Association, thank you. I am a multimedia journalist at channel 5 news in West Palm Beach and Vice President for the National Association of black journalists the miami for lauderdale chapter and the am very happy to introduce two special guests today. Dr. Cornel west is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual, a professor of philosophy and christian practice at Union Theological seminary and Professor Emeritus at princeton university. The also taught at yale, harvard and the university of paris. Graduated from harvard and obtained his a and b hd in philosophy at princeton. He has written more than 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics race matters and democracy matters and his memoir brother west, living and loving out loud. He appeared frequently on the colbert report, cnn and cspan and he also made his film debut in the matrix and was a commentator on the official trilogy released in 2004, his latest book black prophetic fire with a distinguished
The last war and its fronts on the war on drugs coming on and only two days away now from the start of the sochi winter olympic for our brand of the world to come. Keith and i present the countrys top revealed the preparations from sochi later in the shell the tearing at five pm here in washington dc. Im liz wall and youre watching rt america. Hacking and the hackers for the first time a western government has launched an attack on hand to guess at least now we know of a party for the documents in me tonight former nsa contractor edwards died in an empty night nbc. The Mission Intelligence agency called the Government Communications headquarters. Launched the attack on members of the Hacker Group Anonymous the type of attack map it is being used in this case is the denial of Service Attack or d alas as its known that the same method. Hackers use it themselves. Heres our works the hacker uses that and network love and Zombie Computers to take down websites by overwhelming traffic to the
Scandal and its crackdown on liberal nuns. We will speak with Barbara Blaine of the Survivors Network of those abused by priests and Sister Simone campbell of the catholic social Justice Group network, which was heavily criticized the vaticans report last year. In a black History Month special, we remember the lives of the legendary civil rights activist, singer and actor paul robeson and his wife eslanda. I have never separated by work as an artist from my work as a human being. I have always believed more strongly to me my art is always a weapon. We will speak with historian Barbara Ransby, author of the new book, eslanda the large and unconventional life of mrs. Paul robeson. Both paul and essie refused to renounce their radical friends and refused to renounce their own radical views. Again, they paid a price for it. Paul was blacklisted, they lost their house, had extensive fbi files and so forth. But first, north korea has just carried out its largest ever nuclear test. It says th
Exactly what that volunteer chaplain was doing for me. Were you able to aggregate how much the u. S. Spends in taxpayer dollars on end of life care . Was that easy to find . It was not easy to find the right statistic. There are a lot of wrong statistics floating out there but the reality is a quarter of what medicare spends is spent on the last year of life so when you consider people may be in medicare 20 or 30 years that is an extraordinary imbalance and it shows something majorly wrong with our decisionmaking get the end of life. This is a preview of katy butlers new book knocking on heavens door the path to the better way of death 11. You are watching tv on cspan2. Next on booktv and discussion on africanamerican history and the twentyFirst Century. From the 2013 harlem will carry an annual book fair in new york city. [applause] good afternoon, everyone. My pleasure to welcome to our third panel of the day, the title is 50 years later blacks and the 21st century. The panel is fram
Good evening. Abortion, one of the countrys most divisive and politicallycharged fault lines, jolted capitol hill today. With the head of planned parenthood going before congressional critics. Her First Time Since the series of controversial undercover videos were made public. Todays hearing was long and contentious. With the groups president offering a spirited defense. We start tonight with nbcs kelly odonnell. Rallying in houston today. Supporters of planned parenthood took to the streets for what they called nation pinkout day. I feel like women should support women. And the same passion in washington for those that provide Womens Health care services, including abortion. She is alive today because of planned parenthood. Reporter but inside of the capitol, the president of planned parenthood, Cecile Richards faced hours, of sometimes confrontational questions. You cant tell me how much you make from abortions . You cant give me that number . You cant tell me how much you make from