The pandemic and the governments response. Good morning, good to have you with us. Guest thank you for having me. Of the size of the response in terms of the unemployment aid offered by the federal government. What have they provided . Guest it is very shocking that the stock market did not completely crash and that unemployment continues to decline month after month since the initial large increase attributable to the pandemic. I think in terms of an employment insurance specific, the pandemic Unemployment Insurance covered people who would not have had access and the pandemic unemployed compensation, the extra 600 added enough money so that people had funds to spend to keep the economy and themselves afloat. Michele evermores piece, how much extra money is this providing for the unemployed . Guest the assistants provide an extra 600. Congress decided if the economy was going to be deliberately shut down to prevent the spread of the virus, 100 of income should be replaced. Calculateal
Upstarts . I think they felt very threatened and as you read the official reports in the campaign, you can see that as you read between the lines. Thank you for coming out tonight. If we are selling books and hosting events at the locations. In addition to the ones at the location you can order food and drink throughout the event but we are thankful for the relationship that we have going on here. I have a few housekeeping notes if you could silence any cell phones or devices. We will be doing the signing a t here at the advanced age. Purchasing the book out in the bookstore is solved if you have and already we have a few here. Let me come to you with a microphone. Its one of the largest refineries with one Typical Company town dominated with the white workingclass city of 100,000 a suburbs and Property Solutions and poorly funded Public Health service as it is one of the highest homicide rates in the country and jobless rate on a national average. They moved from new england to richmo
West but the problem is, you still have the temperatures close to freezing. Plus this is what is moving into the charlotte area next. We may have a batch of freezing rain moving in many and the heavier rain is pushing from the west and that moves through overnight and the temperatures are going up as the heavier rain moves in. Well talk about that that means for your night and day tomorrow and when there is a warming trend coming up in a little bit. And look at this. Ice covering the windshield wipers on one of our cars in statesville. Ice is starting to cover the roads as well. Sarablake morgan is live in troutman. How are the roads where you are . Well, right now, if you look behind me, they look like they are ok. Everything is moving quickly. But looks can be deceiving because we actually drove from statesville to troutman about three exits and we saw multiple cars that had spun out and this is what is on covering the roads. It is a mixture of ice and it seems like this weather is c
Negro soldier toca the film was directed by arguably the top director in hollywood at the time. In the film they covered africanamerican military service in this country from the 1770s to world war ii. There was no mention, no image of a single soldier or sailor. 10 of the union army. African made of 1 of the northern population. Highest awarded but not a single mention. Why . The story was indeed a lost story. There was active suppression of the story. When we talk about who suppress the story he will hear it was the lost cause. Theres a southern Propaganda Campaign but sought to make it appear that the war was not fought over slavery and a part of it was suppressing the africanamerican story. If it was the southerners and the lost cause, i do not think they could cap get out of that. Ar Department Film this is from our elite universities. A lost story. They were suppressing the story. It was won by a union, a team of persons of africanamerican descent. Theres a plus, not an or. Thats
Confederate armies were still active in the field, the surrender of the souths most put remaining fighting force effectively ended the civil war. Next, we tour the National Historical park to learn more about the events surrounding that day. This is the oldest building in the village. It was called clover hill before it became Appomattox Courthouse. This was one of the later counties formed. They took price of the four surrounding counties and formed appomattox county in 1845. This county had 18,000 people in it. More than half were slaves working on the tobacco farms. As of 1860, 120 people lived here in Appomattox Courthouse. Folks would stay at the Clover Hill Tavern as they traveled. The courthouse building was built in 1846, may be in 1847. The jail burned and a new one was built across the road. When people come to Appomattox Court house, they learned the surrender took place at Appomattox Courthouse. It did in the town of Appomattox Courthouse. The surrender meeting took place a