Good evening. My name is deirdre cross, director of the Public Programs at the national africanamerican s aim of history and culture and it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to this Wonderful Program and introduce these speakers in our discussion entitled historically speaking, Thurgood Marshall, a life and American History, evening with spencer crew and paul think of it. Paul finkelman. For those streaming the tag ision, our twitter historically speaking. We are also thrilled that this program will be broadcast through cspan book tv to be aired at a later date. Begin this compelling new biography, we are introduced to the constant battles for inequality faced by africanamericans through a study of Thurgood Marshalls extraordinary courage and his belief in the power of the law to change society. Thurgood marshall, a life in American History follows his career from his youth in baltimore, maryland, to his days. T Supreme Court justice his inspiring story illustrates how pervasive rac
At one point, all lanes were blocked. Traffic is squeezing through that area. But again, we are going to see this backup for quite some time. It is going to take some time to clear. Injuries reported. A couple other vehicles involved as well. So jumping over to our maps right now, we are going to show you the the backup. The big rig is right past ashbee, just before cal street as you commute into emeryville. San pablo avenue, probably your best alternate at this point as far as surface streets goes. I know 6 street as well as frontage road there. Adjacent to the eastshore freeway is really bogged down this morning. B. A. R. T. Might be a good choice as well. Ac transit just tweeted out as well that the sf gh jl and will also experience delays because of this accident is on the eastshore freeway. So definitely give yourself the extra minutes. I will have your drive times coming up in my next report. Well, we are starting of the day with temps in the 40s and in the 50s. Grab that jacket
Impeachment proceedings. It seems like morning, noon, and night the relentless effort to unseat the president of the United States is a toxic strain of potomac fever infecting capitol hill. Now if only congress would channel every waking minute to fix problems in the real world, wouldnt that be wonderful. Let me provide a reality check. For People Living in the real world, impeachment inquiry is not what keeps americans up at night. Its not what wakes up moms and dads worried sick about paying for their childs insulin. Its not what drains the pocketbooks of seniors and takes a big bite out of peoples paychecks. The issue that unites americans from maine to iowa to oregon is the high skyhigh prices that americans and the taxpaying public pay for are paying for prescription medicine. As chairman of the Senate Finance committee, i am working in a bipartisan way to fix whats broken in our drug supply chain. In february we called the heads of big pharma to testify before the finance committ
A discussion of military and civilian National Service programs, from the Brookings Institution, this is just over an hour. 30 seconds. 30 seconds was particularly effective. It is my happy duty to introduce and moderate the second panel. I will begin by introducing myself briefly. I am bill gault, senior fellow in the government studies program at brookings, delighted to be a small cog in the Service Share alliance. And two people in particular, mel sawhill conceding the stand working tirelessly for six months and also john allen, for letting his vast appearance and events moral authority to our enterprise this morning and i think it is a sign that brookings is spiritually aligned with the National Service movement. Let me introduce the question this way. If National Service is the answer, what is the question . And we have heard and i think will hear three very different kinds of answers to that question. It is useful to keep them secret. The first test to do with service as an avenu
Relationship, an issue that is getting a lot of attention these days. Senator warner has been at the forefront of china and has been a leader on the conversation related to Foreign Policy and National Security issues, both on china and his years of service in the senate. For those of you joining us for the very first time, u. S. I. P. Was founded by congress as a nonpartisan National Institute dedicated to working with partners around the world to prevent and resolve violent conflict. One of the things we do here in our headquarters in washington is to provide a space for conversation about the most critical Foreign Policy issues of the day, and i think the u. S. China relationship certainly qualifies. That is exactly what brings us together. We have seen over the past decade how china has shifted many of its policies, and become far more active in the international stage, particularly, it has invested heavily in countries and laid a much more active role regionally. We have seen this