Welcome him here [applause]. All night. All day. Were going to be fighting for freddie gray. All night, all day, we are going to be fighting for freddie gray. The first of all let me say that it is an honor and pleasure to be back here at red emmas, i was here some months ago to introduce to other new books that i have written and i consider it to be quite an honor that they have a invited me back again. Those who may may not be familiar, freddie gray was a young, black man who had a fatal encounter with the police in baltimore. He is in the long list of such young black people have had fatal encounters with the authority, i think of samuel reising kleven, and Staten Island new york, Michael Brown in ferguson, sandra bland in texas, hopefully what im going to be talking about this evening that is to say, these events that stand the period of the onset of the haitian revolution in 1791 until the death of Paul Robinson in 1976 will shed light, i would hope on why, in north america we hav
Tonights event is going to be a doubleclick event. Talking about confronting, but also the revolutionary life of paul robison. His birthday was actually a week ago. This guy, horne is a brilliant scholar, brilliant historian and i want you to give a round of applause and welcome him here. [applause] all night, all day. We are going to be fighting for freddie gray. All night, all day, we are going to be fighting for freddie gray. First of all, let me say that its an honor and pleasure to be back here to read and not. I was here months ago to introduce two other new books that ive written and i can iterate to be quite an honor that theyve invited me back again. For those who may not be familiar, freddie gray was the young black man who had a fatal encounter with the police in the city of baltimore. And he is in a long list of such young but people who have had fatal encounters with the authorities. Im thinking of khmer rice in cleveland and eric garner in staten island, new york and Mich
When swanson, the secretary, found the dummy account she was floored. This is rita, after all. She immediately brought it to the attention of the mayor, who wasted no time in calling the fbi. Six months later they were ready and one morning in april 2012 rita called into the Mayors Office where the fbi was waiting for her. Rita confessed. After all she was caught redhanded. There was nothing much she could do. And fully cooperated with the fbi. This is not the mayor was so upset by now when asked what his thoughts were on the episode was he said, turned out Rita Cromwell didnt give a shit about this town. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Mike jacobs, its a pleasure to get a chance to talk to you here at the carter center. I am also welcome the audience thats come out tonight to listen to our conversation. Mike jacobs is the author of panic at the pump the Energy Crisis and the transformation of american politicness the 1970s. Mike is a teaches history and Pu
Sometimes when you decide to speak up about feminism or Police Brutality or Diversity Committee said it matters are just topics, are just trends come at the gate the core of who we are, but sometimes People Strategy is to keep asking you to talk about it and repeat yourself until you are exhausted into silence. No, no. I dont know the why of that, but i think they think which is where her out. Sometimes you have a kid and you want them to go to bed so you will, so you run around the block 10 times. I think it is that mentality. Maybe if we tire her out, shook about getting like a cockroach. [laughter] not going anywhere. Im going to go to my hotel later. It was very nice and i thought the weekend stroll through the lobby with a group of handsome, hopefully single young men here we will go find them. We need to find the irony of handsome men. What is happening . I thought i was like the weekend. [inaudible] sopranos site the weekend. But i dont know. A lot of people [inaudible] she just
Program is called sidling pathways to mars. You can find out more at buzz aldrin. Com if you want the tshirt you can go to buzz aldrin. Com. That is a fundraiser for his foundation every penny goes to the foundation and then i know you think youre going to explain site colors now you are not. [laughter] [applause] i reading a book by president carter, his autobiography. I had the privilege to attend sunday school recently. It was the amazing and that has turned into a Wonderful Museum he is brilliant it continues to be a true moral leader and is way ahead of his time. It is well written and is current with a lot of history but it tells you who he is the was a believer in god but how he applies his christian values in his public life in terms of feeding the hungry in sheltering the homeless and all the great values taught through the bible. With regard to the haitian revolution that raider even it a successful revolt you cannot begin to understand the haitian revolution unless she would