Votes to filibuster, so republicans are likely to go nuclear. It is pathetic. They are so stupid they think we have no alternative to do what has to be done. Lou leonard leo is joining us tonight. And terrorism in russia. A bomb blast tearing through a subway train in st. Petersberg, at least 11 People Killed and 50 wounded, Police Suspect that terrorist attack was carried out by a suicide bomber, linked to radical islamists. Lou good evening tonight there are charges of widespread wrong doing in the Obama Administration. Specifically sources naming former National Security adviser susan rice as highest ranking official to call for the unmasking, that is the identification of trump transition officials caught in Obama Administrations nsa surveillance. It is unclear, when that surveillance began, but as early as july of last year, and carried through until the president elect assumed office on january 20. We have learned it susan rice began asking for the unmasking of Trump Campaign off
Outgoing president of the chapter and were grateful for the gracious support youve given us throughout the year. Youve meant so much to us. We are endebted to our distinguished panelist who have come together to celebrate the distinguished legacy of justin Antonin Scalia. Todays stewardship spence, mr. Kevin walker and mr. David derek. Todays event is an existence to the brilliant and storied legacy of Justice Scalia. He served on the Supreme Court nor nearly three decades, one of the langest tenures on the institution. Marking one of the milestones on the court, chief Justice Roberts said since scalia came on the Supreme Court, the place has not been the same. Indeed, kagen remarks that Justice Scalia will go down in history as one of the most transformational Supreme Court justices of the nation. His views on interpreting texts have changed the way we think and talk about law. All interpretation and sub species originalism and constitutional construction, his principle and courageous
American history. The opening session is on africanamericans and religion. While we wait for the conference to begin, a look at a 2011 trip to a storage site in a washington, d. C. Suburb with the director of the Smithsonian National museum of African American history and culture. He showed us some of the artifacts that will be on display in the new museum, opening on the national mall, september 24, 2016. Right now, we are in the Storage Units of the National Museum of African American history and culture. In essence, this is the heart of the museum of. Because whats behind me, and what we will see today are many of the objects that are going to be the soul of this museum. This is an opportunity to sort of preview some of the material that the public will see when the museum opens in stores. The story of the africanamerican experience is both a story of resiliency at achievement, but its also a story of struggle. Parts ofe hard exploring this history is that were athe people who the w
Americans engaged beyond the United States. That is not the say the historians of the 18th and 19th centuries can ignore International Angles to their work. There is something inherent in the term africanAmerican History that is at the very least transnational. And scholars have spent a great deal of time exploring the relationships between the cultures of people of the west and West Central Africa and the cultures of the enslaved in america. Slavery institutions soft to constrain the worlds of this of the enslaved. All involving questions that would trend toward a regional perspective. Antislavery had been an obvious exception. Historians recognize the link between the british and antislavery movement, and they have traced the roles black abolitionists played in the struggles. Even hear internationalization was part of the study that was understood, a peculiar interest to African Americans asked africanamerican, rather than be part of an effort to explore the perspective abroad. There
Soninlaw of naacp Board Chairman channing tobias. As the chief of the African Union unit for the united nations, dean immediately sent white a draft of the report. It dismantled all of eugene blacks cliches about rising tides raising all boats. Deans analysis laid out that while south africa had the highest per capita annual income on the continent most of that went to the white minority population. Africans in the union in fact made 75 less per year. And minors despite the growing demand for labor earned only 4. 02 per week. The report reaffirmed whites position as he took to the media to make the case for cutting off all funds, especially that of the world bank to south africa. Eugene black, white noted, had exhibited a kind of naivete to construe milans nazi model of racial policies as benefiting all the population of south africa. This was dangerous and shallow thinking. The world banks loans did not help. Instead it had bolstered a racist dictatorship, undercut more moderate force