Earlier this month a judge heard the long rest of resentencing cases. 300 inmates in philadelphia must get a new hearing or considered for parole. Those in prison for the longest period of time will get hearings first. Two inmates in philadelphia have already been granted new sentences making them eligible for immediate parole. Advocates will reach out to Family Members of the victims to make sure they are aware about any release. Now, this is based on a 2012 u. S. Supreme court ruling that called mandatory life without parole for juveniles unconstitutional because it violated the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Earlier this year the Supreme Court said it applied to back cases as well as cases now in the courts. This ruling affects more than 1,500 inmates across the country. But philadelphia has more juveniles sentenced to life without parole than any other country in the world. With me is the chief counsel and cofounder of the juvenile law center based here in philadelphia, juven
He has several books including the long reconstruction of popular politics in the south and after appomattox military occupation and the end of war. For those of you who were not with us last year, after the lens of the military to examine the time after the confederate surrender as an expansion of wartime. The last several years, dr. Inns has been very active broadening public understanding of the reconstruction era. Coedited a new essay collection the world the civil which seeks to redefine the United States. Are also look at sites that appropriate for memorializing reconstruction. , dr. Lowe,eaker earned ma and phd degrees from the university of washington seattle. She served as the Program Manager for the underground Railroad Freedom program, which places Minority College students from across the country and paid summer internships with parks and program offices, state Historic Preservation offices, local and state governments, and private organizations. Her academic fields of inte
Up the project and run with it. Great. Please, yes. Give her the mike. Please stand up so they can see you to give you the mike. Im the executive director of the u. S. Afghans council at georgetown university. We are so grateful you are here and id like to publicly thank you for staying up in the middle of the night. Very quietly, i dont think people know this. And you have been sending us support and at times when you dont have the staff to do it. Were so grateful for reaching out to us here in washington, d. C. Id like to ask specifically if you could talk further about one of the myths that you brought up. The myth of the afghan male, the afghan man as being uncivilized. Part of why i the about that, in my work, what i found is with all of these successful, beautiful, talented afghan women that you talk about, there is always usually a strong and supportive and feminist and wonderful father, husband, brother, cousin, uncle. That i think we dont always hear about. So if you could tal
Or less on time although we are starting a little bit late. So i just want to introduce our panelists and then we will get started. I think we will go in the order listed in your program. So, this panel is on radio and national heritage. And we are going to hear first from jane gilvin and ayda pourasad, of npr who will talk about how they created the npr Historical Archives. Ayda pourasad good morning, everybody. This is jane, my colleague. We are from the Research Archive and Data Strategy team at the National Public radio. We are known as rad. In our company. Several of our colleagues are also in attendance in the conference, so please make sure to go and introduce ourselves to them and say hi to them. Our chief officer sitting in the front will also be presenting at tomorrow at the Plenary Session so please make sure you attend , her talk as well. We are here to tell you about how we created nprs Historical Archive in 2013 from scratch while we were during the move to a new building
Like you are falling behind, you can call us at 202 7488002. You can also find us on social media. Facebook and twitter. It has been over eight years since the start of the Great Recession. Manyways the economy people feel the recovery has yet to reach them. Here could be one reason why. Look at this data. It shows the share of adults living in middleincome households is falling. Households fell into the middle income category. Since then that number has dropped to just a few percent in 2015. Thats a number of households living in middle income brackets. How does the Research Center actually defined middle income and upper income . You are considered upper income by the pew Research Center if you make at least 72,500 targets 72,521 as a Single Person hoousehold. That number does increase as the number of people in the household increases. A family of five needs to earn 162,001 at 61 in order to be upper income. Middle income, the minimum about to read is 54,000. Interesting and pretty