of the felton institute, al gilbert. please join us. [applause] >> good afternoon and welcome to this glorious celebration. we had a blessing of the ground earlier today. and it was extraordinarily touching, because it remind me of the deep -- reminded me of my ancestral relationship. and the other part of my family, you might have guessed, comes from africa. and i had the opportunity to go back to montgomery, alabama, two months ago to visit the lynching memorial. at the memorial i was able to visit the memorial for two of my family members who had been lynched in the 1900s which wasn't that long ago. one of which was lynched in my lifetime. it brings me back to the importance of building a community like this, where we're going to support both our babies, young families, and create safe communities for us to live in. it also reminds me that whenever we think we're working hard, we're not working hard compared to those who have come before us. who have given their blood. to make it so that we can sit here and make this kind of magic co

al-jazeera. reporting. today with their only guy under the gun like quite a. lot. of exercise on t.v. none of them are like that's prime minister scott. hello i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the stories we're covering this week in india's elections one party is definitely winning the media game the trump white house is that using new rules for press passes to lock out journalists it doesn't like me and maher whether refugee story and the coverage of it continue to make news and looking to be inspired then look elsewhere it's been a little more than a month now since the 1st votes were cast in the largest democratic exercise on the planet india's general election prime minister narendra modi wants a 2nd term and his party the b j p seems destined for victory how much of that is due to modi is genuine popularity and how much is down to the b j p sprawling publicity machine is another question it comes down to the money over the past financial year the b j p s publicity budget has been 20 times that of the main opposition party the congress that's a lot of extra rallies billboards and social media it's all spent to brand modi

al-jazeera. headlines licensed by the chilling new thread a lot of. these are by offical think ok to show ok i'll. stop this public. and. that i think. i. hello i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated the reappearance on video of eyesores mysterious leader the majority government not c.n.n. off the air as it tries to control the narrative on venezuela young reporters growing up in public journalism gets the reality t.v. treatment and. fox news talking points put to music eighty's stuff. it was a long time between on camera appearances the world's most wanted man the leader of eisel abu bakar al baghdadi has surfaced for the first time since two thousand and fourteen the last time the world saw him baghdad was triumphant he was crawling over the territory in iraq and syria that i still had captured his forces have since been routed thousands of his fighters are either locked up on the run or dead so the messaging has changed through a choreographed piece of video theater designed for two audiences for the outside world a reference to the