Duke. Visiting professor of american christianity and southern culture. At the duke divinity school. And professor of American City at unc chapel hill. He is a very inclusive guy. He has an appointment we will not talk that tonight. He is the author of and a book called radio free, robert of williams and the roots of black power. Tim also served on an executive board of the North Carolina naacp. Tim can tell you more about, way more about this book than i can. I just want to say that he does a marvelous job of putting emmett till murder and lynching into a context of American History. Tims earlier book is about a similar incident that happened 15 years later in oxford North Carolina. About 25 miles from here. And i learned just a few years ago about another similar incident that happened three blocks from here. At the intersection of carr boulevard and ninth street. Where a black, during the war in 1944, a black soldier in uniform would not, he was from philadelphia. It would not move
Timothy thyssen, also known as, tim tyson, tim is the Senior Research scholar at the center for documentary studies at duke, visiting professor of american christianity in southern culture at the Duke Divinity School and an adjunct professor of american studies at unc chapel hill. So you can tell it is a very inclusive guy. He has an appointment at duke and you and see. Were not, talk basketball tonight. He is the author of which is a finalist for the National Book award. In a book called radio free dick see. Tim also serves on the executive board of the North Carolina naacp. Tim can tell you more about this book than i can. I just want to say that he does a marvelous job of putting emmett tills murder and lynching into a context of American History. His earlier books and is about a similar incident that happened 15 years later North Carolina law 25 miles from here. I learned a few years ago about another similar incident that happened three blocks from here. At the intersection of clu
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Cattle hauler. That tow truck is trying to get some of the cars that are still left there damaged. Its amazing there are no fatalities. There were 17 patients taken to the hospital. Four of them had to be flown out of here and 13 by ambulance. Crews were down here cleaning up signs from an earlier crash near new river that caused earlier di lays, so cars have been slowing down that semi was unable to slow down plowing through a row of cars and continuing about a half mile down. We spoke with a woman who saw it all happen and rushed to help. We found medical people and got first aid kits. Reporter and as you can see out here live, that traffic is just starting to get going, moving very slowly, but it is waiting for hours. Still causing significant delays because backups have been continuing for hours. The red cross was out here to help people who had been stranded in their cars in the sun by providing them with water. It was no small feat to get us that up close look. Thank you for that
Counties together. However democrats argue that doesnt comply with civil rights laws and is partisan to a ridiculous extreme. They warned republicans it will probably end up in court again. Senate leader Phillip Burger argued the federal Court Ruling Says the old districts reed too heavily on race so the new map avoids it completely. Race should not be a factor and thats why the districts were drawn as they were. But senator floyd says thats a misreading of the order. The new maps dont comply with standard law. The court should not consider race but yet its been ignored. Its a factor in drawing up these districts. So weve gone from one extreme to the absolute other in violation of Voting Rights. Wrals analysis of the redrawn districts finds they minority in democratic and more in g. O. P. Districts but even though the state is politically divided it gets republicans ten and democrats just three. That level of gerrymandering under mines democracy. This map weighs hundreds of carolina ci