Behavior. Youll hear the voice mails from his exassistant. Sticker shock, cable tv bills on the rise. Just how much were now paying in hidden fees. And from the elephant that got onto this roof to the urban cowboy causing controversy in new york city to the dog who wandered far, far away from home. All the trending stories for your friday morning. Good friday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We begin with several developments from the impeachment battle in washington. Were learning more about the Text Messages provided to congress by the former u. S. Envoy to the ukraine. Those messages could be crucial evidence in the impeachment investigation. Also this morning more republicans are coming to the president s side defending his actions just hours after he brazenly called on china to investigate joe biden. Abcs Serena Marshall is following all the new details. Serena, good morning. Reporter trevor, janai, good morning to both of you. Overnight more of those Text Messages rel
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Good afternoon everyone. We have a wonderful panel and we are in for a treat and im so happy to be here this afternoon to introduce our panel for our panelel today which will be pride and prejudice. We are the instrument of our instruments and we have to examplars today in terms of dedication to the black community. Lets start with moderator and that is the director for the research and black culture. Here at nyu public library. Hes a former associate of indiana university. His book the combination of blackens race crime and modern america published and it won best book award in american studies. Here also this afternoon is we have author and nyu professor of journalismwk dr. Pamela newkirk. A life, shes a multifaceted scholar w who has published a variety of works. Her b first book black journalist, contemporary struggles of African Americans integrating. Love letters from black american which i had a pleasure of reading, a fantastic tone that you should put in your list. Im not going
Of trustees and i am delighted to welcome to an evening that highlights so many amazing women who contribute to our literary and Cultural Community and most especially, lisa lucas. [applause] if you havent heard, lisa is the roxanne and shes been on campus in various groups today and so we welcome her. Tonights program is also part of this semesters script present theories, script present seeks to bring scripts to the world and the world to scripps by finding the intersection between and are caching and scholarship and society and culture. Presenters often linked to issues that are vital to student and faculty such as, race, gender, class, literature and the arts. Programs provide a form for Community Engagement and the exchange of ideas beyond the classroom and their environment for inquiry, ideas and intellectual exchange. While shes been on campus she has been meeting with students and faculty and sharing her perspective on the executive director of the National Book foundation and