Tonight we have the pleasure posting it will be discussing the new book the campus color light. If you have not yet preordered a copy of the book please consider we have curbside pickup. With a limited capacity. Weekends are busy. A monday or tuesday. We will share from guidelines in our chat. We also with our bookstore and our staff. It would be a walkthrough with a platform. They will be joining us up on the screen. We will be taking questions with the audience. If youre looking at the bar below all the way to the right you will see q a. That so that we can keep track of all of the questions. Make sure to submit your questions. For the night. An associate professor of higher education. An organizational change and the author of the kenneth color line. It is published by Princeton University press. He is a historian a black womans history. And an assistant in the department of history with the university of texas at austin. Remaking black power. How they transformed a era. You can fin
Tvs american artifacts explore the history of the United States threw objects, up next we visit capitol hill to talk to house historian, matthew wasilewski. And house curative far elliott, about the history of African Americans in congress in the 19th century. And a selection of artifacts from the house collection. The story of how African Americans come to congress a 19 century, is not one that a lot of people are familiar with. We actually had 22 African Americans sir between 1870 and 1901. 20 in the house, to in the senate. Largely a house story. And it has to do with the role of congress, during the civil war. And in the decade after during a civil war, there were a group of radicals in congress, radicals because they believed in the equality of African Americans and wanted to create a society that was a multi racial society. These were radicals in the house like stevens, it was chairman of the means committee, and a very powerful leader. Also people like hadnt rewinter davis, ally
Of your words and you can pause when answering questions so that we capture your complete response. Thank you very much and ms. Barnes, youre now recognized for five minutes. Ms. Bans, yrnes, you may have t unmute. I think were having trouble hearing you. Proceed, ms. Barnes. I think you just unmuted. Okay. Chairman pappas, chairwoman brownley, Ranking Member bergman, chairman takano, members of the subcommittee and task force, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss gaos work for Sexual Harassment at the department of veteran affairs. I will talk about statements from my june report released last week. The protection board estimated that 22 of va employees experience some form of Sexual Harassment in the workplace. Va has several methods to address such Sexual Harassment complaints. But we found that the agency was falling short in a number of areas. Including one, its complaint structure, collection of incidents on Sexual Harassment and actions taken, and, three, provision in
The economy added 1. 4 million jobs last month. We have added a recordsetting 10. 6 million jobs this may. 10. 6 million jobs since may. That is a record, it is not even close. Secondplace is a long ways away. In july the cbo was protecting projecting unemployment over 10. 5 through the end of 2020. They thought 2020 would be a lot longer than that. Some projections where you go through the entire year and that includes a lot of months and the following year, 2021. Instead the Unemployment Rate plunged, really to the surprise of many, all the way down to 8. 4 in august. That is the second largest single month decline on record. We have the first. Have both of them. We have the two number one declines. Decline meaning positive, not negative. We are witnessing the fastest labor Market Recovery from an economic crisis in history. World history. By contrast, biden presided over the worst, just and slowest economic recovery since the great depression. It was a long, slow slog. It was the we
Moreyou have got one georgia seat with im having a pres. Trump labor day. That was a very special time i had speaking to some of the labor union heads and other people. They are very happy with the way things are going, as you have probably seen the numbers are terrific. So we called some people, wished him a very happy labor day. They told us how they are doing and we celebrate the American Worker. We are in the midst of the fastest economic recovery in u. S. History. So we have a lot to be thankful for, including this beautiful day. I thought we would do this outside as opposed to in your more normal place. The United States experienced the smallest contraction of any major western nation. You probably know that. You look around and see how we are doing compared to every our rise is and spectacular. We are rebounding much more quickly from the pandemic. The economy added 1. 4 million jobs last month. We have added a recordsetting 10. 6 million jobs this may. 10. 6 million jobs since