Welcome history 3 27, arts and history students, you know me. I am professor april masten. We are very fortunate today to have a guest lecturer, president of stony brook university, maurie mcinnis. Id like to tell you a bit about her the title of her lecture as you, conceit, the shadow of slavery in public life. This topic is relevance not only to our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past, but also how the affects the president , in the words of james baldwin, how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. The research for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasnt adequately representing how the labor of the enslaved people helped to create this institution. Doctor mcguinness is a renowned scholar and cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial south. The politics of slavery. She is an aw
Gorman and first we go live to the epicenter of this country ebola concerns that is dallas as, texas outside of the Presbyterian Hospital and dann you have the latest. Reporter thats right, brian, in the wake of criticism of how Texas Health Presbyterian handled dunkin Staff Members here staged a rally in support of the employer and Staff Members that cared for dunkin. Carrying signs which skate stated im am presby proud they rallied outside of the hospital today. The rally comes a day after a texas nurses union and Staff Members criticized the hospital for failing to give proper information and training on how to deal with ebola. Two nurses subsequently contracted the disease and are being treated at emorry in atlanta another at the nih in bethesda, maryland. 70 others that cared for dunkin are asked to stay away from Public Places until danger of developing ebola passed. Rick perry says mistakes were made from cdc to hospital in handling of ebola. Air travel is in fact how this disea
Their manhunt continues unabated tonight and they are telling us, sources are telling me they are still getting some leads, so they are encouraged they can bring this case to a close sooner rather than later. At police headquarters, brad bell, abc7 news. President obama weighed in on the increasing anger and violence in ferguson, missouri. This stems from the shooting of an unarmed teenager at the hems ofea local police officer. Scott thuman is new developments on security measures in ferguson. Breaking news. Missouris governor moments ago announced the state Highway Patrol will be taking over security in that area, amid widespread criticism that police there have been too heavyhanded. Though hope a softer approach will quell the rioting. The tension in a st. Louis suburb this week some say looks more like overseas riots or the civil rights fights decades ago in modern day middle america. While only one site has emerged about the struggle that caused an officer to shoot 18yearold Micha
With testing shortages, could the real number be higher . Velshi starts now. Good morning. Its saturday, may 2nd. Im ali velshi. Several states are set to reopen across america. Here are the facts. Among ongoing criticism of the traum Trump Administration handling of the pandemic, the white house is banning Anthony Fauci for testifying. He is still set to testify before the Senate Health committee on may 12th. The federal government is not extending social distancing guidelines and a restless trump will travel to arizona this week. Meanwhile, nbc news learned the federal government placed orders for well over 100,000 body bags to hold covid19 victims. The biggest set of which earmarked for purchase the day after trump told the American People the projected death toll would be around 60,000. Lets turn to nbc news political reporter monica alba at the white house. Monica, take us inside the latest decision to block Anthony Fauci from testifying this week from the house to approve it to t