Local, state and federal legislation has been responsible for americas segregated cities. It is an honor to be here with richard for two reasons. Im a journalist and what that means is my work is deeply dependent on reporting, talking to people, getting to know people, getting into peoples lives, but its based in people who have really the time and the inclination to do the kind of deep research that richard does and demonstrate its. For all the praise i get nor work die, i try to make it clear that it its rooted in folks who do the deep, deep, research, that goes to bones of the country and unearths things were not so interested in talking about. Im deeply thankful to richard and just paying back the favor by being here in conversation with him. This second part is that there is a notion that i have been doing whatever i can to reverse in this country. For a long time we conceived of ourselves as a country with a quoteunquote racial problem and underneath of that is the notion that th
And welcome, and bill kelly, andrew w mellon, director of the research library. And its my pleasure to you to the library. We are fortunate indeed to have professor Kathy Davidson with us this evening. He is the author of a critically important, the new education, how to revolution as the university to prepare students for a world in flux. Kathys distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of new york, director of cunys initiatives program. Prior to joining the faculty she had held a chair professorship and was Vice President for Interdisciplinary Studies at duke university. She is the author or editor of more than20 books , cofounder and director of the worlds first academic social network, she serves on the board of the mozilla corporation. Developer as you probably know of the fox web browser and underwriter of the Global Community open source developers, she was appointed by president obama to the National Council on the humanities and was the 2016 recipie
Administration on his plans for leading a workforce of leaving a workforce of approximately 60,000 employees Security Operations in nearly 450 airports throughout the United States with federal air Marshal Service and shared security for highways, railroads, ports, mass transit systems and pipelines and now i recognize myself for an opening statement. Today the committee is meeting to discuss the role in keeping our Transportation System secure. Before we begin, i would like to welcome and thank the administrator for joining us this morning to discuss the range of important topics relevant to the Aviation Security. We are committee have just been briefed in a classified setting by the dhs Inspector General and administrator account specific vulnerabilities to the Aviation Security. Quite quickly, i think i speak for all of us when i say we found everything disturbing. We need to do more to confront the growing threats aimed at the aviation sector. And i want to work with you so we can
, his Outstanding New book, gathering dissemination, we come to know a new team of lincoln allies. We are likely familiar with names like gates, andrews and some others. But steve brings another analysis of the nearly five dozen individuals who served as chief executive during lincolns presidency. This nearly 500 page volume is supplemented with 122 pages of footnotes and nearly a 70 page bibliography. For those of you who can read in the program a little bit about steve but for those watching, let me say that Stephen Engle is the professor of history and director of alan b. Larkins symposium on the american presidency at Florida Atlantic university. He is a past fulbright scholar to germany. He is currently a distinguished lecture for the organization of american historians. In 2016, he was awarded a Andrew Mellon fellowship to the massachusetts historical society. The incoming president of the Abraham Lincoln Institute Associate Professor john white whose opinion carries a lot more ,
Could be just a test run today for something way more sinister. From sinister to outright scary, north korea has now succeeded in launching what it calls the perfect weapon. A missile capable of carrying a Nuclear Warhead that could reach here to the United States. As china watches, it isnt waiting to capitalize on at least the void that the u. S. Appears to be leaving when it comes to trade. China building the new silk road that it hopes will lead to infrastructure deals around the globe. Senator byron and gregg on both the real and economic attacks from the east. Oh, yes, and well ask them when do they think what their expert and experienced guys will have a tax reform plan or at least a tax cut. Russia tells saudi arabia were with you on this, pushing oil prices to threeweek highs. As you can see oil right now is at 48. 80 the nasdaq and s p 500, though, in record range and a fox business exclusive Virtual Reality and whats next . Next vr is going to do something that it believes wi