Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It is an honor to welcome everyone to the 71st National Book awards. I am Jason Reynolds coming to you live from washington dc go this is overnight but there is so much going on in the world this is our night and it is a big deal. It is so much of a big deal i woke up this morning anxious and nervous as usual. I always, mother and i am anxious. It is 7 00 oclock in the morning and she says oh no i said i am feeling anxious about tonight have to hope the National Book awards am calling you to see if you have advice for your child go she said that she always has been to make the call. Let me ask you something, son. What did i make you say every single night before you got into bed when you were little boy . I said i dont want to do this right now she said no dont know what did i. C. E. Make you say every night when you got into bed . I said you made me say i can do anything. Exactly you can do anything. You tell me this all the time on. But i never asked
Partisanship on those changes. That starts tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Enjoy American History tv this week and every weekend on cspan3. Causes my mind to go back to the truth we learned at home, beliefs would shake my paths and their guidance of their children. Love of god, fairness in human relations, independence, and responsibility concern for the welfare of others and conviction that each free individual could, through his own efforts, achieve a full life. It is a firm duty of each of our free citizens to make the cause of his country before the comforts of himself. We must be ready to dare all for our country, for history does not trust the freedom to the weak, we must be willing individually and as a nation to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people that values its privileges above its principles. These men came here to storm these beaches, not to gain anything for ourselves, but just to preserve freedom, systems of selfgovernment in the world. Many thousand
Team. Can i comment . Yes, please. I did leave it high level to work identifying who would sit on that task force. So, i did not specify it but depending on the discussion here with my colleagues, they feel it would be best serving. Its the super inten department is creating the task force, not lowell in and of itself. So, just president sanchez, i would be supportive of examining and evaluating the letter that i had read into the record including evaluating the culture. Sorry if im dragging this on. Since its made by the superintendent, would it ensure student representation is on this task force . Yes. Yes, is this dated in the amendment. It has including but not limited to students, families, educators, administrators and communitybased organizations. Students are first mentioned. So, to clarify, like, im just, theres a letter but im not clear on how specifically the staff is supposed to implement the task force based on a letter that was not written for this purpose. So im confused
Dom . How many of us wish we had more time, not just 48 hours but more time in general anyway, the markets right now are in a Holding Pattern thats what well call t. Marginal losses in the s p 500, dow and nasdaq, as you can see there. Just about a quarter to a third of a percent across the board here, but we were positive at one point today so a lot of that uncertainty playing out, but not a lot of reason to wholesale buy or sell so thats what were seeing in markets. One place where were seeing a good amount of positivity today is in the internetrelated names. Social media specifically. Check out this First Trust Dow jones internet etf ticker fdn is off the highs of the day, off twothirds of 1 small of the smaller social media ones are there as well helping to power this particular move remember from the lows up to here, it was up about 96 , and then it fell about 15 here and then up another 12 from there, so thats a move there for the social media stocks that were watching as well, a
Oh say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight in the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming in the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there jose does that starspangled danner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave [applause] allegiance] thank you to the 177th fire waiting from the new Jersey National guard for providing fire over coverage for this evening. To give tonights invitation, we are pleased to have barry c. Black. Chaplain black serve in the u. S. Navy and completed his distinguished military career as the chief of navy chaplains. Barry black was elected to serve as the 62nd chaplain of the United States senate and has been in that role ever since. To open tonights ceremony in prayer, here is chaplain black. You may be seated. Pray. Light of lights, how is your name in all the eart