Also in the news anger in sudan over the governments sweeping legal reforms that include allowing non muslims to drink alcohol. And the u. S. Defense secretary effectively banned the divisive Confederate Flag at military sites a move expected to increase tension with president on interim. Transport for the World Champion Lewis Hamilton is able to set a time in 2nd practice out of the hunger. Heavy rain frustrating hamilton in budapest as Ferraris Sebastian Vettel goes quickest. More than 6 months now since the 1st cases were reported but the resurgence of corona virus is now such a real threat with some nations seeing their worst spikes yet india for example has become the 3rd country to record more than a 1000000 cases infections spreading in the smaller rural areas where Health Systems are far weaker and some states are now re imposing their restrictions after the nationwide lockdown was lifted last month in brazil the hospitals are struggling to cope with what is the worlds 2nd bigg
Signup for a newsletter. This event concludes with time for your questions that if you like to ask the speaker something locate the q a button wherever it is on your display or you can submit your questions. We will get through as many as time allows. If you go to the chat section we have included a link to our website we can purchase a copy of another if youre we have book or would like to contribute to the series with also included in the chat link. We appreciate any and all support. Lastly, as you may know if you purchase to participate in virtual large gatherings we apologize in advance pick the thing that can still does occur will do our best to resolve any issues. And now im so pleased to introduce two nights speaker. Calvin baker is a novelist, journalist. Is author of four acclaimed novels including race a finalist for best fiction. He currently teaches in Columbia University graduate school of the arts and is taught at yale university, middlebury college. His nonfiction work h
Are the Health Care Workers themselves, the medical workers themselves, the doctors, the nurses, the support staff who weve relied on from the very first moments that we began to realize that this virus was bigger than any health issue weve dealt with in a long time. Were still depending on it today. At some point you run out of some of the capacity and steam that you had to do the job that needs to be done. But we see these heroes continue to step up. Some giving their lives. In bill in birmingham and kansas city was an emergency medical technician. He was with the Kansas City Fire Department and he died of coronavirus in april. His son described billy as selfless. He said billy had decided he wanted to find new ways to help people and so he reinvented himself as an e. M. T. When he was in his 40s so he could help others and then he was an e. M. T. For about 22 years. We see the Emergency Medical Technicians, the First Responders out there saving lives, bringing people in a desperate
, ranger at Petersburg National battlefield, where we first met as park rangers many, many years ago. He is worked in manassas, vicksburg, and gettysburg. He will tackle the elephant in the room about gettysburg versus vicksburg, which one of these two battles he considers being a native mississippian and having worked at both parks, which he considers to be the biggest turning point. Gettysburg or vicksburg . I will let matt get up here and explain. Matt atkinson. [applause] matt thats what it is. I understand you all had a row last night about something. Right there, right . The most important battle, a top the top 10 battles in the american civil war, and gettysburg was left off. Can you believe that . I want to tell you a quick story. I was invited down to a richmond roundtable. We were at the willow oaks country club. We had virginia ham. That is the only time they go out there. Anyway, i was having a great time. I was in richmond and the man who did the top 10 last night lives th
Dobbs and his team. And all that has gone into mississippi being one of the states that is testing at a higher rate than virtually any other state. That has not received significant federal help. When you look at the hot spots in new york and new jersey and even to our neighbor to the west, louisiana, city of new orleans, the federal government put significant resources in there to help them testing. Understandably so. Whereas they had a significant peak that went up very, very quickly, mississippi appears to have at least for now slowed the spread of the virus and we are becoming more and more confident each day that for where we are currently plateaued that we will not be putting the kind of risk on our Health Care System as was the case in those hot spot areas. We are also seeing now that some of those hot spots are spreading out a bit. When you look at the boston metropolitan area, the detroit metropolitan area, and to a certain extent the chicago metropolitan area as well. Those a