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Image of a time that never really was. Its something beautiful, romantic and exciting and they can get away from how much their lives absolutely suck. Thats why the movie industry does incredibly well during the great depression. You wouldnt think it does well, but it does incredibly well for that reason. So we are to the point where we talk about what the movie does right. 12 minutes left. How does the movie measure up historically speaking when dealing with some of the elite white characters a...

Amistad and the moment in the film where, which is certainly taken from the case. They throw them over board. The slaves are shackled and thrown overboard is one of the most visually powerful, arresting scenes. When i went to the International Museum of slavery in liverpool they had their own version of that so it is something that we deal in words and powerfully in telling stories but its something that we now in the 21st century back to media have to grapple with. Whos going to look at it . Ho...

Location and at the very end she says, tara, home, i will go home. Right . So thats going to fix it. Thats an incredibly powerful sense. I think this adds an element that these people werent fighting so they could keep people in subjugation. This is where they grew up and had a right to fight for their homes. It makes them feel more look crusaders rather than the version that they wanted black people to keep working for them so they could keep sipping their tea. What are some of the other ways t...

What is that . Rain. You happy to see it . Yeah. The close call on capitol hill. 911. Tree limb into car. The final score, tree 1, car 0. Driver and passenger, they escape injury. All of a sudden i saw a cloud of leaves, and so im like a tree that fell so. Im putting on my brakes and its nowhere for me to move. To maneuver around it. It fell on top of us. Reporter virginia rain. It usually starts there and then well, comes our way. This is what it was like on i66. Today we got rain. Thats intere...

Are going to get all of their pay anyway, why not just settle this and bring them back. Steve handelsman, news 4. Thank you. At least 26,000 furloughed workers have filed for unemployment in d. C. And in maryland. D. C. s Department Employment says it had more than 10,000 claims and in maryland the number is 16,000. Thats nearly four times the number of claims maryland gets in an entire year. Virginia did not release numbers. The trickle down effect is forcing some local companies to make cutbac...

Little bit of damage. That was way off to the west around winchester and areas way down to the south around charlottesville. Thunderstorm damage around the country club there, some trees were taken down by some of those high winds, as they gusted up to 45 and 50 Miles Per Hour. Its just showers left for us around woodbridge, dumfries, north of quinnic co, virginia so still some of us having to use umbrella. The big stuff east in marylands Eastern Shore with the high rainfall amounts, something w...

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Suraj good evening. Welcome to the cuny tv studio. I am errol lewis. I am bridget bergen, senior Political Correspondent at the got messed. New yorkers will be headed to the polls to vote in the primaries for congress and state senate. Early voting comes even sooner. The primary calendar was redone and the redrawing Congressional Districts have led to some competitive primaries including the race we are focusing on tonight. The newly redrawn Fourth District stretches across several neighborhoods...

Symposium which is about 45 minutes. Mattr next speaker is thinkpinksner. He is a professor at Dickinson College which is the alma mater of both president buchanan and the chief justice. , for what that is worth. The author of a number of books and articles, including lincolns sanctuary which is a history of the soldiers home in lincolns sanctuary which is a history of the soldiers home where lincoln would go during the summer and he is the author of a forthcoming book which i think will radical...

Freedom. This was hosted by the american historical society. It is about 45 minutes. Our next speaker is matt pinsker the associate professor of history and holds the chair in American Civil War history at it is the almost not her of alma mater, for what that is worth. Of a numberauthor of books and articles. And it the author of a forthcoming book, which i think will radically force us to think about lincoln in a new way and it is hard to think of anyone anything that could force us to think of...