Good evening, and welcome to so important and interest, slavery and the United States constitution. I want to welcome you to our final event for our constitution weekend. You may know me as the programming lead for the actor interpreters and many recognize me from my time around Colonial Williamsburg portraying free and enslaved black people, but this evening i had the pleasure of serving as your moderator. I am also joined by ali larson and hope wright and hope right, hope right, my Dear Colleague began her career at Colonial Williamsburg when she was in the third grade. She was a performer in a play on my own time and the black music program. She has collaborated with many other departments at the foundation as well as with other museums over the course of her career. She has worked with a variety of educational institutions as an actress, storyteller, writer, researcher, and mentor. Please welcome hope wright. Our special guest allie larson is a professor of law and director of the
At the ronalreagan president ial Foundation Institute it is my honor to have judge ginsburg with us was the chief judge on the dc circuit 2001 through 2008 and on the court working with the Reagan Administration top bar and Harvard University of chicago columbia we are excited to talk about this project you have been working on. Amazon video series more or less perfect union. So what was it that made you want to do that . Thank you for asking. This is addressed to a crisis in our Education System in the us now. And those that have been neglected graduating each year from high school never exposed to how the Government Works what the constitution says and the National Values are and simply we cannot have that functioning democratic republic with a completely ignorant population but we are headed in that direction. I am doing is part of a broader reaction to that with Civics Education Sandra Day Oconnor started the ball rolling him and to create educational materials and to distribute so
Our special guest allie larson is a professor of law and director of the institute of the bill of rights law, since she joined the faculty in 2010, she has received many awards including the statewide outstanding faculty award and the in the rising star category. Offessor larson is a scholar constitutional law and Legal Institution for the focus on how information dynamics affect the votes. Her work has been featured multiple times in various publications and these are just a few of her accomplishments, please help me in welcoming allie larson. Our discussion may be about an hour long and it may feel uncomfortable at times, that is ok, you may feel angry, that is ok. You may feel sad, that is also ok. All of these feelings arose for me when i was researching for an event and it is ok to feel something. This reminds us that we care. While slavery is not the beginning of the story, for the purposes of trying to dive into large topics in a very little bit of time we will start our evening
Announces an end to the lockdown will not be an end to restrictions. U. N. Member states will take part in a call to end up stalemate on the budget. The United States has announced plans to reduce troop levels in afghanistan and iraq. They will go from 2500 4500 to 2500 in afghanistan. Allies had warned against a quick withdrawal of troops. A chief said a hasty pullout could be a platform for international terrorists. Our correspondent has more from washington. We have very Little Information because the new acting defense secretary gave very few details about this announcement of reduction of troops. He did not answer any questions. What he said was the troops staying there would be doing counterterrorism as well as protecting the u. S. Embassies in both countries. Also protecting local government facilities. There is a question that he did not specify or go into detail about. The fact that there is also a lot of very important equipment in those two countries and a question of whethe
This trillion budget deficit the australian budget deficit turmoil withs in tensions in china and the virus lockdowns. Shery lets get a quick check of the market. We are seeing u. S. Futures coming online a quarter percent higher at the moment. In the broader context of things, the s p 500 goes down for the fourth consecutive week. On friday we did see some misfires and after the market closed we had news that stimulus count had resumed stimulus talks had resumed between speaker of the house nancy pelosi and steepener nguyen. W steve mnuchin. 4 . Is down it did manage to stay above that 40 per barrel level but we do have concerns over the virus search. The dollar seeing its best week since april. Haidi we are seeing currencies in asia at this early part of the session holding pretty steady. We are seeing some downsides when it comes to trading already. Isare looking like tech possibly following the lead in the korean and japanese markets. In asia, it is a muted first half of the week w