Spence can be regularly heard, his next book, knocking the hustle, will be out at the end of october. Please welcome all of our esteemed panelists. [applause] so what im going to do is start with letting the panelists, beginning with lester spence, kind of describe what their individual books are about. Lester . Oh, wow. Thank you very much. Thank you to the baltimore book festival. I knew i was in the right place when i saw that they had a book festival, because that meant that baltimore was actual literate, and i kind of wanted to be in a place where people liked to read and reading mattered. Im really interested in kind of the reproduction of inequality within black spaces, right . If you look at inequality across time from, say, 1929 or so to the present, it takes the shape of a u. Really, really high levels in 1929, low levels in 1950 or so, and there are really high levels now. In fact, we have higher levels of inequality now than we did in the great depression. It takes the shap
People around him at all time. [ applause ] i dont think governor gilmore was worried about it, do you . No. Youre not a threat. Youre the good guys. Thats right. So its the safest room in the state as bob said. Theres a lot of information out there and information is the power of politics. If you want to win elections, you have to have information. And part of the critical information that you need is information about the candidates, where they stand, what they stand for, do they really mean what they say, have they proven that they mean what they say, what did they say a couple of years ago, what are they saying now, how is it different. There is lots of sites out there. Theres lots of research out there. The National Shooting Sports Foundation has their gun vote project online. Good information, good resources. The nra, gun owners of america, Citizens Committee for the right to keep and bear arms, the various state organizations, the Arizona Citizens Defense League yeah of which im
This thanksgiving weekend American History tv on cspan 3 has four days of featured programming beginning thursday at 4 00 p. M. Eastern. Well take you inside the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans as we look back 70 years to the wars end and its legacy starting with the allied invasion of north africa. Friday night at 8 00, a new series road to the white house rewind takes a look back at the president ial campaigns of Ronald Reagan, bill clinton, george h. W. Bush. And then saturday afternoon, tomb of the unknown soldier. The role and creation of the tomb guard and stories about some of the notable people who are buried at the cemetery. And sunday afternoon at 4 00 on real america, the cbs news special report on the fiveweek battle of la deung valley. And a look now at the 2016 elections and gun policy. Representatives from the firearms coalition, the Citizens Committee for the right to keep and bear arms, and other groups address the 30th annual gun rights policy conference i
Mollie right now, residents along the southern new jersey coast are cleaning up after widespread flooding caused by the storm surge from this weekends powerful winter storm, leaving several towns underwater and pushing boats onto streets. Crests topping 9 feet forced evacuations and caused nearly 100,000 people to lose power. Good afternoon and figure for joining us. We will have more on the cleanup along the east coast in just a moment, but we have some weaeaer of our own salutes begin with metinka so lets begin with metinka. Metinka weve had some mist and fog and now freezing drizzle has developed across central iowa lifting in from knoxville spreading over to des moines and montezuma. That will be spreading toward marshalltown and we have more of the same across southwest iowa near new bedford and even the mona. This is all lifting up to the north, but does not seem to be most roads are mainly just wet and across northwest iowa is where we have a little bit of ice on some of the roa
Through the population. Thanks to this, we who should be sure to be immunized through her study, Achla Marathe found how the flu spreads so easily through a new river valley. Achla Marathe, professor of agricultural and applied economics at the Biocomplexity Institute likely to spread the who have a lot of network. Not only just a lot of contacts, of time with those the first place she peoples homes. There is some household size. Large households, they have high contacts. Of course people dont stay just inside their house. Once theyre away from home, one group saw more interaction than others. Children have high contacts. They go to school, thats a high density location, they meet lots of people so they have have contacts. So that brings marathe and her team to one conclusion. Its really the School Aged Children of large households who have very high contact time and number of contacts. Communities see a shortage of flu vaccines, which is fairly common, theres a way to distribute them