With us on the Independence Day weekend professor what is july 4th mean to you . [laughter] it means Frederick Douglassw. You could have the general celebration we have a different perspective from the africanamerican aameri community is a long history to understand the distinction in terms of the celebration for one community and a lack of the observance on the other part and what does it mean to those who have a history of bondage of segregation and jim crow to you have to understand the sensitivity from one community to another. Obviously Start Talking about the history of this country and the roles of africanamericans to provide that celebration is a whole other question. The f we have been at the forefront of the battle of freedom for justice and liberty for erfurt fr update number one so in terms of the boston massacre since that moment across the years the matter what type of internet or turmoil or conflict order world war the people were involved didnt you find a contribution o
Selfdetermination. Host author herb boyd with us on this Independence Day weekend. Professor boyd, what is july 4 me deal . Guest it means the same thing what it meant to Frederick Douglass, you know. While you can have the general celebration and everything, we have a different perspective from the africanamerican community. This was a long history to understand exactly the distinction in terms of the celebration for one community and the kind of lack of observers on the other part of the community. What does it mean to people who history of segregation. You have to understand the kind of sensitivity that might be distinct from one community to another. Obviously we Start Talking about this history of this country and the role of africanamericans in terms of providing that celebration, that is a whole another question because we have been in the forefront of the socalled battle for freedom and justice and liberty in this country from day one. From day one going back to the socalled bo
Electrical wire crashed down on to guardrail along Ocean Heights avenue in Egg Harbor Township just before 2 00 thursday afternoon. Officials say electric current from that line zapped through the metal guardrail and ignited an 8inch gas main. No one was hurt but hundreds lot of power for several hours and traffic through this main roadway remains tied up. Fire so high we note at a banks could see it driving down the garden state parkway. There wasnt a lot of smoke but there was lot of flames. Yeah, i was scared because i thought it was going to come over at the highway to the parkway. Reporter and at this point the appears most people have their power back. Again, were still waiting to hear how exactly this power line that officials tell us caused all of this actually came down. Lucy, back to you. No power means no ac and thats tough in heat like this. On your radar dangerous heat hitting our area. Looking live at the ben franklin parkway many of us close to the mid 90s today. And its
South jersey gas tells us a live electrical wire crashed down on to guardrail along Ocean Heights avenue in Egg Harbor Township just before 2 00 thursday afternoon. Officials say electric current from that line zapped through the metal guardrail and ignited an 8inch gas main. No one was hurt but hundreds lot of power for several hours and traffic through this main roadway remains tied up. Fire so high we note at a banks could see it driving down the garden state parkway. There wasnt a lot of smoke but there was lot of flames. Yeah, i was scared because i thought it was going to come over at the highway to the parkway. Reporter and at this point the appears most people have their power back. Again, were still waiting to hear how exactly this power line that officials tell us caused all of this actually came down. Lucy, back to you. No power means no ac and thats tough in heat like this. On your radar dangerous heat hitting our area. Looking live at the ben franklin parkway many of us cl