By that, we not only refer to shedding some of the negative aspects of our history, but really charting a new course. The Research Triangle story is pretty familiar and internalized around here, around 60 years ago. A group of leaders in business and education, government had this vision that these wornout fields in the area between durham and raleigh might be a new source for industry, especially hightech enterprise, Research Related enterprise, so the Research Triangle was born. It wasnt an immediate success. Ibm though became the anchor tenant and pretty soon it blossomed and out is a thriving and now is a thriving region. I say that is what we are best known for. The biggest challenge is the challenge of managing growth and achieving fairness, equity, justice in our community. That sounds pretty lofty, but it takes very different forms, especially in the housing area. That is one reason i am glad to pursue transportation and housing. That is my main legislative interest. Now i happ
Our program tonight is presented in honor of black History Month for the purposes of Public Education and civil discourse. And our guests are to american historians. Our keynote speaker is a historian of television, radio and the Recording Industry in the united states, a former network and Cable Television executive, and the author of nine books. Tim brooks. His talk tonight is based on his newest publication, the blackface minstrel show in mass media 20th century performances on radio, records, film and television. Recently published by mcfarland. Among tims many accomplishments is a grammy award, which he received for a double cd and book titled lost sounds blacks and the birth of the Recording Industry 18901919. Joined in aen be seated conversation by fellow historian bill doggett. Timprogram will conclude in and bills taking questions from you, our live audience. Now, please turn off the sounds , and join me in welcoming historian and author, tim brooks. [applause] tim thank you,
[ applause ] in introducing tonight speaker, dr. Joanne freeman, i would like to mention at the outset that one of her most commendable qualifications is that she received her ph. D. From the university. Thats right, uva. [laughter] in any case, not long after receiving that degree, she was recognized already as one of the nations top young historians. She subsequently has achieved widespread recognition as a scholar of the revolutionary and Early National periods of American History. She is the author of numerous articles on those subjects which will appear in print in proper academic journals including the william and mary quarterly, the journal of policy history and the yale law journal among others. She has written oped pieces for the New York Times and appeared in numerous documentaries on pbs, the History Channel and radio programs like npr and the bbc. You may have seen her in the past week on the History Channel series on george washington. She has written several books, includ
Media, 20th century performances on radio, records, film, and television recently published by mcfarland. Among his many accomplishments is a grammy award which he received for a double cd and bro book titled lost sounds. 1890 to 1919. Tim will then be joined in a conversation by fellow historian bill dugget. Our program will conclude with tim and bill taking questions from you, our live audience. Now, please turn off the sounds of your phones, and join me in welcoming historian and author tim brooks. [ applause ] well, thank you. Later on as he mentioned, there will be time for questions. And i hope we have some good ones coming up at the end of this conversation and presentation. But i would like to start with a question for you, the audience. How many people have seen a minstrel show . A live minstrel show. Anybody . Interesting. How many have seen one on film prap . Remember, im talking about a whole minstrel show, not a clip from somewhere, but a full show. Anybody . Okay. If i ha
Right at beginning of the evening rush but also at the time kid were getting out of school. Very, very slow go here. It took me 30 minutes to go just over a mile over the bridge to come toward main street in bethlehem. Now it is looking picturesque everything back to normal but we will have risk for icy conditions tonight, and current temperature right here on mobile weather watcher is about 24 degrees, when just a coat to go an inch of snow that is leading to slick conditions outside. Look at storm scan three you can see heaviest of the snow started to shift to the southe of the city still snow on the back edge and still snowing here in the Lehigh Valley but doesnt look all that impressive there on storm scan three but heavier band of snow are over portions of south jersey what happened was it moved off coast trending more snowy as we talk about throughout the day yesterday and then banding set up and in these steady band we have got pretty quick snow fall rates as much as half inch t