Of a life of Frederick Douglass written in 1845 it describes his childhood years on Eastern Shore of maryland, his time as a slave in baltimore and his escape north. Our guest is a historian and author. Watch books that shaped america weeknights at nine eastern on cspan or go to cspan. Org books that shaped america to view the series and learn more about each book featured. Abraham avi loeb is a franklin baird junior professor of science at Harvard University, the longestserving chair of Harvard Department of astronomy, the founding director of Harvard Black hole initiative, director of the institute for theory and computation, itc, within the Harvard Smithsonian center for astrophysics. He also heads the galileoeo project, chairs the Advisory Committee for the breakthrough star shot initiative, and is former chair of the board on physics and astronomy of the national academy. Author of eight books booe than 1000 scientific papers, he is elected fellow of the American Academy of arts a
brawl breaking out on a southwest flight a day after that midair attack on a united plane. we hear from a passenger who helped take the suspect down. the new storm threat in california as the death toll grows after record snow. we re tracking it. fox news under fire. president biden blasting house republicans for giving tucker carlson the video he cherry-picked to falsely portray the january 6th attack as peaceful and the newly revealed text messages. what carlson really thought about donald trump after the election. and on this international women s day, the all girls team of young scientists who fled their home and are wowing the world. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome on this wednesday night. rarely has an american police department, its practices, its culture, its performance been so thoroughly and broadly condemned. the u.s. justice department announcing results of its nearly two-year-long review of the louisvill
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No easy matter. And today is the day Elizabeth Warren initially throws her hat into the ring in the 2020 campaign. In the buildup, she still find herself digging out from the ethnicity controversy. Will she ever get past that . Plus, this has to be a first. We find out explicit photos from the richest man to his mistress. Will jeff bezos expose the tab lite lloyd and in his state of the Union Address the president delivered what is likelying to a reelection theme, ape tacking socialism. Has that word lost its sting . Plus, harvards top astronomer upended the cosmos with his theory that this object in the milky way might be evidence of alien life. Hes here to explain it. First, accountability is the subject of the week, whether its jeff besos olding together the National Enquirer and Elizabeth Warren asked about her heritage or the many politicians fighting for survival. Its tempting to reach a conclusion at the outset, we are better served, stepping back, letting the facts come to ligh
New ways of trying to detect extraterrestrial life and determine the origins of unidentified phenomena are being sought, researchers told Newsweek. (B2)