People of puerto rico need to know they are not forgotten, that they are part of the american family, and Congress Plus responsiveness, even though this is not a perfect bill, at least moves us in the right direction. Amy while president obama vows to help the puerto rican people, a stunning new report has just been released showing how much of the debt owed by puerto rico is not actually money that the island borrowed, but instead interest owed to wall street firms including goldman sachs, citigroup, Merrill Lynch, and morgan stanley. In some cases, puerto rico is being paid forced to pay up to 1000 interest. Then we will speak to the dishwasher at Yale University who was arrested after breaking a stainedglass window depicting enslaved africans carrying cotton. We will also speak to professor Craig Steven Wilder author of , the book, ebony ivy race, slavery, and the troubled history of americas universities. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, t
And syria. We will go to nice for the latest. Then to the debt crisis in pupuerto rico. People of puerto rico need to know they are not forgotten, that they are part of the american familily, and Congress Plus responsiveness, even though this is not a perfect bill, at least moves us in the right direction. Amy while president obama vows to help the puerto rican people, a stunning new report has just beenen released d showing hohowh of t the debt owowed by puererto is not a actually momoney that e island borrowed, but instead interest owed to wall street firms including goldmaman sachs, citigroup, Merrill Lynch, and morgan stanley. In some cases, puerto rico is being paid forced to pay up to 1000 interest. Then we willll speak to the dishwasher at Yale University who was arrested after breaking a stainedglass window depicting enslaved africans carrying cotton. We will also speak to professor Craig Steven Wilder a author of , the book, ebony ivy race, slavery, and the troubled history of
And syria. We will go to nice for the latest. Then to the debt crisis in pupuerto rico. People of puerto rico need to know they are not forgotten, that they are part of the american familily, and Congress Plus responsiveness, even though this is not a perfect bill, at least moves us in the right direction. Amy while president obama vows to help the puerto rican people, a stunning new report has just beenen released d showing hohowh of t the debt owowed by puererto is not a actually momoney that e island borrowed, but instead interest owed to wall street firms including goldmaman sachs, citigroup, Merrill Lynch, and morgan stanley. In some cases, puerto rico is being paid forced to pay up to 1000 interest. Then we willll speak to the dishwasher at Yale University who was arrested after breaking a stainedglass window depicting enslaved africans carrying cotton. We will also speak to professor Craig Steven Wilder a author of , the book, ebony ivy race, slavery, and the troubled history of
For one another, for her daughters and for her sons. If we push hard, this next wave can be the last ways. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders. [applause] i think weve seen what it takes to be a global phenomenon. First, and extraordinary business. A second extra antibusiness and on the level of impact on a global stage that all of us would love to have. I think we cheryl, you can see its not just your intellect. Its not just your experience. It is the whole cheryl. It is followed her. Mr. Charisma, leadership. Im proud to have worked with her and im looking forward to working with you about the new things are going to do. What an extraordinary leader, sheryl sandberg. [applause] looks to be fat, Oscar Goodman to discuss his memoir, being oscar. Mr. Goodman talks about cases he handled during his career as a criminal defense attorney and share stories from history terms as mayor of las vegas. This is about an hour. Being oscar is the name of the b
Enslaved black people. He has more slaves than faculty. He has more slaves than trustees. Accounting, honest a bubbly more slaves than students. Today we speak with m. I. T. Historian greg Stephen Wilder about ebony and ivy race, slavery, and the troubled history of americas universities. And we look at traces of the trade, a story from the deep north. One know in my family realized were that the walls were the largest slave trading family in the nation. They brought over 10,000 africans to the americans in chains. Half a million of their descendents could be alive today. With katrinaeak brown about how she traced her familys shocking history. All that and more coming up. We turn to a new book 10 years in the making that looks at how some of the countrys major universities, harvard, yale, then, rutgers, williams, university of north carolina, just to name a few, are drenched in the sweat and sometimes blood of the african slaves that were brought here. The book is called ebony and ivy