Only on cbs this morning, the artist whos trying to reframe the civil r. Its wednesday, december 11th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Our officers were under fire for hours until finally the threat was annuitialized. Reporter a deadly gun battle unfolds in new jersey. This battle ended with six people dead. Officials believe this was a targeted attack. It was gun powder. Democrats announcing two articles of impeachment against President Trump, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. Here were no crimes theyre impeaching me, and there are no crimes attorney general william barr says he is not convinced by his own watchdogs review of the investigation into the Trump Campaigns ties to russia. I think that there were gross abuses. Democrats and republicans finally have a new trade agreement. Negotiators have signed a modified usmca. This trade agreement is much better than nafta. 50 million americans are in for weather whiplash as temperatures from mississippi
Warner is, i dont know, approaching old age. I will not say he is there. Is approaching old age but you would never know it. We have been sitting in the back and talking about this race and that race and all kinds of things and i was thinking about his career and it is absolutely incredible. You can go back as far as world war ii and korea. He was in both of those and you didnt have to. He was always willing to jump in and participate. He did lots of things in between. Lets start with secretary of the navy in the early 1970s, head of the bicentennial commission. Those of you old enough to remember the wonderful celebration of the bicentennial of the us which helped bring the country together. And he went to a place many of you never heard of, the United States senate. He was elected in 1978, elected very narrowly, 5000 votes, very narrowly. That was the end of his time test. Occasionally he would have one within a few Percentage Points but mainly was unopposed. In the u. S. Senate from
Jonathan vigliotti is there. Reporter romaine lettuce from salinas, california is once again being investigated as a possible source of an e. Coli growth break. Eight people have fallen ill, one of them suffering kidney failure. The centers for Disease Control and prevention is still investigating what exactly in Fresh Express sunflower crisp chopped salad kits is the source of the e. Coli, but it does contain romaine lettuce, which was contaminated with e. Coli in a large outbreak earlier this year caused by a different strain. Health policy expert says contaminated water containing animal feces often carries the bacteria. Lettuce is probably more vulnerable to contamination in part because it kind of has a lot of nooks and crannies. As an industry, we know we have to do more. Reporter Christopher Velez is president of a trade Group Representing romaine growers and shippers in salinas. He agrees with the cdc to avoid the Fresh Express product and clean areas where it was stored. As a
Of the museum of africanAmerican History. They should have called you the founding director. Her first book, a fragile freedom, africanamerican women d emancipation in the an antebellum city. Published by yale. An understudy topic up until that point. The perfect person to taken to challenge to recover the story of ona judge. Lets give erika a big round of applause. [applause] good evening, everyone. I would like to thank steve and emily for helping me with arrangements to arrive here. It has been a very, very busy week. This book just came out on tuesday of last week. And so as doug said, my first book was published with Yale University press and this book is more of a sort of crossover trade book for a larger more general audience. So it is a very different experience. Been rewarding. Im a little tired. Forgive me if my voice goes in and out. Ive been talking more than usual. And to be where the story of ona judges life began. What i will do tonight is talk a little bit about i will
Welcome back to the Virginia Museum of history and culture we are here talking about the struggle for black equality, this explores the period from the end of the civil war, which ended slavery in the United States , through 1950. This was a. That witnessed both progress and backlash. For black americans. After the civil war, black virginians and americans embrace the new opportunities. In the form of access to education, new civil rights, political participation, building new communities, starting new businesses and so forth. On one hand black lives of flourished under the new promises afforded , black people also began to suffer backlash from white establishments that wanted to reassert power and supremacy over people of color. At the same time that we see amazing strides, we also see regress in the form of distant friend and American Society. We will look at a few stories that exemplify that push and pull , the session starts with that reconstruction and key legislative amendments t