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Five more officers are awaiting trial. Look at this gridlock in center city. Taxi and uber drivers wanted to make a statement and protests created traffic problems this afternoon. Nbc 10s lauren mayk. I was stuck in this. It took me an hour to get three blocks. Absolute gridlock. Reporter yeah, it was a mess. It is 6 00 rush how now, when you expect to see a lot of congestion around city hall. Things came it a standstill earli earlier, a sea of cabs and drivers getting out to argue they are playing by rules, competitors arent. Reporter the line of cars leading up to and around city hall didnt ...

Nbc 10 viewers drone just how big this fire was at the jerusalem missionary baptist church. The drone was directly overhead when the roof collapsed. Fire coming out of both sides of the building. Minutes after that the front of the building collapsed and everything fell. Reporter this is still a very active scene. Firefighters not ready to say what started the fire or whether it was intentionally set. Neighbors tell me this is the second fire here in the last two weeks. I dont even know. I cant fathom two fires within two weeks. Unbelievable. Its just weird that in two weeks its on fire again....

Theyre really quite intelligent, very intelligent, but are trained in a way that theyve been trained differently from the way we have so that they are interested in, you know, the impact visually and what people hear. And the overarching story or theme or thesis they want to put forward. And so whenever they come to historians, its not as theyre writing the work. It is usually after theyve already worked out in their mind what the opening scene is going to look like and the rest of it. And the story holds together well for them, for what they like to portray in one way. And then on the other s...

Worth mentioning. 1848 is this wonderful moment where people like Thaddeus Stevens, Abraham Lincoln and Alexander Steven are all young, rising whigs who are supporting taylor and working together. It was stevens who was one of the confederate peace commissioners lincoln is dealing with in the end. When we thing of the civil war in military terms, we talk about the mexican war as a precursor, a prelude, but the congress that lincoln served in has Horace Greely and Alexander Stevens and sidelines waiting to enter. This is part of lincolns story. Its a preview for him of what is to come. You know...

My sons came up with the idea a few years ago i should take p n plantation mistress to hollywood and say, real housewives of the old south. You should. But the patriot, at the same time, youre sitting there and these little freshmen come in, and why are you here, whats your interest . And they saw the film. Part of it is to get people excited about the past even if its not our past, even if its nobodys past, some fantasy past. Vampire past. And this brings us a question of what constitutes a film about slavery . Would you think of ride with the devil as a film about slavery or Cold Mountain . ...