Her mas and ph. D. At the university of virginia. She has created the history design lab that allows students to develop scholarly projects that range from digital humanities, exhibit design, oral history, podcast, historical fiction, and public history. Remember what i said about our speakers and their commitment to mentorship and to education. Shes the author of essays published in 2018 and 19 in the civil war and the transformation of american citizenship and new perspectives on the union war. As i was preparing this introduction, i read her work in civil war histories as part of a round table discussion. Her book mentioned in your printed program at the threshold of liberty, womens laslavery i now under contract with unc press. It examines how black women used the laws, geography and Community Networks at the Nations Capital to make claims to liberty during the civil war. Ladies and gentlemen, tamika nunley. [ applause ] thank you. Good afternoon and i should thank you extra becaus
Months of the pandemic and although that is still being collected on the impact of covid19 is having residents leaving the city of San Francisco, the citys chief economist doctor ted egan says there are some early indicators of what appears to be an exodus. Were very big declines that department asking rents in San Francisco, the biggest committee. Big city the united states. And thats a very clear sign that youve got more people wanting to get out of that apartment in San Francisco that wanted to get at San Francisco is a Major Economic force the citys gdp prior to covid was about a 165 billion dollars. This years shelterinplace orders and the on again off again shutting down brick and Mortar Stores impacting twentytwenty sales tax revenue is to be expected. What was not anticipated is a noticeable drop it online sales, another probable indicator of people leaving the city says doctor eeg almost no growth. An online sales in San Francisco. And that is different virtually everywhere el
Video. Good morning. Thank you for joining us what promises to be a promising round table discussion. Looking back on the 50th anniversary on the struggle to elect kenneth a. Gibson. Elected in june of 1970, it marked a turning buoyant for the black Freedom Movement that was part of a National Wave of black political organizing that couple nated in the election of black m mayors in cities like cleveland, gary, atlanta, and detroit from 1967 to 1974. The histories feel particularly vital now as blackled struggles against Police Violence and attempted murder of jacob black have sounded the clarity call for black liberation while raising familiar questions about the rules of electoral clicks in black freedom struggles. 50 years ago, gibsons landmark election came on the heels of the 1967 rebellion when the Police Beating of an unarmed black man named john smith marked an uprising. Smiths beating recalled countless Police Killing of black men in the city that had gone unpunished over the y
60s. This event was part of the association of the study for africanAmerican Life and conference, and they provided the video. So glad to be here, and so very excited to chop it up a little bit about brother winfords excellent book. Let me jump into my comments. It chronicles the life of the civil rights period. This is a trench at work in this work he replaces wheeler in the center of a compelling civil rights narrative there by casting a new light on the role this banker played in the middle of the century. I can speak to the way his book is making history, and also the Civil Rights Movement, the black peoples struggle in North Carolina in particular. So from wheelers bank in d durham, he was a insider and power player that understood the calculous of social change dictated approaches to the pursuit of freedom. This is going to be one of the questions i certainly want to knock around with dr. Winford in terms of the dynamic enter play that we see with wheeler and the ways in which he
Could you go back into that environment today or what was the formula that allowed you to exist for three decades . Did you have a particular relationship with ted turner or just enlighten us a little bit for the developments. Its helpful that i joined cnn 1980 at the beginning. I was one of the founders of cnn, one of the fortunate ones who was there from the you know, i was present at the creation as they say, and it was a spectacular place to work as we built it because it was something unthought of before ted turner. The global cable newscast and he put it into action and institutionalized it. It was really truly remarkable. But it changed over time, as these things do. And we founded it in 1980. By 1984 ted was on the forbes most, you know, the wealthiest list and it been basically on the verge of bankruptcy just four years earlier when he founded it. So his position changed, so did ours, suddenly were in the white house pool, were growing, and over time his commitment, teds commi