Suspicious fire at a Berkeley Church last week. Police believe the person in the surveillance video, set a plastic trash been on fire outside Way Christian Center early wednesday. It happened hours after the church put out a black lives matter sign. Church members are calling on police to investigate it as a hate crime. Also right now, on the news at 7. Just in the past two hours, will i hope police have released this video. Highly criticized, Deadly Police shooting. We want to warn you, the video is graphic. Willie mcquay was asleep in the car when it happened in the taco bell drivethrough in february last year. The video was slow down to show down to see where mccoys hands moved before the open fire. Policeatear in hilap, officers unloaded dozens of rounds into his window. According to a newly released Police Department memo, in march the new chief try to fire one of the officers involved. The 20yearolds rappers fire family said that the police did react too quickly and it has drawn
School this fall to teach in front of empty classrooms, go g. I am izabeth cook. We have how the teachers are fighting back. Students returned to campus to pick up their textbooks and take class photos but they are not going to be coming back to campus for the first day of school next week. The district decided it was too dangerous. Teachers however are required to report to their classrooms next week. Describing the pan plan is inflexible and unsafe teachers in san jose unified saying they are confused and angry that the districtinsists they return to their classrooms while students learn from home. Not safe is people want to believe that it is. We are still sharing common space. The district has more than 1600 teachers, but many parents i if handson learning is ss they dont really care where the teacher is. I would be more concerned for the teachers and if they are having to spend time on campus around others, that does expose them more so than if they were able to stay home and do t
Susan Grace Coolidge was enormously popular as first lady, and influenced the taste of american women by becoming a style icon. Married to a man known as silent cal, she never spoke to the press, but she did use her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well be telling you the story of first lady Grace Coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president , in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. Here to set the stage for us as we learn about the fiveplus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. Welcome to the program. Lets have you just tell us about of the arrival of Calvin Coolidge into the white house. How prepare was he for the job . Amity actually, quite prepared because hed been a politician all his life. President coolidge was one of those men who started
Ordinarily we come to you live in person at 184 184 south chal in decatur georgia. We are now the new school for scott comes but during the current fiber, to life from my home office in atlanta, georgia. We have been doing a whole series of Educational Programs that fall under our mission of fostering sustainable commutes him working for social justice and encouraging the expression diverse and marginalized voices all through these virtual formats. We feel very fortunate we have a prototalking to authors who lived all over the country during this time. We feel it is really, really, really significant that we continue to do the programming that we already have scheduled. Because folks need history as we move through this historic time. Theres really no, i can think of no better book to help us focus on what the movement for black lights needs right now, what we can do to contribute right now in this book, race man julian bond selected works, 19602015. We have the editor here, michael lo
Cspan radio app. Earmarks and what is going on with them this morning. Joining us is tom schatz, president of citizens against government waste and he will talk about the 2020 government pig book. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host can you tell us exactly what citizens against government waste is and where you get your funding . Guest citizens against government waste was created in 1984 following the release of the report under praise that in reagan. President citizens against government waste has been issuing the pig 1991, porkbarrel spending or earmarks, so we are funded by the taxpayers. The paper came about in 1991. We worked with the pork busters coalition and created a seven point criteria for determining what would be an earmark or porkbarrel project in the appropriations bill. This year, we have had 15. 9 billion which is up by almost 4 from the prior year. This is going on, by the way, even what Congress Claims is an earmark moratorium. Before we get into what you found,