so who was william munro trotter? why he was he alone, unapologetically persistently and radically against racial conservatism and white apathy in the face of radical reconstruction betrayal at the turn of the last century. most importantly how do his life and times demand reconceptualization of black radical politics, black political independence and possibilities of black community activism during the period that historians referred to as the long nadir at the turn of the last century. william munro trotter was born in 1872, the year that the role republicans broke from their radical colleagues who opposed federal reinforcement of reconstruction. he died exactly 62 years later as democratic president franklin d roosevelt presided an administration that changed the relationship to federal policy and the american economy brooks ended as he was between the failed promise of reconstruction and racial limitations of new deal o liberalism, trotter's life represents the radical possibilities of northern black politics root

to the city of munro. preparednesss they prepared a letter that got sent up to the community disaster loan program which provides operational funding to help local governments that incurred a local loss. and revenue due to a major disaster and that could affect their ability to deliver essential municipal services. we are trying to stand up that loan program. municipalities in louisiana are familiar with it the as we have had to do it in the past. we have also requested that verizon provide more cell coverage in the impacted areas. and send a team to assist the recovery mission. fema administrator called and i spoke with him and told him that we would be submitting request for individual assistance in public is distance. we also requested that preliminary assessments be done through photographs so we are not out there with covid-19 having to physically inspect these properties and interact with more people than is necessary. he was receptive to that idea and i think we will be able to get that done. i can

still with us is euan munro, ceo of aviva investors.you are encouraging your team to look through short-term uncertainty and identify long-term opportunities where markets are pricing asset wrongly. what dislocations have they found so far? euan: it is may be easy to straight with a stock example, we feel, and a crisis like this, there is an expression that the baby is getting thrown out with the bathwater. for example, in italy, obviously, because of intensity of the crisis, there has been generic selling of italian assets. but a stock like telecom italia has been so aggressively as well. we looked at the leverage on their balance sheet, and we are looking at the fact that come in italy, as in the rest of the world, telecom type activity is skyrocketing. people are doing more videoconferences and calls, and we did not feel that that was justified. telecoms are interesting. chip stocks, people move on to more electronic means of communication and so on, changed the working prices. we have a basket of these memory chip stocks, and these

in munro, virginia in 1861, relatively early in the war there were three enslaved men from the person who was enslaving them. he was a colonel in the confederate army. they ran to fortress munro and they said they did not want to work anymore for the confederate general -- the confederate colonel who was there and slaver -- enslaver. benjamin butler had no plan for what to do in a situation like that. what was he going to do with these men who were liberating themselves from slavery? he thought quickly about how to handle the situation and determined that these men should be dealt like contraband. contraband was an idea he pulled from international law that says any good being transported by a could be treated as contraband. he recognized relatively quickly thesehat idea as treating human beings as property was not a workable idea. you also realized there was a conflict of what was the union going to do with these people after viewing them as property as well but they didn't want to hold formerly enslaved people as property. and this moment we start to lay out the lands -- in this mom

so he decided that he would go to munro's house to demand a explanation he wrote a note to munro to say, i hear you have done xyz. i am coming to your home fun information and i am bringing a friend. or in other words, a second, a duel assistant in case they are talking and in these to something more serious. if you are monroe and you have a note saying that someone is coming to your house with a friend, that means you are in dueling territory. he immediately knew that now we have moved into a realm where something bad might happen. so monro went and got a friend for himself. luckily for us, monro's friend recorded the entire conversation that took place between hamilton and monroe the first thing you can tell from the conversation is that they did not like each other. things don't start out too well, you can tell right off the cuff that they hate each other. hamilton was a really logical thinker who clearly wanted to rehearse the entire history of the controversy step by step like a courtroom lawyer would. monroe kept interrupting him complete frustration -- i know already. i lived thr

monroe, luckily, james everyone would know the munro document. -- the munro doctrine. what does hoover have? hoovervilles. sometimes people only remember a couple of things about a president. he was part of the virginia dynasty and having that great connection with washington and the other founders. brian: you all are to know that there will be cards on the side for those of you that want to ask questions. we will go to that before too long. this will be a 90 minute evening that we have together. so we have some time. i would like to go back to these three historians and ask why the three of you have devoted your life to history and to the study of presidents? i will start with edna. edna: mine is a long story. [laughter] i will try to make it short. i grew up in charles city county, virginia. the birthplace of john tyler. [laughter] it was a county that was 82% african-american when i was growing up. and i noticed that we didn't really have a lot of authority over the county. we could vote, but that was about all we could do. and as a child, i wondered where i fit int

is a great example, munroe did not have any trouble with the secretary trying to take over authority from him but they were all competing with each other about who was going to be the next president and that led to a lot of cabinet conflict, that was the standard model up through lincoln and he of course had his own political genius of getting the people to work together but that was definitely the standard cabinet model. >> the next question from claire on facebook, did washington see john j as an advisor in any way similar to how he saw his cabinet members? >> claire, thank you for the question. john j was one of washington's closest advisors, they had a good personal relationship from the very beginning, washington was asking for his advice especially on issues pertaining to diplomacy because he had been the secretary of foreign affairs underneath the confederation congress. washington asked him for advice on everything from diplomacy to how washington should host social events to legal issues and jay had really no problem sharing that advice and sharing those issues with washingt

they are testing not just for theyrn louisiana, but also administer the hospital in munro and conway, they are testing in northeast louisiana as well. so, just a number of tests have really ramped up, and that has to continue, and what we are trying to do now is make sure that we are increasing our in-state capacity as much as possible, identifying every lab that has capacity to do this covid-19 testing, make sure they can turn around a specimen pretty quickly, get it tested and get the results back to us because that is going to be really important for us going forward. have know there -- we local folks here who are manufacturing vile transport. end, 3d printing devices that are printing swabs for us to use, and i am not saying this to say we have it all figured out and we have everything we need in terms of our capacity, but those of the sorts of things we have been doing in louisiana to really ramp up our testing capacity. then you have walgreens that is doing testing. and you have walmart doing testing as well. and all of this together just makes a tremendous difference. about ser

we will take months to recover. >> sendra: munro mayor jamie mayo joins us now.ive us an update on your community and how everyone is doing this morning. >> we did have a devastating blow yesterday and of course we had some 200 or 300 homes that were devastated, power lines down, as well as structural damage and trees down all over the place. we are a resilient community and our folks are doing well even though they are concerned about what's going to happen with th them. it's going to be some time before we are going to be able to get back on the ground. >> sendra: what can you report to us as far as injuries in your community? >> we want to thank god for the fact that there were just some minor injuries but no fataliti fatalities. that's a blessing from god almighty so we haven't had any fatalities are reported to us. mostly the individuals as i mentioned, they don't know what's going to happen right now because they've lost everything. with that 200 or 300 different houses that have been damaged, there are about four different areas in the city of monroe. also

that was you on monroe -- munro speaking to myself and manus cranny.dlines coming out that are saying that the agreement with the e.u. is close but not quite yet secured. saying the e.u. discussion is about deploying the 500 billion euros. overnight, after 16 hours of a call, we did not get any decision of the call with finance ministers about how to move forward and tackle the crisis. all left schulz's sake all left say the- olaf scholz agreement was close but not quite yet secured. we will bring you more on that and on the markets next. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> we have an extraordinary thing going on. this is the first time that i know of, historically, where we basically asked businesses to suspend their activities, pretty much. there are some companies that are still functioning, but most places where you leave your place of business, they don't function as well, and we are basically creating sort of a huge disruption in the business have a gdp in we the united states, gross national product, somewhere around 21 trillion, and we will probably miss $

it wasn't in that group if you talk to the washington scholars like munro wasn't a big thing. [laughter] there is so much change but the idea that the founders were monolith like this is what we decided and this is how we are going forward is total bullshit. they were fighting all the time and that is how we know partisanship happened. so i think that it's important to remember that. a healthy amount of fighting is good. it is a conversation. but it is so ridiculous to imagine a country that had fought eight long years to break free of a monarch wanted absolute power. if they wanted that they would have had a king. there's a romance novel called american royal and it had washington that decided to be a king and it's sort of like it's interesting it's the same publishers who they sent it to me. but we don't have that for a reason so it makes me so upset to hear that. i also think it is as if a piece of our history to present it and when people are being general you just shouldn't trust them. they can see it three times and then you take it away by the toy. i do think it is ridi

at this appointed fights munro to a friend asking whether there wasn't at least a discussion to be had about what he called the chance for the jewish people. i realize of course he went on we cannot claim anything we are much too atomized for it's. what the debate did do however was to throw together fights man the russian jewish immigrants searching for a homeland and refuge from persecution with herbert samuel and lord rothschild for members of the british jewish elite established in society and part of the political and capitalist class. so it isn't for the most part of course all of the community was actually in the minority but certainly most of all within the jewish elite because it threatened the notion of them as 100 percent committed members of british society and this was complete and that for somebody like edwin montague to become secretary of state for india for him zionism is his worst nightmare the idea that jews are not satisfied simply with being citizens of britain or other countries around the world they're always longing to go back to the land of israel for him he wa

one of the first places of freedom was fort munro near hampton, virginia in 1861. we start to find that the first from a political crisis and a humanitarian crisis. all at the hands of an slaved people liberating themselves. the second place is fort royal, south carolina which was viewed as a rehearsal for reconstruction in these first moments of what the reconstruction process would look like. in 1861, in virginia, there were from enslaved men who ran their person who was enslaving them. he was a colonel in the confederate army. they ran to where the union army had set up camp. they said they did not work anymore for the confederate colonel who was the end slaver. -- enslaver. when they got there, virginia general benjamin butler had no plan for something like this. what would he do with these men that had liberated themselves from slavery? he figured out quickly how to handle the situation. that these men should be treated like contraband. contraband was an idea he pulled from international law that said any goods being transported by a neutral party could be for

one of the first places of freedom was fort munro near hampton, virginia in 1861.start to find that the first freedoms were both this moment of a political crisis for the nation and a humanitarian crisis. and it is all at the hands of enslaved people liberating themselves. the second place is fort royal, south carolina which was viewed as a rehearsal for reconstruction in these first moments of figuring out what the reconstruction process would look like. in virginia in 1860 one, relatively early in the war, there were three enslaved men who ran from their person who was enslaving them. he was a colonel in the confederate army. they ran to where the union army had set up camp. they said they did not work -- they said they did not want to work anymore for the confederate colonel who was the enslaver. when they got there, virginia -- union general benjamin butler had no plan exactly for what to do in a situation like that. what would he do with these men that were liberating themselves from slavery and coming to him? he figured out quickly how to handle the situation

rough go of it with the virus down there, but it sounds like a little bit of good news today, the munro news star saying louisiana reported another one-day record for coronavirus deaths, but hospitalizations and ventilator needs decreased as a sign the infection may have peaked. senator, how hopeful are you, it's just an early sign, but may be positive one. >> we are battered, but we are standing. our numbers are going down. i want to thank the trump white house and the pentz task force for making sure we he everything we need. we worried about running out of ventilators. we never came close. only about 25% of our ventilators are in use right now. i understand that the arugula and tofu crowd have criticized the president for his response. i want to thank him. and while we're on the topic of the president, i think is absolutely correct about the world health organization. i think if you -- if you took president xi of china, turned him upside down and shook him, the world health organization would fall out of his pocket and that's not acceptable. china lied and a lot of people died. and t

. >> coming up on c-span2, university professor kerri greenidge recounts the life of william munro trotter a civil rights activist. he used the boston guardian to promote racial equality area that followed by journalist lawrence weschler on the late neurologist and officer oliver sacks and eugenia chang, author of beyond infinity explores the limits of logic . >> tonight on the communicators, mark randolph, cofounder of netflix and author of the book that will never work shares his experiences starting the online streaming service . >> april 14, 1998 i our cto hit a few keys and we were live and it didn't take long and we got that first thing. how we cheered and again opening bottles of champagne and then two or three minutes later, ding ding, three more orders and we were so excited and then we got two more orders and in all the excitement we kind of lost track of things until someone noticed that it's been a while since the bell has rung . and we were unplugged, is there a problem? it turned out in the first 15 minutes of being online we had crashed all of our servers. >> mark randolph t

congressman and senators sit to listen but also members of the supreme court and outgoing president munro, incoming president elect adams spent hours listening to this presentation and the community set up was called new harmony. it was in indiana and it almost instantly collapsed in disharmony . and what happened with, new harmony turned out to be exactly representative of the whole group of these experiments. historians of communes say that their median lifespan was 2 years for they went away of new harmony. and it might have been in an alternative and imaginary history that the whole idea of socialism would have ended right there. been there, tried that, didn't work but then it was taken up and given a much more powerful life by this remarkable tagteam of political activists and philosophers of great power. marx and engels and they pulled off what i think has to be one of the great intellectual cons of all time . they were well aware of the results of these experimental communes . engels in england participated in the group and wrote about it. went to their meetings. marx and engels sa

grayson, and wayne, breckenridge, clark, has still, floyd, hart, henderson, laurel, mccracken, mclean, munro, oldham, spencer, trigg, and woodford, and we are tracking down four of those cases. we have had a tougher day in terms of deaths. we have had a couple days where it was lower and a lot lower than we had seen. but today we have lost 10 people. 10 new individuals. 10 kentuckians that were loved by their families and their communities to this coronavirus. 10 is the number we don't like to see. this continues to especially take those that are most vulnerable from us. in theinues especially senior living facilities, to be as deadly as we were told that this virus could be. again,hat we have lost, are more than an age and a gender. and that is the information we have. 58-year-old male from jefferson. 56-year-old male from oren. 94-year-old male from jefferson. 96-year-old male from grayson. 94-year-old male from jackson. 72-year-old male from jefferson. 94-year-old female from hopkins. 84-year-old male from jefferson. 66-year-old female from jefferson. female fromar-old grayson. and all of

hamilton believed that munro had leaked some damaging information to the press, and he was outraged.o monro went and got a friend for himself. luckily for us, monro's friend recorded the entire conversation of what took place between hamilton and monroe the first thing you can tell from the conversation is that they did not like each other. things don't start out too well, you can tell right off the cuff that they hate each other. hamilton was a really logical thinker who clearly wanted to rehearse the entire history of the controversy step by step lawyer would. monroe kept interrupting him complete frustration -- i know already. i lived through this. can you get going? in which hamilton would begin again at the beginning of his account. [laughter] so things went worse as their conversation went on. it did not take long for both men ultimately to lose their patience, hamilton clearly getting redder and redder and monroe getting icier and iceier until hamilton bluntly accused one row of leaking the information. when one road one row denied it, hamilton said, "this as your representati

. >> hello, my name is janelle munro. i spent some time with a german colleague a couple of months ago. she had questions for me about how we have progressed from slavery and going through jim crow and reconstruction and the civil rights movement. and how she has been seeing a lot of that statues not being removed. she asked me about the education, how we are educated about slavery. then she switched quickly to how we are educated about the holocaust and german history in the u.s.? i explained the difference i experienced in that slavery is a matter of fact thing that happened and that is how it was explained to me in the south. and that the holocaust was a sad thing that happened that, i do not know a lot about but it is just this sad sobering thing. the question i have for the panel, is how, if you know, in german studies, how is the holocaust taught there? and what can be gleaned from how the teacher there, to also teach holocaust here and also other sad events like slavery here in america? >> so, i think what is reall