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Archives. Visit booktv. Org for a complete schedule. And we now kick off with Professor William darity and Kirsten Mullin with their thoughts on reparations for africanamericans. Good afternoon, im director of the hutchens center on fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution. We gather here this afternoon virtually because of the covid plague to talk about reparations for africanamericans for the descendants of slaves. We planned this event before covid19 and, of course, william dar...

There is a piece in the journal of the American General Association Appoints out the more than half of the covid19 cases in chicago, nearly 70 percent of the death, involve black individuals. Although blacks make up only 30 percent of the population. Theres a story in the front page of the Washington Post today about contrasting the intensive care unit in Northern Virginia which is largely empty with the overwhelmed the hospital and largely black county on the other side of washington dc. So alt...

As many of you know, we are a nonprofit but were dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of tennis and its greatest champions to inspire fans globally. In addition to presenting the ultimate in tennis induction into the International Tennis hall of fame, we also how is the largest collection of tennis artifacts in museum, which hopefully many of you saw as you came through this evening . Were home to the atp in both this hall of fame opened in july we run a year round tennis club. We...

As many of you know, we are a nonprofit but were dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of tennis and its greatest champions to inspire fans globally. In addition to presenting the ultimate in tennis induction into the International Tennis hall of fame, we also how is the largest collection of tennis artifacts in museum, which hopefully many of you saw as you came through this evening . Were home to the atp in both this hall of fame opened in july we run a year round tennis club. We...

I wanted to take a moment and share a little bit about the International Hall of fame and our mission. As many of you know, we are a nonprofit but were dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of tennis and its greatest champions to inspire fans globally. In addition to presenting the ultimate in tennis induction into the International Tennis hall of fame, we also how is the largest collection of tennis artifacts in museum, which hopefully many of you saw as you came through this even...

At the world cup . Theyre 1 0 down to switzerland, after the first leg of their play off in belfast. The pay gap between men and women is getting smaller, but could take 100 years to close completely. But why, and whats been done to tackle it . Ill be finding out. And, blasting his way into the history books. After 7 00 well be joined on the sofa by this record breaking rocket man. And nick has the weather. Good morning. A cloudy start for many of us today but there will be sunny spells on the w...

Election process itself. So in early september, when i saw president putin in china, i felt the most effective way to insure that that didnt happen was to talk to him directly. And tell him to cut it out and there were going to be sears consequences if he didnt talking more about this, is niles Standard Associated editor for the hill. Thanks for joining us. Watching that long press conference, what were your big take aways from this last press conference in 2016 obviously, president obama expres...

Member of the British Parliament talks about his book war and goldie 50gold a 500 year historf adventures and that. He discusses the history of money and its relationship to the board and the effect Capital House on free markets. He sat down with toby the sunday times of london on booktv after words. Host welcome to after words. I am toby of the sunday times of london and with me today is kwasi a conservative born in london and hes here to discuss a superb new book war and goldie 500 year histor...

Draw attention to. We heard a lot about the moment in our interviews and i talked talk about two things briefly, dignity and death. Its really upon us to treat the client as much dignity as possible. Youve got heavy competition from h. And r. Block and liberty taxes because they know how to treat people as customers. Part of the reason people go to h. And r. Block is because they feel so good to be there. So we need to make sure from the moment people enter the door from how the office looks but...

Plant occur ator explained the history and use of some of the plants by native americans and others. Welcome to the national garden. This is the most recent garden to open on our property. It opened in 2006. Its a wonderful place to look at native plants. Bus thats n but thats not where it got its start. It got its beginning when the rose became our National Floral emblem in the 1980s. Shortly after that, the senate wives committee started looking for a way to commemorate the rose. They noted th...