Russian opposition leader, alexei navalny, says he appears to have been poisoned. And nasa warns that an asteroid could hit earth the day before the us election, though it is not expected to disrupt the us postal service. Fraser is in london. President trump flew down to North Carolina today for the Opening Night of his partys convention. Its a bit of an empty gesture since, like the democrats gathering last week, the Republican National convention will mostly take place in cyber space and not in charlotte. Democrats. But the president wants to be front and centre of this event and he will appear every night of the gathering somehow, somewhere. Last weekjoe biden got a bump in the polls from his convention, mrtrump is hoping for the same this week. The countrys record high covid toll, and poor economy could make that complicated but the message week is that the only thing standing between anarchy and socialism is a second term of donald trump. We have to win, this is the most important
Be here today and we are so appreciative of it. Tonight i am beyond thrilled to have Morgan Jerkins with us to tolerate the release of her new book wandering in strange lands. Morgan jerkins is the author of the New York Times bestseller this will be my undoing quite thoroughly recommended. And the Senior Editor at sora come shes also a visiting professor at columbia university, her short form work has been featured in the new yorker, New York Times, the atlantic, rolling stone, l, esquire and the guardian among many others, she is based in harlem. Joining morgan and conversation is abborn and raised in jackson mississippi professor of english and creative writing at the university of mississippi the author of the long Long Division and the collection of xrays essays, how to slowly kill yourself and others in america. Also author of the men were heavy, shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie medal named one of the best books in 2018 by the young defeated, New York Times novel shows weekly,
You may address the board once per agenda item for two minutes. Item number 1, call to order. [roll call] president tsen here. Director dunlop here. Vice president lai here. Director richardson here. We do have a quorum. President tsen excellent. Before we begin, hello, directors and members of the public. Thank you so much for joining us today. I am sorry that we still to conduct our meetings by teleconferencing. And i ask that everybody be patient as there is a lag time sometimes to hear the Public Comment. But our able secretary kate austin will guide us through the process. I would like to start the meeting with a quote, whose life and words inspired so many of us. He wrote a letter which was published and i quote from that letter. He says, ordinary people with extraordinary visions can redeem the soul of america by getting into what i call good trouble, necessary trouble, building and participating in the democratic process are key. Democracy is not a state. It is not an act. Each
State under barack obama she was a former 1st lady herself and 4 years ago she was at the Democratic National convention accepting the democrats nomination as a candidate to go up against donald trump what a different world it was 4 years ago and a very different world that shes giving this speech in now this was Hillary Clinton a few moments ago alan fischer as our correspondent in washington who was listening to that tie again allan what did we hear from as i dont know what to call it for former 1st lady former secretary of state former candidate. Exactly all of those boxers it was interesting she was saying that a number of people have come up turned in the last 4 years and saying if wed known then what we knew no i would have voted or i would have voted for you she said this cant be a shooter woulda coulda election youve got to get out and vote no donald trump will undoubtedly claim that shes trying to relive to get the 2016 election that she hasnt quite got over it and there may b
Injustice in reproductive and Maternal Health care in the excessive use of force by police and in our broader criminal Justice System this virus it has no eyes and yet it know exactly how we see each other and how we treat each other and lets be clear there is no back scene for racism we have got to do the work for george floyd for Briana Taylor for the lives of too many others to name for our children and for all of us weve got to do the work to fulfill that promise of equal justice under law. Because heres the thing none of us are free until all of us are free. So were at an Inflection Point a constant chaos leaves us adrift the incompetence makes us feel afraid the callousness makes us feel alone its a lot and heres the thing we can do better and deserve so much more we must elect a president who will bring Something Different Something Better and do the important work a president who will bring all of us together black white latino asian indigenous to achieve the future we collecti