Healing town hall, live from studio being new orleans. Now joined now by chris hayes and join all right. Good evening, and welcome to our town hall of the national day of racial healing and event creating, 60 years ago by our sponsor of the w. E. Case kellogg foundation. The specialties held every year on the day after the dr. Martin luther king holiday. If you look around, you will see that we are in this glorious space, incredible room. It is part of a studio b which is a set of former warehouses turn to an Art Experience by the artist brandon be mike odoms, here in the by Water Neighborhood of the great city of new orleans. Our colleague jermaine lee who has been doing some reporting for this project is here with us as well and so is the young fellas the land where we unfortunate to be meeting tonight has made a Gathering Place and trading hub of different backgrounds and cultures going back centuries. And so we want to acknowledge, thank and honor the Indigenous People for hume thi
Here at the festival. There is lunch on the main mall. The day will conclude with a reception at the at t center. This panel is supported by pearson, and the sponsors and donors played no role in determining the content, panelists or my line of questioning. Event will be 60 minutes. The last 15 to 20 minutes will be open to questions for the audience for the panel. After that, pearson will host all of us for a brief meet and texasnextdoor in the union building, where we will all drain the swamp together. Please it join us for that. If you will tweet during this event, use the. While youre looking at your phone, please please silence it. Left is douglas brinkley. He is cnns president ial historian and author of several books about the presidency, most recently rightful heritage, Franklin D Roosevelt and the land of america. Is a National Political correspondent where she has covered every president ial election. You can hear on shows like all Things Considered and morning edition. She i
News today. Im tracy davidson. And im vai sikahema. First, lets get to bill henley with the first alert neighborhood forecast. The forecast weather and also baseball. Good morning. Our top story, what a morning, oh, my goodness. Its going to be a beautiful day. No matter what happens. We do have some changes today. Dry right now. Pretty warm, temperatures are in the 50s. Im watching the doppler radar. Nothing in the area yet but are there are the showers moving into northwestern pennsylvania and out of cleveland that caused a short delay before the cubs won it all. Well see sunshine today before the clouds arrive in the area with the chance of showers. The first of showers, the Lehigh Valley, late this morning, some showers will be popping up. And they will change from delaware to new jersey too. Its not an allday rainfall. Even warmer than yesterday morning. Upper 70s in new jersey. A little cooler in the Lehigh Valley with a chance of showers. Look at delaware, 80 degrees this aftern
I want to talk about old cemeteries, why they are important and what you can learn from them. Say as a caveat, a lot of the rationale behind finding researchs, mine is that is focused on old africanamerican cemeteries, very often it pertains to other cemeteries of various backgrounds, but i focused on the virginia piedmont, specifically areas in central virginia, nelson county, it has to do with where i lived and the counties i commuted through to go to work. [laughter] so, it means that if you are asking about counties not on that route, take a good guess. Within those counties, most of them are in amherst county, that is where the 150 cemeteries are that i visited and studied for this research. On the map in the lower righthand corner, dont worry there will not be a quiz but the numbers you are looking at seem to be the founding of these counties by european americans. I would also point out that if your interests are in native american Burial Grounds, those of course date back tens
And i ran from meridian to jackson and owned vicksburg. Soldiers died on the train, brought up here laden even know the names of the soldiers. These are some of the filings who fall and died and their families never heard from them. Again. Didnt know where they were buried. What happened to them, this one right here it says a 6 brave soldier sleepier and thats kind of ha, feel about it. They were brave, they were honorable. They didnt fight to preserve slavery. They fought because their home was invaded because their, their state ask them to and it was honorable thing to do in, ah, how can you say that when that cause that you say that they fought so nobly for was girded up by slavery in the whole reason drawer, mississippi, getting into the civil war. They say very plainly, its about preserving slavery in the septic. Goes back almost to our founding in this country that, that the belief that america is a white man. And anybody else who comes here has to back down to the y b as rules.