Black leadership oral History Collection posted by university of virginia posted by hostedity hsoted by university of virginia. She talks about growing up surrounded by artists and musicians. She also discusses her early political career before her election the senate as a democrat from illinois. She served as ambassador to new zealand during the clinton administration. The interview approximately an hour and 45 minutes was conducted by julian bond. Carol moseley braun, thank you for our explorations in black leadership should best leadership. Senator braun thank you. Happy to be here. And made a huge difference, because in that year, or maybe the year after, we moved from the heart of chicagos black belt to a neighborhood that was on the cutting edge of integration. As a result, i was able to go to a public school. Starting in the third grade. It had previously been all white. Traumas as a result of that. This was a result of the time of that whole nuclear scare. When rocks would be t
That. This mysterious of footage you are watching was not shot by him over on a distant planet. It is the bottom of the ocean footage captured by my go pro camera which continued filming after i had a mishap last week. I was doing a story in which are serving in new jersey. You are usually working so hard out here paddling around, you do not get cold. Well, this happened. My go pro camera sinks to the bottom of the atlantic. Thus began my cameras to mile journey bouncing along the bottom of the ocean, for two days until andrew shapiro, the surgeon from hershey, pennsylvania. I saw this Little Orange corner sticking out. My camera. Wow. He goes home and does detective work. I went online to find out what this thing was. Then i got the instructions and a pdf and downloaded those. Then i saw that i needed an app so i downloaded that. He finds this clip of me from a previous shot. He sees my recreational licensing gets my name off it, find me on facebook, sends me an email and the fed axes
Four miles hitting another car along the way and ditched the vehicle near southwest philadelphia. Andrea klinethomas is live with more. Police are still looking for who was inside that van. Reporter after the officer was hit he still was able to manage to fire off one shot but detectives still dont know if the van was shot as it sped away. When officers first arrived, they said a man and woman were in a domestic dispute. The man was trying to drag the woman out of the van. When the police approached the male had entered the van and proceeded in reverse striking one of the officer and dragging the officer. Reporter the officer was able to recover and attempted to confront the man. An auto mechanic was outside working on a car. As i was under the car i hear a gunshot. Im not getting up. Reporter the officer fired a single gunshot as it sped away. Children at the Multicultural Learning Center saw a crash. It was a big crash. All the upstairs kids came running down. Reporter police say the
River valley and clouds and midlevel ds light returns moving through t county. For the most part conditions are dry. Current temperature for allentown 45 degrees. Moneyer 40s for northeast philadelphia andyant 41 degrees. Notice the sft in the winds. This san influence. It means temperatures foray saw yesterday. We topped out at philadelphia lote of midto upp. Society hill currently at 45 degrees. So mild conditions right now. Lets track out the next three conditions for today will be mostly cloudy. Showers are expected later evening. It will be a washout for the end of this workweek. It looks like passing showers early on saturday. I will leave us hilalphia area saturday with temperatures topping out at 56 degrees. The pa suburbs may see a few stray showers with highs in the mid50s. For the most part we will warm up throughout this weekend. My pick of the weekend will be this sunday. Coming up well talk makg a com. Back to you. Thank you. Philadelphia Police Investigating this deadly
Two distinguished authors to our panel, doctor Patrick Phillips and doctor jason ward. We will have presentations by both Patrick Phillips and jason ward and after both panelists are finished with their presentations we would like to open it up to discussion. Following discussion, we will go up to the War Memorial Auditorium upstairs and the book signing, i encourage you to continue discussion with both authors once you get there so we will get started. Patrick phillips is an associate professor of english and a poet as well, previous book he produced, eulogy for a broken mechanic was a National Book award finalist. Todays book we are talking about is blood at the root a racial cleansing in america. Please welcome Patrick Phillips. Thank you so much. For the southern festival of books, thank you for coming. This will con turn into a conversation, questions and comments but a little bit about the book blood at the root a racial cleansing in america and how i came to write it and a littl