Im here with others author of the American Gods country and for me in the heartland. On return to the bulk and marie in a moment. Just have a couple of announcements to make. My name is danny im the owner of the raymond bookstore in kansas from city right now. The director of the literary festival. We appreciate you being here. With us, trend 12 the author. It would perhaps be more fun if we were altogether this beautiful sunny day. But we appreciate regardless. And we plan to be back stronger than ever in 2021. We had a great series of Online Events are all archived and available for replay just like raven bookstore at the top of the page. To get to the list of archived events. In a couple of other things about how this is going to work. Marie is going to give a sort talk and show some photos about the book. Then well open it up to questions. You can ask a question by clicking the ask question buttoned at the bottom of your screen. We appreciate you asking questions to kind of keep th
How his uniforms seals him from suspicion on the streets and may have saved his life. Now reporting, pierre thomas. There is not a moment that goes by when police are riding behind me where i dont fear being pulled over. When you drivin down the street, you know, and those blue and red cherries come on behind you, you get a tingle, your heart starts to race, even when you know youve done nothing. I will light you up, get out wow. Now adrenaline pumping, pulse quickening. A routine traffic stop makes most of us anxious. But for many, such encounters can mean the difference between life and death. Walter scott, samuel dubose. Philando castile. For a number of those whose loved ones have been killed, the fear and anger for police is raw. For those, those sworn to protect and serve they are here to kill us because we black my nephew philando was murdered by a Police Officer in falcon heights, minnesota. Seeing my sisters son, my nephew, shot and killed in a car by another Police Officer, y
Lets go to joy next. Good morning everyone, my name is joy jackson morgan. Im the executive director. Im a unicorn in the city, a San Francisco native. During this time third street has really focused on our young people in addressing the needs that youth have been coming up with, primarily with housing. That has been a huge issue for our young people and food has also been an issue. Weve gone from having our food pantry to having food delivery for our youth and their families. Were currently serving about 50 youth and families per week. Were also trying to keep our young people engaged. This has been a hard time for them adjusting to Distance Learning and not having the certain outlets that theyre accustomed to. So we continued our Youth Development program. We have been keeping our young people engaged, and active, and connected to their peer groups. This is not the norm for any of us. We are use to be being able to go outside and going where we want and now were confined to zoom or
Is Justice Commissioner consider legal action against cyprus is efforts to sell citizenship the latest developments in reports from aljazeera investigative units plus. A 4th night of demonstrations in wisconsin over the Police Shooting of an unarmed black man. And im santa how much now have all the sport sports teams across the United States boycott matches theres a protest against that shooting and. Our top story this hour a step toward for relatives of the victims of the worst terrorist attack in new zealands history the gunman who killed 51. 00 muslim worshipers last year was sentenced to life in prison without parole for instant terences the selfconfessed white supremacist who was responsible for the attacks on 2 mosques in christchurch when a has this report which after a harrowing emotional 4 days in the high court in christchurch just as cameron manda delivered Brenton Terrance sentence on each of the 31. 00 shots the murder charges walker. Was sent to live in prison. All of it
Hi everyone, thank you for joining us today for the Panel Discussion on the covid recovery. I am your moderator today, megan, the policy share for the San Francisco womens political committee. I would like to welcome our panelists carmen chu, joey jackson morgan, and veronica shepherd. Thank you for being here today. I would like to open up the discussion with a question. Please introduce yourself and tell our audience what you are currently working on the covid issues in your field. We can start with carmen. So good afternoon everybody, so glad to join all of you today for this great panel. I want to thank you megan for helping to host this and making sure this important conversation comes forward. I serve as San Francisco elected assessor. Like many of you, we had to quickly change to a remote work scenario with our office when we had the shelter place be put in place in march. We were able to do that relatively quickly and 98 of our operations is happening off site and not in person