Editorinchief of essence magazine for africanamerican women. The editor that are overseas the content addition of the magazine as well as essence. Com. Her influence extends beyond the various rain extensions, including event such as essence fest, black women hollywood luncheon of black women in music. Before we start the conversation, well have shown they come out and read a passage from masons memoir. Charlene is a Community Organizer and writer. She currently serves as National Director of the black Youth Project 100, also goes by the way p100. An activist member of that organization of black 18 to 35 with dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all black people. Over 10 years of experience and racial justice, feminists and Youth Leadership Development Movement work. Please welcome show lane. [applause] thank you. First i would like to thank c. Nicole mason for the moment to share with her. As you all should know, many of her achievements. Tonight i had the opportunity to read
Policy network at New York University Robert Wagner public service. One of the youngest scholar practitioners to lead Research Center or think tank. Commentary has been featured the politico, progressive, essence magazine and cnn, msnbc, nbc and among other outlets. She oversee it is content of magazine. Her influence extends expenses such as essence fest, black woman in hollywood and black woman in music. Before we start with the conversation we will have charlene read a passage. She currently serves as the National Director of the black Youth Project 100. Also byp100, an activist Member Organization of black 18 to 35 year olds. She has over ten years of experience in racial justice, feminist and Youth Leadership Development Movement work. Please welcome charlene carruthers. [applause] thank you. Thank you, first i would like to thank nicole for this amazing important to share this moment with her. Tonight i have the opportunity to read a number of passages, if you have not read it, y
Leading the rally today, tech, discretionary, industrials. Meanwhile safe havens are biggest laggards in the market. Dom chu looking at the stocks that got us back to alltime highs. Dom. Its an impressive run, but remember were just where we were a year ago. First of all know the s p 500 since that time up about 5 the last time we saw that record high may 20th intraday 2015. Since then the utility sector, defensive ones like you talked about gaining the most in the s p. Meanwhile energy up the least in that amount of time as well. Something to watch out for as we move from record levels to new ones today. Look at points stocks individually done really well. First of all ulta salon, up 67 just since the last time we hit a record high, beauty products, personal Care Products a big part of that story. Another one, second best performing stock since then, one that we all know about, its amazon. Com. Those shares up by about 78 since the last time we saw record highs. So amazon continues th
American history. The opening session is on africanamericans and religion. While we wait for the conference to begin, a look at a 2011 trip to a storage site in a washington, d. C. Suburb with the director of the Smithsonian National museum of African American history and culture. He showed us some of the artifacts that will be on display in the new museum, opening on the national mall, september 24, 2016. Right now, we are in the Storage Units of the National Museum of African American history and culture. In essence, this is the heart of the museum of. Because whats behind me, and what we will see today are many of the objects that are going to be the soul of this museum. This is an opportunity to sort of preview some of the material that the public will see when the museum opens in stores. The story of the africanamerican experience is both a story of resiliency at achievement, but its also a story of struggle. Parts ofe hard exploring this history is that were athe people who the w
Americans engaged beyond the United States. That is not the say the historians of the 18th and 19th centuries can ignore International Angles to their work. There is something inherent in the term africanAmerican History that is at the very least transnational. And scholars have spent a great deal of time exploring the relationships between the cultures of people of the west and West Central Africa and the cultures of the enslaved in america. Slavery institutions soft to constrain the worlds of this of the enslaved. All involving questions that would trend toward a regional perspective. Antislavery had been an obvious exception. Historians recognize the link between the british and antislavery movement, and they have traced the roles black abolitionists played in the struggles. Even hear internationalization was part of the study that was understood, a peculiar interest to African Americans asked africanamerican, rather than be part of an effort to explore the perspective abroad. There