Welcome to new perspectives and sources on the elaine massacre of 1919. The panel is devoted to advancing our understanding of the horrific series of events that began just over 100 years ago in which africanamericans were hunted down by a paranoid and enraged crowd of whites inside delta arkansas. I want to recognize first the work guy lancaster did in helping to organize this panel. Unfortunately he had to change his plans to join us and participate. All three of our scholars here on this panel are contributors to a book edited by guy lancaster and we are shamelessly plugging that right here. The the elaine massacre and arkansas a century of atrocity and resistance, 1819 to 1919. Full disclosure, im in there too. But this is not about me. I want to introduce all three of our panelists first, and they will each present for about 20, 25 minutes. And after that i will spend just a few minutes offering some thoughts designed to generate discussion. And then i will get out of the way and
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Bus opposition groups in georgia demands early elections up to Parliament Fails to reform the countrys Voting System they say the one place puts too much power in the hands of the ruling party. Thanks for joining us we begin with what could be a fatal blow to the political career of Benjamin Netanyahu israels attorney general has announced he will be pressing corruption charges against the Prime Minister netanyahu is being indicted on charges of fraud and breach of trust in 3 separate cases its the Prime Minister has denied wrongdoing and cold the indictment and attempted coup hes currently battling to stay in power after september parliamentary elections produced no clear winner. The israeli Prime Minister remains defiant as he addresses the country following his indictment and it was. You have to be blind not to see that something bad is happening with the police and the prosecutors tonight were witnessing an attempted coup with fulsomely cations and a tainted investigation. That inv
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From Helena Humphrey glad you could join me hong kongs police chief is urging a handful of protesters still barricaded inside the Polytechnic University to surrender peacefully theyve been holed up there since occupying the campus over the weekend is the latest confrontation in hong kong 5 months of antigovernment protests where Mainland China has issued a series of increasingly tough warnings against the demonstrate his and well beijing has not directly intervened in the territorial thirtys has been targeting individual protests correspondent but i met with one of them who says that he was arrested and beaten by police at the Hong Kong China border to protect the activists identity but he has changed his voice in this next report. It started like a routine business trip and indeed in chinas secret detention system stanley was crossing the border to Mainland China when he was stopped water police searched his phone and questioned him for several hours. Then in the evening 2 Police Offi