Anything but it is terrifying. Lets play it. You see first one section of the Building Collapsed and then seconds later another section of the building just collapsed and then the smoke rising from the rubble right after that. One eyewitness describing the scene as horrific. And you understand why they say that after you see that Surveillance Video. At least one person has died. More than 50 people are unaccounted for right now. Dozens of fire trucks and crews have been on the scene since early this morning. Fire and rescue confirm that two people have been pulled from the rubble alive. We have video of what appears to be one of them. A young boy being pulled out very early this morning. Now cnns Layla Santiago is live in surfside, florida. What is the latest there . Reporter that number that just came in, the 51 people who have been reported to the Hotline Set Up by the county for Family Members and loved ones to say, hey, we havent been able to reach someone that may have been in tha
About which greg spoke here a few years ago. His newest book, the subject of todays lecture, native southerners indigenous history from origins to remove. Please give a warm welcome to our friend greg smithereens. Let me begin by acknowledging the Traditional Land owners of this region. Members of the chief them and people. Thank you for that kind introduction, and to graham who organized todays lecture, thank you. Its much appreciated. Its lovely to be back here. At the Virginia Museum of history and culture. Im going to begin today by talking a little bit about the artwork on the cover of my new book. This is a piece by a a cheap who passed, and he was a chickasaw and choctaw chief, born in 1921 in oklahoma. If anyone knows anything about that part of the world, in the 19 twenties and thirties, you will know its not an easy place to be native american. So he grew up seeing lynchings on a fairly regular basis, of about native and African American people. He grew up experiencing impove
Afghanistan is not only the war that never ends and it goes on and on my friends it is now become generational multigenerational were fighting there has been passed down bother to son and mother to daughter here in the United States take the story of Master Sergeant trevor de boer who 1st applied to afghanistan back in 2002 and recently told stars and stripes quote when we started this people asked why i was going and my response was so my sons dont have to fight this war well through no fault of Master Sergeant aboard that mission has clearly failed as his son payton slopes has now is also served in afghanistan even at the very same Forward Operating base that his father served at this never ending war has even outlasted the New York Times special at war a section dedicated to covering it the times of war editor Loren Katzenberg took to twitter to announce that the paper will be ending its at war forum. Nibley commenting that there are fewer and fewer spaces that exist to examine the
Wanted to start out by sharing with you the partnership between the National Parks conservatives association, and the association of study of life and history began more than 28 years ago. It was then at that irena webster, and govern spencer dug, joined with the woman who would become my first boss at ncaa, i had to get right. Had the vision to join forces to support an enhanced the work that the National Parks service is doing in order to protect the African American experience. Sadly, i had to give passed away earlier this year. I want to take a moment at the start of this conversation about the preservation of the history of the struggle to achieve black Voting Rights, to remember my boss, my friend and a true pioneer in the long and ongoing process to make congress this survey shun and preservation organizations like and pca, more just, equitable, diverse and inclusive. Thank you diana. Now, for our panel today, folks are going to be aware of the history of the struggle of Voting
Thank you for watching wherever you are and really thrilled with engagement level weve had with all of you. Well be doing a lot of fun stuff, and pretty compelling conversations in the fall. I would say would probably not be doing any inperson events since 2021 which is a bit of a bummer obama but we want to be safe and smart with what we are doing. We will keep bringing you guys interesting conversations with authors, so we have everything from a wonderful event coming up in october, a conversation you wont want to miss. Everything from that to a conversation with matthew mcconaughey. If thats not a wideranging list of events, its going to be quite a fall so stay tuned. You can follow all our defense on magic city books. Com. I will go through the whole list here. Tonight im so thrilled to have a conversation with mychal denzel smith in the book that seems like it was written for the moment were living in, although books are written quite a bit before the published in print it and Eve