Rock opening the sunday night ceremony in los angeles. Hollywoods biggest night had to share the spotlight with way cuts and a sharp tongued host which all brought the attention to the lack of diversity. We will speak with Rashad Robinson and Hector Becerra. His recent article headlined, in this town, it is as if hollywood tries to not cast latinos. First, the South Carolina. Despite what you hear, we dont need to make America Great again. America has never stopped being great. But we do need to make america whole again. Walls, we building need to be tearing down barriers. Amy voters in South Carolinas democratic primary saturday backed president ial candidate Hillary Clinton with a staggering 73. 5 of the vote. Africanamericans favored clinton over sanders by more than six to one while white voters narrowly preferred her as well. We will get reaction as well as hesitance to disavow david duke. Reasons racism is still alive. We will speak with ari berman, author of give us the ballot.
Its not going well. The union is losing. They start a draft this 1863, but you want to talk about inequality . In that draft you could buy your way out for 200. So the rich never served the union cause unless they were noble, unless they had a higher calling. For 200 you could get out of the draft, or you could present a live person. So if i brought you in and said, bruce, youre going to take my place, i wouldnt have to serve. I would have paid you to be my body. This really ticked off the irish. They could not pay for this. And as they rolled the barrel in the first draft in American History, the names that came out were heir began, omalley, you know, all these irish names. And so they rioted. I will not ever excuse the riot. It was the darkest point in irishAmerican History. They strung up africanamericans, they burned down buildings, they nearly destroyed new york. They would have killed mara because he stuck to the union til the very end had he not been in washington d. C. They wen
Beauty from old line, wasp money, meagher is a fugitive. He writes this beautiful love letter to her where he asks her her hand for her hand in marriage, and he goes, i am here alone, i am a homeless exile, i have nobody, i have no family. Im wanted by the british empire, you know . Im nothing, but the greatest thing in my life was to find you. And if you will take me as your husband, i will share everything with you. Take my past, take my heritage, let us join our lives together its a beautiful letter. And so she gives up everything to marry this irish rebel. Her father promptly disowns her. She ends up living the rest of her life on a 50amonth civil war widows pension, but they were like this. She nursed his wound. Women, i didnt know this, but women could come down to the camps. He was knocked from his horse twice, he had this horrible abscess on his knee, and also his confidence was shattered. He had lost so many people who were so close to him, people he had personally recruited w
Good afternoon and welcome to the eighth annual tucson festival of books, one of the largest book festivals in the country. My name is ron barber. I am glad to see such a big crowd. Must be a lot of political junkies in the room. Raise your hand. I thought so. Me too. That is why i am glad to moderate. We want to thank cspan which is broadcasting this panel live. Also booktv and Cox Communications for sponsorship of the venue. The presentation will last about an hour. The last 15 or 20 minutes we will reserve for questions and answers from the panel. We ask you to hold your questions for the end and we will give that a full 20 minutes to your questions. Right after the session the panelists will be available to sign or autographed their books which will be on sale. Go to booth number 153 sponsored by the university of arizona bookstore. Books will be available in that location. If you want to meet the panelists, samara klar will do an interview with cspan following the session so she w
Whether those Campaign Endorsements matter to you. Join the conversation you can join us on social media. We welcome your tweets cspan wj. Cspan. Facebook. Com we will show you some of the highlights. Here is how last nights debate in miami is playing out on the front pages of a couple newspapers. A look at the Washington Post. They look at the staet din the state dinner we just showed you on cspan of the obamas welcoming Prime Minister trudeau. A novel approach, talk about policy. The debate is sometimes sharp and also serious. Thed of the race for nomination, donald trump adopted a more subdued demeanor, passing up opportunities to strike back when his opponents try to engage him. Common totrategy front runners. A similar tone in the wall street journal. Toner headline gop rivals down debate duels. Bighe brink of five primaries that could and the president ial race,the four contenders adopted a more civil tone and what could be the final debate. Taked trump attempted to on a more pre