Rights advocate whose husband was murdered. Shell tell us what she learned while volunteering in san quentin. First well look at inmatesar cipating in a unique program. One thats helping them tell their stories in their own words. When a person decidesan to , they want everyone to know that theyve changed. So its important to get that out. Television portrays prison as this native place where people are just running around being violent. But san quentin is actually totally opposite from that. These guys are going to college every day. Theyre going to selfhelp groups. Theyre going to religious services. Everyone here is trying to get out of prison, not stay in prison. I got to san quentin in 1984 via l. A. County jail. T i wad since 2012 weve been working on ael storng project and really the overarching idea is of ell the hidden stories life inside told from the perspective of those who live it. As soon as i got off the bus, i got extra cold because i wasnt wearing underwear. Thats how
The wrong flight. Im brian balogh and ive been a cohost for backstory for over ten years now. Im going to introduce the panel and then we are each going to say a few words about our quite different roles. Nathan and i have the same role, he is trying to steal the 20th century from me, doing a pretty good job of it, but we all have relatively different roles in backstory. I wanted to talk about that a little bit and then we are going to open it up to your questions. Just for starters, this is not what it looks like behind the scenes at backstory. In fact, were rarely in the same place at the same time. I had to Google Nathan to see what he looked like, for instance, even though i talk to him every week. So introducing myself, im a professor at the university of virginia, i cohost backstory and i direct the National Fellowship program at the jefferson scholars foundation. My cohost, nathan connelly, of course, is known to most of you as an outstanding scholar. He is the Herbert Herbert b
Mid fortys but dry as we go into mid week here across the gulf though it is going to be relatively quiet in terms of the weather temps wise though we are talking about mid fortys across much of the area over towards out of daddy 40 degrees for you here on monday may be coming down to about 39. 00 but dry across much of the your money because we did see some clouds earlier across the lola but those are now dissipating at 31. 00 degrees and then very quickly across cross parts of Southern Africa what we did see one system make its way across the Southern Area that brought some winds as well as some rains towards cape town that is moving towards Port Elizabeth as we go towards the next couple days but much quieter conditions as make a way towards tuesday and drier across the map durban at 20 degrees there but a cool day in johannesburg at about 14 degrees harare a nice day would play a sun at 25. The weather sponsored by cattle and always every reclaim news cycle brings a series of breaki
Sanctions or in this case apparently a warlord also under u. N. Sanctions so its unclear what the United States would do if it were proven definitively that the u. A. E. Had done this and violated the end user agreement but we do know that President Trump considers the u. A. E. Of very important ally of the United States and that also the president has valued u. S. Arms sales very highly especially to the regions to have fully on the program has been called a crime against humanity and that prosecute is a dropping criminal charges in the lead poisoning scandal and michigan. After a series of quakes in the philippines and the government is preparing its citizens and the pink one. Hello get a welcome back to International Weather forecast well we are going to be seeing the heat that we have seen across europe start to migrate but 1st of all we have been seeing records being broken across parts of spain as well as france in the last couple of days notice on the satellite image we have a l
Countrys new leader Ayatollah Khomeini and in 1979 the Islamic Republic was born. Many iranian immigrants ended up in los angeles which became a hub for persian Media Production in the eightys after that wherever iranians were migrating to new Media Outlets were taking root the acts of t. V. Of the eightys was very raw it was very immediate so they were appealing to nostalgia literally yesterday or you know just last year a few years ago and they were also appealing to the sense of loss and unrooted ness that folks were feeling as as new exiles their programming was mostly music and films and then some politics when Satellite Technology emerged and there was a possibility to broadcast and iran you saw that shift and more of an emphasis on political content and calls for action and calls for even revolution the channels that come out of los angeles the diaspora channels of. Overtly political the clearly very anti Islamic Republic in terms of their output many of them on a case certainly