Freedoms. Explore our nations passed on American History tv every weekend on cspan3. Joining us now is ken burns talking about his latest project looking at Country Music. Thank you for joining us. This isvinced you that a topic worth exploring . We are always looking for good stories in American History that are firing on all cylinders. Country music was filled with the stories. Engagingativity and almost all of the themes that we dealt with over the last 40 years of filmmaking. Race, gender, region, creativity versus commerce. All of these wonderful things. And a series where people die of broken hearts. Not by the millions, but of broken hearts. That there the themes that compromise this fact embrace . How does Country Music fact of race . Guest we do this a disservice. Country music comes down to us when we presume something about Country Music, but the banjo, one of the central instruments with the fiddle, is from africa. The major early stars of Country Music had africanamerican
This audience really merits it. I thought maybe one day if i write this book and people notice it maybe one day the mayor of charleston will be holding it in front of an audience, a packed house. This is what happened one week after the book was released. Its truly beyond my wildest dreams. The book tells the story of reconstruction and im going to read some passages from it some of which you will see from the Police Department some that deal with the mayor and the current mayor here. The point is we are all heirs to something. We have no say. We are born where we are and we have no say in what we inherit and all we have control of his will he do with it. We can recount some of the triumphs and some of the greatest tragedies but i think moving on from the tragedy of 2015 you created this group. You decided intentionally to create the space word difficult issues in the community could be discussed. It would have been easy and very human to say the murder was not from charleston, you hav
Senator warren good morning church. Good morning rainbow push. It is so good to be here this morning. It is good to be in the house of the lord. Oh, yes. I am here this morning though because this country is in a time of crisis. We are in a fight for the very soul of our nation, and when were in this kind of fight, when were in this kind of battle, we need allies who know how to fight and who know how to win. [applause] senator warren we need strong per sit tent fighters persistent fighters. We need fighters who know that giving up is not an option. We need principled leaders who have the courage to fight for their convictions, we need giants who know that social change is possible only when we join together across lines of difference. We need a champion like our reverend jesse jackson. [applause] senator warren thank you thank you. For generations under the leadership of our reverend jesse jackson, the National Push coalition has been on the frontlines in the fight for justice. Im her
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Get informed straight from the source. On cspan, unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. From the Nations Capital to wherever you are. Because the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. [inaudible conversations] we want to take this moment to welcome everyone to Trinity United Church of christ here in chicago, illinois. We are a church that believes that we are called to be in the heart of this community ever seeking the communitys heart, and our motto is that we are black and christian, we dont think theres any contradiction rooting yourself in your culture and also celebrating the christ whom we serve. Were delighted youre here for our book notes, we had a wonderful worship experience today to Worship Services with a magnificent preacher who is to my left none other than reverend dr. Raphael warnock who is senator raphael warnock. [applause], who is the first africanamerican senator from the state of georgia. He has two pub