Author of fighting for hope. The National World War Ii Museum in new orleans hosted this discussion and provided the video. Greetings, everyone. I am senior director of programs at the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans and it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to what promises to be a Great Program on the history of africanamericans in combat in the United States from world war i to world war ii with everything in between and in the immediate postworld war ii years, and i am joined by three of our nations preeminent scholars on this subject. Whohost is dr. John morrow, is franklin professor of history at the university of georgia and is coauthor with our second panelist, who is professor of harlemst nyu, of rattlers in the great war, which is a fantastic book about one of the great africanamerican units in the First World War were. Our third panelist is Robert Jefferson junior, associate professor of history at the , andrsity of new mexico the author of fighting for hope. I
To the rights. And new arrest warrants are issued for members of mexicos military over the disappearance of dozens of students 6 years ago. And in sports the l. A. Lakers reached the n. B. A. Finals for the 1st time in a decade Le Bron James leads his team to a winner of the Denver Nuggets in game 5 of the western conference finals. So in the past few hours armenia has declared martial law as fighting intensifies with its neighbor azerbaijan this violence flaring over the disputed region of not going to cut about the armenians Defense Ministry has shed these images they say it shows azerbaijan tanks being destroyed and they saying in addition to that 2 helicopters were shot down as well as 3. Drones as about johns army chief on the other hand says he is launching a counter offensive operation weve heard from russia the e. U. And france all calling for an end to hostilities while turkey has condemned what it calls and mean an attack on the as a by john and says it violates International
They staged a coup and forced the president to resign malis new military rulers under pressure to restore democracy so after weeks of unrest whats next for this west african nation and committed to take over it prevent this is the inside story. Hello welcome to the program im husham. Molly has seen weeks of antigovernment protests and rest on tuesday its military took charge and forced the resignation of the president the coleader say they want to prevent the nation falling further into chaos the soldiers have pledged to set up a transitional civilian government and hold elections the move to take over follows the demand by thousands of bali ends for better security economy and that and to corruption former president. Critics blame him for the country is hardships the u. N. Security council has condemned what it calls a mutiny calling for the Immediate Release of the president and his officials the African Union is also calling for the restoration of the Constitutional Order in mali wi
Again im peter dobby youre watching aljazeera live from our World Headquarters here in doha also coming up mali and together again to demand the resignation of the president after reports of a military mutiny. More protests and strikes him by the roots for pressure is mounting on the president Alexander Lukashenko over his disputed reelection. There we are lets get going a u. N. Back tribunals has convicted a member of hezbollah over the assassination of the former lebanese Prime Minister rafiq hariri the 2005 killing set the stage for years of confrontation between rival Political Forces judges of the hague found. Guilty of committing terrorist acts and of homicide today they set a ball. The car used in the attack and coordinated surveillance of her riri beforehand the 3 other hezbollah members well they were acquitted because of a lack of evidence none were in court as denies involvement and has refused to hand the men over the judges while hezbollah as leaders and the Syrian Governm
Nashville, a 43 increase in murders. And murders are up 39 in kansas city, 36 in new orleans, 39 in chicago, 32 in houston, 27 in new york city. And murder rates in most of those cities are only rising higher. Each of those ten cities run by a democrat mayor. But rather than focus their outrage on the failed democratic leadership of this country, the leftwing National Media peddles the fiction that responsibility lies elsewhere. Somehow with the president , Law Enforcement. And the remedy is to allow anarchists, black lives matter activists and leftist activists to destroy our National Heritage and defund, of course, our police departments. Philadelphia murders have increased 23 through june, and rather than demand more policing in philadelphia, black lives matter seeks the total abolition of the Philadelphia Police force within the next five years. One of the things that were demanding is the defunding over five years to the complete abolition. So we dont want to see any police in our