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
Voter turnout. People realize their voice does matter. You know . And maybe took it for granted before. People mobilized early to get out and vote. Its a good thing. Its a testament to where we are right now. Its really encouraging. Theres both excitement and anxiety on this election day eve. Good evening. Two very strong emotions this election eve. Thank you for joining us. There are now 27 hours until the polls close in california. Counties start releasing early results after 8 00 p. M. Tomorrow as soon as the polls close. Full and final results wont be known for days, possibly weeks. Thats because counties must count mail in ballots that arrive up to 17 days after the election. As long as they are postmarked by november 3rd. Nearly 12 million californians have now cast their ballots and for some it has been a struggle. Abc 7 News Reporter stephanie sierra has the story of a man that caugfought to get his voic counted. This has my new address on it. Jim is struggling to get his ballo
Streets of lima following the swearing in of a new peruvian president. Calls for ceasefire in ethiopias to grey region where hundreds of died and thousands are fleeing to sudan. Under the program we begin in the u. S. Where the president elect joe biden has called Donald Trumps refusal to concede the president ial election an embarrassment but biden says nothing will stop the transfer of power in january and thats despite the trumpet ministration reportedly refusing to assist the president elects Transition Team and blocking them from accessing vital resources i just think its embarrassing. Quite frankly. The only thing. How can we save this tax i think it will not. Help the president s legacy i think that i know from my discussions with foreign leaders verse 4 that they are hopeful that United States Democratic Institutions are viewed once again as strong and endure and but i think at the end of the day. You know its all going to come to fruition in january 20th all correspondent live
Gunshots the city as demonstrators came out onto the streets despite a curfew this comes after a peaceful protest was broken up by a shooting allegedly by nigerias security forces. Im told me a lot of welcome to the program pope francis has said that he supports Civil Union Laws to protect the rights of same sex couples this break from the vaticans traditional position on the issue the pope made the comment in a new documentary about him titled francesco which premiered on wednesday at the rome Film Festival the film also tackles other controversial issues such as racism Climate Change sexual abuse and relations between christians muslims and jews. Knowledge joined by chicago based journalist michael of laughlin he is a journalist and author who covers religion and politics with a particular focus on the Catholic Church michael good to have you on the program how have the popes comments on same sex civil unions been received in the u. S. Its been a welcome statement to many of bt catho
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