Tvs american artifacts we visit the Cannon House Office building to see artifacts that tell the story of africanamericans in congress in the 20th century. Im farar elliott. And im matt waz knsniewski. We wanted to talk about africanamerican representation in the 20th century. We have a lot of artifacts from the house collection that have to do with that and a lot of history to cover. And the last africanamerican to be elected in the 19th century leaves in 1901, george white of north carolina. And then its a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house. And that is Oscar Depriest from illinois. And we have a couple of really rare artifacts from Oscar Depriest from the 1920s and 30s. But before i launch into them, because i love them so much, matt, tell us a little bit about Oscar Depriest and how he got into congress. So, theres a long period, almost three decades, after George Henry White leaves congress where theres no africanamericans who serve in either the house or
Blog to see if you have toibodies that were created fight the coronavirus. Remember, all the Health Officials say the coronavirus was here before we started the test, many more people have had the coronavirus then we, most people have resolved the coronavirus. Have you know that . You can test and find the antibodies that the body created to fight the virus. Antibody, ithat means you had the virus and you resolved it. Why do you want to know that . Because i want to know who had it, who has the antibody which means they most probably will not get it again and that can help us get our medical staff back to work faster. So, it is a different level of testing, but i think the fda should move as expeditiously as they have before on this type of testing. Find out who had it, who has the antibodies, and that will help us, especially on medical staff shortages. The state role, what am i supposed to do . Im not just looking to the federal government. Arederstand that we responsible here in the
Good morning. Happy sunday. Thank you for being here. The numbers are still going up. As weve discussed. We watched the other countries trajectory and trying to turn the trajectory. As of now the numbers are continuing to increase. Hard toare working very do is to keep the rate of increase of the spread of the disease to a level that we can manage in our hospital system. We have 53,000 hospital beds available. Now the curve suggests we could need 110,000 hospital beds and that is an obvious problem and thats what we are dealing with. You have the nations role in the situation. You also have the states role. Call anwhat they Emergency Management situation and there are rules for Emergency Management. Who does what. The state governments, local governments manage an emergency unless the emergency overwhelms the capacity of the local government. And then the higher level of government takes over. That happens even on the state level. The city will be in charge. Accounting will be in charg
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To tonights program and thank you so much for being here. My name is marcia eli i come to you from the center for brooklyn history at the Brooklyn Public Library and bpl presents, which is the librarys arts and culture arm that brings you so many programs and conversations like tonights as well as musical performances family and children events literary and philosophical discussions and so much more tonights program the history of lenape forced removals is one part of a much larger and farraging initiative that bpl is honored to be presenting in partnership with and with the wisdom and leadership of the Lenape Center. Titled will not be hoking. This Initiative Includes new yorks first ever la not be curated exhibition of lenape cultural arts, which is now on view at bpls Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education center as well as many future programs on topics like the myth of the purchase of manhattan. Seed remitriation well have poetry readings and theres an upcoming published a