My my name is wayne coleman, head of archives here at the institute. And i want to welcome all you to tonights event event as we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1963 childrens crusade. We do so tonight with an authors talk featuring paul kicks. Paul is the author of you have to be prepared to before you can begin ten weeks in birmingham. That america, while reflecting on a photo of Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin suffocating, george floyd, paul is shocked by its parallels to the iconic may 1963 photo of a black teenager in birmingham, alabama, being attacked by a white officer and an aggressive shepherd. These similarities motivated to uncover the legacy and full history behind the historic civil rights photograph. Pauls book light on the strategy of the 1963 ten week southern christian Leadership Conference campaign end segregation led by dr. Martin luther jr. King, along with white walker, Fred Shuttlesworth and james bevel, joined the efforts of the Alabama Christia
My my name is wayne coleman, head of archives here at the institute. And i want to welcome all you to tonights event event as we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1963 childrens crusade. We do so tonight with an authors talk featuring paul kicks. Paul is the author of you have to be prepared to before you can begin ten weeks in birmingham. That america, while reflecting on a photo of Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin suffocating, george floyd, paul is shocked by its parallels to the iconic may 1963 photo of a black teenager in birmingham, alabama, being attacked by a white officer and an aggressive shepherd. These similarities motivated to uncover the legacy and full history behind the historic civil rights photograph. Pauls book light on the strategy of the 1963 ten week southern christian Leadership Conference campaign end segregation led by dr. Martin luther jr. King, along with white walker, Fred Shuttlesworth and james bevel, joined the efforts of the Alabama Christia
Disney and merck are your dow leaders. We could get a deal this week for disney to buy much of foxs movies and tv assets a good day for some energy names like chesapeake, newfield and haliburton u. S. Employers posted fewer job openings nearly six million jobs were available and total hires rose 4. 4 prz. Brook Field Properties 14. 8 billion offer. Brookfield is considering a new offer. Ge announcing its Power Division will reduce count by 12,000 we begin this hour with bitcoin moving higher today after this weekends roll out of futures trading. Bob joining us with more important thing is its finally trading. Take a look at where the coin is right now. 17,000 area. The important thing weve got it out. This is the futures contract were talking about. Opening 15,000 its trading at a premium to the underlying cash. Not a lot of people are allowing it lets review what a futures contract is. What do we do when we get a futures contract its an agreement to buy or sell a commodity or financia
Shazam is this an Artificial Intelligence play . Were going to look. Whats to buy ahead of tax reform debate on whether Airline Stocks could be the big beneficiaries of any tax bill. But we do start with the story thats taken wall street, main street, any street, frankly, by storm, and that is bitcoin. Bitcoin futures popping in their first full day of trading on the cboe Cnbcs Bob Pisani joining us with that story. Bob, everybody is talking about it. It is and its finally happened the good thing is at least trading has happened and relatively orderly we passed 18,000, folks. Bitcoin futures opened 6 00 last night eastern time, 15,000, moved up very, very quickly. Here you see its over 18,000. So its been small, 3,600 contracts, figure the math here. 17,000 p 17,000, 18,000 about 60 million. Thats not a lot but its a start at least heres whats important. Lets go over what exactly a futures contract is, why this is so important first of all, its just agreement to buy or sell a commodity
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