Miles davis and lena horne, generation africanamericans who found success in their respective fields during the start of a broader Civil Rights Movement. Wil haygood discusses his book with dave cybercom sports columnist for the nation magazine and author of a peoples history of sports in the United States. Host welcome to after words. I am days island, the Sports Editor for the nation magazine and an absolutely thrilled to be interviewing a man who has written a tremendous biography about the greatest out for pound boxer of the 20th century. That boxers name is walker smith, jr. , better known as Sugar Ray Robinson. And the author is will haywood. Will come how are you doing . Guest good to be here. Host great to have you. I really do think this book is worthy of sugar sugar ray robi. Instruments achieve it so congratulations right away trade to thank you. Host you are not a sports biographer of by trade. Guest right. Host why did you decide to spend five years of your life writing th
Sports world coming to a halt while the happiest place on earth closes its gate. 2020 race impacted by coronavirus as well, Campaign Events canceled. Debates with no inhouse audiences, mornings with maria live right now. Maria we want to check overseas marks right now, take a look, mixed story over in europe. Ftse 100 now turned negative, down 421 points, 7 lower on financial times. Cac request rant is up 150 and dax index in germany up 307 points. 3 apiece. We are looking at those losses extend this morning in the uk. In asia overnight it was red across the board certainly in the heels of wall street but markets in asia actually closed off the lows of the session, worst performer was japan, down better than 6 followed by korea. South korea banning short selling for now 6 months, lets check Interest Rates, the yield on the 10year treasury moving up. The yield is up now 10 basis points at level of. 896 on the 10year, Oil Prices Rising this morning after 2 days of decline as the price wa