1st the Puerto Rico Supreme Court has overturned the swearing in of the territorys new governor clearing the way for the just the secretary to take over the senate called off a vote on monday to confirm lucy in the job while the court decided on his legitimacy. Joining us from san juan to tell us how the court reached this decision. Well they only deliberated for a little less than a day actually they just got the case on tuesday it was a 90 decision unanimous and in this decision they said that the governor pure the e. C. Who had been sworn in on friday night was illegitimate because he was not confirmed by the Puerto Rican Senate as is stated what needs to be happen in the puerto rican constitution in there they said that he needs to step down at 5 pm local time which is of a little over 2 and a half hours from now we do expect louie c. To follow the orders from the Supreme Court we do expect him to step down if not at 5 pm a little bit before it could happen at any time actually and
Members of either wounded victims or people who have passed away now this city is gone through a lot to say the very least over the past several days and its going through more as time goes on on thursday thats tomorrow with the 1st of 22 funerals are going to be held here in el paso and in cities in cross the border in neighboring cities in mexico the visit by President Trump to this city has been quite controversial for a number of reasons one hes criticized el paso in the past as being a crime infested city a false claim that was refuted by the mayor and by other city officials with statistics showing that this is a very safe city hes also talked about an invasion of people from south of the border from latin america coming into the United States well that same sort of invasion terminology was used in the diatribe that. That Police Believe the alleged shooter used so Many Democrats said that President Trump should stay away he came anyway hes here now hopefully well have more inform
A challenge internationally especially given as pakistan has pointed out india is going against you when president sions here. Absolutely. I would hope so and thats thats why the Google Fassel group of academics yesterday wrote another letter trying to enlist International Support i would hope that the United Nations Security Council would step in the Member States would step in the international i mean to him sounds as if it is a statement from yesterday is quite powerful although i do want to are also stamp a very clearly that right now as a as it sounds aloof he said all your ears and eyes are on indias judiciary system because what india is also lost is. International belief in its democratic institutional our ethos so in some ways i think this is a very opportune moment to bring back the question of selfdetermination for the International Community so instead of actually trying to only our speak to questions of autonomy this is this is the time really to bring back the fundamental
Donald trump and texas and ohio the states where 31 people were killed in 2 Mass Shootings last weekend donald trump traveled to the settings of dayton and possibly to meet the engine 1st responders and local officials rob vinyls reports from. President Donald Trumps visits to the stricken cities in ohio and texas took place largely out of public view he praised Law Enforcement officers for responding swiftly to the heavily armed gunman preventing worst carnage all over the world are talking about the job youve done as a least as Law Enforcement as 1st responders to the job youve done as a credible and he and 1st lady malani a trump spoke privately with family members of victims and wounded survivors being treated in hospitals. In both cities public protests were held against trump in dayton the now familiar blimp depicting the president as a scowling baby flew over the crowd in El Paso Democratic party figure said trump was not welcome hes used our community as a prop misrepresented y
Carter g. Woodson library in chicago. We thank you for being here today. Its such a joy to have this project between book covers now. You know, its been so long. And, you know, weve been talking with michael, you know, and eventually going get this project done. Each step of the way he keeps saying, you know, one day were going have that big event at the library. Here we are. Its finally here. So im happy to have all of you here with me today. And thank you for coming out on a saturday afternoon. Today i want to begin by talking about how i found this project. Sort of how it found me. Tell some of the background how the negro in illinois was conceived. The individuals who carried it out, then read some passages from the book. My wife and i moved to town to 2004 to urbana champagne, it didnt take me too long to find the Harsh Research Collection. It was straight up the interstate. I came here pretty promptly. I was interested in a fascinating figure. He had been a harlem renaissance poe