Anchored in his hometown of denmark, South Carolina, my vanishing country illuminates the pride that continues to fertilize the soil in one of the poorest states of the nation. He traces his fathers life to become a friend of Stokely Carmichael Martin Luther king, and member of the student nonviolent coordinating committee. To explore the plight of the south dwindling world black workingclass. Many of whom can trace ancestry back seven generations. In his poetic personal history where awakened to the crisis affecting the other forgotten men and women whom the media seldom acknowledges. These are his family members, neighbors and friends. He humanizes the struggles that shape their lives to gain access to healthcare as rural hospitals disappear to make ends meet, because the factories have shut down and moved overseas, to hold onto precious traditions as their towns erode. To forge a path forward without succumbing to despair. My vanishing country is also a love letter to fatherhood, to
Where if you look at the old and the new testament, theres a consistent and clear teaching that we are to exercise that citizenship in a robust and muscular fashion. First of all, to defend our rights within that government, which of course in the United States means our rights under the constitution and the bill of rights. To the freedom of speech, to assembly, to freedom of religion. All of those things that are our birthright, and then secondly, as a witness of our faith. So in the context of the decision by the overwhelming majority of evangelical christians and prolife and pro family and faithful roman catholics to back trump, both in 2016 and today, my argument in the book is that if you look at where he stands on the issues, that they would define as moral issues, issues central to their way, issues like right to life, right to freedom, defense of the state of israel. Moving the court in the direction of respect for the constitution and the bill of rights, and not legislating fr
Decline. And the characteristics that contributed to those declines were Massive National debt, United States has 23 trillion and growing. Just the interest on it alone is greater then the Gross Domesticproduct of some nations. I like President Trumps state of the union speech the other night except for one thing. He didnt talk about cutting a single Government Program or even the rate of increase in spending. This is the only nonpartisan thing that happens in this town is spending area you can always get agreement on more. The second contribution to the decline of great nations and superpowers is uncontrolled immigration without assimilation. We want people to come to america but we want them to come legally and in an orderly fashion and then to the assimilated like the immigrants of the past and become fully american, not hyphenated americans as we have to often today and then theres the loss of a moral sense contributing to the decline of great nations. In America Today as cole port
Use o. E. And a performance thats going around the world this is to someday the voice of italys own tribe but charlie rings out across. More than 113000 people have died of the new khurana of corona virus and of a 1800000 people worldwide have been infected in the u. K. The number of dead has now surpassed 10000 Prime Minister Cross Johnson is recovering from corona virus and is out of hospital after several days in intensive care he thanked Health Workers for saving his life but critics. His government is letting down from line stuff a failing to provide them with the right protective equipment the United States has more confirmed cases and deaths than anywhere else in the world new york state alone has reported 758 more deaths and its lead is a criticizing the white house for failing to do enough testing more than 20000 americans have died so far and the Worlds Largest Oil Producers have agreed to the biggest Production Cut in history to protect the industry from the impact of the on
Our members, our revolution society, this is a wonderful people who are great supporters of our music. We are pleased to partner with harvard for trust, you will see him up on the screen here. I know tim but all i can see is darkness out there. So lets thank them for making these possible. [applause] its a real pleasure to be welcoming doctor Vincent Brown this evening as is sometimes the case but not all that often, we are welcoming a good friend to the museum here this evening. Prince was one of the group of scholars who consulted with us during the development of the exhibitions and interactants of the present here. Long before jacques was in the ground and the steel began rising here in philadelphia, we were tapping his brain for stories of the American Revolution. It turned into great personal stories and our core exhibition here. Prince is a Charles Moore professor of africanAmerican History. And Harvard University. If you have an opportunity to go online, dont do it right now on