Our moderator for today is a long time friend of the festival having served on the board of directors for many years. She is a professor of english and the graduate school at the jackson state university. Dr. Mcdaniels. Its all yours. [applause]co a course i cant sit down yet. I want to remind you all that whenever if you want to ask questions you will need to come to the microphone and the podium and no matter how loud your Teacher Voices we dont want you to shout it from your seat because thank you. And thank you guys for coming. Mi [applause] thank you for joining us. At this time i had the pleasure of introducing or three distinguished panelists and their great works. First we have miriam graham, founding director of the history of riders which he established at the university of mississippi in 1993. The history of writing his lead National International initiative to promote Research Teaching and Public Engagement with black literary studies in the National Endowment for the human
Become a labor day tradition here in philadelphia. The hottest music acts from all over converge on four different stages for a party like no other. Eyewitness News Reporter Noelle Mclaren is live tonight amid all the action on the parkway. Hi, noelle. Reporter hey. Four hours into the made in america performances here and the place is already packed. Take a look behind me here. You can see fans already flooding the entrance gates here. Many people here to see tonights headliner kanye west but there are four stages inside made in america and taking one of them is australian edm group cut snake. Theyre moments from performing right now. We got to talk with them exclusively a few minutes ago and they told us this is their first time in philly and theyre very excited to be here. Pretty much the best meal of my life last night. When i think of philly its rocky balboa, yeah, im going to still run those stairs already, mate. Thats what im going get to, those stairs. Reporter headliner kanye
From the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Now on Eyewitness News at 11 00 the Holiday Weekend is in full swing. Right now the party is still going on on the ben franklin parkway as tens of thousands pack the area for the made in america festival. Many more are down at the shore this weekend to celebrate the unofficial end to summer. So far, the weather has cooperated. But showers and storms may be in our future. Live storm scan3 showing a system that is moving in our direction. Question is, when will it arrive on our doorstep . Good evening everyone, im diana rocco. The weather is top of mind no matter what you have planned for the labor day Holiday Weekend. Lets get right to meteorologist justin drabick. Hes been keeping an eye on the radar for us. Hi, justin. Thats right, diana. Dry weather but well be tracking the threat for thunderstorms tomorrow and into labor day. No need to cancel outdoor plans just yet. Were in the low 70s many spots. 75 north
From the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Now on Eyewitness News at 11 00 the Holiday Weekend is in full swing. Right now the party is still going on on the ben franklin parkway as tens of thousands pack the area for the made in america festival. Many more are down at the shore this weekend to celebrate the unofficial end to summer. So far, the weather has cooperated. But showers and storms may be in our future. Live storm scan3 showing a system that is moving in our direction. Question is, when will it arrive on our doorstep . Good evening everyone, im diana rocco. The weather is top of mind no matter what you have planned for the labor day Holiday Weekend. Lets get right to meteorologist justin drabick. Hes been keeping an eye on the radar for us. Hi, justin. Thats right, diana. Dry weather but well be tracking the threat for thunderstorms tomorrow and into labor day. No need to cancel outdoor plans just yet. Were in the low 70s many spots. 75 north
Notice ben franklin bridge and looking closely you will see some of the clouds up there. We are looking at a temperature that is very mild for this time of the morning. Look at this in reading, 76 degrees right now with wind south east at 7 miles an hour. A muggy start to the day and it will be a warm day to day. Storm scan three notice we have clouds in the area right now. There are no showers but notice off, and, through punxsutawney we are looking at some showers, we are finding some of those coming through later this afternoon, any shower or thunderstorm you see later today can contain gusty wind and some, downpours. So just watch out for those and make sure you have another plan and you have have your ear to the sky as well on the the second you hear lightening just go inside. Seventythree or hear thunder go inside. 73 degrees right now in philadelphia. Seventyone in trenton. Seventytwo in wilmington. It is mild to say the least. Our temperatures today will be getting fairly close