Back in the 1980s from the original founders of the descendents association, and i guess it stopped for a while, so i decided to start it up again. And i was reading the book, the slaveship clotilda and the makers of africa town. That is how i came up with the title. I was looking for a title, but you know, a lot of things were not ringing a bell. When i was reading her book, i was like oh wow, our ancestors just jumped at me. You greeted everyone and there was a point where you had descendents speak. How did you come up with your program . Well, growing up here in africa town and attending the missionary baptist church, there was a bust of cudgel lewis in front of our church all of my life, and back in 2002 that bust was destroyed by some kids acting up, and they decided to vandalize, and later, they put up a Historical Marker, and this Historical Marker had the founders of Union Baptist church, and there were several names on there, and growing up, i always heard about cudgel lewis,
Trey did you hear that . The court of Public Opinion, she says. It would have to be the court of Public Opinion because what you will see next week bears no similarity to a real court. In a real court, there is a judge was fair and neutral. Next week, the Presiding Judge is senator Patrick Leahy who has already voted twice to convict and remove donald trump from office. He would never be allowed to preside in a real court. In a real court there is a jury of women and men who have not already made up their minds. That is the only one quality you must have two serve on a real jury in a real court. There are 50 democrats will vote to convict next week no matter what the evidence is. In a real court, the jury is told to wait until the very end to reach any conclusions, in fact, you are forbidden from even beginning to reach conclusions until the very end. But not next week. In a real court, there are rules of evidence, rules about what kind of evidence can be admitted and i doubt you will
The Mobile County Training School in africa town to record parts of the spirits of our ancestors festival. We spoke with organizer joyce linde davis. The spirit of our ancestors festival is a day to set aside to commemorate the descendents of the clotilda. Various festivals that started back in the 1980s from the original founders of the descendents association, and i guess it stopped for a while, so i decided to start it up again. Reading the book, the flagship clotilda and the makers of africa town. That is how i came up with the title. I was looking for a title, but you know, a lot of things were not ringing a bell. When i was reading her book, i was like state of our ancestors just jumped at me. You greeted everyone and there was a point where you had descendents speak. How did you come up with your program . Well, growing up here in theca town and attending missionary baptist church, there was a bust of cudgel lewis in front of our church all of my life, and back into thousand two
Time you come from and i come from a small little town in oregon and i just ponder how, and your traveling the world, youre living in a different environment completely but you have reported on World Affairs from all kinds of Different Directions in the worst tragedies on the planet but you chose to really focus on small town in oregon, wife . We were running around the world, covering crises and free would periodically go back to my beloved hope town on the family farm and we saw a humanitarian crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids who were on my school bus are now fallen from drugs and alcohol for suicide. I tried to process that, kids who got on the bus right after me, and for her sister, smart and talented kids. He died of drug and alcohol abuse, he died in house fire when he was drunk. In one blew himself cooking method regina died from hepatitis, injectable drug use. Once arrived because he survived his intricate for a while, we wondered, is there something about my bus,