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, jennifer britain, i really associate professor of public and international says at the university of pittsburgh. she joins us live, my skype from united states. thank you very much for being with us. what, what's your expectation of what we can hear? we'll hear from my president biden. i don't expect to hear a major change strategy from president by them. i think he's going to double down on his desire to leave. i've got to start. i don't think we're going to see a major change in that, but perhaps we'll see some efforts to expand these program, expand efforts to get afghans out of the country because of the humanitarian disaster. that's us putting a couple airport. and what do you think? i mean, how damaging politically is it for him to have these things play out in the way that they have in the last couple of days? it's terrific. president biden promised the american people and promised the african people sort of competent withdraw. and we're not seeing that at all right now we're seeing a disaster being played out and many people and many ask and feel absolutely betrayed by what they're seei
, jennifer britain, i really associate professor of public and international says at the university of pittsburgh. she joins us live, my skype from united states. thank you very much for being with us. what, what's your expectation of what we can hear? we'll hear from my president biden. i don't expect to hear a major change strategy from president by them. i think he's going to double down on his desire to leave. i've got to start. i don't think we're going to see a major change in that, but...
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this lecture was recorded in 2010 inside the university of pittsburgh's historic cathedral of learning building. okay, everybody greetings. good morning. our subject for today is the atlantic slave trade. and the first thing i want to say about it is that we have a big subject. a tremendously important subject and truly a difficult subject to
this lecture was recorded in 2010 inside the university of pittsburgh's historic cathedral of learning building. okay, everybody greetings. good morning. our subject for today is the atlantic slave trade. and the first thing i want to say about it is that we have a big subject. a tremendously important subject and truly a difficult subject to
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cancer survivor gerry mclaughlin got both pfizer shots, but doctors at the university of pittsburgh still couldn't detect she had antibodies. so she got a third shot today. >> i'm just so relieved, not only for myself, but for the thousands of other patients that will now have the opportunity to get the booster shot. >> reporter: the immunocompromised, like cancer and transplant patients, face greater risks. one study shows the chance of a vaccinated transplant patient getting a breakthrough infection is 82 times higher. and the risk of hospitalization or death is 485 times higher. dr. anthony fauci telling david they're now studying realtime data on everyone else. tracking how much immunity tapers over time before determining if and when the general population will get boosters. >> dr. fauci, obviously people at home are going to wonder, is everyone else next? >> what we're talking about is data.g a decision based on real- and as soon as we find out that we will need to have to booster people, we're going to be ready to do it right away. that's really what the plan is. >> reporter: the c
cancer survivor gerry mclaughlin got both pfizer shots, but doctors at the university of pittsburgh still couldn't detect she had antibodies. so she got a third shot today. >> i'm just so relieved, not only for myself, but for the thousands of other patients that will now have the opportunity to get the booster shot. >> reporter: the immunocompromised, like cancer and transplant patients, face greater risks. one study shows the chance of a vaccinated transplant patient getting a...
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what has she really associate professor of public and international says that university of pittsburgh, she joins us live via skype. thanks for being with us. i want to do. it was quite a strong defense of his policy when he said he stood squarely behind his decision and he hadn't, didn't want to continue. what he said was an endless was putting us troops at risk for a fight that he said that african leaders and, and african ministry had refused to fight. what did you make of the, the tone of this and, and how would it go down with people? i was shocked at the speech. i agree with his policy is actually i agree with the desire to withdraw from afghanistan. i agree with his assessment that his government is to blame for many of these problems. but there was a refusal here to acknowledge the scope of the military and crisis of taking shape and cobble right now and throughout the country. he says the buck stops with him, but blamed every one else to it can be true that other people deserve desert blame here, but so does the united states. and i just thought the speech was quite into main
what has she really associate professor of public and international says that university of pittsburgh, she joins us live via skype. thanks for being with us. i want to do. it was quite a strong defense of his policy when he said he stood squarely behind his decision and he hadn't, didn't want to continue. what he said was an endless was putting us troops at risk for a fight that he said that african leaders and, and african ministry had refused to fight. what did you make of the, the tone of...
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matt: we welcome university of pittsburgh associate professor and director of the center for governance and markets. she is also the author of informal order and the state in afghanistan. let me ask first, jennifer, if this was not easily foreseeable. critics are already saying at the beginning of the year this is going to be effectively surrendering to the taliban, giving them back what we have spent $2 trillion and 20 years to take. and we were not even spending that much money with only 3500 soldiers in afghanistan anyway over the last couple of years. jennifer: the u.s. presence was not building peace. this is a challenge. imagine this is the scenario taking place with a small number of u.s. troops there. taliban has been making steady advances in the countryside over the past several years. we had already seen cities and districts fall to the taliban while the u.s. had its presence there. this would have been even more embarrassing for the united states had these cities fallen like this with the u.s. there. i can't help but wonder, this counterfactual "what would have happened" had
matt: we welcome university of pittsburgh associate professor and director of the center for governance and markets. she is also the author of informal order and the state in afghanistan. let me ask first, jennifer, if this was not easily foreseeable. critics are already saying at the beginning of the year this is going to be effectively surrendering to the taliban, giving them back what we have spent $2 trillion and 20 years to take. and we were not even spending that much money with only 3500...
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and certainly there is john woodruff who is from the university of pittsburgh and a middle distance runner. who essentially came out of nowhere to win to win gold in the 800 meter race, he would also go on to be a tuskegee airmen. which means he was a fighter pilot for the us military doing world war ii and and that's really important because at the time being a fighter pilot was one of the most prestigious jobs that you could have and as african-american's tried to tie their their war service to to the fight against racism in the united states people like john woodruff who won the olympic field also was a symbol of black black american achievement also was a symbol doing the war giving his his ability to to occupy this very prestigious and and demanding job as a as a tuskegee airmen. and less people look back and think that they were just part of the general fight. i want to remind our viewers also that the united states military was still segregated at the time so part of why you have a unit in fact the reason that you have a unit like the tuskegee airmen is because african-american pilo
and certainly there is john woodruff who is from the university of pittsburgh and a middle distance runner. who essentially came out of nowhere to win to win gold in the 800 meter race, he would also go on to be a tuskegee airmen. which means he was a fighter pilot for the us military doing world war ii and and that's really important because at the time being a fighter pilot was one of the most prestigious jobs that you could have and as african-american's tried to tie their their war service...
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we have 70 volunteers at the university of pittsburgh helping afghans apply for the asylum visa thatn't announced until august 2. whenever students are doing is helping afghans get verification , work verification so that they can apply for asylum. there was a mad rush to do this before the u.s. withdrawal. the terrible scenes you are seeing at the airport where many of these afghans who worked with the united states, who were our partners, our allies. they showed up to the airport because the regulations said they had to apply for this visa from a third country. they could not do it inside of afghanistan. they were afraid, but also told by us in these regulations, pretty much, go to the airport. we have more than 2000 afghans trying to help right now. it is a very slow process. it is unfathomable to me that this aspect of the withdrawal should have been planned much better. we have been withdrawing for afghanistan for years now. francine: do we know how many people with visas are actually struggling to get safe packets out of afghanistan? >> i don't know the number exactly. i have f
we have 70 volunteers at the university of pittsburgh helping afghans apply for the asylum visa thatn't announced until august 2. whenever students are doing is helping afghans get verification , work verification so that they can apply for asylum. there was a mad rush to do this before the u.s. withdrawal. the terrible scenes you are seeing at the airport where many of these afghans who worked with the united states, who were our partners, our allies. they showed up to the airport because the...
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this lecture was recorded in 2010 inside the university of pittsburgh's historic cathedral of learning building. okay, everybody greetings. good morning. our subject for today is the atlantic slave trade. and the first thing i want to say about it is that we have a big subject. a tremendously important subject and truly a difficult subject to deal with today. it's important lies in its relationship to the transformation of the world in the early modern era and by that, i mean essentially three things. first the origins and the rise of capitalism around the atlantic. beginning in the late 16th century and continuing thereafter to the present. secondly the establishment of european dominance around the world. this is another major theme to which the slave trade is connected. and then finally we are talking today about one of the very foundations of american history. america is the result of the meeting of three very old cultures and you might say continents people from europe people from west africa and people from native america. so today we're going to talk about one of those three pil
this lecture was recorded in 2010 inside the university of pittsburgh's historic cathedral of learning building. okay, everybody greetings. good morning. our subject for today is the atlantic slave trade. and the first thing i want to say about it is that we have a big subject. a tremendously important subject and truly a difficult subject to deal with today. it's important lies in its relationship to the transformation of the world in the early modern era and by that, i mean essentially three...
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introduce today's speaker, doctor alaina roberts it assistant professor of history at the university of pittsburgh she focuses on the intersection of african-americans and native american histories and 19th century to the modern day particular attention to identity colonialism and and tight black and in addition to "i've been here all the while - black freedom on native land,", was published by the university of pennsylvania press in 2021, dr. alaina roberts has appeared in the washington post, the civil war era in the historic orderly. at this point we have things over to dr. alaina roberts. alaina: hello and i'm so happy to be here virtually to share the book with you all and thank you who ran the planning for this program like a well oiled machine so i want to introduce myself by saying that all the review i do as a historian of professors connected to my family. people who identify themselves as african-americans i come from people who were enslaved for generations. but in my father's side, our ancestors were not owned by white people, we were owned by native americans in the 1830s, the home t
introduce today's speaker, doctor alaina roberts it assistant professor of history at the university of pittsburgh she focuses on the intersection of african-americans and native american histories and 19th century to the modern day particular attention to identity colonialism and and tight black and in addition to "i've been here all the while - black freedom on native land,", was published by the university of pennsylvania press in 2021, dr. alaina roberts has appeared in the...
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cancer survivor jerry mclaughlin got both pfizer shots but doctors at the university of pittsburgh could not determine if she had antibodies so she got her third shot. >> i'm just so relieved not only for myself but for the thousands of other patients that will now have the opportunity to get the booster shots. >> reporter: one study shows the chance of a vaccinated patient getting a break through infection is 82% times higher and risk of hospitalization or death 485 times higher. in dallas, doctors say they're running out of icu beds. >> if you're child is in a car wreck or, more likely if they have covid, we don't have a bed. your child will wait for another child to die. >> that was dan ashley reporting. important information, obviously. we will continue to track. contra costa county announced that first responders and emergency medical personnel will have to provide proof of vaccination. we asked if workers could be fired if they don't comply. ultimately that will be up to the employer but then went on to say this. >> it is a legal order and it's required to be followed. and so the a
cancer survivor jerry mclaughlin got both pfizer shots but doctors at the university of pittsburgh could not determine if she had antibodies so she got her third shot. >> i'm just so relieved not only for myself but for the thousands of other patients that will now have the opportunity to get the booster shots. >> reporter: one study shows the chance of a vaccinated patient getting a break through infection is 82% times higher and risk of hospitalization or death 485 times higher....
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. >>> now on american history tv, a lecture from the university of pittsburgh about the origins of theantic slave trade. how slave traders captured individuals on africa's west coast and details about the trip across the atlantic. >> okay, everybody. greetings. good morning. our subject for today is the atlantic slave trade. and the first thing i want to say about it is that we have a big subject, a tremendously important subject, and truly a difficult subject to deal with today. its importance lies in its relationship to the transformation of the world in the early modern era. by that, i mean essentially three things.
. >>> now on american history tv, a lecture from the university of pittsburgh about the origins of theantic slave trade. how slave traders captured individuals on africa's west coast and details about the trip across the atlantic. >> okay, everybody. greetings. good morning. our subject for today is the atlantic slave trade. and the first thing i want to say about it is that we have a big subject, a tremendously important subject, and truly a difficult subject to deal with today....
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. >>> on lectures in history, university of pittsburgh professor marcus rediker teach as class about atlantic slave trade. he explores the portuguese and spanish origins of the trade soon after 1492. and later, how plantations based on slave label generated enormous concentrations of wealth. professor rediker also discusses how traders acquired or captured slaves on the west african coast and describes the horrible conditions on slave ships for captives during the middle passage. this lecture was record medicine 2010 inside the university of pit pits's historic cathedral learning building. >> ,
. >>> on lectures in history, university of pittsburgh professor marcus rediker teach as class about atlantic slave trade. he explores the portuguese and spanish origins of the trade soon after 1492. and later, how plantations based on slave label generated enormous concentrations of wealth. professor rediker also discusses how traders acquired or captured slaves on the west african coast and describes the horrible conditions on slave ships for captives during the middle passage. this...
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. >>> on lectures in history, university of pittsburgh professor marcus rediker teach as class about the atlantic slave trade. he explores the portuguese and spanish origins of the trade soon after 1492. and later, how plantations based on slave label generated enormous concentrations of wealth. professor rediker also discusses how traders acquired or captured slaves on the west african coast and describes the horrible conditions on slave ships for captives during the middle passage. this lecture was record medicine 2010 inside the university of pit pits's historic cathedral learning building. >> okay, everybody. greetings. good morning. our subject for today is the atlantic slave trade. and the first thing i want to say about it is that we have a big subject, a tremendously important subject, and truly a difficult subject to deal with today. its importance lies in its relationship to the transformation of the world in the early modern era. by that, i mean essentially three things. first, the origins and the rise of capitalism around the atlantic beginning in the late 16th century an
. >>> on lectures in history, university of pittsburgh professor marcus rediker teach as class about the atlantic slave trade. he explores the portuguese and spanish origins of the trade soon after 1492. and later, how plantations based on slave label generated enormous concentrations of wealth. professor rediker also discusses how traders acquired or captured slaves on the west african coast and describes the horrible conditions on slave ships for captives during the middle passage....
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joining us on skype from kabul is a professor of peace studies at the american university of afghanistan. in pittsburghclark. -- colin clark. we have the head of the international relations apartment at a university. welcome to the program. victoria, i would like to start with you. you are there right now in afghanistan. feeling it, living it. tell us what it is like. what are people thinking? where is this heading? >> while, many are quite concerned about the security situation. a lot of my colleagues now are trying to leave the country. it did not fall to the taliban. it has given them quite some hope. all in all, -- the fears that the population of urban centers is not going to let the taliban take it so easily. >> one of those urban centers, thousands are trapped and fleeing for their lives in the province. the taliban continue their advanced bodies in the streets and it is a troubling situation, isn't it? >> indeed, it is. 2000 400 people were only displaced yesterday and there are 40 civilian deaths or more than that. casualties. this is almost the seventh day that this was going on. it is not co
joining us on skype from kabul is a professor of peace studies at the american university of afghanistan. in pittsburghclark. -- colin clark. we have the head of the international relations apartment at a university. welcome to the program. victoria, i would like to start with you. you are there right now in afghanistan. feeling it, living it. tell us what it is like. what are people thinking? where is this heading? >> while, many are quite concerned about the security situation. a lot of...
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alicia: a professor if her students at the university of pittsburgh are helping people in afghanistanrefuge. it start with tweet after the taliban takeover, jennifer feely wrote many u.s.es-based organizations that work in afghanistan no longer exist or merged with others. many of your former u.s. colleagues no longer work at that organization. twenty years is a long time. we can help you bridge this gap and get letters of support you need now. requests are pouring in. jennifer is the director of pitt's center for governance, and she joins me now. jennifer, thank you so much for being here. can you clarify exactly what it is that you're able to do in the process? are you talking to afghans who are currently in afghanistan or those who are in the process of trying to get here or elsewhere? >> well, thank you for having me. we are dealing with over 2,000 very desperate afghans who are many kabul and all over afghanistan right now who are trying to get out. these are people who worked with the united states on our development projects, in our civilian mission over the past 20 years. they
alicia: a professor if her students at the university of pittsburgh are helping people in afghanistanrefuge. it start with tweet after the taliban takeover, jennifer feely wrote many u.s.es-based organizations that work in afghanistan no longer exist or merged with others. many of your former u.s. colleagues no longer work at that organization. twenty years is a long time. we can help you bridge this gap and get letters of support you need now. requests are pouring in. jennifer is the director...
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it's victoria fountain, a professor at p studies at the american university of afghanistan in pittsburgh. we have calling clark, director of policy and research, the super and group also from couple in afghanistan for him, said to his head of the international relations department at kardon university. welcome all to the program at victoria. i'd like to talk the 1st few there right now in afghanistan, feeling a living it tell us what it's like, what's the atmosphere like? what are people thinking? whereas is heading when many quite concerned about the security situation of my colleagues now are trying to confirm that the same time, the fact that sound okay, did not fall into the hands of the that's why it says the night condition. and then even been quite some holes so only nor mitigate the fear that the population of reverend centers need nothing to let the taliban take speaking. so one of those urban centers, of course is laska and for him said to thousands, a trap to afflict their lives. in the last guard held them province as a taliban, you know, continue their advances bodies on the
it's victoria fountain, a professor at p studies at the american university of afghanistan in pittsburgh. we have calling clark, director of policy and research, the super and group also from couple in afghanistan for him, said to his head of the international relations department at kardon university. welcome all to the program at victoria. i'd like to talk the 1st few there right now in afghanistan, feeling a living it tell us what it's like, what's the atmosphere like? what are people...
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kabul, a political analyst and lecture on transitional justice at the american university of afghanistan, and from pittsburghrector of policy and research at a security and intelligence consulting firm. from doha, the director of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the doha institute. thank you all for joining us. let me start with you. obviously, a horrible situation in afghanistan right now with the aftermath of this attack and lots of worries about what will happen next, security, not just around the airport, but throughout the country as a whole. >> yes, what happened yesterday was a shock to all of us. the shock was everyone was talking about it. there were intelligence reports indicating something like that could happen. it was a very soft target, and it still happened. the little glimmer of hope the youth, the educated youth had was that despite everything we had traded in -- peace, the scale of the killing that happened every day and afghanistan would not be seen anymore. >> let's turn to our guest in pittsburgh. could an attack like this happen again? >> yes, and that is what everybo
kabul, a political analyst and lecture on transitional justice at the american university of afghanistan, and from pittsburghrector of policy and research at a security and intelligence consulting firm. from doha, the director of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the doha institute. thank you all for joining us. let me start with you. obviously, a horrible situation in afghanistan right now with the aftermath of this attack and lots of worries about what will happen next,...
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by here a political analyst and electra of transitional justice at the american university of afghanistan and from pittsburgh, calling clock director of policy and research at the sou, find group, a security and intelligence consulting firm and from doha, so tom bought a carts director of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the doha institute. thank you all for joining us. how by de la, let me start with you. obviously, a horrible situation in afghanistan right now with the aftermath of this attack and lots of worries about what's going to happen next and security. not just around the airport, but throughout, throughout, cobble in the country as a whole. what happened yesterday was a shock to all of us. the shock was that every one was talking about it. there were reports, there were intelligence reports indicating something like that could happen. it was a very soft target. and it still happened the little glimmer of hope that the youth enough on the spot had the educated youth was that despite everything that we had traded in a week. but that is a piece that the war was over. that the scale
by here a political analyst and electra of transitional justice at the american university of afghanistan and from pittsburgh, calling clock director of policy and research at the sou, find group, a security and intelligence consulting firm and from doha, so tom bought a carts director of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the doha institute. thank you all for joining us. how by de la, let me start with you. obviously, a horrible situation in afghanistan right now with the...
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slaves who were held captives on the ships and this is on the historic cathedral of learning on pittsburgh university's campus. >>> okay. everybody. about one of those three pillars, the african slave trade. i want to begin with a quote by a very eminent african-american scholar, activist named webdubois. here's what dubois said about the atlanta slave trade. dubois wrote the most magnificent drama in the last thousand years of human history is the transportation of 10 million human beings out of the dark beauty of their mother continent and into the newfound eldorado of the west. they descended into hell. he continued it was a tragedy that beggared the greek, it was an upheaval of humanity like the reformation and the french revolution. well, i think du bois is exactly right. this is a stunning drama of human history, the atlantic slave trade and i would ask you to notice his reference to eldorado, the mythic city of goals sought after by the spanish conquistadores when they came to mexico and peru. well, eldorado was finally found, not that actual city, but a slave system that would price gold and we
slaves who were held captives on the ships and this is on the historic cathedral of learning on pittsburgh university's campus. >>> okay. everybody. about one of those three pillars, the african slave trade. i want to begin with a quote by a very eminent african-american scholar, activist named webdubois. here's what dubois said about the atlanta slave trade. dubois wrote the most magnificent drama in the last thousand years of human history is the transportation of 10 million human...