Meet voters who say distance is just one more barrier in a 160year struggle to secure their right to vote. Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. Tuesday is election day and americans have already cast a record breaking number of early votes. The potential for a record inperson turnout adds stress for Election Officials, especially in places where covid19 cases are surging. Add to that President Trump calling on his supporters to watch polling places. President trump theyre trying to rig the election. We cant let that happen. I hope you are all going to be poll watchers. I hope you are. Because with you people watching the polls, it would be pretty hard to cheat. I would hate to be a cheater. Soledad but in most states people cant just show up and say they want to watch whats going on. Whether recruited by Political Parties or Watchdog Groups, must be certified by local officials and assigned to specific polling places. Jeffrey im Jeffrey Metzler and im a poll watcher. S
The 8th century onwards for over 1000 years africa was the epicenter of a global form of human trafficking. My parents were abused by those with a fair complection or. Songhai for lani. To equal. Over 20000000 africans were deported traded and reduced to slavery this criminal system shaped our history and our world so expansive was its reach that for a long time it seemed impossible to fully explain its mechanisms. In this series we will journey back along the roots of the slave trade. The thing about the slave trade a key thing about the slave trade and i always would have to explain a store American Students who immediately would want to put it into a kind of an ethical human rights kind of a card to have to look at in economic terms and so if you have a if youre talking about a slave trade if so where is the demand where is there a demand for labor and what is the nature of that demand from white for. 2000 years ago slavery became an integral feature of the roman empire eventually i
I am the new executive director of chicago ideas. Being born and raised this amazing city and now raising my own family just down the street come i feel incredibly proud to call myself a true blue chicago in. Anybody else feel that way . [applause] the makes me even prouder to know this team that works each and every day to challenge our city in the world beyond to share ideas and inspire actions and ignite change. Chicago ideas is all about piquing curiosity and pursuing connectivity so in that spirit i would like you to turn to a person you dont know and introduce yourself and share why you are here tonight and share your most trusted source of political news might be. It could be an oxymoron. [laughter] i will give you 60 seconds. [inaudible conversations] it will be tough for me to try to get this room back. So if i can, everyone. I love you are getting to know each other. Theres plenty of time after the program. This is also a good time witnesses a good time for me to take a quick
They publish lots of different local books. He had the distinct privilege to publish Abraham Lincolns bestselling book. A lot of people do not know that he wrote one. When lincoln ran for the senate and lost to Stephen Douglas, they had their famous debate. There were a couple of people from newspapers transcribing the debates, writing down shorthand and then a couple of days later, they would print it in newspapers. That way, people who did not attend could read about what happened. For most people, the story stopped there. This is breaking news. Lets move on. Lincoln, after he lost the senate race, he worked hard to gather those newspaper transcript. He worked hard. There are at least nine surviving letters of him gathering these newspaper transcripts. He cut them out and pasted them in a scrapbook. You can still see it today at the library of congress. He is making these tiny little edits in pencil. If one paragraph is not accurate, he is cutting it out and putting a different parag
Understanding in the modern period in reconstruction, and we have two speakers this morning. We have Vernon Burton whos from clemson university, and we have Brooke Thomas who is from the university of california at irvine. Both of them are stunningly important scholars in this world. Vernon burton is the judge matthew j. Perry distinguished chair of history and a professor of pan african studying, sociology and anthology and Computer Science at clemson university, which is to say hes mostly the entire university at this point. His i could read all of his distinguished awards and honors, and then he wouldnt have time to talk. I can only say that he has written a number of very important books. He has given major lectures at many institutions, most recently the annual lecture in southern history at the university of arkansas, and he his books have been in the book of the month club, the history book club, and other clubs. I have always hoped that i could be in a club that vernon was a me