Strike this summer, and the new details of the contract include a major win for drivers. How much they stand to make behind the wheel a Different Union back at the negotiation table today after more than 100 days on the picket lines, writers and studio execs will try again to make a deal heres the preteen horseshoe champion of the word as he gets ready to take home another title. Its friday, august 11 early today starts rightnow. Good morning, and thanks for being with us today, im Jessica Layton im frances rivera. We begin with the growing heartbreak in hawaii at least 55 lives have been lost in the wildfires that have decimated maui and officials warn that the number will continue to climb as they scramble to help people who have lost nearly everything. Our mig uel almaguer starts us off. Reporter the fastmove be inferno obliterated everything in its path. This tropical paradise becoming a death trap for dozens who couldnt outrun the flames lets go reporter after this terrifying, hea
I miss in europe for etiquette advocacy here at vital voices, but my journey with vital voices started more than 25 years ago. I have been a member of this network for 25 years. It all started back in beijing in 1995 when there was an amazing synchronicity when elizabeth, melinda, secretary clinton and others independently we did not know each other at that time, we were at a conference. I was one of those who were in the room. Here are the words that changed my lives. Womens rights are human rights. That moment i realized that the work that i started basically begins with me, and it is not just social work. I started the program for women in russia, and at that time i am thinking that i am just helping women, but in 1995 i learned that i am doing more. The next stage of my awareness was in 1997. The first vital voices conference in vienna. And another slogan, another wisdom, which was democracy without women is not a democracy read that also changed my life, because i realized that fi
America. Benjamin franklin slavery and the American Revolution. He has written for the New York Times book review, Boston Review and the atlantic, among other publications. And he is joined in conversation by annette gordonreed professor at harvard university. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award, and she is the author of six books. Her honors include fellowships from the guggenheim and macarthur foundations and the National Humanities medal. She shes a fellow of the American Academy of arts and sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the british academy. Tonight, they are here to discuss the odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, a poets journeys through american slavery and independ. Since this new biography is the fullest account to date of wheatleys life and works and carrie greenidge writes in the New York Times book review that the odyssey of Phillis Wheatley is at once historical biography at its best literary analysis, at its sharpest and a subversive indic
David walt stryker teaches history at the City University of new york Graduate Center and is the author of slaverys constitution from revolution to ratification and runaway america. Benjamin franklin slavery and the American Revolution. He has written for the New York Times book review, Boston Review and the atlantic, among other publications. And he is joined in conversation by annette gordonreed professor at harvard university. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award, and she is the author of six books. Her honors include fellowships from the guggenheim and macarthur foundations and the National Humanities medal. She shes a fellow of the American Academy of arts and sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the british academy. Tonight, they are here to discuss the odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, a poets journeys through american slavery and independ. Since this new biography is the fullest account to date of wheatleys life and works and carrie greenidge writes
David walt stryker teaches history at the City University of new york Graduate Center and is the author of slaverys constitution from revolution to ratification and runaway america. Benjamin franklin slavery and the American Revolution. He has written for the New York Times book review, Boston Review and the atlantic, among other publications. And he is joined in conversation by annette gordonreed professor at harvard university. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award, and she is the author of six books. Her honors include fellowships from the guggenheim and macarthur foundations and the National Humanities medal. She shes a fellow of the American Academy of arts and sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the british academy. Tonight, they are here to discuss the odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, a poets journeys through american slavery and independ. Since this new biography is the fullest account to date of wheatleys life and works and carrie greenidge writes