[laughter] >> why baldwin, why now? in some ways we saw baldwin emerge in the context of 2014 and even before as black lives matter was the beginning to give voice to its own desire for more just america. they were reaching for jimmy's voice, clear black man who spoke kind of truth, straight, no chaser who carried rage and love, who queered african-american politics, who queered african politics who offered different kind of understanding of what it meant to reach for a different way of being in the world but i wanted to turn to baldwin because i was trying to grapple with my own despair and allusion in this moment, so after the extraordinary moment of 2008, the election of barack obama, we saw for 8 years what that meant and then we witnessed police murdering our brothers and sisters, and we saw these young folks in the streets risking life and limb and then what did we see in response, voter id law s and voter suppression and the country vomited donald trump. and this is the moment of betrayal and profound betrayal. t

baldwin says there were two harlem's. a division between the black people who lived on the hill, and himself. he was born in new york city, august 2, 1924, the first of nine children. the grandson of a slave. he grew up in harlem. after graduation he had many jobs to support himself and his writing. in publication first harper's and commentary. but i do 48, feeling frustrated with the church and the oppression of blacks he moved to , paris. it was a breath of fresh air. he wrote that he felt as though he came out of a dark tunnel and found himself underneath the open sky. he now divides his time between homes in new york city and southern france. welcomingn me in james baldwin to the national press club. [applause] mr. baldwin: thank you very much. good afternoon. i am very pleased to be here. i'm a little surprised when i knew i was going to come here, the white house was not in trouble. [laughter] and now, i am terribly aware of , which is on the hill in trouble, which means that we are. i'm curious. i'm going to improv

baldwin is unbelievable. i've been critical of rather colson and his voice is very important but that was generated by his relationship with brother james baldwin. but the voice is very important no matter what but my critique is in brother eddie we talk about this with chuck and others that baldwin doesn't linger with his critique of the worst of the black -- his critique of white liberals is devastating and his critique of black liberals is underdeveloped. it's there but he doesn't release is dana. it's not a fraser indictment in 1955 and in a post obama era that we live in we have got to have a bold critique of the worst of the black bourgeoisie that turns its back to the black working class. the black bourgeoisie is beautiful but baldwin can be reluctant it seems to me. tell me what you think rather. spat this is why we need to return. i think this is precisely the moment that you are looking for because baldwin faults what happens when the white supremacy sustains and black folk power what are we to make

baldwin: i have heard that before. that black people in general can be accused of blaming their situation on the anybody. blaming it on the situation is much too terrible for that kind of self-indulgent, but history is not the past, the situation black people in this country is abominable because the country is racist and every institution is racist and the last thing the public wants is an autonomous black community. anywhere. everybody knows for example that if you build a school in a ghetto, you build a disaster for very. the answer is not to go to another neighborhood, the answer to that is to rebuild the city so that human beings can live in instead of building for money to make a few people rich. if you want to deal with it, you have to go there. in the meantime, limiting the black community for being upset about the community, community has always been part of the republic. , thewe tried some time ago school strike in harlem where blacks and puerto ricans came into the school declaring themselves responsible for

we should never speak for brother baldwin. we went to the heart of american apartheid, slavery and terroris terrorism. that is what he was up against. he got off the plane and the bus and walked into a militarized zone with a very vicious attack. but he asks how black folks can keep their souls intact. that is a moral and spiritual question they had a richness and a death on - - a depth of something cultural and moral and spiritual that made them morally said. or than the white supremacist. not because they were born that way that the tradition under blood sweat and tears. but that was different in harlem but we're all new world african africans. >> the speed of walking and a lot of other things. so what blew his mind to encounter such a great people spiritually and morally under those militarized conditions and those of the standards we have to keep it is a very difficult standard because we face strong moral declines because of commercialization and white supremacy to get inside of us. but if in the name of love white people

and it kind of gave me a sense of the fme of how to talk about baldwin.moment where even his place of quiet has now been turned into a place of greed and opulence, as it were. >> nawaz: well, there's been an undeniable surge in interest in popular culture acro the board you think back a few years. there was a 2016 documentary by rebel pac that was his epic debate on race against william buckley that even 55 years later, has resonance online. there's still millions of views. >> evolves any place for you. >> w do you think that is? why do you thk so many why? why do you think that why do you think so many people, especially in recent years, are turning to james baldwin? >> well, i think, you know, i think he's the premier, probably democracy on race everf american produced. he seems to me i thiri he's the inr, ralph waldo emerson, who takes emerson across thedu tracks and ints him to the blues, as it were. but i also think, you kn, baldwin queers, american politics, queers, black politics. here you have this fragileueer black man who spoke boldly and truthf

it explores baldwin's ideas for these times. to author and princeton professor eddie glow jr. this is part of our arts and ercultures. >> my own december spare, my -- despair, my own rage, grappling with the fact that the country seeminbly was dg down on its darkness, on its ugly commitments and trying to figure out, how could iuster the energy to push the rock back up the hill, andin wat it take root in my own son. it m seemed toe that i needed to find a way to get it on the page.n and i've b reading jim baldwin -- i call him jimmy because he's likeso a pl friend for all these years. i've been reading him for about 30 years, grappling with his ideas. finally i turned to himel to me think about this current moment. so this is a book written with him about the darkness of our times. >> we should poiut this wasn't an academic exercise. it was a physical one. you made a pilgrimage of sorts to differeites that were important to baldwin. where did you go and why? >> i took a quick flighto niese in order -- nice in order to visit his

ground can i just ask you right at the beginning there's a lot of quoting of the great writer james baldwin at the moment he actually wrote an open letter to you what did he mean when he said our bodies must render impossible the corridor to the gas chamber well of course james baldwin was. not only percent greater but also he was involved in a whole range of social justice issues and he took up my case wrote an open letter to me and. argue that if they did not protect my life the same would be next if they come for you and that morning he said every do not prevent them from taking you we will be next so that is actually. that is actually very seem of the mass movements have developed against racism against the signage and any against climate injustice etc of course the words reverberate starkly today because of the use of the word gas chamber in the state of california. still has a gas chamber which is ok it's that quick prison and the site of many demonstrations over the last few years precisely because of the fact that prisons and and courage the spread of covert 19 to oakland where your

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james baldwin came to our very first miami book fair.o get a sense of who he was like during that period and earlier through eddie cloud is really remarkable. ordering a virtual event with eddie cloud and the secretary of the smithsonian, secretary bunch. during an event with the two of them in a couple weeks. you his book on the lincoln conspiracy and that's quite remarkable. i would say that the book that really has the finest period for me is getting a bit miami history that is written in the style of the devil in the white city it's called the year of dangerous days. all about miami in 1980. miami in 1980 was very interesting. you had in the very same year you had to marry a Ãthe mcduffie riots, probably the most violent riots in miami history certainly. then you have the beginning of the cocaine epidemic happening in miami. the federal of miami had a $7 billion surplus and nobody could figure out where was coming from. it was coming from and under the table market. that book was written by nicholas crichton, published by schuster, t

james baldwin came to our first miami book fair. so to get a sense of who he was like during that period and earlier, any cloud is remarkable and we're doing a virtual event with any cloud and the secretaryof the smithsonian . tickets are a bunch, were doing an event with them in a couple of weeks. i'm also reading a really wonderful book that was published a little while ago by brad meltzer, a mutual friend, his book on the lincoln conspiracy and that is quite remarkable i would say that the book that really has to find this period for me is getting a bit of miami history written in the style of the devil and the white city. it's called a year of dangerous days. it's all about miami in 1980. miami in 1980 was very interesting that you had in the same year the marriott boatlift, you had a mcduffie wives which were probably the most violent riots in miami history certainly read and then you have the beginning of the cocaine epidemic happening here in miami. the federal reserve in miami had a $7 billion surplus and nobody could figure

when he said our bodies must render impossible the corridor to the gas chamber well of course james baldwin was. not only mr cent right here but also he was involved in a whole range of social justice issues and he took up my case wrote an open letter to me and. argue that if they did not protect my life the same would be next if they come for you and the morning he said every do not prevent them from taking you we will be next so that is actually. that is actually very seem of the mass movements have developed against racism against the signage and any against climate injustice etc of course the words reverberate starkly today because of the use of the word gas chamber in the state of california. still has a gas chamber which is ok that quick prison the site of many demonstrations over the last few years precisely because of the fact that prisons and and courage the spread of covert 19 to oakland where your speaking to me from known quite pretty as a progressive place around the world spends an enormous proportion of its budget on police and police activities what do you think baldwin may

postal service. >> senator tammy baldwin, democrat from wisconsin.hink we expect to hear from you tomorrow night at the convention. thanks for coming on today and spending a few minutes with us and sharing your perspective. >> thank you. >> you got it. >>> still ahead, colleges and covid. we're going to look at campuses cases surges as students head back to class. >>> first, let's spill some ink about squid. we couldn't help ourselves. if you watched the convention roll call vote you saw america on full display. each state and territory serving up what makes them unique. but only one state served it fried and with a wedge of lemon. >> the calamari comeback state of rhode island casts one vote for bernie sanders and 34 votes for the next president joe biden. >> and suddenly rhode island was cast into the seafood spotlight. it went viral. and this time in a good way. maybe it was because of the mollusk wielding masked man in the background. or maybe it was because we were all just craving a late-night snack. whatever the reason in this strangest of tim

you know, james baldwin came to our very first miami book father.so to get a sense of what he was like through that period or and earlier is really remarkable. inform, we're doing a virtual event with eddie gloud and the secretary of the smithsonian in a couple of weeks. i'm also reading a really wonderful book that was, that was published a little while ago by brad melzer, a mutual friend, his book on the lincoln conspiracy. and that is quite remarkable. but i would say that the book that really has defined this period for me is getting a bit of miami history that is written in the style of the devil in the white city. it's called "the year of dangerous days." it's all about miami in 1980. miami in 1980 was very interesting. you had in the very same year you had the mariel boat lift, the mcduff few riots which was -- mcduffy riots which was probably the most violent riots in miami history certainly, and the beginning of the cocaine epidemic happening here in miami. the federal reserve in miami had a $7 billion surplus, and nobody could figure out w

whether he's in the kitchen or on the water, ned baldwin has shaped a captivating career.is passion for home cooking playoff essentially. >> some people think the transition from sculpting to having a restaurant or cooking is -- is crazy. but you're -- you're sculpting when you're making the food, right. >> you're making stuff with your hands which is for me sort of the baseline. that's what i do. i make stuff with my hands. >> baldwin opened houseman in new york city in 2015 and soon found himself serving a legend in the food writing business. peter comominskey who found himf connecting by fishing. you're eating at his place, he comes up to you and you think you're about to have a food conversation. >> right. but no. ned had read a book that i wrote called "the moon pulled up an anchor of bass." turned out he's a maniac flas fisherman, as well. we connected on that level. i liked the food and comment coming back. >> reporter: one day he had an idea -- to clollaborate -- on a cookbook. >> i said no. i'm crushed by the restaurant. he said these fateful words, he said, "it t

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isabel, what did james baldwin mean by that?ant was that the idea of race is, first of all, a social construct. it's a creation that came out of the experiences of starting a new country and having people from different parts of the world, primarily from europe and from africa brought in as enslaved people. the impulse to rank, the impulse to create an artificial, arbitrary graded ranking of human value, and the metric for that was race, which is a social construct. there was no need for recognition or identification of white or black as long as you were around people who were just like you. if you were in hungary or in poland or ireland, there was no need to describe yourself as white, but only when coming to the united states to create this new -- this new country and as europeans spread around the world, there became the need or the impulse to rank and to divide, and it could have been any number of physical manifestations or characteristics. but it turned out to be race as the measure of value in the hierarchy that was creat

our special coverage will continue now with brooke baldwin. >>> hi there, i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. thank you for being with me. here is a quote, it is never to late to turn the outbreak around. that is coming in from the leader of the world health organization today. words that the u.s. needs to hear now more than ever as the nation surpasses 5 million cases. that means one in four infections worldwide are in this country. right now more than 163,000 people in the u.s. have died from covid-19. in fact, for the past two weeks, the nation has been averaging a thousand deaths a day. a thousand deaths a day. just think about that loss of life. meantime college football may be on the brink as reports indicate that the power five conferences may postpone or cancel the upcoming season. also today a study from the country's pediatricians found nearly 100,000 school children tested positive in the last two weeks of july. and leaders of the w.h.o. called the coronavirus brutal and cruel. >> this virus is proving exceptionally difficult to stop. this virus has demonstrate

. >>> brooke baldwin continues our coverage right now. >>> hi there. i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. thank you for being with me. earlier this summer joe biden said president trump was "in retreat" when it came to the coronavirus. the self-titled war time president surrendered waved the white flag and legitimate the battlefield. quote/unquote. today the former vantd hice pre and his running mate kamala harris hoped they would take a different approach taking 2345r9 a covid-19 briefing with a group of public health experts. start with arlette sainz in wilmington, delaware. the second official day for the biden/harris team. they're kicking off really from where they left off from day one. hammering the president on his response to the pandemic. though listening to joe biden saying really it's just about wearing a mask, being responsible. it's about being a patriot. >> reporter: yeah, joe biden and kamala harris choosing their attack for today, the coronavirus pandemic. once again criticizing the president for his response. they actually sat for a virtual briefing w

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people i am baldwin frank myers. my first name is spelled b-a-l-w-i-n when i reported back to them and said this was frank myers they did not know why was because they only knew me as baldy. >> can you spell your last name? >> myers. my birthday is may 29th 1918 -- owyhee county, idaho. it is an orange valley. >> that is an indian name? >> it is an indian name. i do not know what it means. >> tell me about your family. where you are growing up. i grew up on a cattle ranch about five miles south of jordan valley. my mother was born in east europe. she was austrian. my father was an old cowboy whose ancestry goes back to the neptune in 16 22. he arrived in charleston, south carolina. his descendants served in the revolutionary war. they were original founders of tennessee, the city of newport. they came to missouri, and in 1841 migrated to california. an old man of 62 brought his 12 grandchildren out in california. >> what about your siblings? >> i have one in reno who runs a computer store. i have another that is insa

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>>> hi there, i'm brooke baldwin, you're watching cnn. right now behind closed doors at the white house, vice president pence and other members of the coronavirus task force are huddling in the latest strategy session on the pandemic. and it comes just hours after president trump denied and dismissed the hard facts of this crisis, the inadequate testing and the increase in deaths and widespread infections members of the same task force are saying growing a threat in a startling new interview with axios' jonathan swan. >> i've gone to your rallies and talked to your people. they love you. they listen to you. they hang on your every word. they don't listen to me or fauci, they think its fake news and they want to get your advice from you. and what you say everything is under control and don't wear masks, many of them are older people. >> yeah -- >> you're giving them a false sense of security. >> i think it is under control. >> how, thousands are dying every day. >> it is true. it is what it is. but that doesn't mean we aren't doing anythin

we'll feature two programs from a cspan archives on civil rights leaders, starting with writer james baldwin at the national press club on israracism in ame. also at 6:00 p.m. on american artifacts, a look at women in congress with matthew wasski and farrah elliot with artifacts from jeanette rankin in 1917. watch this weekend on cspan3. >> up next on history book shelf, january van mejan van me explores the context of several catch phrases in his book. we recorded this talk at book culture bookstore in new york city in 2008.

you can read baldwin, and so forth.nd that, the question how do we move forward is a more active question. and i think some of the other conversations that we wanted to avoid. >> right. so why integration and why that word? we talk a lot about diversity, inclusion, representation. we even talk about desegregation but you are very clear about talking about integration, but that is our goal and to define any particular way. talk to me about that. >> it was an intuition, someone who long studied african american history, integration was the real goal, because race makes no sense, because race is a construction. so what is it? what is it the civil rights movement is really about. it's integration, and you go back through the record and you see that's where malcolm in sup, that's were martin inset. that's what douglas in the de tocqueville writes this in the 19th century where he says there are two ways for these people to go, you must wholly part or wholly integrated. that's it, that's it. and then styling further and furth

ground can i just ask you right at the beginning there's a lot of quoting of the great writer james baldwin at the moment he actually wrote an open letter to you what did he mean when he said our bodies must render impossible the corridor to the gas chamber well of course james baldwin was. not only. sent right.

but right now i am reading james baldwin.he came to our very first miami book fair so to get a sense of who he was during that period and earlier we are doing a virtual event with the secretary of the smithsonian. we are doing an event with a couple of them in a few weeks. i'm also reading a wonderful book and his book on the lincoln conspiracy is quite remarkable. but the book that defined the. for me is a bit of miami history it's all about miami in 1980. miami in 1880 is interesting the very same year, the barrio boatlift, mcduffie riots, probably the most violent riot and then the cocaine epidemic happening here in miami. the federal reserve has a field on --dash several billion dollars surplus nobody can figure out where it comes from which is the under the table but is very compelling. and there was a little bit of wire and a marvelous book. the best way to contact us personally mitchell at books and books.com or go to the website and join the mailing list and you will never feel alone. you will get a lot of e-mails fro

. >>> our coverage continues now with brooke baldwin. >>> hi there. i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. thank you for being here. we may not be able to get rid of the coronavirus but it's up to us to control it. strong words today from dr. anthony fauci as his colleague on the white house task force, dr. deborah birx warns that nine u.s. cities along with california central valley see an uptick in positivity rates. dr. fauci says those numbers are a warning about what's to come. >> it's a clear indication that you are getting an uptick in cases, which inevitably as dr. birx is saying is now is the time to accelerate the fundamental preventive measures that we all talk about. masks, social distancing, avoiding crowds. outdoors greater than indoors. washing hands, et cetera. those it kind of simple things can actually prevent that uptick from becoming a surge. so she was warning the states and the cities to be careful, because this is a predictor of trouble ahead. >> and for the second straight day, nearly 1,400 americans have died from this virus. the cdc is now incr

brilliance of james baldwin you see it all over. if you read a beautiful struggle, book about us up and growing up in baltimore that's just another and i willha recommend people to check out understand history, understand complications and understand why people are so very proud of the city of baltimore. so i am thankful that he continues to drive me and drive so manyco others. really still firmly committed to this city, very much firmly committed to the state in a way that i am. in a way that we know it can, should, and will be better. what you mentioned his father, paul coates he's a publisher in baltimore and in fact if you go to booktv.org, go to our video library we tooko auteur of his publishing plan we talk to them about some of the books type in paul coates and you can watch that the next call comes from marjorie you are in book tv. >> caller: mr. west you are in answer to a prayer. i'm telling you you've got y it down pants jampacked. i want to thank you for so much for having the nerve to say the things you are saved and l

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" we'll feature two programs from the c-span archives on civil rights leaders starting with james baldwint the national press club on racism in america followed by a 1992 c-span american profile interview with former congresswoman shirley chisholm. at 6:00 p.m. on "american artifacts" a look at women in congress with matthew wasniewski and farrah elliott using artifacts and photographs from the election of jeanette ranking to stories about margaret smith, clair booth, and lindy vosz. watch on c-span3. >>> up next on american history tv, robert merry, former ceo of congressional requestl congressional quarterly. recalls the presidency of william mckinley. this is just over an hour. ♪

james baldwin it is not paired with all of this.and with all of that and the mixing of the genres and the races disappeared. and it is primarily to the literary critics so the national book critics circle has grown eagerly facing the challenges and the opportunities the challenges of online books and self publishing and evil. there are all sorts of new private presses, small ones and with the preference for light entertainment but so far it doesn't detour the national book critics circle agenda and with its expansion it works to expand the capabilities and the encouragement and the efforts working within the entire literary community the list of authors awarded this lifetime a word is judicious and enviable and i have to say i'm delighted to be among them. thank you. [applause] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> that wraps up two nights binge watch series with toni morrison everything you have seen tonight can be seen at book tv.org 8:00 p.m. eastern looking at programs with the biographer and historian robert caro

>> blayne alexander live in atlanta, thank you. >>> i want to bring in democratic senator tammy baldwinalso a member of t senate appropriations committee. >> delighted to join you, thank you so much. >> lots to get to with you, including your speech, the dnc but i have to ask you about the breaking news we have' been covering in the last 45 minutes or so, as i believe you may have heard. the president's former chief strategist at the white house, steve bannon now indicted and arrested on fraud charges. your reaction, what does it say to you, if anything? >> oh, my. people of trump world are corrupt and self-dealing. we see it time and time again, so whether it's this charge with steve bannon used to be a senior adviser right in the white house, self-dealing or the news earlier this week of paul manafort in the 2016 election handing over materials to russian intelligence agent or whether it is again the issue of this president self-dealing rather than fighting a pandemic that is ravaging this country. it is shocking and yet it's not. >> that is a theme, the idea of president trump's char

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morrison, james baldwin, and charles dickens. i wondered what the three had in common?ommon is that you have the uncanny ability of pulling the reader into your world. and often i hate when i come to the end of one of your novels or a dickens novel or something james baldwin has written because then i have to leave that beautiful world that you opened up. my question has to do with your self and james baldwin, both of you write fiction and nonfiction. i was wondering if the process of writing fiction is different from the process of writing nonfiction and if so, how do they differ? >> thank you. >> i don't know what it was like for him, james baldwin wrote plays and novels and poetry and did really marvelous essays. i think i explained earlier for another question that for me the difference is i can't write when i teach because teaching is very analytical you're taking something apart, shaping it, trying to persuade or at least open up something in an essay where you can bet somebody that this is probably Ãbfiction writing for me is open to surprise, i want to be availa

our special coverage will continue now with brooke baldwin. >>> hi there, i'm brooke baldwin.ng cnn. thank you for being with me. here is a quote, it is never to late to turn the outbreak around. that is coming in from the leader of the world health organization today. words that the u.s. needs to hear now more than ever as the nation surpasses 5 million cases. that means one in four infections worldwide are in this country. right now more than 163,000

ignore the literary inheritances of other writers like walt whitman, ernest hemingway, and james baldwin. awork is immersed in profoundly american literary tradition, a tradition that explores the american tradition in dialogue with the ideas of democracy. history, i am older than i look. my white ancestors immigrated to this country in the 1780's. my african and indigenous answers -- ancestors were here before me. my mother and father wish for a son to unite them. i came woman, three and a half weeks late, breaking my mother in too many ways. she had into the energy to name me. i father is too lazy to be original. he scribbled my mother's name on the certificate and wrote his mother's name behind the mother's name. in these poems, the legacy of these women's lives chase me like a strong wind. this book is a love letter to women who have been denied or erased. every time i call and name in this book, presume the person who bears the name is loved. if you are brave, imagine that woman congealing on my tongue, giving the name wrath and memory. let these women dance among your days and in y

we will remember james baldwin. for today, we're looking at concerns about returning to the was on during this pandemic. according to linkedin, more than two-thirds of working professionals say their workplaces are now open. nearly one-third say they are required to return. but a majority, 57%, say they are not comfortable doing so. we spoke to a fitness instructor, a teacher, and a former corporate pr manager who shared their concerns about going back to their workplaces. >> stretch, down -- >> i'm a fitness professional. when gyms opened back up, i had some concerns about my health and safety. we were expected to return to work during covid for 75% of our wages. and it felt like a real devaluing of life. >> my feeling in going back to the classroom is nervousness. >> i have three children, my position was eliminated. and my corporate job represented a significant portion of our family income and our health care. >> the scary thought occurred to me of what happens if we go back in person and one of my students gets

. >>> brooke baldwin continues our coverage right now. >>> hi there. i'm brooke baldwin.'re watching cnn. thank you for being with me. earlier this summer joe biden said president trump was "in retreat" when it came to the

one of the women that we know who participated in that march is marie baldwin. she is a native american woman. we thought it was really important in particular because many of the photographs you see from the women's suffrage movement are primarily white women marching and protesting for their vote. but we know that women of color were there and were important to the movement, and we really wanted to make sure to spotlight their stories whenever we could. we know marie baldwin was a participant of the suffrage march here in washington, d.c. this is actually her official personnel file photo. she worked for what is today the bureau of indian affairs. i think it is a lovely photo, and i love that she chose to wear her traditional native dress for the picture as well. and i also want to just point out that ida b. wells barnett was another woman of color who participated in the 1913 suffrage march and was a really critical activist, not only for women's suffrage, but for a number of different issues. throughout the gallery, we have women's photographs in these gold

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me.on this friday afternoon. in just a few days the u.s. is set to become home to a taggering 5 million cases of the coronavirus. but that number as large as it is, may not tell the full story. some 29 states are showing decline in testing compared to last week while the seven day average of new tests is down 10% nationwide. now the number of americans who are dying in this pandemic is now averaging 1,000 people per day. that is over the last week and a half. and one influential model saying the widespread use of masks could save as much as 70,000 lives through the end of the year. but the trump white house which cited that very model still will not implea. a federal mask mandate and now the centers for disease control are blasting the administration for the response and mixed messaging. >> it's one thing if the president were to decide, for example, no, we're not going to recommend mks

so we know marie baldwin was a participant of the suffrage march here in washington d.c.. this is actually her official personnel file photo. she worked for was today the bureau of indian affairs. i think this is a lovely photo and i think it's lovely that she chose to wear traditional native dress for the picture as well. i also want to just point out that idea b wells burnett was another woman of color who participated in the 1913 suffrage march and was a really critical activist not only for women's suffrage but for a number of different issues. throughout the gallery we have these women's photographs in these gold frames, i call them suffragists bought lights. we just wanted to really make sure that we pulled in as many different women's stories, highlighting the deferral that they played in this one role for women's voting rights. women petition, a march than they protested but the fight for women's voting rights wouldn't have been successful at the as i said at the start of this tour, millions of women were not already voters. that's because their states chose to giv

so we know marie baldwin was a participant of the suffrage march here in washington, d.c. this is actually her personnel file photo. she works for what today is the bureau of indian affairs. it's a lovely photo. i love that she chose to wear her traditional native dress for the picture as well. and i also want to just point out that ida b. wells barnett was another woman of color who participated in the 1913 woman suffrage march and was an activist not only for woman suffrage but for a number of issues. we have these women's photographs in gold frames. i call them suffrage spotlights. we want ed to make sure we pull in as many different women's stories and highlighting the important role that they played in the struggle for women's voting rights. you'll see those throughout the gallery. so women petitioned. they marched and they protested, but the fight for women's voting rights really wouldn't have been successful if, as i said at the start of this tour, millions of women were not already voters. and that's because their states chose to give them the right to vote beginni

. >>> our coverage continues now with brooke baldwin. >>> hi there. i'm brooke baldwin.'re watching cnn. thank you for being here. we may not be able to get rid of the coronavirus but it's up to us to control it. strong words today from dr. anthony fauci as his colleague on the white house task force, dr. deborah birx warns that nine u.s. cities along with california central valley see an uptick in positivity rates. dr. fauci says those numbers are a warning about what's to come. >> it's a clear indication that you are getting an uptick in cases, which inevitably as dr. birx is