The meeting will come to order. This hearing is entitled the Trump Administrations syria policy perspectives from the field mic. Thank you. Before i begin i would like to take a moment to remember my friend and our chairman, elijah cummings, though we lost almost one week ago. Like others on this committee i had the pleasure and privilege to call him my friend for almost 20 years as we worked work on n issues that have confronted congress and our country. Mr. Cummings has bequeathed a legacy of Compassionate Service to those families in our society who still struggle to receive the full promise of the american dream. While we had, he had an abiding faith in the goodness and kindness of humankind, he was firm and his commitment to use hisit many talents, and the powr of his position, to wait in our behalf of the disenfranchised and to reduce p the suffering tt he saw in this world. Elijah lived his life in a meaningful cause, the cause of justice, the cause of liberty, and the cause of
Checkbook tv. Org for schedule. Elaine white is the author o and the author of this book and august 1920 tell us about i it. This is a sleepy Southern City in the middle of summer the legislature usually in recess. It is the time when you sit on tiyour porch and for several weeks in the summer of 1920 because tennessee might be the last inn deciding state that women across the country and then its all coming down. How many women were in america at that time . About 26 million women and as we know for africanamerican women and native american women but jim crow laws in the south bay denied the votes that 27 million women the politicians are worried about it there was an election the governor isct very worried he is up for reelection so it was a political freeforall to the legislature in nashville spin before we get to the characters involved. In fact what i write about of the participants in this political bellow right in their memoirs how hot it is and especially for the women coming d
Good afternoon everyone and thank you for coming to the session. Civil rights in american issue. I am doctor sidney mcdaniels, im a graduate school. Will have about 45 minutes for this and 15 for q a. Also i lost you at this time to place silencer phones. Our sponsors for this panel are the Mississippi Humanities Council. Do we have any members from the Advisory Board or cancel . Thank you. And also ray harper who recently retired from congress from mississippis third district. Longtime supporter of the festival. Thank you. [applause] our moderator for the session is the ralph. Visiting professor of english and southern studies at the university of mississippi. When he is also the former editor of the virginia orderly review. And the other of two from ours. We introducing our distinguished panelists. [applause] thank you and thank you all for joining us in this panel this afternoon. If i were to wreak title this panel, i would call it family memory history in civil rights because our p
, because of tariffs. Here is the question. Is the president getting ready to take a softer approach to tariffs . Well be asking our china experts coming up. And more hong kong protests this weekend, organizers say 1. 7 Million People brave the rain to hold a very peaceful demonstration yesterday. Well get a live report from hong kong later this morning. And get this, the business round table, the top ceo group led by Jpmorgan Jamie dimon saying maximizing shareholder profit, your wealth, can no longer be the primary goal of big corporations. Whats up with that . Varney company monday edition starts right now. President trump china is doing very very poorly. Theyve had i just saw a report theyve had the worst year they had in 27 years because of what ive done, and they want to come to the negotiating table. Theyre losing millions and millions of jobs in china, and were not paying for the tariffs , china is paying for the tariffs, for the other countries it may be that if i do things wi
Hello, im anna foster live injerusalem. Welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. We begin with a Special Report because. The bbc has seen evidence that doctors, nurses and other Hospital Staff were detained, beaten and prevented from carrying out vital medical duties when Israeli Forces overran the Nasser Hospital In Gaza last month. Weve also heard accusations that some detainees were stripped and kept in Stress Positions for several hours. Israel said it occupied nasser believing it was used by hamas and several released israeli hostages have said they were held there. Wyre davies reports and you might find some parts of wyre s report distressing. Not for the first time in this war, Israeli Soldiers have been filmed standing over stripped and kneeling detainees in gaza. But these are medical staff, detained after the israeli army overran the Nasser Hospital in khan yunis. Most of them are still held captive. For weeks, the medics had witnesse