I started the project asking, is there a long history of black women in sports . I found more than i expected to find quite frankly. There wasnt any archive labeled , this is the history of black sports. So i had to piece it together. I got started by finding three women who actually played baseball in the negro leagues in the 1950s. It was a remarkable story. They played with the men. One of the things that stuck out to me about that story was that the owner who had brought in these black women to play with the man said he had a file where women across the country were writing in to request tryouts. That stuck in my head as a young graduate student and i thought, is there a lot of black girls history trying to play baseball, maybe theres is a Hidden History here. So that made me go out to find other stories in the book, from track, to tennis, from baltimore to rome, really looking at black women in sporting history in the 20th century. Let me talk about two names, oe is quite familiar
Weekdays at 12 noon and coanchor state of the union with jake tapper on the networks sunday new sunday morning newsmaker show. She played a key role in cnns 2016 president ial primary debates, serving as a questionnaire in six of the networks seven primetime primary debates on both sides of the aisle. Also, as coproducer on the set of cnn Election Center for all Election Night specials and importantly, from our perspective, graduated cum loud with a bachelors degree in political communication from the George Washington university and also has an honorary doctorate from gw, which is interestingly not on your cnn bio. I couldnt help noticing you. Yes, we updated the other. One of the other things we do in the school of meaning Public Affairs is have a handful of fellows, distinguished leaders in journalism, politics and communication who join us. Join our faculty or staff and our students. One of those fellows is named by is the tucker fellowship, endowed by bruce tucker and cindy tucker
Networks sunday new sunday morning newsmaker show. She played a key role in cnns 2016 president ial primary debates, serving as a questionnaire in six of the networks seven primetime primary debates on both sides of the aisle. Also, as coproducer on the set of cnn Election Center for all Election Night specials and importantly, from our perspective, graduated cum loud with a bachelors degree in political communication from the George Washington university and also has an honorary doctorate from gw, which is interestingly not on your cnn bio. I couldnt help noticing you. Yes, we updated the other. One of the other things we do in the school of meaning Public Affairs is have a handful of fellows, distinguished leaders in journalism, politics and communication who join us. Join our faculty or staff and our students. One of those fellows is named by is the tucker fellowship, endowed by bruce tucker and cindy tucker, the parents of 2013 smp graduate jennifer tucker, the turk. Her fellows ar
Start off the hour with a fox news alert. Former President Donald Trump diving right into the deep blue bronx bureau of New York City. In a neighborhood that isnt used to hosting republican president ial candidates. It is part of the former president s push to court black and latino voters. It seems to be paying offs he gains ground with both blocs that democrats have taken for granted for decades. He said biden didnt come to the bronx. Minority voters are souring on bidens economy, border and foreign wars. Trump getting cheers on the most pressing issues. What a crowd. [cheers and applause] this is something. [crowd chanting bring back trump] the minute Biden Shuffles out the door well get africanamericans are getting slaughtered. Hispanic americans are getting slaughtered. And these millions and millions of people that are coming into our country, the biggest impact and the biggest negative impact is against our black population and our hispanic population. Dont assume it doesnt matt
Through recess and work on it but we can work on it in the fall. We need to get it done this calendarrier. Charles stocks dropped shortly thereafter. What happens if businesses and investorses start to get antsy here . Its starting to become a reality but also the promises have to become a reality too, whats the timeline . We heard it earlier this week mnuchin said august. If it es beyond august of this year, you will start to e first and foremost volatility and uncertainty. [inaudible conversations] i want to thank each of the House Committee leaders for being with us today. Devotion and leadership has been amazing. I want to applaud you and the diligent work of your committees to advance the Obamacare Repeal and replacement legislation that weve been talking about for a long time and that we have been running with and i ran with and i can tell you and thats what people want, they want repeal and replace. The bill passed just now through ways and means and it will i think, the Committ