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
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Cspan. Org podcasts. Catch washington today for a fastpaced report of the stories of the day. Listen to cspan anytime. Just tell your Smart Speaker play cspan radio. Cspan, powered by cable. Thank you pastor. Thank you pastor keaton, missus keaton, members of morris brown ame for walking us here tonight, and particularly that choir we could listen to you all night fortunately will have another chancece so thank you pure thank you outlook and everyone. It is so nice to be back together and have an opportunity to discuss things that matter in this community and discuss how we cannd make them better. And i want to thank, i hope you have an opportunity to get some of the food that was served up outside by first of all Maurice Brown member Reggie Simmons cooking up a lot of the sides, and then we had benjamin come down here from South Carolina. You so committed to what the form means and what its doing hes a lawyer in South Carolina in the county council met in kershaw county, and he drove
Thank you pastor keaton, thank you, pastor keaton, ms. Keaton, members of morris brown ame for welcoming us here tonight and particularly that choir we could listen to you all night. Fortunately well have another chance so thank you. Thank you all and welcome everyone. It is so nice toll be back an opportunityve to discuss things that matter in this community and discuss how we can make them better. I want to thank, i hope you had the opportunity to get some of the food that was served up outside by them firster of all, morris brown member Reggie Simmons cooking up a lot of the sides. And then we had Benjamin Carnell come down here from South Carolina. He is so committed to what the forum needs and what it is doing hes a lawyer in South Carolina and county counsel and eddie drove down here and cooked the chicken and the sausage for us, and he didnt just cook it. He donated his time at donated all that food, and that is a commitment to the community and we thank you so much, my friend.
jeff is live. well, that changed today. it is hard to argue with how powerful the images are as those air raid sirens go off just as the president arrives in kyiv. president biden spent five hours in total in ukraine city. he was greeted to president zelenskyy, he paid tribute to soldiers and announcing half a billion dollars to assistance, that s on top of the $50 billion already given since the war started one year ago this week. one year later, kyiv stands. ukraine stands. democracy stands. the americans stand with you and the world stands with you. kyiv captures a part of my heart, i must say. biden spent 23 hours in ukraine, he s now in poland, but his short time in the war zone did not come with criticism from republicans who think his time is better served elsewhere, pointing to the disaster and east palestine, ohio. he goes to ukraine and has not mentioned ohio, east palestine and is not talking about visiting it. those people are suffering. they need to h