At Rutgers University in newark. And mark, whose breath of work in Higher Education and the humanities in new york include serving as the director of the alexander Price Institute on at the city, culture and modern experience. The author of a recent book on new work and the rebellion of 1967. Please join me in welcoming michael fletcher, junius williams, and Linda Caldwell apps to the stage. [applause] i should interject that at the end of the Panel Discussion there will be a few moments for questions and answers. Members of the panel will take those questions and we will conclude this panel and move on to our next presentation. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. What i hope to do here is just have a conversation and talk about what newark was like before 1967, and how it came to be that way. Also, talk about what has transpired since. Like political empowerment, what has resulted from those developments. I thought i would start with talk a little bit to us about the black population
Suv. Killing one passenger in the car. The two people in the suv were taken to the hospital. An iowa man is accused of severely beating a woman. Michael kelley, of west branch, is now facing charges. Hes being held in the cedar county jail. The woman was found in his bedroom and had to be taken to the hospital. Shes in Critical Condition today. A staff member at an Eastern Iowa School is diagnosed with mumps. According to our partners at t worker at bryant elementary in dubuque is now the sixth person to come down with the virus in the district since the beginning of september. Student scores in iowa have dropped in reading and math tests. Fourthgraders reading on grade level fell to 74 point8 percent last spring rom 75 point7 percent during last school year. In math the scores fell from 80pointthree percent to 79. The Iowa Department of success. Experts say it is unclear why there were these drops in the 20152016 school year. Iowa state and the board of regents are backing a plan to u
City market was untouched by any flooding it took almost three weeks to due to a lengthly inspection process for vendors to get back inside to work. We feel fortunate there wasnt a flood. Potentially we were looking at not being here for a month, or two months, or three months. Many of the vendors being Small Businesses this is supposed to be really kind of a place where small well. We do a lot of catering and were able to keep staff busy. We werent able to salvage any of our products at all. But costumers already coming out to show their support as businesses were welcomed back its a good thing ya know. It its a good cause. Weve got you covered will celebrate post Flood Recovery with a flood the district celebration and benefit. Were in store for another chilly night lets go to storm track seven meteorologist kyle kiel now for your first forecast. From the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. See the screen for your complete weather information. Here is additional forecast clear and our te
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Place. Id start with that and then find out why you cant get on public wifi in this building. Thank you. I want to thank professor hendricks and marc lamont hill, importantly want to thank all of you for attending here today your participation is then cached in a 10 fantastic manner. Thank you so much. If you want to get a copy of these discussions, there will be books outside a little bit later. So that is available and also very quickly we will be doing this in the book signing room. And so finally the reading series is in the auditorium next door in the Edison Jackson and they will go to the front desk and it lets you now. You can get your book signed. Next from the National Black writers conference, in brooklyn, a panel on black literature. [inaudible conversations] without further delay, ladies and a woman, brothers and sisters, those of you who are standing and not idle, those of you engaged in great conversations, please Pay Attention and welcome our panel and the moderator will