Book tv continues and now television for serious readers. Good Evening Everybody i am Kate Moore and the author the woman they cannot silence i am also delighted to be here tonight talking to you about they woman they cannot silence. I am so excited excited to talk about this woman. Her name was Elizabeth Packard but i expected many of you have never heard her name before. Things happen to feisty Women Who stand up for themselves history has chosen to instead commemorate those men who tried but failed to silence elizabeth. Elizabeth packard is perhaps the most fearless and resilient woman i have ever encountered. Her story is extraordinary. I want you to picture her for a moment she had a long dark brown hair, brown Almond Shaped Eyes and a nose as strong as straight as her principal. She was a 5foot inch tall but her short stature is not as elegant as the power of her spirit. Elizabeth and her salvation came about because of one thing and one thing only, elizabeth had a mind of her ow
Good Evening Everybody i am Kate Moore and the author the woman they cannot silence i am also delighted to be here tonight talking to you about they woman they cannot silence. I am so excited excited to talk about this woman. Her name was Elizabeth Packard but i expected many of you have never heard her name before. Things happen to feisty women who stand up for themselves history has chosen to instead commemorate those men who tried but failed to silence elizabeth. Elizabeth packard is perhaps the most fearless and resilient woman i have ever encountered. Her story is extraordinary. I want you to picture her for a moment she had a long dark brown hair, brown Almond Shaped Eyes and a nose as strong as straight as her principal. She was a 5foot inch tall but her short stature is not as elegant as the power of her spirit. Elizabeth and her salvation came about because of one thing and one thing only, elizabeth had a mind of her own. What i will be doing and talking about her story is to
from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. it s one pm eastern, eight pm as night falls on gaza and israel. we begin this hour with breaking news on israel s intensifying offensive in gaza, with new video showing fires burning on the gaza side of the southern border with israel. here is what we know, new at this hour. there are new warnings that the intense bombardment of gaza in the last 24 hours is only the beginning. the idf says, all civilians remaining in gaza should move south. elon musk says that his spacex starlink will help humanitarian groups that lost phone and internet service, and there is growing concern among u n agencies for the welfare of palestinians. [sound of gunfire] this is what the intensifying israeli offensive in gaza sounds like from the israeli side. and then take a look at this. [sound of artillery] you saw and heard there a hamas rocket landing on the beach in ashkelon on the israeli side of the gaza b
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i want the start out my talk with two quotes. um, they re both from the prologue of my book, and i ll give a little explanation for them, um, but they introduce why i decided to write book. so the first quote is in my own prose from the prologue. we still hold certain truths about african-americans to be self-evident; that the phrase 19th century black americans refers to enslaved people. that the, that new york state before the civil war denotes a place of freedom, that blacks in this new york city designates harlem, that the black community posits a classless and culturally unified society, that a black elite did not exist until well into the 20th century. the lives of my new york forebearers belies such assumptions. they were born free at a time when slavery was still legal in new york state. they lived in racialty-mixed neighborhoods, first in lower manhattan and then after the civil war in brooklyn at a time when harlem was a mere village. they were part of new york s