Path. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Eric foner i am eric foner from the columbia university, moderating this second session on slavery and freedom. I want to begin by thanking the organizers of this excellent conference. We all know how much work went into, you know, putting this whole thing together. Thanks to those at the museum and the American Historical Association that have been so active in getting this conference organized. , i gave my last class at columbia university. I am now writing off riding off into the sunset. [applause] retirement. Of and so i ask if you will indulge me for just a minute as i reflect briefly on my own experience in relation to this field of African American history. Which is a little, it is sort of emblematic of the many things that have happened the last couple of generations. I grew up in a family in which africanAmerican History, although utterly ignored in the School Education that i got in grade school and high school, nonetheless, the black exp
This is an hour and 45 minutes. Eric foner i am eric foner from the columbia university, moderating this second session on slavery and freedom. I want to begin by thanking the organizers of this excellent conference. We all know how much work went into, you know, putting this whole thing together. So thanks to those at the museum , and the American Historical Association that have been so active in getting this conference organized. Two weeks ago, i gave my last class at columbia university. I am now riding off into the sunset [applause] eric foner of retirement. And so i ask if you will indulge me for just a minute as i reflect briefly on my own experience in relation to this field of African American history. Which is a little, it is sort of emblematic of the many things that have happened the last couple of generations. I grew up in a family in which africanAmerican History, although utterly ignored in the School Education that i got in grade school and high school, nonetheless, the
Its called the future of the africanamerican and pass. Its an hour and 45 minutes. A am from columbia in University Monitoring this second session on slavery and freedom. I want to thank the organizers of this conference. We all know how much work went into putting this whole thing together so thank you very much while to those from the museum and the association. Ago i gave my last class at columbia university. I am now writing off into the sunset. [applause] of retirement. You will indulge me for just a minute as i read what briefly on my own experience in relation to this field of African American history. Emblematic of several things that have happened in the last couple of generations. I grew up in a family in which africanAmerican History, in theh ignored education that i got in grades and high school, nevertheless, the black experience was considered in my family central to American History. And were friends of my family. I still have a photo my mother gave of myself sitting on
But of course we begin with their own meteorologist who has been unable all morning long. Whats going on bill . Good morning. I got out here about some help, i watched the first set of the competition, the wind is on us a little bit. There is a little bit of cross chop on the water making it harder for these guys to paddle in. The sun is out now, the fog has gone away, and the swell is showing. I think its just peeking right about now. I see some 25 and 30 waves. There are some big waves are here. Its a party out here. I have to tell you, in the channel, which is what youre seeing now. People from all over the world, i guess that there was 100 v earlier. I bet i am a little heavy on that. But there are a lot of boats out here. As a lot of a coast and present as well as the rescue guys. So the big day coming into the semi finals and we have some local boys in the competition. They are going to love this. The downside is, when you get there its tough to catch that wavelike. Kwame like th
onto gains today come middle of the range and where we have seen them trade over the us of the session. The nasdaq has gained some steam, up by. 5 . We have an oil rebound that is helping stocks, anticipation of additional stimulus tomorrow from the ecb, and sort of a snapback effect from yesterdays what ended up being pretty sizable declines for the major averages. Lets look at the bloomberg for the groups on the move. A little more green than they were earlier. Now technology is joining energy stocks. Materials trading higher today. We look at oil prices, it has been an interesting day ever since we got the weekly inventories at 10 30 this morning, which saw a built in inventories but a drawdown in gasoline. Looks like there was an uptick in demand for gasoline. That is one of the things fueling the gains we are seeing in Oil Prices Today. There,looking at it health care at the bottom of the list. Julie health care one of the drags, particularly biotech stocks hit it is limiting some