Im told the ball welcome to news africa were glad you could join us my jury has suffered the effects of a decade logged insurgency by the boko haram Jihadist Group part of the governments response apart from a military operation has been to offer an amnesty to repentant militants these fighters of then rehabilitated and steered back into society except they sometimes end up living alongside the very victims of their attacks as the correspondent funny has been finding out in the city of maiduguri in northeast nigeria. What come to my degree this sign existed long before the city gate negative notoriety for being the birthplace of boko haram in the past my degree was known as the manger Training Camp a decade into the jihadi. More than 2000000 people have been displaced some of them find refuge in this. At 1st sight not much has changed since we visited last year but this time we need to form a book or on militants who have also been assigned to this camp like. He learns how to repair sh
Myths about rosa parks and the montgomery bus boycott. She was not the first africanamerican woman who trooe fused to give her seat. Why this version has become so widespread. So our focus today then is going to be the montgomery bus boycott. That is and what you read your sources for except the payne article that gave you a larger focus and to do that well go back to the discussion of origin point. Our favorite slide which youre going to be so sick of. Representing the narrative arc of the popular story of the Civil Rights Movement. And were going back to our topic of origin points, again with the objective of troubling it. One, putting those events in context but also troubling the idea of them as origin points. And last week we discussed brown versus board of education, we discussed the decision, response, the impact but also the legacy. And i want to talk more about the legacy as we go forward but were not going to do that today. And then on tuesday, we spent time talking about the
That. The things you do for your, asset youll do anything reasonable. I think its in that book but typically you give the money, but not enough so that they can expose themselves by conspicuous spending, were always trying to preserve our assets lives, and telling them that they need to dial it back, and i think we gave him i do know we gave him particular gifts, to give to his superiors, to curry favor, so they liked him so they would promote him, so they would give him good jobs and at one point we gave him, a bottle of brandy i think, that was doctored to make it look like it was the vintage year of the birth of his boss, a soviet general. Who just love that you found this for me. You know, we will do the sorts of things. Okay. So anything else . Okay so next week a quiz on thursday, and i will see you on tuesday. Thank you for your attention. Climactic moments of the democratic convention, as a place to nomination before the Democratic National convention. That reflects a party tra
Today along with films comfort cautionary measures social distancing mandatory mask wearing and temperature taking. This podium we hope everything will go well we hope that this mosque can be fruitful we will be in with. It for easter and might see fewer hollywood stars in attendance but one Silver Lining is that the festival has done better in terms of gender parity 8 out of 18 films in competition directed by women. Actress Cate Blanchett leads the jerry. Was to the swinton receives a Lifetime Achievement award the competition runs for 11 days before we find out who will take home the series coveted golden lion. 8 out of 800 films by women directors and im joined by my colleague melissa horrid melissa some pretty impressive gender parity there for venice so finally we might say is there did dare we hope that the golden lion might be taken home by a woman well yes it could well be taken home by a woman couldnt i mean if we think about the comparison with great recent years this is a m
One. She did so much more. She was one of disneys first female animators. She was an actress. She was an illustrator. Everything about her was larger than life. It has been the greatest honor of my life so far to tell her story. If youve read the hard core version you know there are pictures in there. She lived a very visual, cinematic life. I have a treat. I have photos that have never been seen before. I have hundreds and hundreds of them i was not allowed by my publish tower put in because we could not fit 700 photos in the book. I would like to sort of take you through it while telling you about milicent and why she is a trail blazing artist and one of the most important women weve ever had in the Film Industry and also why we dont know her any longer. Id like to take you through her life for a little bit with some awesome photos. So see if i can remember how to do that. Yes, that is still me. Sorry. Here is my girl. Milicent patrick began life growing up in a place called Hearst C