Settlements and forced from their homes. We need the feel p. And so fled to sudan and are now desperate for help. Im joining us though with Sports Major League Baseball star Robinson Camaro has been banned for a whole season for doping and must fulfill his 24000000. 00 salary. Thank you for joining us. We start this news hour with the coronavirus funday make and the race to find a vaccine. British pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca says its phase 2 trials show, promise in protecting the most at risk groups. A strong immune response was shown in those age over 70. The vaccine is being developed in partnership with Oxford University and is now in the final stage of human testing to confirm those findings. The positive news on the vaccine front comes as cases continue to mount. More than 2000000. 00 cases have now been reported in africa, but low rates of testing means the caseload is sought to be much higher across the 54. 00 country, continent globally cases have surpassed 56000000. 00.
Please welcome the official party to the stage the secretary of the army, the honorable ryan b mccarthy. Chief of staff of the army, general james c. Mcconville. Sergeant major of the army, michael a. Grinstead. Director of the National Museum of the United States army, ms. Tammy call. Accompanied by acting secretary of defense, the honorable christopher c. Miller. And chairman to the joint chiefs of staff, general mark a. Millie. Now presenting the colors is the third United States infantry regiment, the old guard, accompanied by the old guard fife and drum corps. The National Anthem will be performed by jesse meeks from the United States army band, pershings own. Present arms o say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight , oh the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our
Americas third president Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his words and actions on slavery and race. This video is courtesy of the university. Its from their great live s lecture series. I am pleased to announce a special miniseries of six lectures entitled great president ial lives. This series is particularly attractive for two main reasons. The first being its timeliness. A president ial election year, it will be an insight all of us can be in. The second is the speaker himself. Our esteemed umw professor, william b. Crawley, who has just completed 50 years on the faculty of the university of mary washington. During a half century, he has contributed in innumerable ways and significant ways. Certainly not least of all the creation of our renowned Historic Preservation program and the creation of this amazing great lives series. But it is for his excellence and teachings that he is perhaps best known, and to literally thousands of our students who have come through our halls, he has rec
Have ordered a copy of the book, please consider grabbing one nationally, internationally, Curbside Pickup thats open now at limited capacity. Heads up, weekends are busy. The share guidelines and also some to the books. Easy access to purchase. Remember your purchase goes towards our staff. Our guest for the night will be joining us on the screen. We will take questions from the audience to please submit your questions below. If youre looking below all the way to the right, lucy little bubbles, thats where you should put them. We will try to keep track of all the questions. Also, if youre watching via facebook, submit your questions on the comment field and well go from there. I like give a warm welcome to our guest for the night, eddie, phd is an associate professor of Higher Education and organizational change at ucla. College president and the struggle for black students published by Princeton University press. You can find him on twitter at eddie. Also phd, historian of black wome
Hello welcome to the Atlanta History Center for the author talk series and your post tonight i and talking with Claudio Saunt his book on were the republic. You can purchase the book directly from the link in the chat on your screen. Please let your questions on the q a feature at the bottom of your screen and i will try to get to as many as time allows. Professor of American History code director for ritual history associate director at university of georgia and three previous books a native American History. Rest of the revolution, black white and indian and a new order of things. Thank you to the atlanta history sent on center for sponsoring this event. So many histories at the explosive of the negative ability. You cover a lot the political and economic motivation. And two thirds of what became mississippi and its not just how much land it was the most valuable Agricultural Land in the world at the time. And removal is part of the southern story but the indian people in the north a