Than the National Average because our coal is cheap and reliable and very plentiful. And im concerned that e. P. Has not considered the impact and youve touched on it but we need to get into it more on our electricity grid. You dont have a great track record here but if you look at the matts rule, that would result in the closure of 5 now megawatts 5,000 megawatts of power and now between 50,000 and 60,000 megawatts will be taken offline and that is a tentimes mistake here and the accumulation cant be overstated and there is concern about the reliability, if we look back into last winter and touring power station, first energy and others in my state some of the coal powered power plants that will be taken offline were running at near capacity to keep our homes warm and to keep our seniors warm. So our hardworking coal miners in West Virginia have made our state the second largest behind wyoming. We burn it our familys depend on it. It has a huge economic impact. One of the most disturb
Nation. Heidi ewing talked about detroit. A andaron woolf on Corn Production in the u. S. This president s day on the cspan networks, on cspan at 10 00 a. M. Eastern to prove that leadership is our challenge in 1992, and that is why i announce my candidacy for president of the United States of america. [applause] a special presentation on Campaign Announcements from Ronald Reagan in 1979 to barack obama in 2007. We will reenter the announcements later in the evening at 9 00 p. M. On book tv. Finalist for the book circle Critics Award starting at medical eastern. David brion davis on his third and final volume on the history of slavery, focusing on emancipation. At 1130, Elizabeth Kolbert argues we are undergoing a sixth as extension. And that senator Elizabeth Moran talked wealth and economic inequality on American History tv at 8 00 eastern. Cartoonist Patrick Oliphant draws residential candidates. At 7 00 eastern, a 1960 nbc interview with Herbert Hoover discussing his life be on the
Role in getting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed through the congress and the senate, which Lyndon Johnson signs on july 2 of 1964. We will look at that. That is where we will go from there. I will finish on one last note, and that has to do with africanamericans. There is a major anniversary coming up in two weeks and that anniversary is not on most peoples radar but it will be the 150th anniversary of congresss passage of the 13th amendment which ended slavery. That will happen saturday, december 31st. January. Im sorry january 31st. That will be coming up. In four years, slavery is obliterated from the United States in lincolns first term. If you saw the daniel daylewis movie of four years ago, that is really what that movie is about. It will take another hundred years before the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Any questions about anything . Well good. Well, thank you very much for being here. I appreciate it. [inaudible] know, and all the sources will tell you that. All
And then afterwards dick lehr will be joining us. Back in 1915 when it was first released riots broke out in a number of cities around the country. Many today may find it offensive the way it promotes the ku klux klan and the way it demeans African Americans enough for you to draw your own conclusions in its entirety the film, the birth of a nation
This week on q a, our guest is dick lehr, author of the birth of a nation how a legendary filmmaker and a crusading editor reignited americas civil war. Dick lehr, in a recent Washington Post review, the gentleman who wrote it, it starts off this way no redblooded american would favor censoring works of art. While reading dick lehrs book you may find yourself rooting for that with a clampdown of the 1915 film of the same name. Isnt that a great start . Why the birth of a nation and what is it . Its considered the first blockbuster film. The story i want to tell is not only the making and release of the film in 1915 but the controversy that it provoked. It is mainly a story about a civil rights leader from a boston by the name of William Monroe trotter, a radical newspaper editor as well who was at the forefront of extensive protest action against this bill film about civil war and reconstruction which is entirely racist in its portrayal of black america. If it were to come out today, w