Your question and he will try to get to as many as possible. There is a chat but just keep your questions in the q a. With al that out of the way it is my honor to introduce jean guerrero, an Investigative Reporter contributing to npr, pbs news hour and other media. The author of crux which won the emerge Writers Press and recipient of an emin for the kpbs series, americas awesome tonight she is is discussing hatemonger, Stephen Miller, donald trump and the while nationalist sagged. Straight the ascene from stephen mill are from spiteful teenage troll to one of Donald Trumps chief adviser, miller who outrafted many others as encourages his boss worse impulses and help instill the native gist an miss any how much from the speech to the muslim ban the family separation policy border his fingerprints have been over the cruelest moments of the trump era. She wail by in conversation with jonathon blitzer. Won the 2017 National Award for education reporting for american studies, a story abou
People who lived on the opposite side of the river in louisiana. This is structure was donated to us about ten years ago, by the descendants and the original founders of that congregation. They bought the land in 1870. Two parcels of land, for the express purpose of building a house of worship. In the seal document, which we have in the courthouse, they named their structure, their congregation the anti yoke baptist congregation. That message of being against the yoke or against slavery was something that is important to our story here. And this is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river and so its really important here in talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. We like to start our tour of the whitney plantation here in this building so that we can kind of see what happens to people, some of the things that they cared about after freedom came. The whitney plantation is the only Plantation Museum in the state o
Hate. [laughter] it is a little daunting. Trace the arc. Im going to do a historian thing and think generally. I guess i would say if yo they e looking at american politics from the beginning, we could even go past the civil war, we are talking about paradoxes and conflict and improv. The periods but i tend to focus on more at that part, its the improvisational nature of that fascinates me more than anything else. Its because the nation was founded in the world of monarc monarchy. What that means wasnt so clear at the moment. There is a lot of improv in those early decades about what the nation is, how it functions, the tone of the f government, hp a nationon is going to stand out among the nations of the world. What does it mean to be in a world of monarchies and was the nation going to get any degree of respect and equally and if not more significant as far as the inside of the nation is concerned, what kind of nation is tha it going to be and that s true on every level you could s a
And monticellos historic interpretation manager, Brandon Dillard, discuss how depictions of both slavery and jeffersons life have changed over recent decades. Thomas Jeffersons Monticello recorded this program and provided the video. Good afternoon. My name is Brandon Dillard and i am the manager of historic interpretations at monticello. In previous live streams, i am behind the camera reading questions from our audience as they come in, so we can engage with you while we are talking to our first person, interpreter actor bill barker, who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do Something Different this week. Given the National Conversation and given that it is all around us, we know 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed. We reopened this weekend. And in recent weeks in the united states, millions of people all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different forms of racial injustice, whether it is raciallymotivated Police Violence or racia
Weekend. Now a major disaster declaration from the president california has requested 375. Fire engines and crews from out of state. Good evening, everybody thanks for being here 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Catherine Heenan in for Vicki Liviakis thank you for joining us tonight at 9 oclock. The governor says that at this time last year there were 4200 California Wildfires they burned 56,000 acres. So far this year more than 7,000 fires have burned one 0. 4 million acres and most of that within just the last week. The largest fires in the state are burning here in the bay area will begin with the scu lightning complex system that is burning in Santa Clara Alameda contra costa and san joaquin counties. Flames there have burned more than 360,000 acres. Containment is at 15 5 people have been injured. 12 structures destroyed and more than 20,000 other structures are still threatened tonight, the lnu complex those of the fires burning in Solano Sonoma napa yolo and lake counties have ki