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it looks at nasa s role in civil rights in the years before the civil rights act pass. before the civil rights act passed discrimination was not against of law. it was legal to say no, you cannot use this toilet, you are black or you cannot come into this restaurant, you are black and that is an important distinction that will become even more important as we talk about the achievements of some of the people in this book. we will be talking about the rules put in place by the tonedy administration address discrimination and how they were implemented by nasa and its contractors. we will be talking about the people whose lives were touched those rules. our books tell the story of men most of them who came to work at the program during the civil some were nasa employees and some of them worked for contractors. president kennedy was forced into dealing with outerspace at the same time and forced into dealing with civil rights. these are not things he talked about during the ....
hopefuls taking on iowa voters and ben carson. this is al jazeera america live in new york city. i m dale walters. the pentagon this morning saying it s still trying to figure out if it was indeed jihadi john that was killed in that strike. we are reasonably certain that we killed the targetna we intended to kill which was jihadi john. it was his covered face that appeared in all of those videos showing the killings of western hostages. john, what is the latest on the strike and whether they did indeed kill the man we know as jihadi john. we just don t know for certain. there is a press conference going on at the moment by the pentagon briefing room here in washington d.c. coming in from baghdad, it s being hosted by colonel steve warren. according to him, there was a drone strike carried out yesterday, a very routine drone strike according to colonel warren using hell fire missiles. according to him, the people that they expected to be present when the drone ca ....
we re here to talk about our book, we could not fail: the first african-americans in the space program. it looks at nasa s role in civil rights in the years before the civil rights act passed, and that s an important distinction. because before the civil rights act passed, discrimination was not against the law. it was legal to say, no, you can t use this toilet, you re black. or, no, you can t come into this restaurant, you re black, which is an important distinction that will become even more so as we talk about the achievements of some of the people in this book. we ll be talking about the rules put in place by the kennedy administration to try and address workplace discrimination and how they were implemented by nasa and by its contractors. but more importantly, we ll be talking about the people whose lives were touched by those rules. our book tells the stories of ten men, most of whom came to work in the space program during the years that we call the civil righ ....
the roadmap begins with the markets looking to recover after logging their worst february start since 1982 for the dow and for the s&p. michael kors trounces estimates while jcpenney reports its first quarterly same-store beat in years. the parent of kfc, pizza hut and taco bell adds it s recovering from the lingering fallout of food safety concerns in china. and apple is reported lie by the wall street journal and quietly laying the groundwork for a vast internet infrastructure capable of delivering a lot of data and content to consumer. the dow tumbled 326 yesterday and growing concerns of a weaker u.s. economy surrounding emerging market worries and the nikkei down 42 overnight and the worst loss in nearly six months. that index is down i think 15% for the year to date, jim. rough, rough. terrible. when i see adella, your man might be in there. your man, no one knows him very well. exactly. we re out of data. we ve had nothing but not-so-great data. i ....
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