But i cant for many years was a what is often called the first person interpreter at colonial, williamsburg. And since then as worked at the minutes, Minnesota Historical society, and now works as a consultant helping particularly museums Historic Sites like ours think about and explore how we tell stories and how we do that together. How do we use these stories to help bring people . Together so richard thanks for being here and welcome. Thank you. Appreciate the opportunity. Im looking forward to pretty no conversation today. I think i hope it will be and richard weve known each other for for a while. So well you know, maybe well start off. Richard by talking a little bit about that career at Colonial Williamsburg, you know last week we had on our live stream. We had a jamar jones who currently portrays Jupiter Evans as amongst other people at Colonial Williamsburg and Jupiter Evans was the as, you know, just for a benefit of everyone watching it was the enslaved man servant of thoma
Minutes, Minnesota Historical society, and now works as a consultant helping particularly museums Historic Sites like ours think about and explore how we tell stories and how we do that together. How do we use these stories to help bring people . Together so richard thanks for being here and welcome. Thank you. Appreciate the opportunity. Im looking forward to pretty no conversation today. I think i hope it will be and richard weve known each other for for a while. So well you know, maybe well start off. Richard by talking a little bit about that career at Colonial Williamsburg, you know last week we had on our live stream. We had a jamar jones who currently portrays Jupiter Evans as amongst other people at Colonial Williamsburg and Jupiter Evans was the as, you know, just for a benefit of everyone watching it was the enslaved man servant of thomas jefferson. He was born the same year as jefferson and jamar did a fantastic job. I think first of showing portraying jupiter in a way that
News in recent years, i imagine that you, like me, have found it difficult to ignore the topic of refugees. This is an image of a refugees experience fleeing communist vietnam in 1975. But in many ways, it reminds us of images that we might see on the news today. It is hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing it see. Refugees are suffocating in meat trucks. They are crowding onto leaky boats. They are drowning. The bodies of those who are unable to cross to safety are washing up on mediterranean beaches. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years. Particularly related to the crisis in syria. But refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. Were not just talking about refugees coming from syria, but from other war torn regions. Especially in the past couple of years, it has also been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. And Refugee Resettlement, like so many other topics today, has become a polarizing topic. On one hand,
Decades. Her class lasts about an hour. Today were going to talk about topic 18 which is Southeast Asian refugee migrations. If youve been following the news, i imagine, you like me, have found it difficult to ignore the topic of refugees. This is an image of a refugees experience fleeing communist vietnam in 1975, but in many ways, it reminds us of images that we might see on the news today. Its hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing at sea, refugees are suffocating in meat trucks, theyre crowding onto leaky boats, theyre drowning the bodies of those who are unable to cross to safety, are washing up on mediterranean beaches. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. So were not just talking about refugees coming from syria, but from other wartorn regions. Especially in the past couple of years, its been difficult to ignore the public response t
Rights. The u. S. Supreme court ruled today that a landmark civil rights law protects and transgender people from discrimination in employment. The court decided by a 63 vote that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as title 7 that bars job discrimination because of one also applies to orientation or gender identity with more we go now to kron fours justine waltman shes live in our newsroom with details just team. Well this outcome is expected to have a big impact for the over 8 million lgbtq workers across the country and i want you to think about this way until todays ruling it was legal and more than half of the states to fire workers for being bisexual or transgender most states do not protect lgbtq people from workplace, discrimination this ruling is considered a defeat for the Trump Administration. The white house would argue that the Civil Rights Act did not extend to claims of gender identity and orientation, but the conservative court disagreed. Governor gavi