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The arts is history students. You know me. Im professor april mastin we are very fortunate today to have a guest lecture president of Stony Brook University maury mcginnis. Id like to tell you a little bit about her the title of her dr. Mcginniss lecture as you can see is the shadow of slavery in public life. This topic is relevant not only to our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past. But also how they affect the present or in the words of James Baldwin how histo...

The monday, january 14, 2013 meeting of the land use committee. Our clerk is mr. Derek evans. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. All documents included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will be acted upon in the january 29, 2013 board of supervisors meeting unless otherwise stated. We only have two items on this agenda. Item 1 is an ordinance amending the San Francisco Business Code to permit permit expirations and exten...

Turn dry river beds into healthy waterways. Ive never worked on anything thats had the magnitude of this project. In fact, its certainly the largest River Restoration in california, and perhaps the United States. Suarez and mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Woodruff thats all ahead. On tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf. Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called...

Look at this dramatic rescue. A daughter crying out for somebody to save her dad as a house goes up in flames. Get my dad we got to get him out of there. Oh, thank god. The lifesaving hero who emerges from the inferno. Why did he vanish afterwards . Hey, good morning, everybody. Lets get straight to the breaking news in the ebola story. We have a live picture this morning from the port of galveston where just a short time ago a Carnival Cruise ship arrived carrying that Health Care Worker selfqu...

Residential units and 970 square feet of retail use and 47 Parking Spaces after the july 18th hearing, commissioner sugaya raised the concerns about the vibration and the impacts on the Club Building which is a historic resource. And the concerns that you should have before you, and dated august first and the email from the Environmental Review dated august 5th. And the tech report from the project sponsor. And the report offered several possible methods of and the vibration could be avoid. Cons...

America. This is bbc world news america. The Pakistani Taliban tells the bbc a u. S. Drone strike has killed its leader, one of the worlds most wanted men. Gunmen opening fire at Los Angeles National airport, killing a security agent and winning several others. And first moscow, now berlin, former American Contractor Edward Snowden says he will help a u. S. A german investigation into u. S. Surveillance programs. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and also around the globe. A...

The French Military has stepped up the strike against rebels in northern mali but have promised a long campaign. You and security cattle is due to meet in the coming hours to help bolster the fight. These are the latest images of a british cargo plane on its way to deliver other equipment to the french in mali. Look at some of the strategic targets. French fighter jets have targeted positions outside timbuktu. They are attacking rebel training camps, and for structure, and logistics. The operati...

I would take all those billions of dollars being wasted right now on at the corporations, and i would put that money into three full years of the best preschool education in the entire world. If they cannot afford to do that, talk about 30 billion if we cannot afford to do that, i do not see what help we have upholding any sense of dignity, pretense of democracy, in the eyes of people in the rest of the world. [applause] i just have to add one thing to that one point i will add, to deny this to ...

To our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past. But also how they affect the present or in the words of James Baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. The research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasnt adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. Dr. Mcginnis is a...

Work through research and consultants it is unprecedented to have a Sports Facility be privately financed. The sports facilities you see built and rehabed around the country really to one include direct public subsidies from state and local governments in order to finance the arenas. We are talking a billion respond, contributing only to substructure, only to the portion we own. The proposed funding, the city will reimburse warriors for improvements to infrastructure capped at 120 million. Funds...