Beyond. That first macro trends advisor mitch rishel joins me now, retailers were already offering deep discounts ahead of the start of the Holiday Shopping season despite all the advanced shopping, is there still some pentup demand . I think theres tremendous pentup demand, deep discounts went down into the summer and some retailers especially the division is offering them as black friday deals on fridays in july and august, tremendous pentup demand, i think its cabin fever, retail therapy, i think there is enough momentum to carry us through the holidays with the level of volume. Dagen is there enough money to curious into the holidays remember the extra money people were getting on their unemployment checks that expired at the end of july, is there enough money that people have socked away to really drive sales . I think so, you look at the savings rate which spiked in april and even has come down a bit, it is still two times the level of savings that americans normally do think abo
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. To think about what i was doing is speaking back to the Power Dynamics and trying to push back against those marginalizing and, frankly, violent practices. So, for me, it represents people on the map most significant and powerful and important to do using the archive of black life as a source to reflect it was important. There are limitations in the way i was able to reflect it and so, you know, which is why the project was helpful in ways. I was glad to have the opportunity to present it by my editor to actually do Something Like the project which allowed me to have this version of the book. It becomes messy. Its hard to see. But working through it allowed me in conjunction with the jeff and everhart and tom woodward and folks as i was finishing up to the project to come up with ways to create a moving map. Right. One you can toggle on different layers and see the relationship. So there are ways in which trying to reflect even using blac
A week in the job. U. S. President donald trump, appears to acknowledge for the 1st time that joe biden has won the white house, but insists he wont concede. The uns acting envoy to libya says shes pleased with the outcome of talks aimed at ending nearly a decade of violence in libya. Despite rival factions being unable to reach an agreement on who will lead the country through the transitional period, a both sides have agreed to hold nationwide elections in december of next year. Their delegates failed to agree on the makeup of an interim government until then. The majority in the room do not want the status quo. This is not an acceptable alternative. It is not sustainable. Everybody recognizes that the hard summer that many libyans just passed through with no electricity and very little water and all the other hardships and, and the pandemic really, i think, was a wake up call for. Lets go to our correspondent harriet tears in tunis. Clare, what do you make of the outcome of these ta
Introduce Nicole Meyers turner and her book. Nicole turner is assistant professor of religious studies at yale university. She earned her ph. D in history at the university of pennsylvania, her masters at divinity at the seminary in new york and her bachelors degree from hairford college and shes the author of this 2020 book soul liberty, postemancipation virginia published this year by the university of North Carolina press and before asking niconicole the first question i want to mention that this book appears in this conventional version of a hard copy, but also has two other versions and part of what makes her work so interesting is that it is so engaged from digital humanities and the book also exists as a conventional sort of conventional as she describes it verbatim, openaccess ebook and also as an enhanced openaccess ebook which shows off what dr. Turner was able to do with mapping and kind of Digital Technology in order to develop her Research Findings and so one of things i h
Vanguard, how black women overcame barriers vanguard how black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all this book is fascinating. You have to get it. It starts with doctor joneses grandmother, soucie jones, and i must admit i have not finished the book, but it has Amazing Stories of women who really have made a difference. We look forward, dr. Jones, to hearing your story. So let me just tell you a little bit about doctor jones. She was born in Central Harlem and was originally trained as an attorney and was working on social justice issues after being trained at in new york. So at the law school, she became a Public Interest lawyer and spent nearly ten years representing homeless people, people with mental illness, People Living with aids. And in 1994, she was awarded fellowship on the future of the city of new york at Columbia University based on her lawyering work. And there, her career took an interesting turn as she was drawn to the research and writing