Im the provost at the university of tennessee at martin and tiff pleasure of hosting this session, shared history, americans of hispanic and african decent. Southern festival books remains completely free thanks to Strong Community support f youd like to donate to support the festival, you can do so on site at the Festival Headquarters or online via the humanitys tennessee website. You can purchase copies of the books that will be discussing today at the books sales area which is up on the Memorial Plaza and after the session both of our authors will be signing books at the signing tent. Our session today is going to focus on two books, dr. Kerry gibsons book el norte, epic and forgotten story of hispanic north america and Kristina Coles american founders how people after african decent established freedom in the new world. In just a minute we will hear from both of the authors and after that questions from the audience. Dr. Carry gibson grew up in United States and graduated from the
And thats something we really cant take for granted. The festival begins on individual donations to keep going into say free and you can donate at any level via the southern festival of books through their facebook page. The southern festival of books app. This weekend in person at vessel headquarters. See mac i want to encourage everyone to visit humanities labor literary website. There are wonderful reviews there. You can also sign up for a weekly newsletter information about upcoming author events. And also a great way to be a part of the literary community. In tennessee. Finally, after our session jason will be signing books at the signing tent on the plaza. And plaza. And copies of the books are for sale at the sales area and a portion of the proceeds directly benefits the festival. Enough announcements it is my delight to introduce jason depaul. I could talk for a long while about his decades of extraordinary writing about poverty and immigration among other publications in the N
Here are their remarks. Hello, everybody. So secretary pompeo and i are here today to talk about the president s new executive order and after that well be happy to take a few questions. So today the president signed a new executive order which underscores his leadership in fighting global terrorism. This has intensified our Counter Terrorism effort. We designated more than 200 individuals and entities in 2018 and the most designation in any year. The new executive order modernizing sanctions to combat terrorism which was signed today greatly enhances our ability to identify, sanction and deter perpetrators of terrorism worldwide. Among other provisions, the eo allows the u. S. Government to better target terrorist group leaders, provides new tools to pursue individuals who participate in terrorist training, authorizes secondary sanctions on foreign Financial Institutions that have knowingly conducted or facilitated significant Financial Transactions with sanctioned persons and targets
This hearing will come to order. Today we are joined by the leading voices within the administration on reforming and strengthening our Housing Finance system. The secretary of the treasury and secretary of housing and urban development, both of whom have submitted reform proposals to the president , as well as the director of the federal Housing Finance agency who serves as the regulator conservator of freddie mae and fanny fannie mae and freddie mac. It marks 11 years since the government bailed out and put those where they remain today. Prior to 2008 the Government Sponsored Enterprises held . 45 in capital for every 100 in capital for every 100 in mortgages guaranteed. Now they hold just . 19 after a 200 bailout from taxpayers. 11 years later these systemically Important Companies continue to be too big to fail and are more leverage than they were before the financial crisis. Taxpayers inevitably remain on the hook for the next market downturn. In march pres. Trump signed a memoran
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