Greys anatomy has collected every day objects that mark and dehumanize africanamericans. The founder and director of the jim crowe muchl of racism memorabilia he said they can be used as teaching tools. Next on american artifacts a visit to the museum at Ferris State University in big rapids, michigan to see a selection of artifact of a collection of thousands. Special thanks to the museums cinemagrapher recorded the audio and video while we asked questions via zoom. When i was a kid growing up in alabama, 11, 12 years old or so i went to a flea market hybrid carnival. There were carnival rides but also people there selling objects. One of the objects was similar to this. I purchased it and i broke it. And, again, it wasnt a philosophical thing i didnt like the object. I dont remember the second object or third or the fourth, but i started collecting, and basically have been collecting for several decades. Didnt start out with the anticipation of creating a museum. I was what most peop
How he plans to wipe out the disease. Still, no concession from President Trump who has been flooding facebook and twitter with unfounded messages that the election was stolen. Expecteddministration not to play so nice with big tex. Expect more public engagement, public oversight, and regulation. Those stories in a moment. Paring gains. Ocks markets widely mixed at the end of the day on a bit of an ugly close despite intraday record highs. What are we seeing here . Abigail if you had a dollar for every time i said this, you would have a nice pile of money. It was another wild day. Stocks surging out of the open. The dow up nearly 6 . Russell 2000 hitting its first record high, more than 6 . At the close, we had stocks pullback to some degree. Up. Dow closing where we had losses, the nasdaq 100 down 2. 2 . The faang complex, those make a cap stocks, down 3. 2 . The reopening trade clearly doing very well with pfizer which itself was up about 8 on that vaccine. Certainly a light at the e
Market, that is the title. Retail earnings rolling out this morning. Economic data showing customers are slowing their spending. October retail sales data shows the slowest growth in about six month. Joining us to break it down is michael mckee, Bloomberg Economic and policy correspondent. Michael we call it getting whacked upside the head here in the colonies. In april, just a 0. 3 gain for the month of october, down from 1. 6 in the month of october, with the pendant was at its worst in april. Only five of 13 categories rose last month, compared with 11 of 13 in the prior month. October andm november seems to be getting worse. Jp morgan economists report that chase card spending has fallen notably in the first part of this month. It is, as they say, really dropping off,. That suggests a weaker month ahead. Who knows what will happen with black friday, if anybody cares about that anymore, but it is a clear americans are cutting back. The actual results come a much less meaningful than
Accounts to fill colorado and louisiana saw voters weigh in on the controversy surrounding abortion laws in a womans right to choose as we discussed on our election fallout show just a few days ago you also had a slew of voters in states across the nation including washington d. C. Vote to decriminalize various Illegal Drugs like marijuana magic mushrooms you even had voters in mississippi deciding on giving the Southern State a brand new flag which was i think long overdue given that their original state flag up until tuesday night featured the confederate battle cross of civil war era fame. But while the initiatives across the country covered a wide range of important subject it was 20 twentieths most notorious Party Crasher cope with 19 who kept many important issues off of the ballots in this years elections the New York Times reported that if ever there was a doubt about the coronaviruses impact on american democracy look no further than the sharp decline on so this initiative was
To the website. If ive got that right ok. Thank you for your rapt attention this morning, i think you are in for more surprises this afternoon. Our first speaker is ed ayers. I feel like he needs no introduction to the Richmond Community but i will introduce him. He has received the National Humanities level from president obama at the white house and served as president of the organization of american historians and won the bancroft prize for distinguished writing in American History. He has served as the founding chair of the board of the American Civil War museum. He hosts the future of americas past, a Television Series that visits sites of memory and meets the people who keep those memories alive. He is the executive director of the new American History, and of course we all know him from a when we are driving around in our cars, as one of the American History guys. An online project design that has promoted the student in all of us to divide to dive into history and see it in new