When id seen the kids to go through the circumstances they go through and come out and find a level of success and happiness and care about others, thats heroic. Im just trying to report the facts but i appreciate the comments very much. Thank you one more time for coming out. [applause] up at the front of the bookstore we will be here after a it was one racial lynching and it was a brilliant psychological device to hold down the race because if you were black, youve are afraid that this could happen to you. The author talks about his literary career including the lynching a courtroom battle that brought down the clan about the trial following the 1981 killing of 19yearold Michael Donald in mobile alabama. He was trying to become a brick layer and was the youngest of seven children. His aunt wants to ask them to get a pack of cigarettes, goes out, theres a buick that pulls up behind him, he pulls out his pistol and orders him into the backseat of the car and he knows when he gets in th
[inaudible] question about this process is how a man comes back from this kind of devastation. Yeah, its been very interesting to see how its worked an the idea how this occurred. For instance, bison animals enter into the edges going in and this determined the way. And they found out that process is much more random than you would think. It depends on the time eve year and what animal happens to be around and which will cull nice that area and that becomes an island where other plants and animals can get that area as well. So you see a lot arounded the area and one feature is that the area now is is a diverse area in all of Washington State. If you just let these natural processes occur plants and animals entered into those areas a an attempt to come back. When you go to mount st. Helens it has this odd combination with a incredibly devastated area and yet vegetation is returning quickly to the mountain. It does have huge old growth forest around it and wont for another hundred years
Hosted. In washington, d. C. Good afternoon, welcome to the Cato Institute. Appreciate you coming out today. This is a really important topic. I have a book forum here for the the human cost of welfare by phil harvey and lisa conyers. For those folks following online you can follow along on twitter at catoevent or thehumancostofwelfare. The United States government spent roughly 688 billion dollars to fund more than 100 antipoverty programs. State and local governments spent an additional 300 billion on those and other programs. That means the government is spending close to a trillion dollars every year fighting poverty. If you want to go all the way back to 1965 when johnson declared war on poverty we have spent 2223 trillion dollars fighting poverty. But what have we really accomplished over that period of time . If you use the census bureaus officials poverty numbers poverty rates have barely budged. If you use the alternative poverty measures that are more accurate and take into a
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World cup frenzy hits our area in a big way tonight. An entire city street in philadelphia even shuts down as a sea of red, white, and blue packed the block at 15th and location 25,000 watch team usa take on portugal. Good evening, im rosemary connors. The scoring didnt stop until the last 30 seconds nailbiter competition. Crowds all over the country watched the excitement unfold. Parties were held in atlanta, chicago, miami, and, of course, philadelphia. Soccer fans kept their hopes high until the very end. In chicago, thousands watched the big game on a big screen. A similar scene in atlanta where tonights viewing was part of an allday event called soccer fest. And in philadelphia, we hosted our own block party. Nbc 10s Doug Shimmell is live in center city. This game had people dreaming big, doug. Reporter exactly. This was the corner outside fado where u. S. Euphoria met portugal reality. [ cheering ] reporter all the indicators said that might just happen. [ cheers ] reporter but p