Came across all these different gems of information that could have been the highlight of my career now. Coauthor richard paul and stephen moss took about ten africanamericans that broke the color barrier at nasa and the use of the Space Program by kennedy and johnson to advance the social change. When its up for the presentation we are here to talk about the book we couldnt fail the space Station Program it looks at the role in the civil rights in the years before the rights act happened. Discrimination was not against the law. It was easy. When we talk about the achievements of the people in the book and when we talk about the rules put in place by the Kennedy Administration to try to address the Workplace Discrimination at how they were implemented. So we will be talking about the people whose lives were touched. Our book tells the stories of ten men who came to work in the Space Program during the years that we call the Civil Rights Era and some of them were nasa employees. At the
Present. Host and what is your answer to the question on the seminar you teach is america postracial and first of all what is happening, postracial . What does that mean . Guest the course interrogates this idea that began to circulate after the election of barack obama to the presidency that a black man was in the white house that perhaps United States had over toms long history of racism and segregation and White Supremacy and so there was a lot of attention to that question after he was first elected. Tragically and very sadly in our recent time we have seen very unfortunate and dramatic illustrations that thats absolutely not the case. The courts really explored the whole range of issues from affirmative action in Higher Education to police violence, police brutality, boater laws to take up this question of what is the extent of Racial Disparities in American Life . Host Martha Biondi some people might be watching this per gram of tissue supervisor of africanamerican studies. Guest
50. Concord is there, and there are plenty of cold conditions. And sierra for tomorrow. And lots of sunshine today along with a seven the breeze. And that could make for those conditions. I dont think that there will get in on that. And all of them are in the 30s as well. And its going to give us increasing clouds tonight. And, 60s on the temperatures may feel like this. And, things are slow. And, is there anything you like to get to right away quick every once in a while, right the middle of traffic, and im more surprised to see how long it takes. And, it takes about 30 minutes these days. And, even on the friday, when volume is Getting Better than normal. And, both directions you can see traffic is moving along nicely. And, as we look at the issuer freeway, you can see that the traffic is going to be busy on 80 after the Hilltop Drive exit. And it gets slow again. And, as a goat onto berkeley. And, lets go back to that. The city of San Franciscos reactivating a hotline and, we are li
We didnt know if there was multiple people. Caught in the chaos. An american tourist describes the latest in a series of deadly attacks in france. Nbc 10 breaking news. It is just after 6 00 a. M. This morning, this is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Im pamela osborne. Well get back to that breaking news in france in just a bit. Here at home we have more heat warnings that are in place for lets get right to meteorologist bill henley and the neighborhood forecast. Good morning, bill. Good morning, pamela. The temperatures soared yesterday to 96 degrees. It felt like more than 100 with the high humidity. Were in for another round today. The first alert for a heat hazard for the suburbs, philadelphia, the new jersey neighborhoods and northern delaware until 8 00 this evening. During the afternoon, heat and humidity will combine to make it feel like near 100 degrees today. And a warmer start this morning for philadelphia, 78 degrees. Its dropped to 74 with mostly clear skies and suns
Millville, 83. Atlantic city, airport, 83. Dover, 79 and allentown. 79 degrees with a little bit of cloud cover well up to the north, across North Central portions of the state of pennsylvania and picking up high cloudy ntz cloudy Atlantic City to cape may. Inland locations, 92 degrees the forecasted high for philadelphia. 1 00 p. M. , 92. 3 00 p. M. , 92. Within the time frame it will feel like 95, 96. Hazy, hot and humid, thunderstorms developing late in the day and low to mid 90s. Headlines this morning, the heat and humidity continues, it will get worse before it gets better. Ill have the details in the seven day. Gray . Thank you so much. 9 01. Developing this morning, the president of turkey has withstood an attempted coup by members of the military. He is pointing the finger at a islamic cleric who lives in pennsylvania. It started last night when the military said it had ceased control to restore democracy. Turkish president was on vacation and flew home early this morning, he