Thanks for joining us on our team to ash to live from moscow. Welcome to the program now another night of violence and cities set ablaze i mean by the death of george floyd at the hands of police 1700 people have been arrested across the United States in minneapolis where floyd died police have been struggling to maintain the curfew there with officers resorting to ever more heavy handed methods. The problem is that. We need to fight for our law there was no peace until there is just. Its estimated thousands have gathered outside the Capitol Building in Minnesota National guards have been securing its perimeter Police Though say the protests on sunday have been peaceful so far demonstrators want all 4 officers who were present during the fatal incident to be charged so far only one is facing a charge of 3rd degree murder and meanwhile a makeshift memorial has been set up for George Floyds mourners have been paying their respects leaving flowers and messages the sites also become a plac
Hello just going 5 am here in moscow thanks for joining us in our teens a National Dining hawkins here with you tonight another night of violence in the city set ablaze amid protests sparked by the death of george floyd at the hands of police 700 people have been arrested across the United States. Has imposed to stop the spread of coronavirus with america having the most confirmed infections globally in minneapolis where floyd died police have been struggling to maintain the curfew there with officers resorting to ever more heavy handed methods. These are the problems that. We need to fight for our law there is no peace until. Meanwhile a makeshift memorial has been set up for george floyd some mourners have been paying their respects leaving flowers and messages aside has also become a place for peaceful protest against Police Brutality contrasting with the anger that has boiled over in other parts of the city and for the herald sun whos George Floyds aunt told us she never expected t
Lets get kick started. Extremism is a big theme of the sunday papers. Weve got michael gove interviewed in the sunday telegraph. The quote for that story is its not right. My jewish friends dont feel safe in london i think in Central London on. I think the looking to the government is looking to redefine extremism is. And redefine what extremism is. And weve also had this extraordinary scene. Michael, i know you had a look at the video of this iranian protester going to the pro palestinian march yesterday. Okay. Hes carrying a poster that others arent a poster that others arent a poster hamas a terrorist. Poster saying hamas a terrorist. And then he gets strong armed by the police. Yes, course, the official yes, of course, the official position of britain that position of britain is that hamas a terrorist hamas is a terrorist organisation. Yes. And organisation. Yes. And the government that government would say that the attack israel on october the attack on israel on october the 7th w
Opening the building, why would the museum even help to organize such a conference . Well, the simple answer is that were crazy. But the real answer is that at the smithsonian, at this museum, scholarship is the engine and research is the lifeblood of the institution. Without the decade of research and academic scholarship as a foundation, there would be no National Museum of African American history and culture. So we know that we are tied so much to the work that so many of you do. So much of the intellectual and interpretive agenda of the museum has been shaped by the work of many who are participating in this conference. Thanks to this amazing array of scholarship, the museum is able to position itself as an discussion that will help all who visit find the rich, complex, and nuanced history of the African American community. But even more importantly, thanks to your work, this museum will recenter the African American experience, and use African American history and culture as a le
This is how we tell the history, but my goal is to silence less and less people and thats what i would hope were doing in history. Which is not necessarily creating im not trying to create a new narrative. Im not trying to say if we do that now, well come to another narrative that were all going to agree on. I guess what i hope for the museum is that there is a lot of things that we have been silent about that show up in the museum in some kind of in some kind of way and now spaces for people to add other things that they think are silent because were all going to create something that has silences in it. But to have a lot of things that have been silent and not to worry about whether im not running a museum, i can say not worry, not to worry about the things that are going to be upset about that, are in there or included, et cetera. Yeah. [ applause ] my name is Junior Williams from newark, new jersey. The sum that is i think some of us make is that being black was only a protected de