There and dealing with specific protests all over the city this is incredibly difficult work and there will be critiques and there will be things that need to be investigated and it will need to be things improved and we expect to do better today than we did yesterday but i want to commend the restraint that we saw all over all from the n. Y. P. D. That is crucial to keeping the peace in the city and respecting the right to peacefully protest thats what the n. Y. P. D. Has done for years thats what they did yesterday with that i turn to commissioner government shall. Thank you mr mayor so give a brief summary of yesterdays events what we saw across new york city from the Police Department perspective and. Policing some of the demonstrations was similar to the 2 nights before yesterday began which seems like a long time ago with to protest in new york city 1st was that 120th precinct in Staten Island the 2nd one was 125th street up and up in harlem. Both went overwhelmingly well what we
Infections that are on the rise we need medics on the front line. To nasa astronauts alive at the International Space station in the 1st manned mission by a private company. After a 4th might have protests in the u. S. Sometimes peaceful sometimes violent state and local officials are speaking out to calm residents what started as anger over the death of a black man in Police Custody has widened into a nationwide outrage over systemic racism the governor of minnesota the state where george floyd died says the system doesnt always work for people of color. We dont just right near the top on Educational Attainment we rank near the top on personal incomes on homeownership on life expectancies things that make this and one that came out a while back we we rank 2nd in a survey of the 50 states 2nd in happiness behind hawaii but if you take a deeper look and peel it back which this week has peeled back all of those statistics are true if youre white if youre not we rank near the bottom and w
Because i didnt plan to publish during a pandemic. Ive been reaching out during that time for friends and colleagues to find out how they are doing and what they are doing. And maybe to take up a little inspiration along the way. Now im speaking with two of the leading lights of the book world today two of my neighbors in brooklyn, one is Johnny Temple of Akashic Books the other is tran eight from the green light bookstore, my neighborhood bookstore. Welcome to both of you and thank you for taking the time to speak. I want to talk shop with you guys and give you some insight baseball about our new lives as independent book people. Ill start with you, jessica what his is done to your business . [laughter] its a lot really fast, right . It has been a real reinvention over the past six or eight weeks. Mid march i feel like there were a couple of days we were like do we need to consider closing and like yes you absently have to. In any also need to send everyone home. That week of transiti
Welcome. We are delighted you are here. Briefly, the center is a relatively new project and our mission is to bring to bear on a a host of contemporary issues. We host Public Programs like these. We have a blog where historians write for us about contemporary hit issues from a historical specter. We are in the midst of a collaboration with the Philadelphia Inquirer to have more historical scholarship in local journalism. We have a number of things here in kansas and out in the community. If your joining us for the first time, welcome. We are delighted you are here and hope you stay connected to us. We have other programs and events for you to attend. We hope this is the beginning of a long relationship with the Lepage Center and villanova university. For those of you tune in on cspan or on our livestream, i should let you know this is the fourth in a series we have done this year on the subject of rigid revisionist history. You may be thinking, is revisionist history a contemporary iss
Seated next to her is devin pendis w srks pendas. He focuses on war crime trials. And next to him is our fault director of the la paige center, paul steege. Paul is focused on history, of every day life. Foe k focusing on germany, and were going to begin by learning about our scholars and where they come from on this question and topic and then we will dive into the conversation. So for now i will go back to jen for, allow me to welcome you to the la paige center. Tell me about your research and area of study. Im the executive director for the rowan center for Holocaust Research and human rights. We have multiple foci. One of the questions that were asked very often is so what. Were learning about other genocides, and what can we do about it now. So we made a decision to switch our emphasis so we could thans so what question that so many students have. My own research focuses on transgenerational holiday, and i came by way of education. I was an education professor, before that element