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
Washington, d. C. , across Lafayette Square at the white house with the slavery and the president s neighborhood. As we begin tonights program please welcome the 15th rector of st. Johns church, reverend john fisher. [ applause ] welcome, good evening. My name is rob fisher. I am the rector of st. Johns church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the White House Historical association asked us to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit about the history of this very historic room that you are sitting in tonight and so i will share with you that this church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henry latrobe. Not only did he design this church, he was rewould abouting the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 1812 and in 1818 he built Decatur House which is now the home of the White House Historical association and if you go inside the Decatur House and you look up, you see a very similar entrance. It i
In so that we can directly engage with you while were talking to our first person interpreter actor, bill barker, who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do something a little bit different this week. Given the National Conversation and given events all around us, we know that 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed for months. We reopened this weekend, due to a global pandemic. 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 its racially motivated Police Violence or racially motivated monuments and memories. Its a conversation that we must engage in, and working here at monticello, we are a site of memory. Monticello is a plantation where over 400 people were enslaved. Today we decided to have a conversation, we would do something that we havent done and im sure everyone knows this, that when you tune in youre not actually talking to Thomas Jeffe
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A global reckoning on Racism Police killings in the United States trigger protests and debates on racial legacies in britain and elsewhere so can europe and the us from each other this isnt whats true. Hello and welcome to the program on iran come on the killing of george floyd an American Police custody has triggered protests around the world some in solidarity with the black lives not on the mint in the United States other demonstrations are coals to confront the legacy of racism in their own countries rallies in britain have hard like to discrimination against minorities as well as britains colonial past a statue of 17th century slave trade edward culson was dumped in Bristol Harbor last week in london city leaders removed a statue of another slave trade a role that milligan and fearing move on to listen boarded up Winston Churchill statute the full protest on saturday. For rights activists have held a council rally saying they wanted to protect the statues of what they call British