Oil this morning. Gain of 1 and a third percent. Prices decline nearly 9 just in the last three trading sessions. In case you missed it last night, the worlds top supermodels hit the cat walk. Wearing the most expensive bra encrusted. Dow chemical and dupont advance talks to merge, a merger can be announced in the next couple of days. Together a cap of some 120 billion. A deal would result in a threeway split. First they merge and then they split it off. Keith mccullough, record and tough deal for the industrial company. You have said in many times its in recession. More than 4 trillion in takeovers over time. Keith thiswhen things slow people have to buy growth and join each other. We cant do this, we didnt do that. Boom, all of a sudden theyre basically agreeing that nelson said and you get a lot of value creation. At least thats what the market is implying. Thats a big move. This is what you to deal daytoday. Everyone is going to agreed to get married at this point. Maria you wonder
Handle. On a serious note the mayor had advice for the republican president ial hopeful, demonstrate some understanding of what it takes from an intellectual standpoint to be a president ial candidate and run the greatest country in the world. When asked if he regretted using profanity, not really. I apologize to the clergy that was assembled. But he did not apologize to donald trump meanwhile there is a move overseas to ban donald trump from the United Kingdom and former mayor ed rendell chimed in and tweeted he is no longer fun or amusing, he is down right dangerous. Walter perez, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Developing right now, a man charged with the 2008 murder of a young teacher in south philadelphia has been found not guilty of all charges. Jurors handed down the verdict today in the trial of marsales jones. Vernon odom is live with the latest. Reporter the jury deliberated for three hours this morning and returned to deliver a verdict of not guilty completely rejecting th
Professor thompson ok, remember how we were talking about proslavery views. But especially talking about how they use the bible. Picking up on the last one as a way to talk about something that is going to happen in the africanamerican experience, especially as they read to read the bible themselves. The conflated story, the mark of cain, the curse of ham. We did not talk about, because the reader does not pull those text together the tower of babel is often used to talk about what you have different races of people. So, i am adding that one in. It is an example of a way you can understand difference, the different races that exist. This is a whole code for households, women and children but included in that is slaves. Included in that, slaves being obedient to their masters. The first pass a job timothy is the person the first passage of timothy is the same. How to be a good slave. And then there is a code for how to treat slaves. In the argument, if slavery is being talked about, it
Ruled that segregated Public Schools were unconstitutional. Hosted by our cox comedic haitians cable partners, cspan city tour staff recently visited many sites showcasing the citys history. Learn more about topeka all weekend, here on American History tv. In 1854, all eyes were on kansas. Congress had passed a law creating a kansasnebraska territory, opening up areas of the United States that had been set aside as nonslavery, that it was possible for slavery to grow and develop in kansas. As a consequence, that set in motion a tremendous competition between those folks who wanted to expand slavery and those folks who wanted to put it on a course of ultimate distinction. Extinction. And as a result everybody was , concerned about kansas. If you were for slavery, you wanted to make sure that kansas would become like missouri, a slave state. If you were opposed to slavery you want to make sure that no new opportunities were opened up. This movement into the territory that was created by
Story of lincoln. I am looking forward to finishing it. Lincoln is a particularly revered figure. He is revered in kansas in that we came into the union in the same time he is coming up. The kansas people were passionate abolitionists and for lincoln. He said, once famously, if i were a young man now, i would go to kansas. So, we came in with lincoln, and we have stayed with him. Throughout the weekend, American History tv is featuring topeka, kansas. Our staff recently traveled there to learn about its rich history. To learn more, visit cspan. Org. You are watching American History tv, all weekend and every weekend on cspan3. Each week American History tv sits in on a lecture with one of the Nations College professors. You can watch the classes every saturday evening here at 8 00 and midnight eastern. Next, Mercer University professor Douglas Thompson talks about religion and its impact on the relationship between slaves and their owners during the antebellum period. He cites nat turn