3520 africanamerican history since 1865. Were at north county, Central University, and today ill be lecturing about activism in North Carolina. So first, ill give you the main of this lecture. Its going to be like five or six, and then well get into the actual examples of so historically black colleges, university were Important Movement spaces for the long black freedom movement. So they were kind of essential to the Civil Rights Movement, the black power movement, black student continuously use the campus space, mobilize for freedom on their campuses and surrounding communities. And in doing so, they transformed their local campuses, communities North Carolina and elsewhere. Typically when were we learn about hbcu activism in North Carolina, theres a focus on the greensboro four or 1960, but kind of Everything Else right gets left out, right . So this lecture is about the decades of activism that predates 1960 and the decade of activism excuse, the acronym that after 1960. So putting
Would use newspaper black newspapers to criticize the administration of the issue. And sometimes we do it anonymously right. So it also speaks to the fact that even if you graduate right if even if youre no longer a part of the university, you still feel duty to it. Right . And a duty to having the best environment, the best people in charge. Right. And part of the response of the administration to them, criticizing them was to try to repress, repress that kind of criticism. Right. So, again, part of at campus hbcu is activism on campus against administrators, against teachers. Right. At t same sometimes teachers, administrators, the faculty meers, collaborators were is right. So its kind of the internal work thats going on. And so originally hawkins who is about 17 at the time he starts college at 14, but at 17 hes a student leader and activist he joins the post office of post office picketing in the 1940. Right. It gives other students involved. Right. And then in the 1960s, hes goin
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How we get there and the speed and trajectory, that is where the confusion is now. Officials are talking about the possibility of a rate hike. Richard clarida will be here to help us break it all down. After a dramatic week, the dollar index is still slightly higher but a threeweek low. Own, and nomc job one knows what they are talking about, futures negative the dax is down 6 10 of 1 . The ftse 100 down one third of 1 . The bloomberg dollar index up about one half of 1 . You are seeing this more acutely against the commodity commodities currencies. Far, week for crude so potentially on wti the biggest and smart as we reenter a bull market. On the back of dollar strength, some crude weakness, the dollar index down by 6 10 of 1 . Yields creeping higher on the belly of the curve of treasuries , up 2 10 of 1 . A lot to discuss so far this week, a Big Conversation over the fomc pivoting forward to the speech that friday. Alix who is going to want to take big positions ahead of Janet Yellen
The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess in the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled semiannual testimony on the Federal Reserve supervision and regulation of Financial System. I now recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. As we all know the dodd frank act vastly increased the powers of the fed way beyond has traditional Monetary Policy responsibilities. The act has made the fed omnipotent but cannot make it omniscient. No act can. Through the exercise of socalled heightened prudential standards the fed can control the largest Financial Institutions in our economy. Former fed governor kevin warsh recently wrote Central Bank Power is permissible in a democracy only when its scope limited, its track record strong and accountable assured. None of that do we observe today. Where his feds omnipotents has taken us . The big banks are bigger, Economic Growth lags and theres scant evidence our economy i