His Historic Program and event. We just completed a Film Festival showing i am not your negro and our particular guest and keynote speaker spoke about that particular film. Since she is a biographer for James Baldwin. His voice is very significant to detroit. He is a founder of metro times but has had deep experience in terms of launching the black Study Department at wane state university. Herb in many ways is like malcolmx having foots in harlem and detroit. We are very happy to have him and dr. Rita kiki edozie here today. I would like to give you background on dr. Edozie. She is the former director of studies at Michigan University and professor of africanamerican relations and african affairs. She has written seven books. Five in print and two forthcoming and several Journal Articles and book chapters on Research Topics that include the comparative politics and International Relationships of africa, global development, and panafrican and diasper studies. Her recent books, the afri
Largest seaport in the u. S. Are the department of the city of long beach. We partner does we consider ourselves part of the community we consider ourselves part of the community here in long beach. This is the largest economic engine for the city, for the region and for the state to some degree. 180 million with of cargo come through this port to supply the state and other region in the nation. Regionally, the port supplies 315,000 jobs in the region 1. 2 , million jobs throughout the u. S. Our cargo touches every Congressional District in the United States. The port of long beach was harvardhed as a department in 1911. We are over 100 years old. Through that time this port actually started on a wooden wharf. It was a terminal that came up from the northwest. From the growing city of long beach and parisian. We aree are today is sitting on the most modern sustainable terminal in the world. The First Successful terminal is a lumbar terminal that is with our inner harbor. From there, wh
Next, author Mark Pendergrast talks about his book for god, country, and cocacola the definitive history of the Great American soft drink and discusses the origins of cocacola, the companys battle with the food and drug administration, and various Marketing Strategies and advertising campaigns. This is at the Carter Center in atlanta. It is about one hour. [applause] mr. Pendegrast hello. I have never had the opportunity to do this before. [laughter]
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Between December 2010 and January 2011, 16 children presented to a mission hospital, in what at the time was, the Brong Ahafo Region (BAR) of Ghana, with unusual forms of seizure and paralysis. Initial testing suggested that the cause was B virus, a zoonotic monkey-borne virus not previously seen in Africa. These unexpected and concerning results spurred national public health authorities to deploy a field epidemiology team from the capital. Although short-lived, the findings from their investigation implicated a local monkey population occupying a forest belt which stretched along all of the affected communities. Newly collected samples were sent to a foreign reference laboratory for confirmatory testing, but no results were reported back. In the interim, several transnational research coalitions were formed to investigate the outbreak further. One did manage to obtain some confirmatory testing and the results suggested that B virus was not the cause of the outbreak. This prompted the