[instrumental music] hi everyone and welcome to the National Books festival. My name is anna lehman and im the executive director of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. Im here today with megan twohey and gail collins. Both incredible authors and writers and journalists and i cannot wait for you to hear what they have to say. I mentioned that im the executive director of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission, the commission is a very proud sponsor of the National Books festival this year, we are the sponsor of the fearless women trail, which is featuring authors who are fearless just like gail and megan also books and stories about women throughout American History. Its just really a privilege to be here in this place today with these two women. Id like to start us off with some brief introductions for gail and megan and then we will kick it off. Megan is joining us, she is the author of she said breaking the Sexual Harassment story that helped ignite a movement. She is a Pu
York city to your couch somewhere in the world. This is the daily social distancing show with trevor noah. Trevor lets kick things off with the weather report. Spoiler alert, you might want to lock yourself inside again. As if 2020 wasnt enough we now have zombie Tropical Storms. This is video from when hurricane paulette hit bermuda earlier this month. It was downgraded to a post tropical low pressure system but paulette has regained strength and became a Tropical Storm again on monday. It is now about 300 miles off the coast of the a gloars island azores ises island. Trevor zombie storms, man, the weather has treully figured out how to mess with us now. Storms used to hit us and then be gone. But now its its like all right, im done, im done. Whoa, im back, got you bitch. Feels like Mother Nature realizes america isnt take coronavirus seriously so keeps coming up with new ideas to keep people in their homes, wildfires, storms that dont die. Pretty soon when we open the front door ther
Oh, yeah, jalapeno poppers lets go [police radio chatter] stan, you were really brave in there, but you did kind of sound like a big dork. I know. Come on, you youre hurting my arm too bad youll be going away for a long time. Was it worth it . In a way, it was. I might not have gotten away, but at least i learned a lot about pioneer life in the old west. Those early settlers didnt have the modern conveniences we all take for granted today. To think how difficult it was back in those times to do something as simple as washing your clothes. Pioneer village has a lot to teach us all. Thats true. Hey, look. [groaning] teacher, my partner is back on the bus. Captioning by captionmax www. Captionmax. Com on, everybody, welcome to the daily social distancing show, im trevor noah. Today is wednesday, the 23rd of september. And heres your quarantine tip of the day. If you are having trouble finding a babysitter who is willing to come to your house in the middle of a pandemic, dont stress, just
We walk because of how their lives give each other there. Are the Police Officers im praying for you. John 100 has more from commercial. There were several members of jacob blakes family who came here to speak this is the 1st time weve seen them come out publicly and express their concern over what has happened one of his sisters came out and she said she was all cried out even before this incident happened because theres been so many shootings of unarmed black men by police and we do believe he was unarmed although we cant confirm that. She said at this point i dont want pity i just want action. And there was a cheer for moment when one of the lawyers who was talking about how so i could psychologically damage those 3 boys who were in the car at the time when blake was shot might be and the fact that they might need treatment for the rest of their lives and that the father of blake their grandfather burst out in sobs and had to be walked away and then blakes mother came out Julia Jack
This is the Woodrow Wilson house in washington d. C. , the home of our 28 president and former first Lady Edith Wilson after they left the white house in 1921, youll see more of that over the next two hours as we tell the story of the story of the two Woodrow Wilson first ladies, edith and allen. Ellen and woodrow met in their twenties and their love was reflected in passionate letters. And passioned artists and an intellectual companion, she adopted causes and set an example for future first ladies. Ellen wilson died in the white house a year and a half into the president s term. The grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt through a mutual friend. They married after a series secret courtship, and she served as first lady for more than five years. Her unprecedented role in managing the president s affairs after the president s stroke remains one of the most controversial elements of any first lady. Welcome to the continuing series, first ladies, influence and im