The house collection that have to do with that and a lot of history to cover. And the last African American to be elected in the 19th century leaves in 1901, george white of North Carolina. Then its a long time before another African American comes into the house, and that is oscar from illinois. We have a couple of very rare artifacts from oscar de priest from the 19 twenties and thirties. Before i launch into this because i love him so much. Matt, tell us a little bit about Oscar Depriest and how he got into congress. There is a period of almost three decades after George Henry White leaves congress where there is no African Americans who serve in either the house or the senate. That has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south. And the way that that changes overtime during those decades, there is a critical thing going on in the south where African Americans begin to leave the south and move northward as part of a multi decade movement that would lat
Lines predict losses from the Global Pandemic will be far worse than expected. Calling the crisis devastating and unrelenting welcome to the program, joe biden. Is forging ahead with preparations to take over as u. S. President as his margin of victory keeps growing. Pennsylvania and the voter have now become the latest states to certify the president elect as the winner and biden has formally unveiled some of his top team. Pretenses reports. President elect biden was unequivocal as he presented his National Security appointments and nominees. Its a team that reflects the fact that america is back ready to lead the world, not retreat from it. Once again, sit at the head of the table, ready to confront our adversaries, and not reject our allies ready to stand up for our values. Much was made of the backgrounds of the nominees as examples of the american dream. Linda thomas greenfield, nominated as u. S. Ambassador a 100 mile costs are latino immigrants nominated to lead the department o
Reported more than 140000 new cases of the coronavirus on wednesday. The 9th, straight day were cases eclipsed. 100000, amid the latest wave in the country, many states are seeing record increases of their own. Now as we mentioned on wednesdays program, this latest surge is putting a strain on hospitals as of wednesday. More than 12500. Patients are in intensive care unit, the highest number since early may Health Experts believe the reason for these recent spikes include pandemic fatigue, where people are frankly tired of it hearing to social distancing protocols and inconsistent messaging from federal, state, and local officials. So with all of this in mind, lets go ahead and take another look at the trends and spread of the virus globally with our t. Correspondent saya tavern, where we thursday brand worldwide cases are just surging right now. The global total has climbed to almost over now i should say 52000000 deaths over why point, 287000000 that the u. S. , of course, has a way
Is the first air travel bubble of its kind. There we go. We should be watching airline stuff as well but a lot of that thisready priced in after bubble was announced a few weeks ago. A have a look at the tech index here. Alibaba and tencent on the market at the moment. They are taking 179 points off the hang seng index itself. That is as we are seeing this rotation out of tech stocks, a global phenomenon at the moment. This will be because of the regulatory challenges we will be facing through some of these online retailers. Juliet . Juliet lets get Market Analysis with patrick, the global asset strategist. Patrick, we are finally getting this news of this travel bubble between singapore and hong kong. This is one thing that investors have been looking for when we start to see Global Travel open up and how that will feed into the energy markets. Lets get to our question of the day. That is when will crude back to these march highs . What is your view . Patrick morning. We are not speci
The lower bar for sarah youre watching out is there are live from london also coming up on the program. Ivory coasts government confirms 85 people have now died in violence over the disputed election. Double the previous estimates. Sudan says it fears up to 200000. People could flood into the country escaping the fighting in northern ethiopia. And hong kongs prodemocracy legislators resigned on mass in protest at the dismissal of 4 of their colleagues. The thank you for joining us. The World Health Organization has described europe as a cautionary tale of the dangers of easy coronavirus restrictions. The continent is experiencing an aggressive surge in infections with daily deaths steadily rising towards the peak of the 1st wave in spring. More than 50000. 00, people have now died from cope with 19 across the u. K. , and thats after another 595 fatalities were confirmed over the past 24 hours. Marking the countrys highest daily death toll since may. Infections are also climbing with al