In depth. This is our Monthly Program with one author talking about his or her book w and we are pleased ts month to be joined by westmore who is the author of three books plus Childrens Book and the novel. His first book came out in 2010 called the other westmore and cthen his book the work came ot in 2015 and its most recent book is about baltimore during the arrest and death of freddie gray that just came out five days. It is called that but in your book, the work, you write that the militaryta saved your life. What don you mean by that . Guest i think the military played an incredible role in my life where some of the most important times in my life have not been when i was wearing a suit or a a tshirt and jeans bt when i was wearing a uniform from this country. I was first introduced in the military system about 13 years old and i was sent to military school and hand one mandatory year in military school. It was some issues and challenges and my mom was threatening to send me to m
Its a great to give our audience the opportunity to get to know the bestselling author wes moore. You wrote the book with the awardwinning reporter the Baltimore Sun reporter final to the 2016 Pulitzer Prize with the death the freddie gray. This book is a beautiful way to understand what happened to freddie gray, baltimore with black and White America and the half broken truth and the incomplete stories that stop us from being one community. So thats a way to think about uprising and reckonings in america. Im just really pleased to have this conversation with you. Lets start by talking about the young man whose life was taken from us, freddie gray. But then leaving the funeral all the different parts Baltimore Society and knit the thread to paint a story to reflect what was going on and baltimore and by extension, the country but talk about freddie gray and why his death rocked the city and the nation. Freddie gray was a 25 yearold young man who committed the crime of making eye contac
Brent a decline of 49 cents. Couple big corporate stories to tell you about. The biggest one, its final. Its here. Verizon set to announce an agreement today to buy yahoo for 5 billion. Sources telling us that yahoo will no longer an operating company after this. It will become a Holding Company for stakes . Alibaba and yahoo japan. Has a small platen portfolio to sell. Marissa mayer not expected to stay on after the deal is completed. Her severance, expected to be 57 million. Well have a lot more on the story in a couple of minutes. Other news as well. Tesla and solar city, theyre reportedly closer to a merger. No brainer. Thats a new one. One brain. Elon musk the largest share hoeflder in both companies. In the final stages of carrying out Due Diligence on both companies. The companies are carrying out due dial generals the right brain talking to the left . Elon did an interview this morning. Did you see this . Its a good piece. We dont get that paper. Its called the new york times.
More than 207,000 jobs and dc more than 127,000 jobs if the sequestered takes affect. In addition to those jobs, the city could lose over 100 million in federal grants and tax revenue. One federal grant provides 23. 5 million for education. In d dr. The number of civilian d c. , the number of civilian jobs outweighs what could be considered with the department of defense. We have heard a lot about defense jobs and a defense cuts that could happen. If it does happen, it could hurt the needest person the most. This is the axe food pan tree in bump free. It is part of the axe food center which helped 77,000 people last year, people who were hungry, homeless, job loss or from domestic violence. A third of its budget come from state or county funds. If sequestration happens,. That is direct services to the people we help. The is he questerred cuts total evenly divided between domestic and defense spending. The defense communithas rallied against the cuts. Economy mists have said 150,000 job