This event and provided the video. Its my pleasure to introduce nicole and her book, Nicole Turner is assistant professor of religious studies at yale university. She earned her p. H. D. In history at the university of pennsylvania, her masters in divinity at Union Theological seminary in new york and her bachelors degree from Political Science from howardford college and is the author this 2020 book, soul liberty the evolution of black religious politics in post emancipation virginia published any the university of North Carolina press. And before asking if nicole the first question, i want to mention this book appears in this kind of conventional version of a hard copy but also has two other versions and part of what makes her work so interesting is its so engaged with digital humanity. The book also exists as a conventional, sort of conventional she describes it verbatim open access ebook and also as an enhanced open access ebook which has which shows off what dr. Turner was able to
People of all races, religions, creeds, sexuality, building power. I believe that we will win. This movement is not about saving the Democratic Party or criticizing the republican party. This is about saving the soul of this nation. Fightare rising up to poverty. We must do more, organizing, organizing. Educating. Vote. Who stand that i claim to be a follower of jesus christ and be silent about the moral outrage going on in our country. We are not afraid. Any nation is in a moral and economic crisis. There will be a movement. Bring people together. Thisthe heart and soul of democracy. Almost 57 years ago my father , reverend dr. Martin luther king jr. Reminded america of the fierce urgency of now. Now is not the time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real, the promises of this democracy. He was working with poor people of every race from every corner of this nation to build a Poor Peoples Campaign when he was as
[chanting] any nation that ignores half of its people is in a moral and economic crisis. We will do more there will be a movement. To bring people together save the heart and soul of this democracy and this world. [crowd chanting] almost 87 years ago, my father, reverend dr. Martin luther king, jr. , reminded america of the fierce urgency of now. But now is not the time to engage in the luxury of cooling off. It takes the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. But now is the time to make real the promises of this democracy. He was working with poor people of every race, from every corner of this nation, to build a Poor Peoples Campaign when he was assassinated in memphis, tennessee, five years later. Today, as his daughter, i am honored to add my voice to the Poor Peoples Campaign, a National Call for moral revival, and stand with the 140 million poor people and low wealth people urging america to address with the fierce urgency of now the big issues of poverty and race. Please join us in t
A position occupied by general george washington. Founding in from 1783 until his passing on december 14, 1799. Today is november 11, 2019 which marks the 100th anniversary of veterans day in america. Originally known as Armistice Day and renamed in 1954 this is a day when we recognize the service of all u. S. Military veterans. We are delighted to mark this important day with a special event designed to salute americas veterans. Guestseased that our include a fellow north carolinian who is the veteran affairs secretary. The honorable robert wilkie. The society of cincinnati was the first veterans group. It is particularly fitting he will provide remarks. You will hear more about that in a moment. We are gathered here to listen to a distinguished panel of noted historians who will be ofcussing the experience American Veterans since the revolutionary generation more than 240 years ago. You towant to encourage return to Anderson House and visit us again to look at our special Museum Exhi
special counsel s latest move aimed at keeping the defense from made the king potential evidence public. also tonight a live report from the texas panhandle how people are coping in the wake of a devastating tornado. plus, it s not just ukraine, you re reporting on russia s notorious wagner mercenaries spreading brutality to horrific warfare elsewhere. first up tonight the trump documents case in the new sign of how serious special counsel jack smith is about keeping the defense and the defendant rained in. also reminder today, this defendant has no desire to be reigned in. virtually everyone is saying that the fake indictment is about election interference and should not have been brought, except bill barr a disgruntled former employee, and very weak person, he knows the indictment is total [bleep], a stupid person named john bolton, mick mulvaney who has nothing going for him, absolutely nothing. two things to note about what you saw, first, all three people he is talki