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Outbreak of positive cases, the air a road to had been in icu and on a ventilator for over 3 weeks when he passed away thursday evening. We hear from his wife. The talks about the loss of her husband. He gave us. Many many many years protecting all of us out there. And i feel horrible and. Just you know were going to retire, he was going to retire in january. Its its just so unfair. And now a celebration of life is being planned currently for deputy but because of everything thats going on with ...

So this product, Washington Post associate editor and Pulitzer Prize winner traveled across the world to kansas, indonesia, kenya, hawaii, new york and chicago. President obama and kenya discovered the president african ancestral history. He toured houses for Young Barack Obama in indonesia and found homes and sites with his family mother. Began. Discussing his latest book, barack obama. You write and barack obama about the story, no life could have been more the product of randomness than that ...

I think those are the two where the question is most relevant. Yeah. Well, i would just say it had an immediate effect on me, because i was supposed to be in germany right now at the bayer stockholders meeting. I had bought one share. I should mention, i was train by some really amazing historians, a bunch of people, but we didnt learn journalism, you know . We didnt know how to go on the ground. Ive had to learn on the fly. Buying a share, that sounds great. Ill tell you, the zoom version of th...

Tonight, earth dazed. Plus, stephen welcomes nathan lane and chef jose andres. Homin. and now, live on tape from a safe distance, its Stephen Colbert. Stephen welcome to a late show. Im steve coalbert. Happy earth day, everyone. Today is a big one, because its he 50th earth day. The big 50. And, i gotta say, earth is still looking good. Shes just getting hotter every year, even with the receding glaciers and putting on a little water weight around the coastline. And earth is having kind of a mom...

Celebrate these wonderful awards. In the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation, certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around, and probably among the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than they ceremony since zoom is not a great place to exchange awards and the like. So were going to have a series of conversations with our four winners, and then ill when w...

That was a man who was employed by the tulsa tribune and he in turn employed me, didnt employ any young black newsboys. I was employed by mister ripitso, it always and always clear what that was. In the afternoon, he was throwing newspapers and i helped him, wrapped them and prepared for the delivery and then went around with him to deliver the newspapers and i didnt collect, he collected the money and he had all the contact with the newspaper. I had no contacts with the newspaper though they kn...

South of tulsa about 60 miles south. My father and mother moved there about 1911 or 12 because he had had experiences in shreveport, louisiana. These are as red experiences that were not present. He was ready to give up on the white people because the way they treated him. He had been thrown out of court in shreveport, louisiana. So he retreated from shreveport and where he was practicing and went to an allblack town. Due to the humiliation he experienced in shreveport. They moved to in about 19...

The entire black community was burned to the ground so the only what sparked that riot . A young black man who was accused of assaulting, a sexually assaulting a white woman in an elevator. He had been acquitted. But the White Community felt justice had not been served. And that most of the white people felt all the blocks should be taught a lesson. Although he had been in jail and was being accused of this crime. The white people said they would get him out of jail and commit the kind of harm t...

That i grew up around and those that are being honored tonight and to concentrate on the substance not a capacious place and then to have a series of conversations and then when we are done we will take questions in chat to wrap up in an hour using the best practice not keeping you in front of your computer screen for too long especially this time of day. New to the awards and the legac legacy, we have a short video. Talk about the process of writing at the keyboard. Its not the most important p...

Coronavirus outbreak. The governor talked about his recent decision to extend the stay at home order through april willd said that illinois be reevaluating medical facemask policy. Good afternoon. Cap greet happy april 1. I hope you will play at least one prank on somebody, radical joe today, and find something to laugh about. Note, today is National Census day. You might ask why we need to proceed with a census right now, dont we have bigger things to with our battle against covid19, and my ans...