Ukraine. Its an ancient and proud land. With a rich history filled with much beauty heroism and sacrifice. Ukraine is a border land. A place where east meets west. This is the flag of ukraine the blue represents the sky the gold its seemingly endless fields of wheat. Ukraine is a prize many have sought. And much blood spilled in the quest to possess it. Ukraine has been the pathway for western powers as they attempted to conquer the east. In world war one. And world war 2. And every time the ukrainian people ended up paying the highest price for these grand games of power. History doesnt repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. If one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. Being surrounded by stronger powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and they are they truly mastered with time is the art of changing sides. In the middle of the 17th century ukrainian leader dunn who. Broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more powerful russi
Welcome everyone to the brooklyn book festival. Tonight is the seventh day of an eightday festival where we have presented over 100 programs and almost 300 authors. It has been a tremendous week of literary celebration as were very grateful to have his of the wilkerson and Michael Eric Dyson with us tonight. I would like to say one thing, show the love by purchasing their books in the link below. They are authors with books after all and going to turn over now to both of them to continue the conversation. Thank you very much. Thank you very kindly. Im honored to be here today with a woman who is among the 304 greatest writers in america, arguably the finest writer in america today. I am going to make that argument. So it is an extraordinary honor to be with you, ms. Isabel wilkerson, and to have this opportunity to chat with you. Theyre calling it a a conversation but im just going to fan boy out and as as a sayn the hood, ask you some questions. And see if we can stimulate the convers
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Victims of the underground. Its good to have you with us the United Nations on tuesday adopted a resolution welcoming talks between the Afghan Government and the taliban the talks which got underway last weekend in doha bring together 2 sides that are 40 each other for nearly 20 years. Been negotiating and diplomats are pushing for a cease fire as a 1st step to a longer roadmap to peace but the taliban have so far only reiterated that he has to establish afghanistan as a quote truly islamic country with no details provided as to what that means there are fears that given the militant groups. That could take away from women and minorities rights that have been hard won in the past 2 decades. Lay down their weapons. Thats the message of these afghan women who marched in jalalabad as the government and the taliban engaged in high profile discussions about the future of their country. The protests brought together young and old generations united by a longing for peace. But i know when our
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