To talk about this topic. Explored in a new book by 104 speakers today. James steyer. Hes the ceo of Common Sense Media. Advocacy organization for families and schools. This program is being held in association with Common Sense Media. Jim is the editor of the new book, which side of history, how technology is reshaping technology in our lives. It offers a collection of essays and how technology is affecting democracy and the society and our future. This available for books are sold. His jointed today but one of the contributors to the book, frank. Hes a writer of the atlantic and author of two books himself. Contributions will focus on the new era. We will discuss that and much more here today. Before we come to the conversation, one final note before we start. You have a question for either jim or frank, please post in the youtube chat box or the facebook Comment Section target and they will be to me during this program. So lets go ahead and get started. First of all, congrats to bot
Monday, fourtime governor of new york and the first catholic candidate for Major Political party. On American History tv, on cspan3. Isabel wilkerson, near your new book is entitled tapped. What is its main thesis . Guest the main thesis is that we live in an old house. We often cannot see the pillars and the beams in the structure beneath it. We often focus on what we think we can see, but we may not be focusing on the structure underneath. We may have inherited a hierarchy that harkens back to enslavement and live today with the consequences of that hierarchy in which people at the very beginning were put into assigned categories, that were part of creating what would become the United States and that we live with the aftereffects to this day. When we think about the United States, the word caste language that we apply to other civilizations, human creation that give us away viewing ourselves in a different lens. Host you write in the acknowledgments, this was a book that i had to wr
Extra time into San Francisco. As you can see traffic is still recovering were busy at the Richmond Sandra fell but this is completely normal no incidents here slowing go from richmond parkway to the toll plaza and 92 is standing out not bad at all under 15 minutes from hayward to send the tail darya back to you thanks a lot robin lets get back to the breaking news, our Team Coverage of the wildfires that are devastating sonoma and napa counties you can see neighborhoods have been flattened homes and businesses lost. This is what standing on some of them along highway 29 on Greenwood Avenue in calistoga the glass fire has so far burned this is a new number. 48,440 acres. 2 containment at this hour there are still evacuations because 22,000 structures or threaten. The fire has already destroyed 80 homes and other buildings in napa and sonoma counties and heres a map showing once again. How widespread the fire is across those counties roughly 70,000 residents forced from their homes sant
Live today with the consequences of that hierarchy in which people at the very beginning were put into assigned categories, that were part of creating what would become the United States and that we live with the aftereffects to this day. When we think about the United States, the word caste language that we apply to other civilizations, human creation that give us away viewing ourselves in a different lens. Host you write in the acknowledgments, this was a book that i had to write in the era that we find ourselves. Can you talk more about that . Guest using the word caste in which i was writing about the migration of 6 million African Americans fleeing the jim crow south. I came to realize through my research that i was not running writing not about leaving, but they were defecting a caste system. I use that word caste to describe the jim crow south and in doing so, i realized that i would find that readers would truly understand and see what people were living under in the jim crow s
Drumming home an antigovernment message in colombia Indigenous People converge on the capital. And the nigerian protestors have defied a curfew and faced off against Security Forces in the countrys biggest city as demonstrations against Police Brutality threaten to paralyze the nation a 24 hour curfew has been imposed in lagos the financial heart of africas largest economy thats where Security Forces fired at protesters late on tuesday drawing International Condemnation the Rights Group Amnesty International says at least 12 people were killed that night blaming the violence on the military the government has not confirmed that but the Nigerian Parliament speaker says its clear that there were casualties its been more than 2 weeks since young people began demonstrating against Police Brutality after a video of a man being beaten by offices allegedly from the special anti robbery squad known as sars went viral i mean address has more from him which are. Security officers are still out o