It. He got to thinking on his way back, mobile which is close to 300 years old, and he heard his family discussed a lot of the contributions africanamericans had made, so i think this is something we could do in mobile and do it well. He started looking around the city for someone to take on the opportunity of a challenge just depending upon the perspective they looked at it from. After nine months of searching, he found a young lady that said, i will take on the opportunity. Her name was Dora Franklin finley. Dora was my double first cousin. Thats another tour. We wont take that one today, but she accepted the opportunity. She spent five years of her life doing research on places that africanamericans had made significant contributions to the city of mobile. When she finishes, she had 39 locations throughout the city. We will visit about 20 of those today. If i took you on all of them it would take us 6 hours. I would have to find out how you like your fish. Fried or broiled . Do you
Sworn in. Finds he spends the weekly where you get your podcasts. Previously, on american artifacts, tour guide eric finley took us from the safe slave market to africa town founded by captives of the slave ship clotilda up next in part two, we pick up the story after the civil war with mr. Finley describing how African Americans established businesses on the north side of town. This is the first African American mortuary in the state of alabama. They originally opened in 1880s. They built this building in the 1900s. But the real story is mrs. Allen. She started a private school directly behind us in the 1880s. It was called the Josephine Allen institute. Because in the 1800s before the emancipation proclamation, it was against the law for africanamericans to be educated. After the emancipation proclamation, schools started opening everywhere. She opened one to educate young africanamericans. This family actually came to mobile, from virginia. They were never slaves, they were elite. T
But some may have to chose their doors. The concerns come as the number of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations rise. More than 9300 parents are hospitalized. Amber lee is live from San Francisco. We visited restaurants in three areas to see what they will do if theres further restrictions. At union square, johns grill does a price 00 business. It was closed. Were waiting for the governor to figure out if we do a stay at home order or continue service. In the lynchmond district. Even out door heaters are not enough to warp the chill of a shelter in place order. The cost to keep the restaurant open for take out only is too much. Hes at a breaking point. And caught in a fire or jump over the chief. Reporter many restaurants need help or they wont survive. This is storage, i clean it up. He transformed what was a storage area into outdoor deep dining. Reporter at johns grill the owner is optimistic. Weve been going with the punches and were ready for whatever is to come. Reporter a grou
Im becky quick along with joe kerr de kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. After two days of optimism, the get out there again trade was on turned around a little bit yesterday. We did see people rushing back to the stayathome stocks as covid cases and momentization hs continue to climb. And some states are imposing restrictions and the nasdaq ended up 2 after being down monday and tuesday. Yesterday the dow ended flat, right now indicated down by about 115. Never made to the record, still waiting circumstanling around tt s p 500 down by 2. 5 and nasdaq indicated up another 51 points this morning these were the stay at home stocks, amazon up, apple up 3 , zoom which had gotten hammered, yesterday up by almost 10 took c docusign 5. 2 and netflix 2. 2 and treasury yields, yesterday it was closed for veterans day this morning it is open and you can see the ten year still around the very heightened levels, again, not historically, but based on what weve seen in recent history within range of 1 a
Candidate person burden of prbe. Nikki haley trying to sell a softer version of the Republican Party message to suburban women that have been fleeing Donald Trumps column for months. Bernie sanders, talk to the Labor Union Members who maybe are not big fans of the Democratic Party culturally but like bernie and i kind of like trump. Holding a virtual unity town hall tonight. Vice president pence is making a stop in allegheny county, kicking off a busy weekend. And we saw a lot of activity here in pennsylvania in 2016, too. But there is one difference. As the election nears, there are fewer and fewer voters who have not voted yet, since this time, unlike four years ago, all pennsylvania voters can vote by mail or with a bailin ballot. Lauren, with 11 days until election day count on nbc 10 to make sure you have all the information you need to cast your vote. We have a full voting guide on nbc 10. Com. We have a map of mail in ballot drop box locations. Go to nbc 10. Com voterguides. Pol