jennifer mccoy is professor of political science at georgia state university, and we appreciate your being on al jazeera mom. thank you very much indeed. thank you. he was, attorney general says 59 people who to part an anti government protests, have been prosecuted. their actions were described as disturbances and charges included public disorder and causing non serious injuries. rights groups say more than 600 people were detained during and since the july 11th demonstrations, that's when thousands of cubans took to the streets, demanding political change, and protesting against poor economic conditions. read lindsey, as a journalist based in cuba with the media, organization, belly of the beast. he says that the government is responding to criticism. the trials have not been fair. there was a pushback against what is really been the big story of the international news media. and definitely a been all of our social media in recent weeks, which is that number of people detain, which as you mentioned, may, may be over 600, according to les compile, by a list compiled by journalist an

jennifer mccoy is the professor political science at georgia state university. he says, president ortega has been repressing competition ahead of that vote. this cannot possibly be a an honest and competitive election when most of the opposition candidates are either under house arrest or being detained. some of them with no contact with lawyers or their families. so almost disappeared. so it's unclear what, what it, what would it clearly does show is how insecure daniel or take it is about competition, but also help brazen. this is to, to wipe out the opposition before an election scheduled for november. he has done very and democratic things, including having the constitution change to allow his repeated reelections repressing protests, especially in 2018 with very harsh repression and relying on on a harsh reaction to any kind of descent or protest against his regime over the last couple of years so he's grown increasingly authoritarian ah, there and these, that help stories. demonstrators have taken to the streets in several brazilian cities calling from the

she's a professor at georgia state university and coauthor of pastels and pedophiles, inside the mindy malcolm nance, and bc counter-terrorism analyst. thank you for being with me. qanon, when i first heard about it because a friend of mine has a family member that's caught up in it who is someone who seems to be a normal professional who burst into this good ideology. i think i didn't really understand how much of it was based on not just antisemitic racial tropes. let's talk about that. >> i fully expected that qanon was going to be antisemitic because it has elements and a global cabal and i'm talking about george soros or janet yellen. it also talks about blood drinking, which is all things that have been accused of for hundreds of years in europe and through the church. but when we started looking last summer at the save the children campaign, and i'm a supporter of save the children. the charity. >> the real one, yeah. >> and i thought wait a second. all these children are white. and all the save the children children are not. and so we did a systematic study because i needed da

. >> reporter: in 2017 at 39, bailey enrolled at georgia state university to pursue his bachelor's degree? >> say congratulations, boy. >> reporter: and celebrating that moment he worked so hard to achieve. >> i'm looking at this like for real? >> the morning of graduation we knew that this was going to be that day that symbolized that, yes, he did it. >> tylan bailey. >> he'college >> h yling? >> blessed. >> seeing him do what he accomplished and wanted to do is amazing. >> he's a coach. he just graduated college and now he's a teacher. >> reporter: bailey also now encouraging the young students at high tower elementary to dream big. >> just remember, no matter where you are, as long as you work hard. >> mr. bailey is going to be a teacher who impacts every student th c ally comto fruitio it's amazing. >> i know that he will go farther. he's not going to stop at just being a coach. he's going to keep climbing the ladder as high as he can go. [ cheers and applause ] >> when i was at your front, i said trust me. you seem like a man of few words. asked for a sentence in there. you said bles

georgia. the same big lie. yesterday, the president of the united states delivered a speech that was set in alternate universe -- an alternate universe. he called these mainstream state laws, these must integrity measures that are widely popular with americans quote -- listen to this, the single most significant test of our democracy since the civil war. really? this is our new president who promised to lower the temperature, bring america back together and rebuild a civil society where we can dialogue as fellow citizens. that is the person who is now yelling that mainstream state laws are more dangerous than two world wars? somehow analogous to the civil war? that is with the president of the united states said yesterday? what utter nonsense. it would be left out loud funny if it was not so completely and totally your sponsor. here are the great sins of the texas proposals. here is what is apparently so outrageous. they want to wind down a few emergency covid voting procedures, including drive-thru voting and polling places that are open all night long. i am serious. that is what this is all about. they want t

grateful for your recent trip to georgia, your visit in particular to fort valley state university and your continued expressed commitment to georgia farmers. will you commit the next time you come to georgia you'll sit down with me, local agriculture leaders, as well as those leading georgia's trade efforts? we have the port of savannah, one of the fastest growing ports in the country -- to show how we can export around the world? >> if you sweeten your deal with a slice of pecan pie, it's a deal. >> it's a deal. >> let the record reflect the commitment that's been made here today. i want to thank you for joining us, grateful for your testimony. we'll proceed the second panel. senator durben has returned. i'll return the gavel for him to introduce the witnesses for the second panel. please come forward at this time. >>> special thanks to the secretary of agriculture. and i think it's been 20 years since he's prepared me for the judiciary committee. and thank you for your services to our country. we have a second panel coming up. and i'll tell you who they are. rene custra is from my h

clark atlanta university is the largest private hbcu in the state of georgia.dents thank you for being resilient and diligent during the covid. they have not been on campus for a year. so, we decided to set aside about $2 million and to eliminate all of that i have balances. so, ana, i tell you, over the last few months, i've received calls and texts and emails from students who otherwise would not be able to return to school in the fall, but now, they woke this morning, and they have zero balances. >> incredible. explain exactly what this covers. does this cover 100% cost of tuition and room and board? >> well, it covers your balance. it's not that we're paying the tuition. it's that if you had a tuition balance, if you had a room or dining balance, then we forgave that balance. and ana, we used federal funds. we used herf funds, which that's the higher education emergency relief fund which is part of the c.a.r.e.s. act so the auc presidents, we were instrumental in getting that through congress. we were grateful uncf made the push to get this money for studen

university professor that showed even after vote i.d. was implemented with absentee ballots in georgia the voting increased. a lot more states have stricter laws. blue states that have new jersey and delaware and colorado. they have way stricter laws than georgia does. >> sean: thanks. when we come back the white house arranged a secret arts team for zero experience hunter. might sell the paintings for half a million dollars. much more. please stay with us. what can i du with less asthma? with dupixent i can du more... yardwork... teamwork... long walks.... that's how you du more, with dupixent, which helps prevent asthma attacks. dupixent is not for sudden breathing problems. it's an add-on-treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma that can improve lung function for better breathing in as little as two weeks. and can reduce, or even eliminate, oral steroids. and here's something important. dupixent can cause serious allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis. get help right away if you have rash, shortness of breath, chest pain, tingling or numbness in your limbs. tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infe

university of georgia press next year. as a proud virginian, it's always nice to talk to people from my home state. it'll be wonderful to be there during the post-pandemic world if that is possible. i look forward to the audience questions and conversations. in many ways, this is elements, but not all of my manuscripts introduction along with a case study of one of many family memories i can talk about. i'm getting my timer ready. again, the book title is "the families civil war -- northern african-american soldiers and their fight for racial justice." its coming out from the university of georgia press. it is well known, thanks to a growing body of scholarship, that the enlistment campaign for northern african american men in cities such as philadelphia, pennsylvania that war propagandists, including some of the individuals you see here, frederick douglass, anna dickinson, and henry highland garnet, emphasized his supposedly sponsor ability's that able-bodied african-american men had to emancipate their enslaved southern brethren. this rhetoric claimed demonstrating one's patriotic manhood would a

university of georgia press next year in the uncivil war series. i will also note as a proud virginian it's always nice to talk with people from my home state.s wonderful to be there in the post pandemic world hopefully that is possible. sarah number of things that i could talk about. >> so the title is the family civil war northern african-american and soldiers and the fight for racial justice coming up at the university of georgia press. it is well known thanks to a growing body of scholarship that the campaign for northern african-american men such as philadelphia pennsylvania frederick douglass to emphasize the suppose it responsibilities that african-american men had to emancipate. and that rhetoric that rhetoric claims to allow them to have full citizenship including voting rights war propaganda argues the racial discrimination that all united states that soldiers would experience some form of discrimination. even so potentially the recruits were told to focus ending slavery while simultaneously proving that african-american man had for the white counterparts such as suffrage rights and the protection of refuting negative racial stereo

prominent institutions like the university of california system which is 200 to 300,000 total have implemented mandates. multiple states as you know, ashley, texas, georgia you, todd. talking of masks, the faa is investigating an american airlines flight to the bahamas after a passenger refused to put a mask on. what happened? todd: we've got a little airline they said, i don't foe if that is the expression it is today. the investigating bahamas bound american airlines flight delayed on monday by rowdy teens who refused to wear masks. the grads from winthrop, massachusetts, made smart mouth comments. sounds like something you do in '50s, to flight attendants asked to mask up. the organizer of the program for the teens claims the airlines falsely blamed the entire group for a single students refusal to mask up. the teens became upset after their peer was kicked off the flight despite a woman on the flight walking to the bathroom without a mask. seems like they wanted similar treatment. who knows ultimately what happened. a lot of hullabaloo to quote a word from earlier in the hour -- ashley: hullabaloo. i love that. pesky kids. todd: get off my lawn, ashl

georgia, the same big lies. yesterday the president of the united states delivered a speech that was set in an alter nat universe -- alternate universe. he called these mainstream state laws, these modest integrity measures that are wildly popular with americans, quote -- now listen to this -- the single, the most significant test of our democracy since the civil war. really? this is our new president who promised to lower the temperature, bring america back together and rebuild a civil society where we can dialogue as fellow citizens. that's the person who's now yelling that mainstream state laws are more dangerous than two world wars, more dangerous than poll tests and actual jim crow segregation and somehow analogous to the civil war? that's what the president of the united states said yesterday? what utter nonsense. it would be laugh-out-loud funny if it wasn't so completely and totally irresponsible. here are the great sins of the texas proposals. here is what is apparently so outrage us. -- outrageous. they want to wind down a few emergency covid voting procedures, including drive-thru voting and polling p