment that would have once been unimaginable. and it is moments like that that people will be looking out for this evening when president biden arrives. here in northern ireland, words matter, and people will be looking to president biden s speech to see ho
Britain since new labour Suella Braverman claims it undermines stability and social cohesion. Stability and social cohesion. A conservative Party Civil War breaks out over the future of hs2. Former Prime Minister and chancellors are urging the government not to cut the project. Manchesters mayor, project. Manchesters mayor, andy burnham , isnt ruling out andy burnham, isnt ruling out legal action. If they pull the plug, they are kind of ripping the heart out of the Economic Development plan for Greater Manchester and parts of the north. So all opfions parts of the north. So all options would absolutely be on the table. All judge rules that the table. All judge rules that donald trump repeatedly misrepresented his wealth to banks and insurers in a civil case over fraud. Case over fraud. The former president brands the new York Attorney general who brought the case as a trump hating democrat and strong gusts of up to 80mph and heavy downpours of rain are expected to batter the coasts of
The problem, well, he wont be there. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. You hear a lot about fake news ton night we got a crazy one here in our area. Hollywood a listers are dragged into it all going down in Lehigh County. Good evening, and thanks for joining us im iain page. Im lucy noland. It includes bruce willis and at appearance at local ice cream shop. Its bogus. Lets get to dave kinchen and white house pa, dave. Reporter well, it turns out the star power is very much real in this area but some of these events popping up online on social media those are certainly fake. I think its kind of silly, like, its obviously not going to happen. It would have been diehard fans delight facebook invitation to eat ice cream with bruce willis at ice cream world nearly a len town. Store managers were quick to point out its pulp fiction. Its kind of dumb. Why would you make that kind of a post. Reporter fox 29 investigation revealed that someone posted the fake event on facebook and used what clearly loo