good afternoon. good afternoon. it s great to see the conversation, everyone having a good time. the food was wonderful. we welcome you again to this .unch panel plenary session i m going to introduce the moderator and the moderator will introduce the panelists. i am happy to introduce our panel moderator. professor mcdowell is the professor of literary studies and the director of the college institute for african-american studies at the university of virginia. she has been a member of the uva her booksnce 1987 and include studies of fiction by african-american women as well as numerous articles and in scholarly publications. professor mcdowell has been extensively involved in editorial projects pertaining to african-american literature. me in welcoming professor deborah mcdowell. [applause] thank you. thank you. thank you, marcus. thank all of you for your presence. thanks to the organizers for this wonderful event they have , with many more exciting panels to come i t
this was part of the symposium held at the university of virginia in charlottesville. good morning. in celebration of the bison telling bicentennial, we welcome you to the symposium. universities, slavery, and the public built landscape, presented by the university of virginia commission on slavery and the university, in partnership with the slave dwelling projects fourth annual projects. on vice president and chief officer for diversity and equity, the professor and i cochair the present s cochair the commission on slavery. the slave dwelling project led mr. joe mug gill and board of directors the slave dwelling project brings attention to sites, people, history, and ways in which the slave contributed to building and sustaining this country. i say 70 to 80 because the temperature dropped about 39 last night. i m not totally sure. they said they had experienced. humility and a better appreciation for those who live their daily lives is one intent of such an experienc
the judges at westminster, taking top dog and now he s here live. only on gma. back again we do say good morning, america. great to have you all with us on this valentine s day and you know who was feeling the love last night, in like flynn. yes, top dog at the westminster kennel club. he s a bichon frise, only the second time his breed has won best in show. 5-year-old flynn beat out nearly 3,000 other dogs for the award. he and his handler are here live. we ll see if we can get a word or two out of flynn so he can tell us how he did it in that would be a story. we ll begin with that new scandal rocking the white house. the president s lawyer now admits he personally paid stormy daniels, the porn star who said she had an affair with donald trump. he said it happened weeks before the 2016 vote, campaign watchdogs call that an illegal campaign contribution and an official investigation under way and tom llamas is tracking all the latest. reporter: good morning. we v
the judges at westminster, taking top dog and now he s here live. only on gma. back again we do say good morning, america. great to have you all with us on this valentine s day and you know who was feeling the love last night, in like flynn. yes, top dog at the westminster kennel club. and he s a bichon frise, only the second time his breed has won best in show. 5-year-old flynn beat out nearly 3,000 other dogs for the award. he and his handler are here live. we ll see if we can get a word or two out of flynn and he can tell us how he did it. that would be a story. but we ll begin with that new scandal rocking the white house. the president s lawyer now admits he personally paid stormy daniels, the porn star who said she had an affair with donald trump. he said it happened weeks before the 2016 vote, campaign watchdogs call that an illegal campaign contribution. an official investigation under way and tom llamas is tracking all the latest. reporter: george, good
wilfred frost great to be back together. on vacation like two months. one week, and you ve not been here various different places. i am teasing. happy birthday for last week. and to you. thanks very much. let s take in global markets. have a look at futures which are pointing higher. we mentioned we ve got gains around the rest of the world, and that s helping bounce back following last week s declines small gains friday, for the week as a whole, between 1% and 1.5% for each of those. all sectors were negative apart from consumer staples, energy was the worst, but in terms of sub sectors, banks stood out as decline. russell 2000 small caps, lot of people thought it was bearish. the banks down almost 4% because we saw that risk of buying bonds, compressed yields and that hurt the banks performance. seeing it tick up, below 2.2 on friday yields rising a bit. you can see trend over august is down economic data out of asia overnight. this was a wow number o