Also served as California Attorney general. She is the first black woman and first woman of indian descent to run for the vice presidency and only the third female candidate as Vice President of a major party ticket. Harris will play a key role in the Democratic National convention with beat which begins next week in wisconsin. Joining me now is our politics and government correspondent marisa lagos and scott shafer. Thank you for joining us. Thanks for having us. We have all three known and covered Kamala Harris for many years. I remember covering her in 2005 when i first came to the bay area. Tell us about your Early Experiences with Kamala Harris, what she was like and how you have seen her change she was a political novice when she ran for District Attorney in 2003. She challenged an incumbent and i think something happened early that shaped the rest of her trajectory to where she is today. A San Francisco Police Officer was shot and killed and she promised in the campaign not to s
20th century. We have a lot of artifacts from the house collection and have to do with that. And a lot of history to cover. And, the last africanamerican to be elected to the 19th century was 1901, george white of north carolina, and that was a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house. And we have a couple of where artifacts from the 19 twenties and thirties. But before i launch into that, because i love them so much. Tell us a little bit about oscar priest and how he got into congress. Theres a long period, almost three decades after George Henry White where there is no African Americans who served in the house or senate. That has everything to do with the gym crow laws that them go on the books in the south. The way that that changes over time during those decades, there is a critical thing going on in the south where African Americans begin to leave the cell and move northward as part of a multi decade movement that would later be called the great migration. Tha
Also served as California Attorney general. She is the first black woman and first woman of indian descent to run for the vice presidency and only the third female candidate as Vice President of a major party ticket. Harris will play a key role in the Democratic National convention with beat which begins next week in wisconsin. Joining me now is our politics and government correspondent marisa lagos and scott shafer. Thank you for joining us. Thanks for having us. We have all three known and covered Kamala Harris for many years. I remember covering her in 2005 when i first came to the bay area. Tell us about your Early Experiences with Kamala Harris, what she was like and how you have seen her change she was a political novice when she ran for District Attorney in 2003. She challenged an incumbent and i think something happened early that shaped the rest of her trajectory to where she is today. A San Francisco Police Officer was shot and killed and she promised in the campaign not to s
Truth to the. Trial stories ari said they are so private as serial writing of this thats you know its a really good question i think its a little bit of both as you so often the case certainly there are instances i would much sooner as where the air pollution has plummeted the air quality is better than its been in generation. That is you certainly a result. A lot of cars on the road seen them away as it is and yes he was photographed just stunning is also a result of a reduction in air pollution i think what these these images are showing us is what the world could look like in a in a different in a different future a future that we could go. Its its a result of a reduction illusion its result you know a reduction of human activities but you know that life gets back to normal unfortunately i think a lot of it away. So the satellite image is shot weeks after Strict Lockdown started it also showed the air indeed became cleaner not only her late but over many interests or however the wor
November. Super excited about that and i cannot tell you everything we have coming up because i want to leave room for the people we have invited to speak tonight but i want to put one thing on your radar, which is our annual radical book fair pavilion at the baltimore book festival coming up november 1 through november 3 and its an incredible lineup of people both from baltimore and from outside of the city who are coming to present their work and talk about their book and be in conversation together somberly incredible folks some really incredible folks plus a whole bunch of really awesome critical engaged scholar activists from baltimore. We will do two panels on the book baltimore revisited which is amazing contribution contribution to Baltimore City so i definitely encourage you to come down to the inner harbor even if you dont normally do come check us out in a big tent all weekend. Tonight, im excited to be introducing stuart schrader. Someone who has been a relatively recent tr