Business report with sally. A taxing issue for trump the president says cuts will bring jobs back to the us. Critics warn theyll fuel inequality and drive america deeper into debt. Plus alexa on the march amazon unveils new gadgets to take on google and apple in the battle to control your home. Welcome to World Business report. Iam i am sally bundock. Also in the programme, ryanair cancels thousands more flights. Details in a moment. But first we start in the us, where President Trump has proposed the biggest shakeup of the tax system since the 1980s. He says it will boost the economy and create jobs, but critics argue it favours the rich and could add trillions of dollars to an already soaring budget deficit. From new york, heres michelle fleury. Many details are still unknown, but, on wednesday, the president unveiled his blueprint for tax reform, a framework, if you like, which will form the basis for drafting legislation. And donald trump travel to india to promote the plan. This i
Africanamerican politics and culture. This is about an hour and 45 minutes. Sixth session,he internationalize asian of africanamerican politics and culture. I learned this morning that there was some confusion in the mandate to my panel and i think that may have been the case with others. So a number of people have rather more full documents and have now geared them back. One of them was really quite wonderful and would have been a history of internationalism in africa from the battle to the end of apartheid, and that would have been splendid. It prompts me to say what i thought i would say about what is not for this morning i thought one of the things we would wish to entertain what had been the pan african movement. The seven Pan African Congress es, with the fifth meeting in manchester, england with all the cast of characters. At that point, what had been a concept, and ideology became a moving phenomenon that would have literal impact in the history coming with colonization. It goe
American history. The opening session is on africanamericans and religion. While we wait for the conference to begin, a look at a 2011 trip to a storage site in a washington, d. C. Suburb with the director of the Smithsonian National museum of African American history and culture. He showed us some of the artifacts that will be on display in the new museum, opening on the national mall, september 24, 2016. Right now, we are in the Storage Units of the National Museum of African American history and culture. In essence, this is the heart of the museum of. Because whats behind me, and what we will see today are many of the objects that are going to be the soul of this museum. This is an opportunity to sort of preview some of the material that the public will see when the museum opens in stores. The story of the africanamerican experience is both a story of resiliency at achievement, but its also a story of struggle. Parts ofe hard exploring this history is that were athe people who the w
Highest per capita annual income on the continent, most of that went to the white minority population. Africans in the union made 75 less year that per year 75 less per year. Miners only earn 4. 12 or week. The report reinforced whites position as he made the case to the media for cutting off all funds to south africa. This was dangerous and shallow thinking, he argued. The world bank loans did not help. It bolstered a racist a caterer undercut moderate forces, saved the political just as walter white predicted, the regimes minister of finance waived the world banks funds in front of critics as proof that not only the strong the government was strong and viable, but that it was respected and supported internationally. As the noose of the regime tightened, the amc launched the defiance campaign. They defied the laws, they defied the regime. They defied. Pretoria countered with brutality. The naacp decided to finance and organized the picketing of the South African delegation at the u. N
A year i felt good about being a black person. It was on april 9th. We. Wkvy celebrated emancipation. We talked about lincoln. We talked about freedom. Thats when i really felt good. The other times was an existence as if we were pushing a barrel up a hill. Thank you everyone. I really enjoyed that. Thank you for your questions and your time. [ applause ] once again, kevin, thank you very much for you spending time with us and i want to again, thank st. Pauls episcopal search for this venue. I think this was the perfect setting for this venue. I want to thank you for taking time out of your day and evening to be with us. We hope that you were fulfilled tonight. That you were stimulated somewhat tonight by kevins words. We encourage you to continue learning about petersberg, the american civil war, and where weve come over the last 150 years as a nation but again, thank you all very much for your time with us this evening. [ applause ] with live could havage of the house here on cspan 3