1504: A Museum of Black History at the Shelby County, Ala. Plantation for the National Public Radio Radio Station, NPR’s Picture Show
In a small town in Shelby County, Ala., — often referred to by the Republican Party as the reddest county in the U.S. — a new museum exhibit is dedicated to Black history. It addresses what happened in Harpersville after enslaved people were emancipated, granted their freedom and not much else. NPR’s Picture Show spoke with Tyler Jones, who is part of 1504, the narrative studio behind the project. Through embodied narratives, this studio is trying to change the narratives of Black descendant communities. Jones highlighted the significance of the plantation being turned into a space dedicated to healing and reparative history. Check out this inside look at the project through photos and videos.
The National High School Musical Theatre Awards – A History of the U.S. Intervention Over Iran’s Nuclear Activities and Implications for its Nuclear Program
The National High School Musical Theatre Awards are in New York City, and they have more than 100 high school theater stars gathered. This annual event unites nominees on Broadway to put on a show in just 10 days. Roughly 150,000 students from schools nationwide are invited to participate in the competition, during which time they are narrowed down to a few candidates who will perform at the awards ceremony. The best actor and actress in a musical were the top two awards. Listen to students competing for a chance to win a Jimmy, and read more about the awards.
Iran is in the process of considering how to respond to the U.S. assault on its nuclear program. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards released a video saying the U.S. will face consequences and that they will end the war.
Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Israel will not be dragged into a war of attrition, nor will it end the conflict until its objectives are achieved. Israel wants to degrade Iran’s missiles and nuclear program.
The Trump administration says it did a good thing by striking three nuclear targets in Iran over the weekend. U.S. officials say the strikes, which were carried out without congressional approval and without notifying top Democratic lawmakers, were intended to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. The decision to intervene by the United States came a week after Israel launched a series of strikes on Iran. U.S. officials say the American strikes devastated Iran’s nuclear program, but independent experts analyzing satellite imagery say it is far from destroyed. Four things are known from the U.S. flights over Iran.
The impact of the attacks by Israel on Iran’s nuclear facilities: A keynote talk by David Albright, a nuclear policy specialist at the Institute for Science and International Security
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So far, the IAEA reports no such leaks. Iran may have moved their enriched uranium in the days before the bombings. The United States has said that the target of its bombings was the facilities, so they understand they are not getting at the nuclear material.
Iran would allow intrusive inspection into its programme if this was done with diplomatic agreements. The US and Israeli intelligence will assess the damage if that does not happen. They are looking at communications intercepts and trying to get people on the inside to reveal information.
Obviously, more problematic is the underground sites. I saw a small crater above the underground hall when we first assessed Israel’s bombing of Natanz. I could work out and link it to a type of Earth-penetrator weapon that Israel is known to have. It would leave a small crater, and there would be damage underground. The United States bombed it with a much more powerful Earth penetrator. So damage is probably more extensive.
A lot of the damage is on the surface, so it’s a question of knowing what the building did [in terms of its role in the nuclear program]. The sites that are attacked rely on information from our repository. It is pretty straightforward.
researchers are looking into the impact of the attacks on Iran’s nuclear capabilities The analysts think the attacks have set the nuclear programme back but not permanently. Iran could have moved its highly enriched uranium, and possibly some of its enrichment machines, elsewhere. David Albright, a nuclear policy specialist and president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington DC, spoke to Nature about what researchers know.
Although Iran says its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes, experts have long assessed that Iran was close to having the capability of building nuclear weapons if it chose to do so. The US attacks were preceded by a bombing campaign by Israel, which has since attacked Iranian nuclear facilities. On 23 June, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that “very significant damage is expected to have occurred” at the underground Fordow site.
