I title this a Promised Land because even though we may not get there in our lifetimes even if we experience hardships and disappointments along the way, i at least still have faith we can create a more perfect, not a Perfect Union but a more Perfect Union. Good morning and welcome to a special edition of Washington Post lives. I michelle lewis, opinion columnist for the race card project and for the special conversation this morning im joined by my dear friend elizabeth alexander, poet, scholar and president of the Andrew W Mellon foundation. Good morning. Wonderful to be together. It is wonderful to be together and we both welcome our guest for the conversation. The 40 fourth president of the United States, barack obama. Assume you recognize the guy in the middle. Washington post brought out the big guns. We are excited to see you. Im grateful you took the time. This is a News Organization so we have to begin with a little news. Overnight we learned astrazeneca has joined two other D
City had to free a woman trapped in her car by rushing floodwaters. They say that was just one of dozens of rescue calls they answered during a relentless rainstorm. Forecasters say the storm that sparked all that flooding is moving away from kansas city toward the great lakes. Now to social distancing rules changing, as much of the country slowly reopens. Gmas Michael Strahan had a few questions for dr. Jen ashton about staying safe this summer. You know everybodys eager to get out and enjoy the summer weather. How does being indoors versus outdoors impact the spread of the virus . According to a top epidemiologist from ohio state university, think of four elements. Time, space, people, and place. And let me show you what i mean. If you look at just the dynamics of a sneeze, indoors, under experimental conditions, you can see these particles have been found to travel up to at least 26 feet. Then if you take a situation indoors, based on a real case report from china, like a restaurant
it was terrifying. it was a world wind romance with mr. wright that morphed into a mind bending mystery. my blood went cold. she was like, i feel like i m being watched. my phone would be followed. he said, you could be under surveillance. followed? surveillance? she had stepped right into the twilight zone, hidden codes, government agents, undercover spies. i was so scared. who was this man she was about to marry? your brains got to be saying, holy cow! to learn the truth, she would launch a secret mission of her own. testing, testing. a high stakes game of spy versus spy. you are on detective. here i was. he wasn t going to stop, unless somebody stopped him. hello, welcome to dateline. asked and he divorced parent, funding low of a second time around could be hard. when michelle luis met leah mail-in, he had all the boxes. he was charming, smart and something of a jet setter. michel welcomed him into her heart, only to realize that a new boyfri
twilight zone, hidden codes, government agents, undercover spies. i was so scared. who was this man she was about to marry? your brains got to be saying, holy cow! to learn the truth, she would launch a secret mission of her own. testing, testing. a high stakes game of spy versus spy. you are on detective. here i was. he wasn t going to stop, unless somebody stopped him. hello, welcome to dateline. asked and he divorced parent, funding low of a second time around could be hard. when michelle luis met leah mail-in, he had all the boxes. he was charming, smart and something of a jet setter. michel welcomed him into her heart, only to realize that a new boyfriend was leading a double life. who was the real legal allen? it was a riddle the single mom was determined to solve. here s dennis murphy with the mystery man. what s love got to do with it? well, as michel lewis tells it, just about everything. love, her new guy, at long last, major tingle as though g
No, this wont be ready until tomorrow. Well, well just see what happens. I have to find hair hey drier. All right. I dont know what i just went by. Nothing, just talking about that. But we were talking about things that are not always what they look like. And always, this is coming up over and over. First it was the dress. Then it was the shoes. The dress was what color . Blue and gold . No. It was white and gold, or blue and black. Black, okay. Like we thought your dress was like white and gold is what happened . No no mistak ing this. Then there were the shoes. Shoes. Then oh, a sweater, like nike sweater, but now the drawers. All right. We will punch it up. When i see these drawers, the chest of drawers, i see white drawers, one middle drawer is pink, and the border of the whole thing is pink to me. You would be wrong. What do you see . Well, thats what i see. But this is why, what do you think about this one, al next. I see pink. I see white. But i think a weird color white. I can