Advertising in the 1950s, highlighting Dwight Eisenhowers political campaign. She examines what components made them successful. Her class is about an hour and 10 minutes. Nothing perhaps captures the popular memory of the 1950s like the slogan, i like ike. This idea, this pin that so many people wore around the campaign of 1952 and 1956, conveys a notion of nostalgia and simplicity. It really emphasizes this idea of the 1950s as this era of prosperity. And the American People were happy in suburban homes with their nuclear families. I like ike. Its so simple and it conveys that happiness. This idea, however, is a myth. And it is a political construction. The 1950s, in fact, it was a time wrought with racial discrimination, conflict, intense political and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies and mandated heterosexuality in the law. It was a time in which anti communism targeted the liberal reform impulses of the new deal and often anticommunis
Currently affected. And james corden returns with a starstudded special. Hell telluous social distancing should not keep us apart. First, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The peak. The highest point of death rates. Remember this is likely to hit in two weeks. No state, no metro area will be spared. President trump extending social distancing guidelines through april. His denial at the beginning was deadly. His delay in getting equipment to where its needed is deadly. The virus has just torn through new york city and its suburbs with frightening speed. Most of the deaths have happened in the span of just a few days. April will be worse than march. May will likely be worse than april. Prime minister Boris Johnson who is quarantined with the coronavirus released a video message on his twitter page. Thank you to all of you and remember, stay at home. People in several states are cleaning up from tornadoes. Severe weather through the central u. S. From texas into the midwe
Our program tonight is presented in honor of black History Month for the purposes of Public Education and civil discourse. And our guests are to american historians. Our keynote speaker is a historian of television, radio and the Recording Industry in the united states, a former network and Cable Television executive, and the author of nine books. Tim brooks. His talk tonight is based on his newest publication, the blackface minstrel show in mass media 20th century performances on radio, records, film and television. Recently published by mcfarland. Among tims many accomplishments is a grammy award, which he received for a double cd and book titled lost sounds blacks and the birth of the Recording Industry 18901919. Joined in aen be seated conversation by fellow historian bill doggett. Timprogram will conclude in and bills taking questions from you, our live audience. Now, please turn off the sounds , and join me in welcoming historian and author, tim brooks. [applause] tim thank you,
The most unpopular part of obama. It was just upheld. So i said in my letter to pelosi, by proceeding with their invalid impeachment, you are violating their oath of office. Youre breaking your allegiance to the constitution. You are declaring open war on american democracy. You dared to invoke the Founding Fathers in pursuit of this election nullification scheme. Yet your spiteful actions display unfettered contempt for americas founding, and your egregious conduct, its so true, it threatens to destroy what our founders pledged, and in fact their very lives to build. You are the one interfering in americas elections, you are the one who are dirtying americans democracy. We did nothing wrong. Nothing whatsoever. This is just an excuse. [cheering] you are the ones obstructing justice. You are the ones bringing painandsuffering to our republic. For your own selfish personal political and partisan pain. Youre bringing pain, the work we could be doing a lowering drug prices, or getting rid
Least a step in the right direction. I recently tackled the issue of pay to play, take a look. In a time when College Students were caught treated like slobbering socialist children, its nice to see the ncaa finally treats student athletes like the hardworking adults they actually are. The average division i student athletes spend over 35 hours. Week just pursuing their athletic dreams in midseason i while highprofile football and basketball coaches make millions of dollars a year. In 41 out of it he states they are the highest paid public employees. These matriculating stalwarts are nothing, snake eyes, dog poo, following a bill that sailed to the California Legislature granted golden state athletes the right to profit off their name, and likeness, the ncaa has officially followed suit. And starting in january 2021, players from every sport and gender can finally earn the money theyve worked for, it will finally be able to see a little profit them a lot of work on things like video ga