Readers. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is john allen, president of the Brookings Institution and it is my sincere pleasure to welcome you to todays event celebrating andre perrys release of his new book know your price, valuing black lives, across brookingss roughly 104 year history brookings has taken powerful positions on issues of race, equality and civil rights. These issues stand at the top of brookings qualities and i have made this president ial priority, certainly for the institution. Brookings not only made an obligation to study these issues but it is also the responsibility of the organization as well, to examine the intersection of race and policy not just because we are an organization deeply committed to the public good but also because we are an organization based in washington dc, the nations capital. As much as washington is a city of politics it is also a city of great diversity, of the roughly 700,000 residents the call the city home, one need only wa
Good afternoon i am the president Bookings Institution is my sincere pleasure to welcome you to todays event celebrating our brookings fellow release of his new book. Know your face. Roughly 104 year history we have taken powerful positions on issues of race and equality and civil rights these matters stand at the top since becoming president i have made this a president ial priority both personally and for the institution that only has there an obligation then to study these issues but also our responsibility of the organization as well that we examine race and policy not just because were capable of impact and committed to the cap public good but based on washington dc our Nations Capital as a city of politics but also great adversity and history of the roughly 700,000 residents that call the city home nearly half are black america. Walking past such sites as the Lincoln Memorial in the immortal words of doctor mlk i have a dream speech a wonderful place to live and work we at brooki
Find housing somewhere else because they have a criminal record. 5 jobs because of a criminal record so they dont have the money for wozniak anyway. They. Want black people. Think might want one black or they want one black famous person they want one black this and one of the last. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to heal some air force base in alaska where is that to say come on ill show you whats the reason for any type of enhanced u. S. Military presence in this area russia. What is it suddenly about the South China Sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. Take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have Nuclear Weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so thats why were going to drill down on this. Story for you today right here on the news with. You know as we always like to say we do believe by golly its time to do news again. We
A Graduation Ceremony. And breaking record september clocks the highest temperatures putting 2023 on trying to become the hottest year. And on piece of seminal deal sports excitement in south america is fif, announces a unique world cup in 2050 to be held on 3 continents while defending champions england to get the cricket work up on the way in india stating news. Even the victory to august of 283. 00 the we begin with breaking news out of ukraine and one of the deadliest attack since russia invited to cry last spring. At least 51 people have been killed and a strike on the horizon village. In the northeast near hockeys, president s for a lot of minutes, the landscape says Russian Forces showed a shop and a cafe in the village. The strike comes as zalinski is in spine for European Security some this. Okay, well lets bring in our correspondence and best robbie who joins us from separation in ukraine. And i know its really just an arrow. So since the attack, can you just tell us what mor
Market to. Economist ben stein on whether they are smart to sit it out. Ben great to see you, thanks for coming in. What do you think of jamie dimons worries . Its an awfully long time prior to the Great Recession that we had a genuine financial crisis. I cant remember a genuine financial crisis in the post war period. There were many genuine financial crises in the hundred years before. That hes the great expert. Hes the head of a very, very, very large bank. The one everyone respects. I dont see where the crisis is coming from. If you see what he said to the stockholders, theres likely to be one and likely to be a giant earthquake that levels los angeles, too. So theres i dont think theres any cause for worry about it whatsoever. David youre making me feel a lot better. Here is the gist of what he was saying, he said basically there are so many rules and regulation right now, we cant sort out all that is doddfrank the financial regs, and whenever you have more regulation it slows up