Point of racial tensions to action taken as the result of the nba players boycott. Protesters have their say nationwide. And campus quarantine. As College Students return, well look at one schools extreme approach to control covid outbreaks and ensure classes can continue. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Reporter heartbreaking news, Actor Chadwick Boseman has died. Boseman was a star of black panther. We must find a way to look after one another. He will forevering known for changing changing the landscape. Historical black figures i know what its for. Its not the best experience we ever had in life. Hurricane laura blamed for at least 14 deaths across louisiana and texas. Its not the material things. Its the memories, i think, that are gut wrenching at times. The president is campaigning, trying to build preliminary momentum after his speech on the white house lawn. If i did tonights speech there, i would have been criticized by
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Media, 20th century performances on radio, records, film, and television recently published by mcfarland. Among his many accomplishments is a grammy award which he received for a double cd and bro book titled lost sounds. 1890 to 1919. Tim will then be joined in a conversation by fellow historian bill dugget. Our program will conclude with tim and bill taking questions from you, our live audience. Now, please turn off the sounds of your phones, and join me in welcoming historian and author tim brooks. [ applause ] well, thank you. Later on as he mentioned, there will be time for questions. And i hope we have some good ones coming up at the end of this conversation and presentation. But i would like to start with a question for you, the audience. How many people have seen a minstrel show . A live minstrel show. Anybody . Interesting. How many have seen one on film prap . Remember, im talking about a whole minstrel show, not a clip from somewhere, but a full show. Anybody . Okay. If i ha
Brazil upheel, river pirates in the amazon rain forest and antarctica and the New York Times bureau chief until 2011 based in venezuela where he covered issues including president hugo chavezs political movement, columbias long internal war and indigenous politics in bolivia. Please give a warm welcome to mr. Simone romero. Sara, thank you so much for the very kind introduction, and im just going to move on right now and introduce this wonderful panel that i have the pleasure of moderating. We have cecilia balli, who is a journalist and cultural anthropologist and a writer at large at texas monthly. Her work focuses on the u. S. mexico border and the history and culture of south texas. And her writing has also appeared in har bers magazine, and the New York Times. Angela cocherga is a multimedia journalist who has covered the u. S. mexico border and mexicos interior for television newspapers and radio and was mexico border chief for a major broadcasting group. She is currently the Sout