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you know one of the big i think issues today that a lot of people and it's interesting you talk about them like playing a song like that your shows do you get pushback from from both sides saying like oh that's you know that has a history of being a racist song or you have the other side saying oh why are you you know changing the lyrics of a classic song represents a certain year because i could see how both sides of that should be like we shouldn't play that song today because of the you know were removed beyond it you know or the other side saying like we don't change the song or make it your own because it belongs to us and what are you know forefathers wrongly thought at the time you know and maybe we still secretly do you know that kind of thing do you see that kind of pushback when you play excuse me yeah i get all kinds of responses playing even you know when i joined up with carolina chocolate drops the main tenant of carolina chocolate drops was you know this is black people's music the banjo is a black instrument which was like not you know whatever eight years ago not widely known he. within old time world and so we'd play shows and people come up to me hey

my granddaddy played the banjo you know f. you like you're wrong and so you just have to deal with that. as i've gotten older now like just you know historically infiltrating and giving people the visceral reaction of seeing a black person play the banjo has become kind of normalized for me now and so it becomes more of integrating these more political ideas social attacking everyone to call it and so when that happens i get responses like what was one of my favorites if we talk about it nothing's going to change hey this music is supposed to be fun and easy why are you doing that or on the flipside i'm glad you didn't get all angry about it i'm glad you can say nigger because i can i was great to hear you know. gets mixed up i've had people leave shows. at a show. you know i think like ten people left and tried to get refunds for we seem to got a place for it we know how to get great we know that we can people can get enraged

about what's happening and see things and get angry how do we use things like music and use the banjo how do you see that going into communities and helping them deal with that anger and finding a productive way to help our community. ok and if you think say that. so you like so you're asking about like how do we use this music and this banjo stuff to get people really to grow and really to change their communities and hopefully change the country. and then also like you know. but the beginning of course was like the response to the anger like response to the images and all that sort of stuff and i like to think about. you know. sorry given what's going to get my thoughts and. you know you have like the turn of like nine hundred centuries twentieth century one thousand eight hundred and you know around the big. in one thousand nine hundred there are these work prison farms that

are happening and this is a you know after the compromise of eight hundred seventy seven soldiers leave the south and the redeemers take over the south and they're able to just go hog wild fire all the black people from government and they start the black laws which are the birth of jim crow. and it's this is a legal way of who becomes legal but this sinister way of imprisoning mostly black men and you know farming them out to coca-cola dredging swamps in florida all these sorts of things around this time. there's a train of prisoners that breaks that going through florida and usually they transport these prisoners at night but they train breaks and they get there during the day and all these people mostly white people see all these prisoners who are about to go dredge the swamps and they're covered with marks and they're macy and they're people like oh my god this is horrifying we have to stop doing this this is terrible so happens today fast forward thirty years lynchings a big thing lynchings a problem people start seeing it you know lots of black newspapers are trying to put it out there oh my god this lynching thing is terrible we have to stop it. fast

forward civil rights movement like you know oh my god cops are brutalizing people and all this stuff terrible bloody sunday happens white people are outrage rodney king happens l.a. riots. almost seems like every thirty twenty eight years this is happening and you keep going and i think this is that of our generation you know i mean i would say about richard pryor where he tells his joke you know you know you get paid on friday night you take your girl out then you get pulled over by the cops you know hands up drop your pants spread your cheeks and he's like you know who feels like having fun after something like that that's why people don't believe this happens because they know the cops differently that's a job from the seventy's that works today. so yeah you know. white people getting outraged by the injustice the black people had to deal with in this country for hundreds of years does nothing for me. it doesn't inspire me any way and it doesn't it's not something that i would bet on something i wouldn't put my eggs in that basket. that being said i think that there

is something to this thing that i like to. think that inspires me more or feel more optimistic about a cultural shift this is idea of you know this cultural shift towards like you know what pop music digesting forever i'm done with that you know watching a movie called the great wall starring matt damon i think i might be done with that i mean a movie or a show set in new york with no puerto ricans i think i'm done with and like that's the kind of thing that. i feel moved towards growing because it's changing the concept of how you look at a person yes everyone going to be outraged by seeing something violent but it's like how can i change my change your cultural shift so i hope you know when they see when the banjo kray started happening people started playing banjos you know a lot of that credit went to like mumford and. taylor swift or and whatever well people might have been driving vandalism but they were they were playing their own

things or running their. and things are starting to grow vegetables again in their backyards and canning or. whatever it might be and so. i don't know i think. this is where you know i start to get conned conflicted but i think that it's. if you can. i don't know just to give you can understand something culturally and understand its roots and like if i pick up a banjo and i understand that you know if i don't not a play if i can just strum and i understand in a deeper level but that brings about some sort of change small ripples but whatever it is american to me in the music especially in the sink you talk about it is really about. poor are working class americans and it speaks to a lot of different people it's one of those universal things like music do you see new forms of that or do you see that coming and the new music that's that's coming

down the pike. there there are you know now americana music is kind of like this big all encompassing thing like. i was at the american awards like two years ago and like booker t. was there performing and like you know under that umbrella. and you have you know like dylan welch and. dave rawlings of that stuff you know there are a lot of those guys in the americana john or were influenced by the people from the sixty's and seventy's who were influenced by a lot of this music that i you know feel more connected to and like to play old time country blues all that sort of stuff. you know so it's not uncommon to hear. you know an old timey line or an old timey phrase in a modern song put into a modern context you know. i think. the money was a question you asked me. that was

a question of like how is this people today sort of creating are people still creating that new thing yeah and so like i think through you know this singer songwriter thing it's becoming a new thing you have like when i hear like electro swing from for it like in europe if you were like making beats out of old swing music and. yeah you know i think i think that it is being it is. integrating and influencing people and i think you know part of my thing is you know yes know about black people like all day and but also just know the roots of your thing know the roots of what you believe and know the roots of what you're into. and then find a way to express it and so people getting into the old time a thing that old time thing does have that history of protests and activism and community. and telling the news and telling the stories and expressing it so you know people just get influenced by that that's great you know. where do you see. how many germans as a musician and then as a man in the future like where do you see yourself going as

a man. you know so you know every day changes you asked me yesterday the answer might it might be different you know. i like playing music i'd like to play more of it i'd like to add some point for going to way to get more instruments into kids' hands you know like music programs closing all over the place and doing things with that i also really like the radio. i actually like that before i came out here i've been working on a project of talking to homeless people in new york and like interviewing homeless people and trying you know more and more buildings are growing up in new york city but the homeless population is rising so i want to do something with radio. at my old high school brooklyn technical high school has a defunct radio tower on top of it so my big like pipeline dream i hope no one steals it it's like reopen the radio station and do something with kids and music on the radio stuff like that as a man. hopewell know how to like fix

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writing islamic states. with officials warning that the. more effective at spreading the group's message of hate. british. the country's national. civil servants. and i welcome so i think the life. thanks for joining us this hour top of the rundown is breaking news from the russian city of st petersburg security services have found an improvised explosive device at a local supermarket following an explosion there just within the last hour of so he set up a trunk and joins me live in the studio with the latest updates obviously a moving story the investigators saying just the hour ago it didn't look like

terrorism that's all changed now i take it well we have to be very careful with this stan because for now we cannot say for sure it's only according to preliminary data the results of this explosion was an improvised explosive device again according to this early investigation the force of the blast was equivalent to an explosion worth two hundred grams of t.n.t. and it looks like that device was filled with unspecified objects that were meant to cause more damage to the people around there once again this is not been declared officially a terrorist attack this debt is preliminary about the explosion that happened in a supermarket in the northern part of st petersburg and in terms of casualty figures what's it looking like that other people taken to hospital. good news for now that so far no one has died but nine people have been taken to hospital this is

actually quite alarming because russia is in the midst of the holiday season the more important one is of course new year's eve people are busy buying gifts and presents do in their groceries ahead of the celebrations that's of course a tradition in russia so this could be a specific target but i can tell you for sure right now and again officially this is not a terrorist attack but we have to bear in mind that the last major terrorist assault in this country also happened in russia's northern capital st petersburg it was a blast. in the moscow a story in the st petersburg metro of course there was also an improvised explosive device there it was on a train in back then sixteen people fell victim to it so of course waiting for more updates and official news from police from the investigators will be on top of that

didn't thoughts of course with those people that have been taken to hospital that so the injuries aren't fatal i'm sure we'll be keeping you updated on that. on that said petersburg blast. now the german security services have identified a female terror network aggressively spreading is the most ideology online but if a national reports on eisel recruitment in europe. that's not for the first on what we see women actively involved in promoting jihadist fuz we have been hearing reports about isis female recruiters since of police twenty fourteen those are a wives of killed islamic state fighters who decided after the death of their husbands to somehow continue that fight but now germany says that their number is on a constant dramatic rise in women and promotes the men have realized that women could work much better for expanding the scene in this most recent case germany

identified what they called the islamist terrorist women's network consisting of a least forty what they call sisters who follow an ultra conservative branch of islam known as seller fees and spread extremist views via internet particularly targeting so-called nonbelievers the german authorities stress that it would be wrong to equal salafism to terrorists but at the same time they add that it could be potential breeding ground for terrorists all over europe including here in germany especially following last year's berlin terror attack christmas has said have become the time for extra concerns and worries over security because christians and their faith and their holidays and everything that is connected to it include in christmas mark is that the now operating and will be open for the next week at least all over europe have repeatedly been targeted by islam ist so it has been bet for quite some time but now fears are increasing with the number of

those who share salaf he views here in germany rose to an all time high according to the country's intelligence agency germany sees it as a direct result of dramatic losses in the middle east and as a consequence a rising number of returning to europe and. women and now they say that with their feet of so-called islamic state in syria and iraq europe's security could be as fragile as never before. after the fall of islamic state in syria and iraq more tales of horror are emerging of life under the terrorists rule kurdish minority families in iraq known as using the suffered capture death or enslavement senior correspondent what does the earth has been speaking with some of the file bodies who managed to survive the ordeal we'll show you the full interviews on thursday in the meantime though here's

a preview of what's to come. and we were captured we spent two months in iraq then we were taken to syria they made me a slave we were put to work and held where the troops were we were given one hour a day to rest then i ran away they caught me in locked me in a toilet for three days without food or water i tried to escape again and again but each time i was caught beaten and severely tortured they shot my friends we begged them for mercy on our knees then we were hit by an airstrike and i was concussed my head still hurts i can't talk for long. monologue i was pregnant but i was so terrified that i lost my child my husband and family were captured i was left alone with my mother so i took poison i decided it was better to die when they caught me i thought that since my family my husband and

my house were gone it would be better to die. just in twenty fourteen up to ten thousand users were killed or kidnapped by iceland just a matter of days of those a third were executed over the true scale of the tragedy it may never be fully known the testimonies that have emerged suggest many have been tortured beheaded or even burnt alive in many cases entire families were captured together women and girls were often sold as sex slaves while young boys were forced to become i saw fighters some weren't even old enough for school when they were forced to serve the terrorists. my daughter was five years old when she was captured careers have passed since then so she is nine we endured a lot of suffering my brother escaped and i stayed at his place then he died instant jar i was desperate after his death and i went to stay with my other

brother his poor and has young children all girls. thousands of documents relating to controversial episodes in british history appear to be missing the u.k.'s national archives claim they were misplaced or removed by civil servants the revelation has sparked an outcry the british people deserve to know what the government has done in their name and their laws with only a few accuse ations of a cover up as a historian it's impossible to believe this loss the declassified files themselves show governments view the public largely as a threat the threat of democracy is deeply embedded if it happened in russia for example would be up in arms about corrupt governments but hey this is the british way to avoid scrutiny of its past misdeeds parties polly work only looks now what what pages of history have been lost. well the national archives is a very important resource especially for people like historians and journalists because it keeps documents relating to the country's history and the idea is

a perfectly transparent system whereby once government documents are declassified anyone over the age of sixteen can go to the national archives and access these files but not all of them because it appears that some of them have gone missing some of the files relating to thought a moment in british history among the files missing are papers relating to the full clinton's war there are documents missing relating to the northern ireland troubles as well and perhaps most controversially the files relating to the famous zinoviev letter from way back in nineteen twenty four that was a huge political scandal at the time because m i six almost certainly forged a letter that was then leaked to the press that well it was just discredited the labor government at the time and ultimately resulted in its down.