Manifest. And it was called soap operas because Soap Companies sponsored the shows. So thats how the soap opera title came about. Yeah. Durham, he also wrote for the chicago defender. Thats an interesting story, particularly his firing and how they had i dont know if they were the first also, when you talked about the black Insurance Company that couldnt get it couldnt get funding to there was a show that he did, and the script basically was about this Insurance Company in, i believe it was in philadelphia. Im not sure. But the bottom line was, when this gentleman went to get money to refinance the building this was during the depression they assessed the building that this Insurance Company was in. And this was one of the Major Insurance Companies for africanamericans at the time. And he thought he could get maybe a 50,000 loan to tide him over through the depression. And they assessed the building for like 5,000. 5,000. And it was like okay, never mind. Ill figure out something else.
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Carter g. Woodson library in chicago. We thank you for being here today. Its such a joy to have this project between book covers now. You know, its been so long. And, you know, weve been talking with michael, you know, and eventually going get this project done. Each step of the way he keeps saying, you know, one day were going have that big event at the library. Here we are. Its finally here. So im happy to have all of you here with me today. And thank you for coming out on a saturday afternoon. Today i want to begin by talking about how i found this project. Sort of how it found me. Tell some of the background how the negro in illinois was conceived. The individuals who carried it out, then read some passages from the book. My wife and i moved to town to 2004 to urbana champagne, it didnt take me too long to find the Harsh Research Collection. It was straight up the interstate. I came here pretty promptly. I was interested in a fascinating figure. He had been a harlem renaissance poe
President elect joe bidens covid19 advisory board. Looking forward to that conversation. Were also expecting brandnew numbers from maricopa county, arizona, tonight, which could very well lead to the state being called for joe biden. But before we get to the next president , in fact, before we even talk about the current president , today we heard from our last president , not in a speech or in an interview, but in an audio book. The atlantic magazine today published an excerpt from president obamas new memoir, including an audio excerpt of the former president reading the books preface. In that preface, obama says one reason he took this long to write this book was because he, quote, didnt fully anticipate the way events would unfold, end quote, in the years of he left office, which i think is Barack Obamas measured way of saying, stuff got kind of crazy around here. Our democracy seems to be teetering on the brink of crisis, a crisis rooted in a fundamental contest between two opposi