And again i want to thank politics and prose and also cspan for thinking enough of this series to come out and continue to cover. You dont get these kinds of people in this kind of room without getting this kind of coverage. I want to thank you all for being here tonight for our fifth installment. I want you to feel free, feel welcome, feel like home. Come to the microphone, ask a question, intelligent, civil, and we will answer. And i want to come without further ado, introduce this great great pedal because were going to get into some bullet points on their career and were going to get into the discussion. Discussion. I want to start off with someone who i have such respect for, such apparition, love four. Dr. Mary Frances Berry. Shes a former head of the civil rights commission, you civil rights commission. Shes also, shes got a list of things shes done. Shes been jailed for fighting against apartheid in south africa. The list goes on and on, but shes also the author of the book, fi
We are people who are real. We have dealt with this and written about it. Again, i want to thank politics and prose and cspan for thinking enough of this series to continue to cover it. You dont get these kinds of people in this kind of room without this kind of coverage but i want to thank you all for being here tonight for our fifth installment. I want you to feel free, feel welcome, feel at home. Come to the microphone, ask a question, intelligent, civil, and we will answer. Without further ado i want to introduce this great panel. We will get into bullet points on their career and into the discussion. I want to start off with someone who i have such respect for and admiration and love for. Doctor Mary Frances Berry, former head of the u. S. Civil rights commission. She has a list of things she has done. She has been jailed for fighting against apartheid in south africa. The list goes on and on. Awe o she is author of the book 5 and a pork chop sandwich and the corruption of democra
[applause] thank you so much. Its great to be here at politics and prose again. This is the fifth installment of our race in america series. I want to thank politics and prose for the vision. A a lot of playings dont have the vision. This book store has set the tone for book stores round the nation to talk about such a sensitive issue, matters of race, and, yes, were authors, and we are people who are real and have dealt with this and written about it, and again issue want to thank politics and prose and cspan to think enough of the series to come out and cover. Dont get these kind of people in this kind of room without getting this kind of coverage. So i want to thank you all for being here tonight for our fifth installment i want you to feel free, feel welcome, feel at home, come to the microphone, and a question, intelligent, civil, and we will answer, and i want to without further adieu introduce the great, great panel. Were do some bullet points on their career and i want to start
Warning to thank politics and prose and cspan for thinking inform of the series to cover. You dont gate these kind of people in this kind of room without getting the kind of coverage. Want to thank you for being here tonight for our fifth installment. I want you to feel free. Feel welcome, feel at home. Come to the microphone, ask a question, intelligent, civil, and we will answer, and i want to, without further adieu, introduce this great, great panel. Were going to do some work from their career, and well get into the discussion, and i will start off with someone who i have such respect for, such admiration, such love for, dr. Mary Frances Berry. She has a list of things she has done. She has been jailed for fighting against apartheid in south africa. The list goes on and on. She is also the author of the book, five dollars and a pork chop, from which and the corruption corruption in democracy. She has a new book coming out, history teaches us to [applause] next to dr. Mary francesbe
Live. And public work crews have been busy today oo. Absolutely. You know they worked to make sure they had that lane of traffic they needed to block reopened in time for rush hour. The evening rush hour, now. You know, 300 people had their service interrept rupted this morn whgt water main break happened. We understand now that there this is because of an aging infrom a structure and a drop in temperatures. Pipes break. Theyre old, they break. Just one set of five to back on line. Normal time, eight to 10 hours. First give away in concord this, break in mount diablo only affected a few homes. Around 4 30 this morning reports made its way to city hall. By 5 00 a. M. Crews identified the problem, digging up a section of santa clara street to fix the busjv p pipes. This section of pipe made in 1958 became a casualty of age and weather. Rains weve had in two storms played a role. The fact that weve had cold spells recently contributed to the problem. As well. Adding to urgency of crews to