I want to note our deep appreciation to the ford foundation, prudential financial, walmart, the Cigna Foundation and the Mastercard Center for growth for the support of opportunity in america series. At the Economic Opportunities program we focus on advancing strategies, policies and ideas to help working people and Small Businesses thrive. Working people and Small Businesses are facing extraordinary challenges today with over 26 million recently applied for Unemployment Benefits and millions of Small Businesses at risk of closing for good. At the Economic Program we recognize for too long, race, ethnicity, gender and race have played out side role in who has access to opportunity and to a shutout. We see today black and latino workers being most affected by unemployment, and by the health risks that come with being classified as an essential worker. We see black and latino owned Small Businesses facing much greater vulnerability to the economic devastation of covid19 and more challeng
This beautiful sunny day but we appreciate this regardless and we plan to be back and stronger than ever in2021. We had a great series of online events. They are all archived and available for replay at our page and you can click on raven bookstore at the top of this page to get to the list of archived events. A couple other things about how this is going to work. Marie is going to give a short author talk and show us photos from her book and we will open it up to questions. You can ask a question by clicking the ask a question button at the bottom of your screen or click it into the chat window. We appreciate you asking questions to keep the discussion moving and we want this to be a participants event as much as we can in this strange online setting and another thing to note at the bottom of the screen is this button that says buy Americas Harvest here and that will take you to the raven bookstore which we are where we have these in stock or if youre in lawrence we can deliver it to
[applause] thanks, pete. Joe laconte, a hob hobbitt, a wardrobe. We have have been delighted to partner. I practice that. [laughs] this is the latest and on going series as pete mentioned to talk about politics and policy. We are so graceful to explore this often combustible mix of safe morality yet prof provocative form. Were really excited to have you here tonight. Also delighted to have each of you tonight. Some of you might not know, we actually had a shutdown registration. We have a full house. If you have friends who wanted to come and couldnt, we will be recording tonight the conversation and will be posting the video to our site. Where you are welcome to add your comments as well as you can check out our Facebook Page and twitter for video and comments as well. For those who arent familiar, we will provide a space and resources for the discussion of context of faith. We do this by providing readings and publications which draw upon the classic work from literature to connect th
Became professor in japanese. After moving back to new york he earned a masters degree, 19th century japanese history. She has worked as editor and reviewer for the los angeles times, Chicago Tribune and news day. It has been described a remarkably and beautiful written by the seattle times. Marie will be joining us with degree in language and civilization. Work often focuses on spirit she is current working in her fourth coming memoir. Please join me welcoming janice numb swrea and Marie Mutsuki mockett. [applause] thank you so much for coming and thank you for hosting us. First of all, i want to make one correction, this is an absolute true story. It is not fiction and no part of it is. I hope it reads like a novel. I just want to give you a fiveminute speed version of the story so that the kind of conversation that marie and i are going to have make more sense. So the first question that comes up when i stand up with a look like this and a name like mine, is like what. My husband wa