A libyan city reclaimed by Government Troops from fighters loyal to warlord khalifa haftar. And a fear that manufacturing is on the brink of collapse in the u. K. As thousands more jobs a lost. Book into the program a sudden rapid rise in corona virus infections in parts of africa is worrying the World Health Organization it says the pandemic is accelerating across the continent at an alarming rate it took 98. 00 days to reach 100000 cases its not surpassed 200000 in just 18 days the reason for this is not surging Community Transmission in more than half of the 54 countries in africa the worst affected country is south africa where there have been more than 58000 cases doesnt factions spread beyond big cities and into rural areas there are fears that Health Systems are not equipped to handle a crisis well i mean address says Health Systems across the continent will struggle to cope with severe outbreaks. Report. How. Particularly being. The cases were going to see in these days. And to
President Volodmyr Zelensky again called for more air defence supplies, urging the west not to turn a blind eye to russias continuing attacks. Russian president Vladimir Putin has hosted talks with the belarusian leader, alexander lukashenko. Putin said that the latest attacks on ukraine are part of an effort to demilitarise ukraine. 0ur Eastern Europe correspondent sarah rainsford, reports from kharkiv. Here in kharkiv there was just another air raid. And those are happening almost every day now. We heard the sound of explosions and thats when metro stations like this one become a shelter for people. People head underground to hide from those missiles, because itjust takes a few seconds before they reach this city from russia, which is around about a0 kilometres away. Now, we dont know what was targeted this time, but we do know over overnight here in ukraine, there was a Massive Attack by russia on the Energy Infrastructure right across the country, from west to here in the northeast
About is blood at the root a racial cleansing in america. Please welcome patrick phillips. Thank you so much. For the southern festival of books, thank you for coming. This will con turn into a the book really began with a conversation in a taxicab about 10 years ago when my friend tosha treadway who some people think of as poet laureate of the us but at the time was not yet. We knew each other through the poetry world and 10 years ago we were at a professional conference and not tosha and i are old friends but she on this one night decided to challenge me because i grew up in Forsyth County georgia which is known all over the state as a quote, white county but this is not something i knew in new york, had any familiarity with but natosha is an africanamerican woman who happened to go to the university of Georgia College a little way down the road from bursae and this meant when she heard me offhandedly mentioned that i came from this state , she stopped and really turned to me and sai
Up to the War Memorial Auditorium upstairs and the book signing, i encourage you to continue discussion with both authors once you get there so we will get started. Patrick phillips is an associate professor of english and a poet as well, previous book he produced, eulogy for a broken mechanic was a National Book award finalist. Todays book we are talking about is blood at the root a racial cleansing in america. Please welcome patrick phillips. Thank you so much. For the southern festival of books, thank you for coming. This will con turn into a conversation, questions and comments but a little bit about the book blood at the root a racial cleansing in america and how i came to write it and a little about the story. The book began with the conversation in a taxicab ten years ago when my friend who some people may know, poet laureate of the us but at the time she was not yet. Ten years ago we were at a professional conference and natosha and i were old friends but one night she decided
Database, up came a list of headlines that sure enough toll of an 18yearold woman who was raped and killed if the banks of the chattahoochee river, allegedly by three black men. Her name was made crow. Theres a photograph of her around 1912. 1912. She lived very near where my parents house was in a little town called osterville, a little village. This is me playing with dee, i was graduate work at nyu and the 17th century bubonic plague outbreaks. I was bored and tired of writing my dissertation, and so i was playing hooky but it will launch a city at this computer terminal that all of this information a lot of things are coming online. It was about 2005 piccolo things are coming online for the first time in archives like the Atlanta History Center libraries were scanned all this information and digitizing it. Along with that was newspapers. The store at always imagined as murky and unknowable and lost in time so they start to come into view. I clicked a link to lead to an old issue of