[inaudible conversations] good morning Everyone Welcome to the fifth annual mississippi book festival and welcome everyone doing on cspan which is been a supporter of our efforts from the very first year. We appreciate them very much. Im chris with archives and history. If you have not done so please silence your cell phone. Our panel this morning is a spotlight on mississippi civil rights, we think energy for sponsoring it. Theyve also been with the book festival since beginning and we are grateful for the early support and sticking with us. We are in this room today, thanks to foreman Watkins Law Firm we pretrade their support. Our panelists are natalie, johnny, michelle and heather and you can purchase copies of their books from vendors outside and you can find the times are authors will be signing in your programs. You will hear from our panelists for about 40 minutes and open the floor to questions. Please come to the podium to answer your questions. Be careful of the ramp. Help m
In goma where the man sought help before he died he fell sick days after returning home from an ebola infected area where he was working in a mining area the clinic is now closed some clinicians have been vaccinated and Health Workers are trying to trace people the victim made contact with. More than a 1000000 people live in this city on the border with rwanda had to call juanita we did not know what was happening we just saw people looking like doctors carrying him away they said they will come back to the vaccinators. She says we have got my resident because we have seen how people are dying it would temper and benny night and day. The 2nd worst outbreak in the countrys history was declared a year ago and has since claimed the lives of 1700 people its 2nd only to the outbreak in west africa that killed 11000 people 5 years ago Health Workers trying to combat the outbreak are having to deal with militia groups and communities both hostile to them as well as poor infrastructure in vast
If jon stewart were here this wouldnt be happening. Committee on the judiciary subcommittee on constitutional civil rights and liberties will come to order. Thank the officers for get itin the doors shut and folks in. Thank you so much. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. I welcome everyone todays hearing on the path to Restorative Justice. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. Today is june, a day that commemorates the abolition of slavery in texas and more generally throughout the confederacy. The news with the emancipation proclamation did not reach texas for two years so all enslaved people knew they were free despite lincolns emancipation. Slavery was a crime against humanity, one whose impacts we as a society continue to grapple with today. This year marks the 400th anniversary of the first african slaves being brought to america. Slaveries of our nations first original sin. Our constitution protected it and various compromise
And this is an everyday occurrence in america. I have the privilege of having leaders in my community who over the decades have given me strength. One of them was a woman on the fifth floor of the projects. Building in which i lived whose son was murdered. She taught me hope is the action conviction. Despiair wont have the last word, but when i come back on a day like today, i wonder if other senators had people shot like that in their neighborhood, if it wouldnt be a headline. When people are shot and killed, the world seems to keep going on. And so i wonder about having the last word. What happens when the last word is no words. When its silence . And i feel a sense of anger where we are in the United States of america where we have not had direct conversations about a lot of the root causes of the inequities and pain and hurt manifested in economic disparities and Health Disparities and a criminal Justice System that is a form of new jim crow. We as a nation have not truly acknowled
An organization founded in 1979 with four core organizational goals to establish a Network Among membership to promote black women in the profession, to disseminate information and opportunities in the field, and to suggestions concerning Research Topics and repositories we are organized and has grown from a handful of women in the 1970s to an organization that counts hundreds of members. We stand on the shoulders of our founders as we come together to share our work with one another, to fellowship, and to remind other why we have all chosen to dedicate our to correcting the narrative, to telling their stories and, to save their names. I have the honor of serving as the moderator of todays conversation. With three Living Legends jesus. Pioneering and historians of black women. Sit with us today. Our conference is shining threads and heavy loads where we and when we exhale black women making history and all attempt introduce each of these iconic who have left indelible marks on the fiel