This morning and next up here on cspan a look at the supreme courts landmark brown v. Board of education ruling, ending segregation in Public Schools, may 18 was the 63rd anniversary of that ruling. Educators and historians this week examined the impact of the decision. This three and a half hour forum is hosted by the Thurgood Marshall college fund. Good afternoon. I am its kind of quiet in here. Looks like i walked in and i felt i was at a funeral. We have to do something about this. Were going to the body is not here. You know it was really somber and everything. Id like to welcome you. My name is johnny taylor. Im the president and c. E. O. Of the Thurgood Marshall college fund. Welcome to our headquarters. This is home for us. We share this building with gallop, our partner in the work were going to be embarking upon over the next several years. But we just want to welcome you to our home. Id like to start off, though, before i tell you why were here and turn it over to the paneli
Fatalitiesay succeeding percent, industry and fatalities increased. We are going to take you to atlanta for the net roots nation conference. The conference has been underway since thursday. You will hear from a candidate for georgia governor, the Vice President with the nea. Senator ofarren it, massachusetts will be coming up. Introductions are now underway. This is live coverage on cspan. For the of not in here, what yesterday, the organizers are doing a great job. [applause] the sessions are amazing. I just really want a round of applause for the amazing organizers. We really need to be pulling ourselves together. Whatrday i talked about Joel Stillman was talking about, the strategy to discourage us. I want to talk about being distracted, which is not very difficult, to get us distracted. We live in a society that is nothing but sit distraction. Point,ppens is that some the Opposition Party got clear about what was important. We need to be able to do the same thing. We have to have a
Little did we realize that our analysts would be addressing president elect trump. We are fortunate that we have five historians who have a sense of public purpose and would like to discuss and reflect on some of the major Public Policy imperatives and context that the new administration that will be faced with. As laid out in the program, we will follow the alphabetical order. First is a scholar of the middle east who has written about u. S. Arab relations. Among other topics. The next is of the Harvard University Kennedy School whose work covers the intersection of race and Public Policy. His Research Deals with the construction and policing of criminality in the United States. Our third speaker is my colleague, margaret omara. I always want to say it like maureen ohara, and she always corrects me. She is currently focusing on the relationship between hightech and american politics. She has recently published a tuesdays foral elections. The next is author of the much acclaimed book e
Little did we realize that our panelists would be addressing president elect trump. We are fortunate that we have five historians that who have a sense of public purpose. They would like to reflect on some of the Public Policy imperatives and context that the new administration that will be faced with. As laid out in the program, we are going to follow the order alphabetical order. First up is nathan citino. Of rice university. A scholar of the middle east. Saudi written about u. S. And u. S. Arab relations. Khalil gibran muhammad, of Harvard Universitys Kennedy School whose work explores the , intersection between race, ethnicity, and Public Policy will be next. His research polices criminality in the United States. Our third speaker is my colleague margaret omara. I always want to say like maureen ohara, and she corrects me. She is currently focusing on the relationship between hightech and american politics. She has recently published a book on pivotal tuesdays, four elections that
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