Theauthors live in roxbury new york. Please give a warm savanna welcome to and jean ellsworth. [applause] thank you for inviting us and the focus for the last negroes at harvard and 61 years ago , harvard admitted 18 negroes and thats what we were called then and we were the largest number at that time ever admitted harvard. We were from all different parts of the country. North, south, east and west and we came from economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. And we heretofore they had been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time most guys would just go and do their four years and get out of town. We leave cameras but was different in the sense that we had numbers. 18 and we could form an individual racial identity as well as a group identity. We were able to become actually a force for change at harvard and harvard, we changed harvard and harvard changed us and that essentially what the book is about, its about our four years here and what happened before and
The troops have seized control of 3 cities from the warlord khalifa haftar. Fears of a 2nd wave in some parts of asia over 100 covert 19 survivors in south korea test positive again. But the economic fallout of the pandemic hits aid budgets the World Food Programs cutting rations for more than a 1000000 ugandan refugees. And install professional baseball has made its 1st appearance of 20 twentieths on one is hosting games behind closed doors with mannequins replacing real specked sites. More than half of the 115000. 00 people who have died worldwide in the coronavirus pandemic a from europe but the rate is slowing and parts of the consulate in some countries are now cold. Starting to ease restrictions in spain some workers in the construction and manufacturing sectors returned to their jobs on monday from minister Pedro Sanchez as warm that his country is far from victory with strict rules still in place for most people and its only as allowing some Small Businesses to reopen including
Among, at least seven different other items that World Health Officials will look at, including the president of the United States before deciding at the end of this month whether to extend sheltering provisions or to start unwinding them n the middle that a bit of a constitutional back and forth whether the president alone can decide this matter. We have different reads of this. Well get into a little bit on this, some say that the president is wrong, states ultimately decide on this. The president granted them power when and how far to shelter, then they have the power to decide when and how to deshelter. Well get into that. It is a fascinating legal argument here, one might be a moot point if any of this progress weve seen reverses or slows, likely pushing back a timeline on getting everything back to normal. A lot of fast moving developments. Connell mcshane on the latest developments. Hey there, connell. Reporter neil, if there is agreement between the Health Experts around the wo
And the dramatic increase in those applying for jobless benefits. We want to hear from you. If you are a medical professional, we want to hear from you. Tweet andso send us a we are on facebook at facebook. Com spaceman. Facebook. Com cspan. We begin with the numbers tonight courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. Now, more than one million cases worldwide and nearly 52,000 deaths. Rapidly. S. , we are approaching a quarter of a million americans infected with this disease as we outpace every country including china. The death toll in the u. S. 6000. s 6000 nearly and the Unemployment Rate as the continues to spike. Six point 6 million americans are filing for unemployment and if its come at doubling what we saw nearly a week ago. The economy collapsed. Heather long writes the following the past two weeks have a race nearly all of the jobs created in the last five years come a sign of how fast and deep and painful the shutdown has been on Many American families. Job losses have skyrocket
Watched cspans washington journal. Live at 7 00 eastern this morning. Join the discussion. Good evening. The world past a grim milestone today with more than one million confirmed cases of coronavirus across the globe. It is thursday, april 2 and this is a prime time edition of the washington journal. One person and every 1000 americans are infected. We speak to the author of the deadliest enemy. And the dramatic increase in those applying for jobless benefits. We want to hear from you. If you are a medical professional, we want to hear from you. Tweet andso send us a we are on facebook at facebook. Com spaceman. Facebook. Com cspan. We begin with the numbers tonight courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. Now, more than one million cases worldwide and nearly 52,000 deaths. Rapidly. S. , we are approaching a quarter of a million americans infected with this disease as we outpace every country including china. The death toll in the u. S. 6000. s 6000 nearly and the Unemployment Rate as th