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Thousand-year-old being! woman: hang on, stay together! hang on, stronger than you think! i whats happening in fairy creek is people of all backgrounds have come together to protect some of the last remaining old growth on vancouver island, and notjust vancouver island, on the planet. drumbeat thank you for helping us teach the police... drumbeat.

Woman: this was a - thousand-year-old being! woman: hang on, stay together! hang on, stronger than you think! i whats happening in fairy creek is people of all backgrounds have come together to protect some of the last remaining old growth on vancouver island, and notjust vancouver island, on the planet. drumbeat. thank you for helping us teach the police... drumbeat.

Komani-born physical chemistry lecturer and researcher Dr Zikhona Tywabi-Ngeva noticed the need for career guidance among students from disadvantaged backgrounds, which posed problems for lecturers in tertiary institutions, so she came back home and established an NPO, the Dr ZTN Foundation to help change lives through education.

Particular they are significantly underrepresented still. but has there been an improvement?— still. but has there been an imrovement? ~ , , ~ improvement? absolutely i think that one of _ improvement? absolutely i think that one of the _ improvement? absolutely i think that one of the interesting i that one of the interesting things that we found in analysing the companies especially in the uk while improvement has been seen at the board level one of the things that we have been missing is di...

The executive level _ what you see is companies promoting from within, you have to have that internal infrastructure, you have to have that internal momentum that empowers individuals from under representative backgrounds to get to that senior level whereas at the board level you can bring in people from outside, so its easier in some sense to create diversity at the board level versus the structural change necessary to create the opportunity for advancement towards the executive level. and that...

>> its easy for some people to say why dont you just leave? its not always an option for folks to leave. >> its not free to leave. its not free to start your life somewhere else. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i think the other thing about this gathering is that a lot of people outside of this area of the world wouldnt realize that thered be a racial mix like this at one gathering in appalachia. >> yeah. >> we have all shades of black folks and all shades of white folks. >> its not a homogenous narrative ...

This area of the world dont realize there could be a racial mix like this at one gathering in appalachia. we have all shades of black folks and all shades of white folks. >> its not this homogenous narrative of just white folks. its a range of people with different backgrounds and experiences. >> what is life like around here? >> a lot of running around with your friends, playing tag and stuff like that. i feel like we were always outside. its exciting. exciting as it could be as a kid in a smal...

For folks to just leave. >> its not free to leave. its not free to start your life somewhere else. >> yeah. >> i think the or the thing about this gathering is that a lot of people outside of this area of the world wouldnt realize that thered be a racial mix like this at one gathering in appalachia. we have all shades of black folks and all shades of white folks. >> yeah. its not this humognist narrative of white folks, here its different backgrounds and experiences. >> a new episode of "united ...

They have different backgrounds and experiences. >> united shades of america tonight at 10:00 p.m. on cnn.

Substack, yall. ruth, i want to start with you because you tweeted that these extremists are targeting librarians because they -- hate imagination. ten you explain how -- >> yes, every authoritarian state and party attacks books and anybody who has anything to do with anything like critical thought and education. down to education and librarian elementary schools. libraries are threatening because they are places that combat polarization. they are essential to democracy because people from diffe...