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Working together. >> one day gonzalez took his mother to ethe oval office. he called that moment a miracle. >> i would take it from the cotton fields where she used to work as a young girl to the oval office and that for me is a sign of gods grace and a and a perfect example of the american story. >> and when america was attacked on 9/11, gonzalez was on bushs team. >> he knew continues we would use all levers to of american power to deal with it. my job was to make sure the legal issues were pr...

And a validation by the un. many of the un findings mirror our own reporting. in 2019 we travelled to turkey to speak to members of the uyghur diaspora whose loved ones back home had disappeared into camps or state—run orphanages. the un report urges china to provide these relatives with information. the following year we were invited into the camps for a highly controlled propaganda tour. but despite the displays of dancing uyghurs, we saw clear evidence of indoctrination and coercion. the un...

McDONOUGH — Construction on Henry County’s new aquatic center is on track, according to Jonathon Penn, Leisure & Public Service cluster lead.

Indie Spotlight column recommends tributes to Brian Wilson (by Jem Records) and Bob Dylan (by Paradiddle Records), then albums by Barrett Martin, Neal Casal, Abe Partridge and Brian Straw are worth a strong mention as well.

Scars of our familys past. its very easy for someone who was raised in the black community to come here and feel very negative thoughts about driving through cotton fields. you know, i know how im supposed to feel looking at the cotton field, but i dont feel that way. i quickly switch to im really intrigued about how these people live here. you know, so to me, i have turned that into curiosity. whats your life like? where do you shop? where do you go for a beer? when you want to connect with the...

I grew up in washington, d.c., raised by my grandmother who is from virginia. so i always felt i had one foot in the south. but as a young child, i was taught to fear the south a little bit because of the deep scars of our familys past. its very easy for someone who was raised in the black community to come here and feel very negative thoughts about driving through cotton fields. you know, i know how im supposed to feel looking at the cotton field, but i dont feel that way. i quickly switch to i...

Symphony Space, which celebrates James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses in its beloved annual Bloomsday on Broadway, marks the milestone occasion of the book’s 100th anniversary with a new commission in which Elevator Repair Service (ERS) brings the novel to wild, illuminating theatrical life.

This week I’m rediscovering the 40th Anniversary Editions of some Creedence Clearwater Revival albums, with their compelling bonus tracks.

Even more. california secretary of state shirley weber, the daughter of shapecroppers who crafted legislation to create that first in the nation task force, spoke out at a recent meeting about sensing her familys fear as a child. lets take a listen. >> the fear my grandfather felt was palatable and it crippled him and his familys ability to dream beyond the cotton fields. he was dearly, dearly, and direly afraid his kids would be killed, his sons would be murerred, his wife would be raped, his d...

Huttos reluctance to speak ill of others would make him an object of scorn among many of his fellow conservatives in politics today.