Cake. Its a wonderful feeling to know that something so positive representing Jefferson County will be on national television. My job tonight [ applause ] is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the editor at the st. Louis post dispatch. She graduated from st. Louis and graduated from columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her work as a grad student to go to work as a copy editor in the mid 1980s and later, after three years in the newsroom of the hartford in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. As a book editor, she assigns and edits book reviews choosing from some 300 or so new books each week. Shes written stories about book trends and interviewed many authors from sam and rushdie to e. L. Doctorel. So tonight she adds to that and she will be having a conversation with caroline fraser. Carolin
The anniversary of the firing on fort sumter, everybody has different ideas about what the nation is supposed to become. We have gone through that with the idea that africanamerican men who had fought for the union what americas of should be, and certainly white southerners had in idea about what america should be. The northerners who won had an idea of what america should be. The indians and the chinese at out west had ideas about what america should be and certainly the northern men who had won the war had ideas about what the country should be. The critical question as to what it was going to be was who was going to have a say in it. We have gone to that as well, but who had a say in what that new nation was going to be was going to have a dramatic affect on what it eventually became. Today i want to talk about women and womens lives in the late 19th century and their role in what was really the reconstruction, the true rebuilding of the north, south, and the west into a new nation
Styles. To learn more, visit cspan. Org the president s. Available in paperback, hardcover, and ebook. Nationalpublican convention opened in charlotte, North Carolina on monday. Here is the roll call of the states as delegates nominate renominate President Trump and Vice President pence. The convention will reconvene. We will now proceed to our next item of business, the renomination of donald j. Trump for president of the United States. [applause] use] four more years. Four more years. [chanting] four more years. Four more years. Ronna it is music to my ears. Before we begin, i would like to remind the delegates of the rules that require each candidate for nomination for president of the United States demonstrates sufficient support prior to the presentation of the name of that candidate for nomination. The chair wishes to inform the delegates it has been furnished evidence of sufficient support of the candidate who will be presented for president of the United States in compliance wi
Announcer ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. The event will begin momentarily. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to the chairwoman of the Republican National committee. Hello this convention will come to order [cheers and applause] 2020ates, welcome to the Republican National convention. Offering todays invitation, invocation, please welcome from vermont, j sheppard. Thank you, ronna. My name is jay and i am a republican. I am also a catholic donald trump republican. By the grace of god, i am an american. So let us pray. Thank you, o lord, for all the gifts you provide us, not because we deserve them, but solely through your grace and mercy, let us acknowledge the many gifts that god has bestowed upon us, starting with a president and Vice President that reflect the values of our founding fathers. And are willing to fight for those values, starting with life, knowing that all life is precious, from conception to natural death. There is no choice to f
Reasons are at highest risk of all. Alison aubrey will report our cover story. Reporter as the nation ever resulted in protests over Police Brutality, keicha matthews had her own struggle. I have never been as scared in my life. I didnt think i was coming home. It was hard. Reporter black americans are at higher risk of getting the coronavirus. People are now hungry and they are hurting. 0. Reporter coming up, later on sunday morning, race and the pandemic. Cowan doing a late night show talk show without a studio audience has been tough on comics. Trevor noah host of the daily show included. He is in conversation this morning with our jim axelrod. When do you think you will be back in . No clue. Reporter when the pandemic shut down his studio, trevor noah took the daily show online. Hey, everybody. Trevor noah here. And for the standup comic you know its really interesting what is happening in america right now. Reporter has become a standout moment. How do you find the funny in . It.