That Public Service should serve the public, even when your opponents call you names, like nasty or slow. Today it is a party that calls us to stand up and to get in good trouble. On behalf of this great party, it is my pleasure to welcome alternatesdelegates, Standing Committee members, americans,d fellow members of the media and guests from around the world. I now called this Third Session of the 48th National Convention of the Democratic Party to order. Started. Get this show and now, life from wisconsin, please welcome governor tony evers. Good evening, folks. I have tony devers and i am incredibly proud to be the 46 governor of the great state of wisconsin. We were really looking forward to having you here in america dairyland. Unfortunately, the pandemic means we cannot do that this year. Is far greater than what divides us. Even though we cannot be with each other, i know we have a shared sense of purpose. That is to elect joe biden and Kamala Harris. This november is about retu
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Hello and welcome again to everyone. Were revisiting some of the best and most influential programs from more than a decade of documentaries in the aljazeera as well as bringing you news of how the story has moved on. I can 979. 00 the world woke up to news that the russian army had swept across the border into afghanistan in an attempt to prop up the communist government there it followed 18 months of civil unrest after the Peoples Democratic party seized power in 1078. 00 however the p. D. P. Is radical plans including land reforms and equality of the sexes as well as modernizing traditional islamic civil and marriage laws that all spawned the guerrilla Resistance Movement known as the mujahideen what followed was a decade of bloody civil war with pakistan in the United States covertly supporting the islamic rebels against russian backed Government Forces it was the beginning of 4 decades of violence and unrest for that troubled country back in 2009 aljazeera sports presenter Andy Ri
And before becoming involved in history interpretation, is my new book, grandmother would remind me as a child, slaverys tell you the story of the people. My interest is telling the story of the people. Clearly, people of african ancestry arrive in the americas and the british north america, or the west indies and south american, as we arrived under the most perilous and difficult circumstances if human slavery. On the other hand, we persevered. The fact that so many of us of African Heritage exist in newport, boston, new york, or betos, or anywhere in the western hemisphere is a testament to her perseverance. Settled in 16 39 newport, rhode island would grow to become one of the most active ports and also became the most active slave port. Between 17 or five in 1805, newport merchants within road island were responsible for nearly 1000 slave from rhode island to the south african coast to the west indies and back to rhode island. They transported about 100,000 africans back to the new
During the colonial era. The Abigail Adams Historical Society cohost of this event. Anne welcome. Welcome to the ham heritage museum. I have the privilege of serving as executive director whose home here is that the hearing im heritage museum. What a treat to welcome you all here tonight in this sold out program. I would like to thank, on behalf of our board of directors and small staff, i would like to thank you all for making us part of your week. I would also like to thank jared hardest ski for travis traveling across the country to see us. For filming us, thank you to cspan. For those who cant see it can see it at a later date. Thank you to Abigail Adams and their board of directors who offered us this wonderful opportunity and to partner with them as we did last year with their speaker edith. Abigails rich history in this region inspires us every day. Thank you. The hingham Historical Society helps us understand all voices. We are currently in the midst of a campaign for the linco