Trump Snaps at Asian American Reporter, Storms Out of Briefing | NowThis

NowThis News

May 12, 2020
‘Don’t ask me, ask China’ — Trump snapped at an Asian American reporter before storming out of a press conference.
In US news and current events today, President Trump stormed out of this coronavirus press conference after a reporter asked about his claims that the ‘U.S. is doing better than other countries.’ Watch the exchange between Trump and the press here.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, explained

Vox

May 12, 2020

Where Dr. Fauci came from — and the crisis that shaped his career.

Correction: At 4:28, a previous version of this video read “Federal Drug Administration.” It should read “Food and Drug Administration.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci has become one of the most recognizable faces of the United States’ coronavirus response, as a member of the Coronavirus Task Force and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. But it was an earlier crisis that shaped his career — and that’s crucial to understand his position today.

As the above video shows, Dr. Fauci’s involvement in the AIDS crisis, from the virus’s discovery to the present day, has affected the course of his career and the way the disease is treated around the world. That history, in turn, informs how we learn about and treat the coronavirus today.

In addition to scientific progress, AIDS also necessitated bureaucratic changes in the government response to the disease. By negotiating these challenges, Dr. Fauci secured his place in the public health system and changed how AIDS was treated.

Further Reading:

ACT UP’s historical archive (https://actupny.org/documents/nyplPR….) or one of Dr. Fauci’s early lectures on AIDs https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catal….

However, these books provide particularly useful context on a complex story.
Against the Odds: The Story of of AIDS Drug Development, Politics, and Profits by Peter Arno and Karyn Feiden https://archive.org/details/againstod…

This book provides an exhaustive tour of the AIDS crisis from a drug research perspective, with extensive coverage of the NIH and FDA. Big Shot: Passion, Politics, and the Struggle for an AIDS Vaccine by Patricia Thomas https://archive.org/details/bigshotpa…

This book extends beyond the 1980s period covered in this video to explore the long search for an AIDS vaccine.
It’s highly useful as a history of pharmaceutical and government efforts. How to Survive a Plague by David France https://www.google.com/books/edition/…

This book, and the documentary of the same name, describe the activist history of the crisis with plenty of research into the government response. AIDS at 30: A History by Victoria Harden and Anthony A. Fauci https://www.google.com/books/edition/…

Written by a former NIH history director and Dr. Fauci, this is something like an “official” history of the AIDs crisis, from the beginning to the book’s 2012 publication date.

Billion Oyster Project Aims to Restore NY Harbor Reefs | NowThis

NowThis News

May 12, 2020

Meet the conservationists fighting to restore the oyster reefs in New York’s harbor.

In US news and current events today, conservationists are restoring oyster reefs in New York Harbor in hopes of bringing New Yorkers closer to nature. Billion Oyster Project is an initiative to bring back the oysters that once thrived in large numbers in NY Harbor. Like many organizations the project had to shift to remote work due to stay-at-home orders but we were still able to speak to the project’s co-founder about how long the organization has engaged thousands of students and volunteers to rebuild a lost habitat within an important natural resource.

Trump lawyer argues for ‘temporary immunity’. Will it work?

CNN

May 12, 2020

President Donald Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow made the case for “temporary presidential immunity” before the Supreme Court justices as the Trump administration tries to prevent the president’s financial records from being subpoened. CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin and Elie Honig give their predictions on how the case might turn out.

Los New Yorkers: Essential, Underprotected Undocumented Immigrants Struggle to Survive in Epicenter

Democracy Now!

May 12, 2020

As the coronavirus continues to devastate New York City communities, we hear the voices of undocumented New Yorkers about how they are surviving the pandemic. Their stories are told in a new ProPublica story headlined “Los New Yorkers: Essential and Underprotected in the Pandemic’s Epicenter.” We speak with one of the story’s reporters, Adriana Gallardo.

The Community-led Movement for Forests, Climate and Justice in the Southern US

Biodiversity for a Livable Climate
May 12, 2020

Holly Paar Across the South in the United States, frontline communities facing the devastation wrought by industrial logging are leading a movement calling for the protection of forests. Hit hardest by the effects of increasingly intense storms and flooding as well as facing threats of pollution, communities along the coastal plains of the Carolinas, as well as the Gulf states are uniting in a call for climate justice and economic solutions. They are challenging the status quo of what equates to a century of landscape-level industrial extraction of one of the South’s most important resources and means of climate protection: its forests.

Fauci warns of more virus outbreaks if states reopen too quickly

CBS News

May 12, 2020

Four of the Trump administration’s top medical experts testified about the U.S. response to the coronavirus before the Senate HELP committee Tuesday. CBS News political correspondent Ed O’Keefe and Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason join CBSN’s Elaine Quijano to recap the hearing.

Dr. Fauci warns reopening U.S. too soon could worsen coronavirus outbreak

CBS Evening News
May 12, 2020

The nation’s top public health experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, are warning against reopening the U.S. economy quickly as some states grapple with containing the virus. Nancy Cordes reports.

Kingdoms of Ancient and Medieval Africa » African Studies Center | Boston University

 

West Medieval African Kingdoms

• Trade across the Sahara (ThoughtCo)
• Ghana, Mali and Songhai: Enduring Understandings

Ghâna

• Kingdom of Ghâna Primary Source Documents
• Kingdom of Ghana Audio File (BBC Story of Africa Series, 28 min)

Mali:

• Kingdom of Mali Primary Source Documents
• Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time (companion website to the Block Museum exhibit)
• Podcast: Medieval Africa at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto: a 22 minute podcast on the Caravans of Gold exhibit of the Block Museum, currently in Toronto.
• Sundiata: An Epic
  • Why this Epic?
• The Road to Timbuktu (PBS)
• Lesson Plans: Trekking to Timbuktu (Edsitement-NEH site)
• The Travels of Ibn Battuta: A Virtual Tour: this website from the Office of Resources and International Affairs at UC Berkeley provides a comprehensive resource to the famed traveler’s itenerary and present images, a map, student activities, a chronology, and a bibliography.
• Mansa Musa Lesson Plan (SHEG)
• Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa (Crash Course World History episode that also addresses East Africa)

Songhai:

• Kingdom of Songhay Primary Source Documents
• Great Empires of Mali and Songhai Audio File (BBC Story of Africa Series, 28 min)

North East

Nubia

• NUBIA Teaching Materials and Resources

Axum

• Kingdom of Axum (Ancient History Encyclopedia)
• Foundations of Aksumite Civilization and Its Christian Legacy (1st – 8th Centuries) (Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
• The Rise of Aksum (BBC 2-part documentary)
• The Kingdom of Axum (BBC’s short summary as part of The Story of Africa series)
• The Aksum Kingdom (Khan Academy)
• The Aksum Kingdom: Trade and Ancient Africa: Africa’s Great Civilizations (PBS Series)

The Spread of Islam

• The Spread of Islam in Ancient Africa (Ancient History Encyclopedia)
• Islam Curriculum Development
• Islam & Africa
• Pictures of Muslims Wearing Things (tumblr site)
• The Rise of Islam Audio File (BBC Story of Africa Series, 28 min

Bibliographies and Other Resources

• West African Kingdoms: A Bibliography
• Ancient West African Manuscripts of Timbuktu: An Introduction (Library of Congress site)
• European depictions of Africans
• Gold Teaching Resources
• West African Kingdoms (BBC – The Story of Africa)

 

LIVE: Dr. Anthony Fauci, CDC Dir. Dr. Robert Redfield Testify At Senate Hearing On Coronavirus

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Robert Redfield, Dr. Steven Hahn and Adm. Brett Giroir testify on novel coronavirus in US.