His appearance in 2012. For his final novel, back to blood. [applause]. Tom wolfe good evening everybody. Welcome. On behalf of all of us from the Miami Book Fair, we want to welcome you to the 29th book fair. Believe it or not. [applause]. This is a remarkable undertaking. Takes the work of literally hundreds and hundreds of volunteers. We have a remarkable board of directors to work extremely hard to doing this year round. None of this at all, could happen without the good good support of everyone here in miamidade college. Lets give them a huge round of applause. [applause]. Host i would particularly like to thank the sponsors. Without the sponsors and the funding from sponsors and governmental agencies, we would not be able to bring you this wonderful literary extravaganza. And many of you are friends of the Miami Book Fair. And that is the way you can support this book fair and make sure that it goes on for another 29 years as well. [applause]. If you look downstairs, you are more
Skeet to hit nearly the same time. Moon while a white house shakeup Kellyanne Conway giving up post starting next month her husband george step wage from antitrump organization as they both put the focus back on their family. They say. Markets this morning are rallying take a look at futuring with a triple digit move the fda announce emergency for plasma to treat covid19 and dow is up 370 points and s p 500 up 25. Markets finish in the green on friday, certainly the s p 500 seeing its longst winning streak this year with the s p friday up 11 points nasdaq up 46 and dow industrials finish out the week up 190 points on friday. Ticktock troubles continue Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg reportedly still confused in washington about the chinese social media app. Missing these warnings months ago and it is the gops turn. The Republican National convention kicking off today. Housing urban Development Secretary ben carson will join me in the next hour with breaking news on his speech as well as o
President is prepared to take. U. S. Park police and others near Lafayette Park used tear gas, flash bang grenades and rubber bullets to aggressively push back a peaceful crowd 30 minutes before the d. C. Curfew went into effect. Why was this assault undertaken . It wasnt to step inside st. Johns church and offer a prayer for george floyd, his family, or the countless other americans who have been victims of police brutality. It wasnt to reflect on the pain and division that is rife within our country and to contemplate what action he could take to heal our nation. Like president lincoln often did during the civil war. The president crossed the street, aggressively cleared Peaceful Protesters for a photo op that meant to say he was strong and he was in charge. Unfortunately for him, it had the opposite effect. President trumps rhetoric and some of the events that have occurred are not ones that many of us ever thought we would see on american streets or hear from an american president.
Welcome to brookings. My name is ron haskins, im the codirector along with Richard Reeves of the center on children and family serving brookings. Today we are releasing the 29th volume of the future of children. When i read that and we added these up, i almost died of exhaustion. It takes a lot to put these volumes up weve been doing this 10 or 11 years. This is the 27th policy brief. We have produced a lot of work. In this volume in policy brief we addressed vital issues of how to achieve broadscale impacts with social programs. We focused for several years on evidencebased policy, on developing programs that high quality evaluations show are capable of producing impacts on important child and family outcomes. The goal we are promoting today is to ensure highquality programs could have a broad range of impacts. We are trying to help as Many Community as possible to build up their capacity to help families provide Effective Services for their children, especially their families and chi
Good evening, everyone. Thank you so much for coming to this very special you are in for an incredible treat. My name is Anthony Arnove. Im the editorial director of haymarket books. And we have the great privilege be the publishers of say her name, which is the focus of this program. Our Program Features Kimberle Crenshaw with Dorothy Roberts members of the say name Mothers Network and. In addition to the author talk, well have special performances evening from Rosalyn Coleman abbey, dobson, Margaret Odette and kim, and then also a book signing after organize by the brilliant independ bookseller here in philadelphia uncle bobby. So please thank uncle bobbys and and the free library of philadelphia hosting this event. Were so grateful. Be here, Kimberle Crenshaw charles, the cofounder and executive director of the African American policy forum and the founder and executive director of the center for intersectionality social policy studies at columbia law school. She is the Promise Inst