The country tonight, 8 00 eastern, here on cspan. This morning, washington journal took a look at the past years Civil Rights Movement and discussed whether it has changed policing and the Justice System. This is just under one hour. Host angela davis. She is editor of policing the black man. Also teaches at american universitys Washington College of law. Shes a professor there. Good morning. I was approached e publisher of the book and was asked if i would be interested in editing a vume at would attempt to contextualize and explore all th recent awful killingsf blacmeand boys in recent years. I really jumped at the opportunity because theres no issue more important to me than the unfair treatment of black and brown people in the kernel justice could and criminal justice. Host what information do you base that on to come to that conclusion . Guest it is well documented. Its an issue that ive faced for over 20 years. Is certainly plenty of documentation to show that black and brown peo
Hollywood saw the initial impact from the movement, it went into politics also at the resignation of several members of congress, and calls for capitol hill to improve how claims of Sexual Assault are handled. For your thoughts on the movement and its influence in the next hour, we invite you to call in on two lines. For women, 202 7488000. For men, 202 7488001. You can post at cspanwj on our twitter feed and give your thoughts on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. The Chicago Tribune talks about the movement and its founder, miss burke, who coined the phrase. She is a survivor of Sexual Assault and she wanted to do something to help women and girls of color who had survived Sexual Violence as well. It moves on in the timeline to talk about the influence in hollywood with the active kevin spacey becoming the focus of claims against him and timeline also talks about the influence it had in politics, highlighting the Washington Post into their piece that was published about roy moore. Whic
Publisher of the book and was asked if i would be interested in editing a volume that would attempt to contextualize and explore all the recent awful killings of black men and boys in recent years. I really jumped at the opportunity because theres no issue more important to me than the unfair treatment of black and brown people in the kernel justice could and criminal justice. Host what information do you base that on to come to that conclusion . Guest it is well documented. Its an issue that ive faced for over 20 years. Is certainly plenty of documentation to show that black and brown people are treated poorly in the criminal Justice System, much less fairly been there similarly situated white counterparts, and every step of the process from arrests to sentencing, hence the subtitle of the book. Although the inspiration of the book were all these killings that occurred in recent years and quite friendly have occurred since black people have been in this country but have received atten
Joining me this morning is deborah brown, member of the Naacp National board of directors from virginia. Deborah brown, please stand. Lets give her a round of applause. [applause] now will everyone please stand, everyone please stand for the invocation which will be given by reverend dr. Harold carter, pastor of the New Shiloh Baptist Church in baltimore maryland. Lets all give him a of applause as he comes out. [applause] my dear friends, lets bow our heads and humble our hearts. Before our god. We thank you as always, gracious god, for the gifts of life, for the gift of another day. We still our hearts in your presence because only you have brought us through the night. And we say thank you. And our gracious god, we lift the language of the song that he could basis of the day that you have made and were here to be glad and rejoice in it. With all of the gifts and talents that you provide us with an grant to us, we know that one thing we cannot do is make a day, but we are grateful th
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