And tim schultz, president of First Amendment partnership will discuss religious freedom laws in several states and the pushback from opponents who view laws as discriminatory. Then alex rogers with the National Journal will be on to talk about the gop president ial candidates efforts to woo unbound delegates, a process that could determine whether republicans will need to go past a first ballot at a president ial nominating convention for the first time in more than 70 years. Be sure to watch washington journal beginning live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern thursday morning. Join the discussion. Next, author and former political adviser Sidney Blumental talks about his book. He spoke at fords theater in washington. Sidney blumental, our first speaker, is a native of chicago, a ba degree and write for i alternative newspapers. He has been here since 1985. A journalist with the washington post, covering president s with reporting. He was bureau chief and contributed for the guardian and served as
Live from. Kgotv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. The milwaukee bucks, the streak stopper. Indeed the buck stopped in milwaukee. Had to happen sometime. The warriors historic run ends tonight. Warriors fans were much quieter than usual tonight. Abc 7 news was at petes tavern in San Francisco as fans nervously watched in disbelief while their teams perfect season finally came to an end. Not that they dont still have hope. Everybody was so happy, even though they lost everybody was like, i mean, just so proud of them. They really did great. Youre not going to win them all. 7210, were coming for you. The pressures up. These are the only people not wearing santa outfits obviously. They were disappointed but what a great run. 241. You cant really no, no, you knew it was going to end at some time point. 24 straight wins to start the season. Thats an nba record. 28 straight regularseason wins dating back to last season, second alltime. But tonight in milwaukee, it was fear the deer. Klay
Tvs afterwards, damon root on the long standing battle of Supreme Court activism and ju additional restraint and sunday at 10 00 p. M. , jonathan yeardley, who retired after 33 years with the washington post. And on American History tv on cspan saturday at 6 00 p. M. Eastern on the civil war, historians and authors discuss president lincolns 1864 Reelection Campaign and sunday afternoon at 4 00 on reel america, tried by fire. A 1965 film that chronicles the 84th Infantry Division of the battle of the bulge. Find our complete schedule and let us know about the programs youre watching. Join the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Next on American History tv, author and history professor michael ross discusses his book on the 1870 kidnapping of molly digby. The child of poor irish immigrants in new orleans. She was abducted by two black women and the case exacerbated racial tensions brought about by reconstruction. The Pratt Library hosted this 50minute event. G
He really did not think that government needed to be vigorously participating in the Human Experience in a way that limited people and peoples choices. I thought, you know i guess you know, from one perspective, the good lord gave them free will so let them exercise it. He did not believe government should be participating in operating in the small details of the lives of people. Can you see how easy this was . All i had to do was turn the camera on and sit there. So easy. Theres an art to it. Perhaps one more question from the audience. Yes. Please identify yourself. Good evening. My name is ron williams. I have a comment and a question. I think its interesting that we talk about anger. Particularly, we talk about anger in regards to black men because, you know, really, theres a difference between destructive anger and transformational anger. Are we talking about the fact that there is anger when it comes to injustice . But yet when we talk about these kinds of issues, theres a concer
Books about poe. Baltimore in many ways has a feel a lot like new orleans, an old port city with traditions and quirky and sometimes spooky history. I always kind of feel at home in baltimore just as i feel at home in new orleans. Where i lived for ten years. What i want to do tonight is introduce you to this case that has kind of disappeared from the american memory. But for the summer of 1870 captivated the nation. Newspaper readers across the country. Try to explain it to you so that you can see what i saw as i stumbled across it. I began writing i found this story while i was doing much more traditional legal history. I was researching the famous slaughterhouse cases, the first case where the Supreme Court interpreted the 14th amendment. I was reading every single day of the new orleans newspapers in 1870. Suddenly, theres this story about a white baby being abducted by two africanamerican women. The rumor begins to circulate that the baby has been abducted for use as a voodoo sacr