Welcome to booktvs fiction edition. Youve written 50 fiction books. Lets start with devil in a blue dress, the book that launched a series who is easy rawlins . Guest a kind of every man for the black community in the middle of the twentieth century. His whole view of himself has changed. He came back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there because of what he has learned and he and thousands of others, from texas and louisiana moved to los angeles. What we do is follow him as a kind of unofficial detective. What he does is reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that havent been talked about. Host how did you come up with the name . Guest i was writing a story and there was a voice speaking firstperson talking about a party he was given and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rent and a woman he was in love with who was in love with another guy and mouse comes in and looks at the person who is talking and says hey, e the, how are you doing . That
Working on holiday. When you look at the markets, they are probably range bound and that is where the nudgyness comes from. We have earnings in europe that will give insight and you have the spat between the u. S. And china, which is significant but is not translating into concrete market movement. Tom we will talk about china and a moment. Airlines front and center. Right now, with our first word news, here is ritika gupta. Ritika china may retaliate for the closing of its consulate in houston by targeting the u. S. Consulate in hong kong. That is according to the editor of the Chinese Communist party newspaper, global times. He writes the u. S. Has over 1000 staff and that means it is a spy center. The editors comments have regally been a tipoff to what the government does. They Trump Administration says republicans are considering a shortterm extension of the unemployment stimulus. Millions of americans received several mental payments that were included in the last coronavirus resc
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United States Supreme Court and when these cases result in the opinions of the court, history turns. The ways in which we think about and live under the constitution are reflected in the courts interpretations in both their Historical Context and their legacies. Some cases and the courts opinions in them so profoundly alter our constitutional understandings that they can only be rightly be called landmark cases, markers of where we have traveled as a nation. As a part of an initiative begun in 2015, the National Constitution center partnered with cspan to create a 12part series illustrating the history, issues and people involved in monumental landmark cases. Through the resulting online videos and other classroom Resources Available at landmarkcases. Cspan. Org, students and educators can analyze some of the most famous and infamous cases. Last year we continued this initiative through a series of town hall discussions. In depth articles on our constitution daily blog and the publicat
The north but made no reference to provocative actions by pyongyang. A ceremony was held on thursday at an air base outside the capitol of seoul. In his speech, moon noted that the fighting ended with an armistice agreement, not a peace treaty. He expressed hope that north korea would launch a bold endeavor to end a sorrowful war. But the norths moves remain unclear after recently playing hot and cold with the south. Last weweek, pyongyangng blue u intermediate yan liaison offffi. Then pyongyang reversed course. It dismantled loud speakers and decided to suspend military action plans against the south. The south Korean News Agency says the Moon Administration is underscoring its unwaivering policy of seeking peace and prosperity to interkorean peace. It is part of efforts to bring pyongyang to dialogue. Leaders of the tenmember association of Southeast Asian nations will hold a summit via video link on friday. They are expected to discuss the coronavirurus pandemics severe Economic Imp