My parents didnt have an answer. It became kind of a quest to find out about it in the sense that there was enormous power and that would change the direction of my life. When i wasnt looking for it to happen. Cspan how many of your years did you think about this . Guest i started after i got into a book career in the late 70s after magazine journalism. I wanted to write about this period because i hadnt answered the question what is it made of and i thought in 1981 with what was proposed to be a three year history of the teen years and its now been 16 years and ive done it in two volumes is now projected to be a trilogy or will be a trilogy after i finish it but i would have 20 years. Definitely turning into my life work but im thankful for the privilege of it. Cspan the first book, parting the waters, 1,056 pages. This but there are 546 pages. Whats been your approach . Guest to do it in storytelling. One of the reasons i wanted to do it is i knew this had an enormous impact like the
White and the blacks separate. King a filmed record. From montgomery to memphis. In a black History Month special, we air excerpts of the releasing oscarnominated documentary about dr. Martin luther king and the rise of the civilrights movement. The film was originally screened for one night only in 1970 in more than 600 theaters across the United States. It has rarely been seen since then in the past four decades. Today in a democracy now special, we air extensive footage of the montgomery bus boycott, and in its 50th anniversary year of the 1963 march on washington for jobs and freedom, we hear dr. King and his own words. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Afghan president karzai has ordered his special Operations Forces out of the province of wardak for alleged involvement in crimes against civilians. In a statement, karzai accused u. S. Special forces of harassing, annoying, torturing and even murderi
Thank you, darling. Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a sunday night. And we do begin with the devastation only worsening in colorado tonight. What families are going through there, unimaginable. At least five people dead. Authorities still trying to reach hundreds more unaccounted for. The punishing rains coming down again this sunday, this epic flooding, leading to the biggest Helicopter Rescue operation since hurricane katrina. Those rescues screeching to a halt because of the relentless rains. The National Guard rescuing 1,700 people already. Families hoping for reunions like this one. Evacuees finding loved ones after being dropped off at a local high school. From the sky tonight, you can see the damage, the South Platte River cutting a highway in half in colorado. The Rushing Waters pouring into towns. Look at this parking lot. Nothing but tiny dots of color there, cars completely surrounded by the water. Families who have returned home, wading through the mu
segregation forever. and king is responding to that moment, remember, it s the birmingham movement. that frames this moment. and what is the response to the march in 1963. september 15th, the 60th anniversary of the 16th street bombing. the november jfk is dead. then we have to place this in context if we re to understand the journey to now. yeah. one or 2%. so glad your history performance. good heavens. on to you, another professor, keneshia, there is the new cdc report, it shows one in five women feels mistreated during maternity care. 40% of black and multiracial women are reporting discrimination. this is in addition to the stats that show black women in their babies or almost three times more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth. the nypd s. but no policy or legislation can fix this. how do we tackle systemic
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