Recess. It is a time when you drink tea and sit on your porch. Nashville became the center of the political universe in the United States for several weeks in the summer ratify the amendment. Tennessee legislature, then women across the country in every state, and every election, election, for the first time. All women would have the right to vote weird it was all coming down to tennessee, and it got really wild. How many women were in america at that point, voting age. 27 million women were voting age. Of course, not all would vote. As we know, for africanamerican women, and for asian women and native american women, they were not allowed to vote under the 19th amendment. They gave the vote to all women. Jim crow laws in the south and other state laws denied the vote. To quite a few women. A minority. 27 million women women were eligible to vote. No one knew how they were going to vote. The politicians were worried about it. It was a president ial election. The president ial candidate
Bezos crowd bezos bezos hello, bezos. You can take your Fulfillment Center and fulfill it right up your ass you see, theres one thing you didnt count on, and thats tegridy. Just look in the eyes of these people. Everyone has tegridy now tegridy that you will never understand. We arent just different classes of people anymore. We are a town. [ thinking ] are you all high . All no. No. Why do you ask that . Jeff bezos because im over here. Oh. Hang on. Hold on. Okay, i got it. Anyways. You see, tegridy is something that cant be understood by big corporations. Oh, theyll try to package tegridy, but only i can really package tegridy. I got more money now cause of tegridy. Thats cause i figured out how to get tegridy to everyone. And thats now everyone is in this state of tegridy thats impenetrable. Am i making sense . [ thinking ] no the point is, nobodys coming to work for you. So you can take your whole plan and fulfill it somewhere else [ cheering ] [ thinking ] damn you, tegridy ice co
Yang finally gets to speak, the grammy nominations are out and black thanksgiving. Lets too much up on todays headlines. Letskick it off with 2020, a year with so many exciting excited to watch and, no, im not talking about the election, im talking about the the grammys. Nonominations for 2020 Grammy Awards are out. New class in town. Lizzo leads the way with eight nominations including album, song and record of the year. Shes also up for best new artist. 17yearold Billie Eilish is behind with six nominations. Lil nas x with the blockbuster hit of old town road also picked up six grammy nominations. Trevor wow, old town road got nominated for six grammys thats really surprising, not that it got nominated but that it came out this year. Ism like we have been listening to that song for a decade now. I swear ive had that song on my ipad and its been out that long. I swear when the song came out it was just called town road. laughter its weird to me how long between when a song comes out a
Im Chilton Varner and serve as president of the Supreme Court Historical Society. I am pleased to welcome you to the third of four lectures that comprise ourselves or men lecture series. This years series focuses on new perspectives in dissent and the Supreme Court. Begin the evenings program, i am commanded, not asked, im commanded to ask you to turn off your cell phones, tablets, apple watches. Even in silent mode, they can interfere with the sound system here in the courtroom. So thank you for doing that. I would like to express the societys gratitude to our host this evening, justice sonya sotomayor. She has been and norma slid generous in giving up her time to the society when we call upon her to help us, and i want to thank her for taking time off during a very busy time in the life of the court. Sonya sotomayor was born in the bronx, new york, june 25, 1954. She earned a ba in 1976 from princeton. She earned a jd from yale law school, where she served as an editor of the yale la
20. Why are americans Young Diane Young at alarming rates . We will open up our phone lines for you this morning. If you are in the eastern or central time zones, we want to 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain or central time zones, call 202 7488001. Text us at 202 7488003 and we are always reading on social media, http twitter. Com cspanwj social media. Lets set the groundwork, first. Im going to read a little bit from report here so that you can see what we are going to talk about. Heres the article. Now i want to read from you a little bit from the actual report itself. Here is what it says. Hear from thes director of the cdc, dr. Robert redfield, discussing why the opioid outbreak is a crisis here in washington, d. C. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] the outbreak of our time is the opioid outbreak. Im going to stress that i think there are a lot of lessons for us from what we learned in the Ebola Outbreak. We dont need to wait for the perfect solution to the challenges