tremont right now we are joined by little league her book is left on the democrat failed attempt to solve inequality s. a lot of the news the establishment versus bernie sanders. presented history to it determine thank you for having with talk about the book. really deep-seated tension the democratic party i would say since the 1970s. came in as 1980s the parties was at another crossroads of where to go. after the deed of walter mondale there was a sense of different directions the party could have gone g in. one was represented different versions of socialism mondale approach as a the idea of the democrat becoming a new democratad really focusing that is really what helped shape the direction of the party going forward what happened in 1974 and who got elected just give you a hard time. 1974 is another critical year in political history. the big thing that is dominated is watergate ready have a newup group of people who come into congress watergate babies who represent a cha
Culture. We look at exhibits and artifacts chronicling the africanamerican story from slavery through the inauguration of the first africanamerican president. And we talk to Museum Specialists. This is American History tv, only on cspan3. You are looking at the National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture on the mall in washington, d. C. It is the newest Smithsonian Museum opening back in september. And this week it welcomed its 1 millionth visitor through these doors. Tonight we will take you through the doors of this museum that for artifacts that chronicled the africanamerican experience and also telling a shared american story. Well be live for the next 2. 5 hours. In about 40 minutes well be taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts for curators. Were joined inside with Robert Wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. He is the author of the book long road to hard truth. 100 year mission to create the National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture. Thanks
Good evening. And on this important day, this goes beyond a very special program. As you can see, the topic is important, it will run longer than usual but in every way it is the same as our other panels, there will be an opportunity for questions. If you can make it to a microphone that would be great because it is filled on cspan, and live streamed on our Facebook Page and it is helpful if people can hear the question is the question is asked. Lastly there will not be a signing afterward but we have copies of all our guestss books, they are very prolific, we dont have all of all of their books, but some of all of their books and help yourselves to those as well. We appreciate you being part of this discussion. We can think of no better way to honor the legacy of Martin Luther king junior especially on his National Holiday named for him then having this distinguished group of panelists to educate and lead us in a conversation about race in america. Before we get going lets explain for
Good to have you. I want to associate myself with the remarks about the chairman and Ranking Member regarding state department budget. I do believe a cut of this magnitude diminished our influence overseas and our capacity to accomplish our goals. I make it all for creative reforms where the goal is a better operating Department Rather than hitting an arbitrary budget number provided to the state department by omb and others. There is a big difference between those two things. I want to talk about russia and legislation that is taken up regarding russian sanctions. You previously stated the Intelligence Agency has concluded there was russian interference in our elections. Is that the case . I am not here to debate whether it was a decisive intervention but they interfered and you would agree they are attempting to interfere in the elections of many major allies, the netherlands or france. It certainly appears that way. Would you also agree that russia would prefer a weaker nato to a st
You are looking at the National Museum of African American history and culture on the mall in washington dc. It is the newest smithsonian museum. It welcomed its one millionth visitor this week. We will take you inside the Museum Gallery for a look at the stories at artifacts that chronicle the africanamerican experience and tell a shared american story. We will be live for the next 2. 5 hours. We will be taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts. We are joined with judge Robert Wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. He is the author of the book long road to hard truth, the 100 year mission to create the National Museum of African American history and culture. Talk of this museum began back in 1916. It took a century to be built. Walk us through the process. Judge wilkins in early 1916, a gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee created a nonprofit called the National Memorial association. Its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the Nations Capital to honor the co