Chad williams is the author of torchbearers of democracy, African American soldiers in the world war i era. Next, he talks about the postwar activism of the soldiers, explaining how after fighting with the idea of democracy abroad, many return to join movements to secure more rights and better social standing for African American here at home. National world War One Museum, in kansas missouri of 2019. Now id like to introduce our first speaker for this morning. Doctor chad williams, he is a agus this professor and history at african and African American studies at brandon university. He specializes in African American and modern United States history, world war i and African American intellectual history. He is the author of torchbearers of democracy, African American soldiers in the world war i era, which received the 2011 liberty, legacy, Foundation Awards from the organization of american historian and the 2011 distinguish book of war society of military history. He is also a part o
Thanks for being with us. Within the past hour turkeys Prime Minister has confirmed its military has launched more airstrikes against isil in syria. Its also hitting areas in Northern Iraq, but the targets there belong to the Kurdistan Workers Party or the pkk. Its considered a terrorist organization by turkey. I have said that the massacre was an attack against turkey against democracy in turkey and against public order in turkey. Isil was behind it, and they have been reacted to appropriately. There are some circles who wanted to create chaos in turkey and they were supported by the pkk. And their actions were targeting fundamental rights. Mohammed jamjoom is following developments for us in killis on the border with syria. Mohammed, it seems very clear that the turkish government is bringing together both isil and the pkk as target did. Reporter airstrikes from turkey take off from basis in turkey but also in going after the pkk. In fact, we heard a short while ago that the Prime Mi
The american thanksgiving story is now m taught. It is often presented as thanking the indians. It is thanking god. The story gets twisted in a lot of ways but when George Washington gave us the first thanksgiving day, it was not to thank the wakanoa transitions. It was to thank god. I have spoken mostly here as an anthropologist and head of a Secular Organization devoted to reforming Higher Education. Let me speak at the end as a christian. I give thanks to god for his enter no entering into human history. Western civilization was here before christian took root. We have the great fusion of gospel revelation and classical eye deals. The old pagan order gave way to something better. Christian europe was not always the epitome of christian virtue, far from it but we now know that we can deal with that indelible stain. I suggested at the beginning of this talk there are complicated mixtures in the history between decline and progress but the christian world view that enters into civiliza
Listen. The bond market had a rough week. Had a rough five or six trading day, but i think youre going to start to see funds coming back in, so, clearly, the risk off trade is on and that means back into gold, which should be up more than it is. Granted this is a friday afternoon and back into the tlt. I still think u. S. Tenyear yields go down to one and quarter percent. And the obvious one is the u. S. Dollar. We knew the dollar started rallying once we had the confusion after the brexit vote here. I think whats going on in turkey speaks to a lot of the uncertainty in the region. Theyre faced with a lot of these same issues and so, flight to safety, dollar. From. Lets get to Michelle Carusocabrera who joins us on the fast line. You know this region well. This happened just a couple of weeks after an attack on the international airport. What do you make oof this in terms of the issues involve ld . Well, the, events are fast and furious. We know two reporters who are posting on twit te
Welcome to your world im stephanie sy. Piecing together the clues and trying to find a motive between the killing in kalamazoo, washington and jason dalton shot eight people and first at an apartment complex and dealership and restaurant parking lot and killed six people and right now two others are in Critical Condition and andy is following to story for us and believe he chose the shooting victims at random, where does the investigation stand this morning . Well, stephanie that suspect 45yearold jason dalton will make his First Court Appearance today in Kalamazoo County Court charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder and authorities still dont know what led to the seemingly ran done, unprovoked series of attacks saturday night and meantime the same kind of bewilderment was felt at a prayer vigil last night for the eight victims in kalamazoo and sang Amazing Grace and they too just tried to make sense out of something so senseless. Shots fired and one victim right no