Awaits me tomorrow into next week. It will be interesting. We are dealing with it here on surveillance. Day monday in america, and its a very late labor day. Maybe the calendar year starts september 14 for the business year. We start strong with our first word news in new york city. Ritika the timing may raise some eyebrows. The cdc is saying that a Coronavirus Vaccine could be ready by november 1, two days before the president ial election and an aggressive goal that would require reviews by then. The virus has killed the most 100 85 thousand americans. Polls show biden leading trump in three swing states that President Trump won four years ago. Ayden has the edge in wisconsin, North Carolina, and arizona. In all three biden shows strength in women and minority voters. Visits to college campuses, meetings with local officials, and cultural events. The u. S. Matching chinese limits on american diplomats. The u. S. Economy is showing progress according to the federal reserve. The federa
Lifetime and opportunities and i wanted to tell a story that could be uplifting. And certainly people will face china challenges rather a typo help should understand that those challenges dont necessarily have to define us. I was blessed to live in the great United States of america. And i hope to share in the story with other people. Peter the book is relatively revealingly will go through some of the things. But was that tough to expose yourself like that. Joni it was very hard. Ive been through an number of significant challenges in my lifetime. I was raped when i was a young woman rated with my first boyfriend. In a really suffered from that. And then moving on and going through an episode of Domestic Violence and just really difficult time in my marriage. Those are all things that i really did not want to share publicly. But i was obviously going through a very public divorce a couple of years ago. That information came out through that process. And so many other women and men who
History. So if you will join you for just a second and reflecting together on that. And then we could start a little belated. [silence. Alright thank you. So this is a book that began, i began writing this book in the fall of 2014. And i began writing because i was invited to st. Louis to give a talk on washington university. I felt called to talk about the murder of Michael Brown in the protests on the uprising. So i was invited to october, went there and felt that i had to go out and present what was happening because i am a missourian and i felt that was a history in which i was both one i knew very well, and one that i was implicated in. And so with the particular kind of turn of mind, that i have, i started to look at the political economy with a particular simple straightforward riddle which is how could it be that the city of ferguson that has a 26 billiondollar corporation within the city limits, 26 billion a year, emerson electric, how could that city the funding poor black mo
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