Arianna we are very excited about the authors who will be speaking here. Started, please silence your cell phones. We are filming and recording today and we prefer not to have any interruptions. We sure to use a microphone at the end of the event to ask questions. If you have not purchased a book and would like to do so, they are available at the register. After the event is over, there will be a signing line to the right of this table here. If you have been here before, you know we ask everyone to fold up their chairs after the event. Here with us tonight is dr. Damaris hill. Dr. Hill is an accomplished explores the work digital humanities. She has written the fluid boundaries of suffrage and jim crow. Dr. Hill is an assistant professor of africanamerican studies at the university of kentucky but she is here to talk to us about her most recent work , a bound woman is a dangerous thing. Dr. Hill honors the lives and suffering of africanamerican women heroes throughout history while pro
The show boys to make space travel history to u. S. Astronauts on the 1st ever private mission into space to face the final and most important part of their test flight returning to earth with a brain or splashed down. Omarion evan steen its good to have you with us we begin in the australian state of victoria where a state of disaster has been declared amid a surge in corona virus infections a range of new long down measures has also been imposed including a nighttime curfew for the city of melbourne while this comes after previous long down measures failed to curb a spike in new covert cases. Their last moments of freedom before the curfew came into effect the new measures are the countrys strictest to date melbourne is already under a 6 week lockdown but the infection numbers are still rising victorias premier has now declared a state of disaster. We cannot longer have people visiting out as we can no longer have people simply in about for no good reason whatsoever it is not an easy
Are the Health Care Workers themselves, the medical workers themselves, the doctors, the nurses, the support staff who weve relied on from the very first moments that we began to realize that this virus was bigger than any health issue weve dealt with in a long time. Were still depending on it today. At some point you run out of some of the capacity and steam that you had to do the job that needs to be done. But we see these heroes continue to step up. Some giving their lives. In bill in birmingham and kansas city was an emergency medical technician. He was with the Kansas City Fire Department and he died of coronavirus in april. His son described billy as selfless. He said billy had decided he wanted to find new ways to help people and so he reinvented himself as an e. M. T. When he was in his 40s so he could help others and then he was an e. M. T. For about 22 years. We see the Emergency Medical Technicians, the First Responders out there saving lives, bringing people in a desperate
And Alameda County sheriffs deputy who had been in intensive care for more than 3 weeks died last night from the coronavirus Maureen Kelly reports that deputy oscar roadshow worked at the santa rita jail which is dealing with an outbreak of positive cases. The 25 year veteran of the Alameda County Sheriffs Office work both in the court system as well as here at the santa rita jail there are currently a 104 positive coronavirus cases among inmates here and many of the Sheriffs Office staff who have tested positive. Both deputies and non sworn personnel are connected with this facility. Deputy oscar ochoa was one of 65 people working with this Law Enforcement agency to be infected since march. While most of the cases among the inmate population and the staff have been asymptomatic are very mild both roach and his wife maureen were hospitalized. She was out within 10 days but roach a had been in icu and on a ventilator for over 3 weeks. I thought every single day for him. And never gave u
Day at all three locations here, and our new union market. We are excited about the offers that will be speaking for the next month so i encourage everyone to grab the Event Calendar to see who will be here in february. Before we get started i would like to remind everyone to silence your cell phones and devices. We are filming today and dont want any interruptions. We also ask you to make sure to use one of the microphones at the end to ask questions. If you dont speak into the microphone, your question will not be picked up on the recording. If you havent purchased a book yet and would like to do so, they are available you can ask a staff member and they will grab a copy. After the event is over there will be a signing blind to the right of the table and if youve been here before you know we ask everyone to fold up chair pull up a chair after the event and make resetting the store easier for the staff. Dr. Hill is an accomplished author and scholar. She has written two previous books