well, first, i want to talk about roots for a second. it s roots the saga of an american family. for the first time, the african american experience in this country was explained to people in painful detail. and also, you got a chance to see that people were living in africa as family units. it wasn t a bunch of savages out in the bush who you saved them by kidnapping and enslaving them. but that was the first real shock for folks. but i want to take you all the way back to bill cosby in i spy before his legal troubles. we have to remember that bill cosby was groundbreaking on what he was doing on i spy and won three grammy awards. let s talk about diane carol and her amazing experience for julia. a black woman is not a housekeeper but a nurse, who made the ultimate sacrifice. her husband lost his life in vietnam and now she was raising her son as a single mother.
was not a place for th fainthearted to brav integration in 1964. but it was a little first grad girl who did it. and she got great grades, sh was great in school. she went on to be a ph.d historian, she wrote the hemmings s of monticello, an american family, for which she won a pulitzer prize in history. she is a university professo at harvard whenever you hear somebody say there are a university professor it is a big deal she is a pulitzer prize-winnin historian. she is the namesake of annette gordon read elementary schoo in texas and she is the author most recently of the book on juneteenth joining us now is professo gordon reid. i m really grateful you re abl to join us tonight, thank yo very much. thank you for inviting me i m glad to be here. let me ask you, first, feel like you ve done so muc in your scholarship and your
bomb could fall on your child and kill your child and you cannot really protect your child. when a child is looking at you, and like it s terrible feeling. so before we left kyiv, were hiding in the corridor and these missiles were flying above our apartment block, about their herman block, and the windows were shaking like this it is very scary. you re being hosted by an american family, and i want to bring in mary who is that family that s hosting you called uniting you through united for ukraine. i understand you reached out to elena, what made you decide to get involved. well i ve been watching elena since the beginning of the war on her youtube channel which i found out about on your