and cornel west present their thoughts on poverty in america reporting that 1 fifty million americans are for our near poor and are you ending poverty should be addressed with the same concern as prior social and political movements. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. [applause] thank you. to dr. greene, thank you for the invitation to be here tonight. dr. west and i are in the midst of a three week tour across the country for this party manifesto. when we were asked to consider making one of our stops here to support this great work we immediately accepted in part because we believe in the work brenda greene is doing and dr. west has appeared at the conference before and i was that the writers conference. just a couple weeks ago. i am back in new york city. a couple weeks later. we have been delighted on this tour to have about half half of art for stops have been to support through fund-raising efforts those kinds of causes and entities that we believe in supporting
rights situation, and their response to you will be and we ve had this conversation at the official level their response will be, well, you, the united states, have human rights problems too. i mean, that is not a comparable discussion. that s tonight at 10. also this weekend marcus luttrell details operation redwing from service: a navy seal at war. sunday night at 10 eastern. three days of booktv this weekend on c-span2. from busboys and poets in washington, d.c., lisa delpit contends that recent public education reform efforts from no child left behind to the proliferation of charter schools have failed to assist african-american students and address an achievement gap. it s about 50 minutes. i guess this is, may not be on. is it on? can you hear me? okay, i can t hear it. i just wanted to thank all of you for coming out. it s an honor for me to be here. i don t know that i ve ever done an occasion like this, and i do believe i probably write better than i spea
little bit of a snapshot of the publishing industry in 2011, if you had to write a paragraph or two on what the publishing industry did this year. oh, my goodness. where to even begin. i think the best way to look at what happened to the publishing industry this year is the increasing rise of digital books, digital market share and also just a tremendous transformation of the physical book market. for example, i guess a really good way to look at it is through the almighty prism of amazon. for example, amazon introduced just a couple of months ago some new devices, for example, the kindle fire which is their answer to the tablet market. it s priced at $199, and, um, just based off of preorders and new shipments alone various analysts have projected that it will reach number two in sales behind apple s ipad which, of course, is priced at the lowest end at $499. now, the thing, too, with amazon s kindle fire is that it s also in direct competition with barnes & noble which we
people understand that presidents need vacations and we should all want our presidents to take a break every once in a while, they re pretty high stress jobs, the white house has to be very conscious about images of the president, having too much fun. or i ve done a piece of the presidents playing government, david mariner wrote a book. he was playing golf until 11:30 last night. that was hawaii teime. but bush, the president you worked for stopped playing golf after 9/11 and that very famous shot of him talking about terrorism then saying, now, watch my drive, became a clip on michael moore s movie. t he did not play golf again. a couple of years after that, he quit playing golf and said it wasn t the image he wanted to
eight people injured. it s now raising concerns about the safety of other lifts. and sarah palin falling, too. a new poll finds fewer republicans would support her in a bid for president. an 18-point drop in a year. i m norah o donnell. chuck and savannah have the week off. all that, plus the handling of the president s image as he vacations in hawaii. also, finance tips for the new year and the latest news from the royal wedding. word that prince william and kate middleton plan to rough it without royal servants. and we begin with the miserable weather that s plaguing both coasts. first, in the northeast. the big cities are still digging out from the worst blizzard in recent memory. jeff rossen is in brooklyn, new york, with the latest. reporter: here we are, three days after the storm. biggest city in the country. right now, we re in brooklyn, new york. this is a side street. that has not been plowed. not even once according to the residents. i believe it. you have lite