Fourteen have occurred over the last twelve months you know my fellow you have said to us citizens remember each one of those numbers is an innocent life killed snuffed out loss to our governments Foreign Policy adventures and taxpayer funded weapons of war now let me be clear no one here is arguing that Media Coverage of the outrage and political fallout from the park and School Shooting isnt important it is but if we are truly going to have a conversation about violence in america especially gun violence lets stop ignoring. Those giant elephants in the room and start watching the hawks. It looks like. Its with. The bottom. Like you that i got. With. This. Week. Rather than on the watch of the heart as always our entire world with and as always on tap along well see what happens tomorrow sort of as the bar oh yeah well six hundred shows smorgon six hundred fifty shows and you know as always but there. Is no there is i believe a serious disconnect in not only media but also in culture
Call 18003419716. Right now on fox 5 news atten 88 degrees at 10 00. No doubt we remain stuck in the middle of a blistering heat wave. Look that. Actually beautiful, but shows the city is bake under extreme heat since the weekend. The First Official heat wave we had in two years. That is right. The best place to be near sprinklerrors the beach. People doing anything they can to stay cool. That one with a hard shell finish. Try take it in stride. The Parks Department capturing this adorable shot of a turtle. Well he see if we get some relief. We still have more heat to go. Meteorologist that is true, steve. Temperatures will come down a little bit. Todays high numbers were recordbreaking across the tristate area. We tied the record in central park with the high of 95 degrees. The same case toward newark. The temperature came in at 97 degrees. 90s in many spots. It was 92 in sussex. It looks like islip toward montauk point, read arings into the 80 he a today. Temperatures from saturday,
I want to say hello to those who are watching this through the lifestream and through cspan2. This is a great day to have a great conversation about Higher Education and particularly the role of historically black universities and colleges. In 1997 i worked with an educational project. A number of you know the dr. Is that public hbc you. Some of you know his private hbc. He spent time in washington, d. C. As a kennedy appointee to the peace corps. Number of you know him through his work as a pastor. In 1997 we had an opportunity to sit in the lovely room. With a donor who owns a very large and very Famous Family foundation. The head of that walked into the room. And she said, can ask a questi question . Is there a need for blackblack colleges today and doctor proctor leaned back in his seat and he said maam, if you make can i restructure the question. The question is not, whether there is a need for hbcus today, the question is, where would america be today without them. And so she nod
I want to say hello to those who are watching this through the lifestream and through cspan2. This is a great day to have a great conversation about Higher Education and particularly the role of historically black universities and colleges. In 1997 i worked with an educational project. A number of you know the dr. Is that public hbc you. Some of you know his private hbc. He spent time in washington, d. C. As a kennedy appointee to the peace corps. Number of you know him through his work as a pastor. In 1997 we had an opportunity to sit in the lovely room. With a donor who owns a very large and very Famous Family foundation. The head of that walked into the room. And she said, can ask a questi question . Is there a need for blackblack colleges today and doctor proctor leaned back in his seat and he said maam, if you make can i restructure the question. The question is not, whether there is a need for hbcus today, the question is, where would america be today without them. And so she nod
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the 33rd annual chicago printers wrote lit fest. My name is thomas and im i like to think the possible sponsors. Todays program is being broadcasted live on cspan twos book tv and we will use the time at the end for audience questions so when the time comes please line up at the microphones to your right. Will hope the audience will be able to hear. As always, make sure to silence your cell phones and turn off your camera flashes at this point in time. With that, please welcome the colonists from the Chicago Tribune mac praised him in presenting that award voyage through the history of u. S. Rhetoric. [laughter] so even as professor of history at the university of florida, also a finalist for the book critic circle award and i just learned today that while in undergraduate school iibram was interested in being a journalist working for a newspaper. We essential could have used him in that profession but im sure that he has been able to get a lot more a