To or they chose not to do. A frustrated un secretary general lashes out at World Leaders he says a falling short when theyre needed more than ever. And as long time restrictions disrupts the Food Supply Chain in india farmers struggle to sell their crops. We begin with get more bad news out of the worlds biggest economy almost another 4000000 people in the u. S. Applied for unemployment support last week mean more than 30000000 have made claims since march of the Unemployment Rate hovered around 3 and a half the same between december and february but in march it jumped to 4. 4 percent some economists believe the figure for april could be as high as 20 percent hoping to begin clawing back some financial ground more than 2 dozen states are moving ahead with plans to relax restrictions but as politicians in michigan were debating whether or not to do so armed protesters surrounded the State Capitol building some even made it inside a calling for an end to stay at home mishas more now fro
Kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth are here with us today courtesy of tom and margaret mr. Garrett graduated from harvard in 1963. He has had a 30 year emmy and peabody awardwinning career in Television News and documentaries. Jeanne ellsworth has a nephd in social foundations of education from the university of buffalo and has devoted her life to teaching from Elementary School to prisms, to universities. The authors live in roxbury new york. Please give a warm savannah welcome avto kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth. [applause] thank you for inviting us. The book is called the last negroes at harvard, 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroes, thats what we were called then, we were the largest number at that time ever admitted to harvard. We were from all different parts of the country, north, south, east, west, we came e fr different economic and socioeconomic grounds and they had been admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time, most guys would go do their four years
Joining us at 10, im ken way and im pam moore. The decision is what many parents and students had read assumed was going to happen, but the governor does stress this does not mean the end of the school year. We are preparing today to et our School System up where we are increasing class time but increasing it at home and fulfilling our obligations through Distance Learning. And other mechanisms to ke sure that were educatingour kids but not doing so physically on school sites. State superintendent Tony Thurmond held a News Conference today via zoom the same platform that many students have now been using to learn through virtually kron fours noelle bellow listen in on that News Conference and she joins us now live from the newsroom was more details noel on the instruction thats going to be given out. Thats right while more specific guidance on distancelearning was being posted tonight for district leaders, the information given during the press conference still left some questions to b
Theauthors live in roxbury new york. Please give a warm savanna welcome to and jean ellsworth. [applause] thank you for inviting us and the focus for the last negroes at harvard and 61 years ago , harvard admitted 18 negroes and thats what we were called then and we were the largest number at that time ever admitted harvard. We were from all different parts of the country. North, south, east and west and we came from economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. And we heretofore they had been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time most guys would just go and do their four years and get out of town. We leave cameras but was different in the sense that we had numbers. 18 and we could form an individual racial identity as well as a group identity. We were able to become actually a force for change at harvard and harvard, we changed harvard and harvard changed us and that essentially what the book is about, its about our four years here and what happened before and
Other nonessential businesses to shut their doors a Record Number of people have filed for unemployment the Labor Department reported a staggering 10000000 people filing for Unemployment Insurance in just the past 2 weeks that means almost all the jobs that were gained in the last 5 years just vanished lets take a look at the most hard hit states the highest number of unemployment claims the files were coming in from california at 870000 over on this side in new york those claims total about 360000. 00 now economists believe that the end of this crisis is not anywhere near the at and as the numbers are expected to continue to climb its estimated that about 20000000. 00 people will lose their jobs in the coming weeks but there is an increasing concern about how its impacting low income and minority communities and whether it will lead to an even deeper divide between the haves and have nots so. More on this lets go to our tease Rachel Blevins she is live in the news room with more to th