Myself, a young kid in the suburbs, going down south to mississippi every summer. That was my childhood experience. Host who happened to be africanamerican guest exactly. And i never saw that. So then i started writing because i was forced to take a graduate class in writing as part of my requirements. And my first writing teacher said you need to be a writer. Forget the scholar. [laughter] you need to be writing, its for important. And she turned me into a writer. She forced know keep writing over and over again. Because then i moved to new york pause thats what youre told to do, and i got another degree. Fine arts in writing for children at the new school. And really tried to learn the business and realized, oh, theres a lot of [inaudible] and theres a lot of rewriting x theres a lot of, you know, trying to figure out that this game is based on relationships too and how youre perceived. So then i really started writing a lot and launched a packaging company, because i realized that i
Good evening. Welcome to the National Museum of mathematics and a very special event. I think we are all delighted the museum is putting on this event tonight and even more delighted they are doing it with the support of the Mathematical Association of america helping out tonight. In particular, loaned us james tanton who i will introduce in a minute. My name is john ewing, i am president of math america. I am a mathematician. [applause] this was not meant to be an aa meeting by the way. Every professional mathematician those mathematicians and their subjects have a certain reputation. A worldfamous mathematician walking in the countryside one day comes upon a huge flock of sheep. Being a worldfamous mathematician goes up to the shepherd and makes a proposition. 100 against one of your sheep and i could tell you instantly how many sheep are in the flock. The shepherd, knowing there are an awful lot of sheep says okay, i will try it. The mathematician looks around and says there are 937
75 in the city. 75 in norwood. We have a lot of low humidity that will prevail over the next couple of day. Also prevailing today mostly sunny sky. That wont bother us today here in southern new england. Warm temperature midtoupper 80s this afternoon. But again thats with low humidity. Tomorrow with low humidity. That 90s inland will be there the 80s along the coastline. Light sea breezes kicking in across cape ann today. Enjoy it for two more day then increase the heat and humidity. Time for fast track traffic. Heres danielle gersh. Thanks, sarah. Good morning, everyone. Happy monday. Its a busy morning on the road. Heres a look at the expressway. Were watching an accident southbound on 128. Lets go to the maps. Traffic backed up on 128. You are stop and go heading into no major delays. 93 not bat. Route one looking pretty good until you head into the boston area. Lets check the drive times if you get ready to head tout door this morning. 24 minutes braintree is boston on the expressw
Given much is required and i want you to know the gift that you have given to me and that we are not going to take that lightly. Im inspired to do greater work and thank you if. That thank you for that gift. We would like to thank dr. Indira and Nikki Johnson and everyone who created this space for us to have this very important dialogue tonight and thank you for everyone for coming out and being so engaged and i know the great work that you will do moving forward but we want to hear from you as a final thought. My final thought is really simple and im going to ask you to engage me in this and its that one of the things that i hope black girls take from this entire discussion and that we developed a robust agenda around is the idea that they are sacred and loved. Im going to ask everyone to say out loud, as loud as you can, black girls are sacred and loved. Please join me in thanking dr. Morris for spending the evening with us. Thank you so much. Beautiful. [applause] are you around si
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. It is the busiest saturday of campaign 2016, and so far its been a good day for ted cruz. Hes already won the republican caucuses in kansas. Republicans are also voting today for a president ial nominee in louisiana, kentucky, and maine, with a total of 155 delegates on the table. Democrats are deciding in three states louisiana, kansas, and nebraska, with 109 delegation up for grabs. Julianna goldman has the latest from our washington bureau. Juliana. Reporter jim, tonight, is all about bragging rights. Donald trump and donnell hill are looking to build on their leads and momentum from super tuesday. Rivals are hoping for wins to prove that they have staying power. And cruzs victory in kansas means he can keep make the case that hes got the best shot at beating trump. A marco rubio, who is terrible. Reporter republican frontrunner donald trump rallied caucusgoers in kansas and later in flor