to help reduce the risk of another one. if you ve had a heart attack be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. the 20th annual essence festival is wrapping up in new orleans today. over the past four days up to half million people have been enjoying the ultimate party with a purpose. i was hawnered to be there on friday to join alicia keys and others for a discussion on hiv in the african community. whether it s about taking control of our health or exercising our rights at the ballot box, the empowerment of african-american women is what the essence feltival is all about. with essence festival and the women that i want to go back in time for this next story. 57 years ago today tennis icon gibson became the first african-american ever to win at wimbled wimbledon. not the first african-american woman, the first african-american.
arthur ashe the first african-american man to win wimbledon but not until 1975. we took a look in our vault to see how history recorded gibson s moment on this day in 1957. a new tennis queen was born. althia gibson of new york became the first to win the title and won the u.s. nationals, too. sportsmen everywhere applauded her triumph and shared in her moment of glory when queen elizabeth herself present to the girl from harlem. that girl from harlem was actually born in south carolina and was mindful of her roots in the segregated south and all that she had overcome, even as she won wimbledon. she wrote in her memoir shaking hands with the queen of england was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown wilmington, north carolina.
they were playing the mets. a city that knows too well about fallen firefighters. they held a moment of ji lens. a jersey with the number 19 saying yarnell hung in each dugout. they wore black arm bands to support them. they are raising money for the fires. the bug continues to bite at wimbled wimbledon. serena williams lost in three sets to sabine lisicki. it ends her 34 match winning streak. i didn t play the good points good enough. i didn t do what i do best. i think i had a little hesitation. that explains it. serena s early exit leaves one american in the tournament. that is stevens.
malone s is the country s only village post office. the postal service says they expect to save about $42,000 a year here and may turn as many as 3,700 existing locations into village post offices. but with a looming debt of $9 billion, saving the u.s. mail service is going to take more than a village post office. patrick oppman, cnn, malone, washington. the news continues now with randi kaye. this is the bill, says president obama. the question now is whether the american jobs act will ever be turned into law and how fast. as you may have seen live right here on cnn, president today showed off the job creating blueprint he plans to send to congress just hours from now. it is $447 billion worth of tax breaks and new federal spending which the white house says will be more than offset elsewhere in the budget. it would deepen and extent the existing payroll tax cut for employees and employers, it would pump $60 billion into infrastructure projects and $25 billion into schoo
this environment and this economy? i think that s the danger. in this economy, employers can take advantage of their employees and that s why there needs to be boundaries. there needs to be protocols and policies. people are fortunate enough to have jobs and i m sure a great employer, right? as are you. the problem is because of the recession, so many employees are now picking up the slack for other people who are let employ or simply not there and suddenly they re work all the time. this was a perfect fair and balanced debate. it was like it being at wimbled wimbledon. put them up. watching it side to side. thank you very much. excellent. what do you think? who is right on this? e-mail us right now at foxnews.com. put your hands down. stop. reporters caught mocking governor sarah palin. these reporters still haven t come forward. should they? glenn beck joins us at the top of the hour live in four minutes. there s glenn right there. and bin laden, the bin laden