Crucial states. Markets are proceeding very cautiously. They are mixed at this hour after the dows 650point monday meltdown. We are only adding to that right now. Getting a little uncomfortably close to lows of the session. We are down 185. The low is a loss of 196 at the moment. You can see the s p is down seven but the nasdaq is holding on to some green here, up 50 points. No surprise, then, that megatech is powering the markets leaders. Could all that change tomorrow, when the top brass from facebook, twitter and google face the music in what is expected to be a contentious capitol hill hearing . Senator roger wicker is the chairman of the Senate Commerce committee. He will tell us what he needs to hear from Mark Zuckerberg, jack dorsey and sandar pichai. And breaking news out of tmobile. Forget telecom and 5g wars. Tmobile Just Launched a dual attack on cable and streaming leaders. Tmobiles ceo is here to unveil his brand new weaponry of offerings that has the stock moving higher a
Author of fighting for hope. The National World War Ii Museum in new orleans hosted this discussion and provided the video. Greetings, everyone. I am senior director of programs at the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans and it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to what promises to be a Great Program on the history of africanamericans in combat in the United States from world war i to world war ii with everything in between and in the immediate postworld war ii years, and i am joined by three of our nations preeminent scholars on this subject. Whohost is dr. John morrow, is franklin professor of history at the university of georgia and is coauthor with our second panelist, who is professor of harlemst nyu, of rattlers in the great war, which is a fantastic book about one of the great africanamerican units in the First World War were. Our third panelist is Robert Jefferson junior, associate professor of history at the , andrsity of new mexico the author of fighting for hope. I
Up in alabama, 11 or 12 years old, i went to a flea market hybrid carnival. There were people there selling objects. One of the items was similar to this. It was not a philosophical thing. I did not like the object. I do not remember the second or the third or the fourth. I started collecting. Basically, i have been collecting for several decades. Started out with anticipation of creating did not start out with the anticipation of creating a museum. Becoming not just a collection as teaching tools but for a museum happened much later. Not everybody where you grew up was collecting these items. What was it that made you keep doing it . David i dont know. I have been thinking about that a lot. Four generations back, there are people from the , theas, trinidad, spain Indigenous People of this country. Personup a multiracial in the deep south when the time crowring a time when jim was still in effect. I thought about race a lot. Elementary my school, my high school were all black. Segregat
We will share guidelines in chats and links to the book so you have easy access. Remember your purchase supporting bookstore and staff. I would like to give a walk through our platform and event after this instruction. Our guest joining us on screen. Will we be taking questions from the audience. Please submit the questions below. If you are looking at the far below all the way to the right you will see two bubbles where you should put them. I would avoid the chat to keep track of all the questions. Also if you are watching Facebook Live stream, submit questions in the comments field and be sure to grab them there. Now i would like to give a warm welcome to our guests for the night, eddie cole, phd, associate professor of Higher Learning and organizational change at ucla and author of the campus color line College President s and the struggle for black freedom, College Published by Princeton University press. You can find him on twitter eddie cole. Former phd, historian of black womens
Due to the coronavirus. We are on the campus of North Carolina at chapel hill. Unc chapel hill is the First State University in the country. Contested claim we argue with the university of georgia about. The university of georgia were chartered first. The unc charter came a few years later. Unc was first to open and graduated a couple classes before the university of georgia. The university and city were founded at the same time. When this area was selected, there was no town or village. There was a few neighboring farms. There was no town to speak of. On the day they laid the stone for the university building, they had the option of town lodge. The understood if university was going to succeed they needed a town. Businesses, places for people to live. In essence, it was born on the same day. In university was chartered 1789. The ground broke in 1793. A year and a half later, in 1790 five, the university open. January, a ceremony in 1795. They had events on campus. No students showed u