They saved their largest mission project. Which is now georgetown university. In this groundbreaking account, professor swarns follows one family through nearly two centuries of enslavement to uncovering the harling story of the Catholic Church in the united states. Rachel is a journalist, author and associate professor of journalism at new york university, who writes about race and Race Relations as a contributing writer for the New York Times. Her articles about georgetown universitys roots in slavery touched off a National Conversation about americas universities and their ties to this painful period in history. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for humanities, the ford foundation, the Leon Levy Center for biography, the Biographers International organization, among others. As a correspondent for the times, she reported from russia, cuba, guatemala and southern africa. And covered emigration and president ial politics and motion Michelle Obama and her role in the
We are so excited to. Be here to celebrate. Rachel il swarns for the 272 the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic church. In 1838, a group of americas most prominent catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, which is now georgetown university. In this groundbreaking account, professor swarns follows one family through nearly two centuries of indentured servitude and enslavement to uncover the harrowing origin story of the Catholic Church in the United States. Rachel swarns is a journalist, author and associate professor of journalism at New York University who writes about race and Race Relations as a contributing writer for the New York Times. Her articles about georgetown universitys roots in slavery touched off a National Conversation and about Americas University days and their ties to this painful period in history. Her work has been recognized, raised and supported by the national endowment, the humanities, the
We are so excited to. Be here to celebrate. Rachel il swarns for the 272 the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic church. In 1838, a group of americas most prominent catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, which is now georgetown university. In this groundbreaking account, professor swarns follows one family through nearly two centuries of indentured servitude and enslavement to uncover the harrowing origin story of the Catholic Church in the United States. Rachel swarns is a journalist, author and associate professor of journalism at New York University who writes about race and Race Relations as a contributing writer for the New York Times. Her articles about georgetown universitys roots in slavery touched off a National Conversation and about Americas University days and their ties to this painful period in history. Her work has been recognized, raised and supported by the national endowment, the humanities, the
We are so excited to. Be here to celebrate. Rachel il swarns for the 272 the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic church. In 1838, a group of americas most prominent catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, which is now georgetown university. In this groundbreaking account, professor swarns follows one family through nearly two centuries of indentured servitude and enslavement to uncover the harrowing origin story of the Catholic Church in the United States. Rachel swarns is a journalist, author and associate professor of journalism at New York University who writes about race and Race Relations as a contributing writer for the New York Times. Her articles about georgetown universitys roots in slavery touched off a National Conversation and about Americas University days and their ties to this painful period in history. Her work has been recognized, raised and supported by the national endowment, the humanities, the
Human and Animal Health. This is about an hour 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good morning. The Senate Health education and labor subcommission on primary health and Retirement Security will come to order. Thank you for joining us today for the primary health and retirement subcommittee hearing, superbugs the impact of Antimicrobial Resistance on modern medicine. Thank you especially to Ranking Member marshall, to you, your staff shared commitment to preparing for preparing. This is a type of partnership that drives results ultimately in congress. More than 100 years ago the discovery of antibiotics revolutionized modern medicine. Some experts consider penicillin to be the single most important drug ever created. Antibiotics alone have extended our average lifespan by 23 years. But the rise in Antimicrobial Resistance threatens to undo 100 years of medical progress. Minor infections could become incurable bleeding patients with chronic illnesses like Cystic Fibrosis most at risk