Thousands of those images are now in the National Archives but photos of black soldiers are rare. In her book the black Civil War Soldier Deborah Willis shows us the faces of a number of black soldiers who took up arms to fight for their freedom. Using photographs and the written record she examines not only the individual stories of the soldiers, but also the importance of africanamerican communities during and after the war. Deborah willis is University Professor and chair of the department of photography and imaging at the tisch school of the arts at New York University and has an affiliated appointment with the college of arts and Sciences Department of social and cultural analysis and africanus studies. Well, this is the author of envisioning emancipation and michelle obama. Both of which received Naacp Image Awards as well as posing beauty now, lets hear from Deborah Willis. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you. Welcome and good afternoon everyone. Im excited to be here and
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Democracy continues in georgia where the Republicancontrolled Legislature enacted new laws directly attacking voting, making it more difficult if not impossible for some residents to vote, particularly targeting black voters while giving the historically Republican Legislature power over the will of the people and the authority to essentially overturn the results of an election they dont like the outcome of. Now, that is specifically something their dear leader, the former insurrection president of the United States, so desperately wanted done in several states he lost including arizona and pennsylvania, but especially in georgia where he was taped talking to the Secretary Of State about changing the actual outcome of the election. This is just part of Many Republican efforts across the country, including in iowa, in texas, in michigan and arizona, where the gop has tried to make it easier for them to overturn the results of elections that they lose. If you think that this is something
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