dr. harry edwards, who i'm going to formally introduce here in a moment, we formally announced that we have established a permanent lecture at the university of texas called the dr. harry edwards lecture on sports and society. [ applause ] and so we couldn't possibly find a better person in the history of sports and civil rights than dr. harry edwards and he was gracious enough to lend his name to that lecture and we expect we'll have several presentations under that name in the coming years. today is -- we have a conversation that's going to occur on the area of sports and civil rights. i've been a part of many panels and many presentations over the years and normally you try and find the best panelists and the best people to make that presentation. rarely do you have the people, the top people, who are presenting. in other words, if you had to pick one, two and three, rarely do you get one, two and three. today we're fortunate that we have probably the three most important people in the civil rights sports and society and sports and civil rights movement in the last 50 years and we're ecs

dr ben steele is on the program senior fellow and director of international economic council of foreign relations is filling us in on what exactly is being overseen c.v. and in today's big deal edward harris and i are discussing debt forgiveness and the rebalancing risk in our economy let's get to. our lead story today brazil now for the next couple weeks you can't and won't mention brazil without mentioning the world cup for better or worse and with the kick off only a couple days away protests are exploding throughout the country not really an optimal time for brazil that's for sure now brazil has a lot and i mean a lot at stake here at the world cup is the most watched televised fourteen event in the world and brazil hasn't posted it in over sixty years so making a good impression is imperative for the country especially in light of the fact that brazil's wizardry of economic growth has been waning as of late now in the past three years brazil's growth has slowed significantly since its boom years throughout the two thousand which was largely fueled by the country's vast natural resources and heavy investment in china in the past few months however their stock market has waned and infl

dr. harry edwards, who i'm going to formally introduce here in a moment, we formally announced that we have established a permanent lecture at the university of texas called the dr. harry edwards lecture on sports and society. [