Enter this world awake for justice. Again you can find all this on our website at schaumburg. Org. If you are watching from the festival website you can scroll to the bottom of this particular page in shop the featured book. You can shop the rest of the festival from the bookish things my schaumburg shop. You can navigate or you can check out the full schedule of events. And just to let you know in the screen that is in front of your coffee look up in front of you if youre not seeing the chats, the little sort of comments if you where, talking bubble should the expansion chat for you. An ill be joined by alexander who is a senior staff writer it columbia journalism review. Previously she was a reporter at the Village Voice and covered education for the project were to partnership between columbia university, columbia journeying ten Journalism School part shall be in conversation with wando small following will introduce one that there will be a reading. And then following the conversat
A year of fighting for hafta. Heres the coronavirus is now out of control in nicaragua and people are blaming the government last. Tensions high in hong kong as thousands defy a police ban to mount the 31st anniversary of the chinaman square crackdown. A new mourning relatives civil rights leaders and politicians have held a memorial for george floyd a black man whose death in Police Custody sparked an outpouring of anger across the u. S. And the world when i was at the ceremony in minneapolis stood for 8 minutes and 46 seconds the length of time a white Police Officer knelt on floyds neck ignoring his cries but he couldnt breathe through and staff has brought Police Violence against black civilians back into the spotlight a civil rights activist reverend al sharpton gave a unity for floyd saying it was time to stand up in his name. Joel which flowage story has been the story of black folks because. 401 years ago. The reason we could be we wanted and dream debian is you kept your me on
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Next week. Los angeles has a mandatory Face Covering rural to go into effect on friday. There required to wear a mask or coverings for their nose or mouth when visiting grocery stores. The order also requires workers to cover their faces. Santa clara county reported three new deaths in the largest increase in coronavirus cases in nearly a week. This is the countys Public Health officials ordered residents and businesses to report their inventory of personal protective equipment and ventilators. But this is a unique situation. We cannot rely solely on the state and federal government and we have to turn locally to see what the capacity for inventory is within our county. Anyone with more than 5000 pairs of gloves, 500 masks, or 100 gallons is required to get in touch with the county within the next week. Experts say the california seeing early success at flattening the curve pick they said in addition to social distancing that another factor may play a role. They said that the coronavir
Notion that it couldnt happen, that they could not elect a catholic president of the United States. If you know our political history for the decades preceding that with al smith and others there was evidence that , you cannot elect a catholic, and that was all transcended and exploded one night in november 1960. And so the world we were looking at in 1968 when i could really finally Pay Attention was a world coming apart in the United States. The vietnam war is raging, we had an incumbent president Lyndon Johnson who had been elected four years ago in a landslide who was on the way to an easy reelection again. He was very likely to be facing some of very good at losing president ial elections. Richard nixon, who had the distinction in history at the beginning of 1968, of being the very first Vice President in history to lose a president ial campaign. He then made Hubert Humphrey the second 1968. As the year began, it was back in that ancient america where if someone said, i democrat o