Versus arizona. Number 18, roe versus wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspans landmark cases where weve been learning more about historic cases at the Supreme Court that have affected the court and affected the country. Tonight the 1961 case of mapp v. Ohio, involving dollree mapp. An ohio woman that refused to let the Police Search her house without a warrant a case that involves some back stairs intrigue at the security itself and all this evolved into a case that was one of a series in the warren courts that changed policing in america. We welcome with us this program and hope you have been with us throughout the series as weve been learning so much about the Supreme Court. Let me
Archives. Visit booktv. Org for a complete schedule. And we now kick off with Professor William darity and Kirsten Mullin with their thoughts on reparations for africanamericans. Good afternoon, im director of the hutchens center on fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution. We gather here this afternoon virtually because of the covid plague to talk about reparations for africanamericans for the descendants of slaves. We planned this event before covid19 and, of course, william darity and Kirstin Mullen wrote the book long before covid19. Its worth noting that the coronavirus seems to be afflicting blacks much more than whites. Theres a piece in the journal of the American Medical Association which points out that more than half the covid19 cases in chicago and nearly 70 of the deaths involve black individuals although blacks make up only 30 of the population. Theres a story on the front page of the Washington Post today about contrasting the intensive care unit in afflue
There is a piece in the journal of the American General Association Appoints out the more than half of the covid19 cases in chicago, nearly 70 percent of the death, involve black individuals. Although blacks make up only 30 percent of the population. Theres a story in the front page of the Washington Post today about contrasting the intensive care unit in Northern Virginia which is largely empty with the overwhelmed the hospital and largely black county on the other side of washington dc. So although recreations is or has a long history. It is not directly related to covid19, it is same to me that covid19 puts the next hard on some of the issues in this book. Host a fun today is to put this into historical context. And also reference to jews in the state of israel, theyve done done by the. The u. S. Recreations to japaneseamericans who in turn during world war ii. For that we will start with a philosopher has been the director in berlin, she is the author of learning from the germans.
Thats something to behold. Its hadding the lowest level since march of 1999. Right now well take a quick look at my board, which is current. I can see it down 4. 13 i say that because ive been practicing waiting 12 seconds to get a quote on something that im trying to give you instantaneously. Now im back on the nasdaq and i can actually see it. The coronavirus pandemic has sapped demand for oil and global storage is rapidly proefing capacity the world is running out of room on ships anchored at sea the may futures contract for wti expires tomorrow looking out to june, the situation isnt quite as dire. Its back to more of what were used to, kind of, at least in the last couple of weeks as you can see there, june delivery under 23 a share meantime, an update now on the pandemic as we bring you the numbers as we do every single morning. Here are the latest numbers. Global cases topping 2. 4 million now with 165,000 deaths. Now, the u. S. Cases nearing 760,000 with more than 40,000 deaths
A lot of the folks just focus on earnings and what we heard overnight out of the u. S. A lot of banking as well. Later on we will speak to the astrazeneca chief executive asking about vaccines or medicine that will work in treating covid19. If you look at the markets and the pressure we see on the dollar, probably one of the biggest stories out there. 0. 2 ,an stocks gaining eurodollar 1. 08. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city. Italy, the with nation seeing its delivering an out of cycle downgrade, one level above junk. The timing of the move may catch some investors off guard. It wasnt scheduled for review until july the 10th. But the outlook made fears of a future cut to noninvestment grade. Over the u. K. , Boris Johnsons top aide crest scientists for a lockdown. He swayed the discussion towards faster action. Number 10 denied the political advisor influence the committee of experts saying its appropriate for aides to sit in on the meeting and ask qu