Andrew McGill

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (C-SPAN, 3-24-22):PRESIDENT JOSEPH BIDEN: Many Ukrainians refugees will, uh, wish to stay in Europe, but we also will welcome 100,000 Ukrainians to the United States. NARRATION: The U.S. is opening its doors to some of the millions of Ukrainians who have fled their homes […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: FEBRUARY 25, 2022 NARRATION: President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United States Supreme Court. ARCHIVAL (NBC NEWS, 2-25-22):JUDGE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: I am truly humbled by the extraordinary honor of this nomination. NARRATION: Biden hopes for bipartisan support, […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. Transcript in Spanish NARRATION: After World War II, fears of spreading communism took America’s Cold War battle to every corner of the globe. ARCHIVAL (1-1-47):PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN: It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation. […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. MALE PASTOR: I pray someday that we will come to the realization that Black lives matter. We suffer the effects of slavery, of abuse. DENISE JACKSON FORD: It’s been years, and even though I try to say that I’m over it, the less talk that […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. SER CLIFFORD BOXLEY: The Black community, they are out by the hundreds to demonstrate and protest, and they have these demands that they’re giving to the city council and the mayor. CHARLES EVERS: They’re very simple. We have 12 of them. End police brutality. Denounce […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. AKINYELE UMOJA: Natchez and the other side of the Mississippi River probably had the largest Klan group per capita in the United States. But you know, they were afraid of the Deacons. They didn’t know what they were dealing with. RICHARD “DIP” LEWIS: See, they […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: August 27, 1965 MALE NEWSREADER: George Metcalfe, president of the Natchez chapter of the NAACP, was critically injured in Natchez this afternoon when dynamite hidden beneath the hood of his car exploded when he turned on the ignition. WHARLEST JACKSON JR.: When […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: June 13, 1971 NARRATION: On June 13, 1971, President Richard Nixon found his administration in an uncomfortable position. ARCHIVAL: (NIXON OVAL OFFICE TAPES, 6-13-71):RICHARD NIXON: Right, well, Monday afternoon officially? Well, let’s wait until then. Fine. OK. Nothing else of interest in […]

Click here for the full video page and educator materials. NELSON RAUDA: My name is Nelson Rauda. I’m a journalist at El Faro. I’m 30 years old. I cover things like politics, climate issues, immigration, Covid, and now I’m covering Bitcoin, which is another gamble of the government. One of the emphases of El Faro […]