Should athletes be allowed to protest at games. If your answer is yes you want we want to hear for you. Call 2027488000. If your answer is no, athletes should not be allowed to protest, call 2027488001. Keep in mind, you can always text us your answer at and, we are always reading on social media on panwj andnd cs facebook. Com cspan. Many leagues are gearing up for a shortened or a additional season later on this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. But once again some of the same conversations about activism have cropped up. In fact, President Trump brought this up when he was asked, and he was his response. Pres. Trump if he has the playing ability. He started out great and did not end out great in terms of a player. He was terrific in his rookie year and was terrific in his second year and then something happened. His playing was not up to snuff. The answer is absolutely i would, as far as kneeling, i would like to see him get another shot. If he cannot play well i think it wo
Were back with professor eaton of the university of oklahoma who is here to help explain to us the 1921 race massacre in tulsa, oklahoma. Oklahoma. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host President Trump is coming to oklahoma today, specifically going tulsa. Was the greenwood neighborhood of tulsa and tulsa for africanamericans prior to 1921 . Tell us the history. Guest tulsa represents this continued striving for upward thelity, black progress, in earlier part of the 20th century, it is the city bustling with activity. Tulsa has the benefit of the oil boom, but you also have many African Americans who are firmly planted, instead of rooted, within the professional class seeking opportunity outside of the south, and so they make their way to various areas that they called north were up north, even though we think of tulsa as being west of the south, and so you have this community that is filled with educated families. There is an opportunity to prosper, even without higher education, eve
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Readings in the salyut us there are many things threatening the United States freedom of the press these days hawk watchers from Government Agency infiltration be a retired intelligence and security agents like John Brennan James clapper running around cable news rooms influencing news stories as pundits and experts to major Government Contractors like multibillionaire jeff bezos buying a major news outlet like the Washington Post but those are the show youre more center stage examples theres actually another more insidious major threat to our press these days and its name is wall street and its crushing local newspapers across the country olympia snow smith writes and take on wall street that all over the country private equity and hedge funds have been scooping up these cash strapped papers and looting them into irrelevance or bankruptcy in fact between 20042800 United States lost. More than a 5th of the local newspapers in newsrooms at these local newspapers they lost half of their
T america boom bust producer brant job or an r t america correspondent john hardy thank you guys for joining me thank you for the boom bust team for coming out and daniel i want to start mask you actually these big private equity firms like all the global new Media Investment group who are buying up all these local papers all around the country and then slashing and burning them essentially how are they making money off of these scorched earth tactics like why are they even getting involved what whats the prize for them right now its a familiar formula similar to the essentially the same playbook that we saw in the 1980 s. Where people and corporate raiders would find need to stress kompany you know raid it divest it and then just get rid of the body essentially when they were done draining the blood and thats essentially whats happening in a similar way with these newspapers corporate conglomerates like as you mentioned all the acquiring the denver post Gatehouse Media recently acquir