For more information about this weekends 48hour television schedule, visit us online at booktv. Org. Coming up next on booktv, Sister Simone campbell, author of a talking nun on a bus. She talks about the bus tour she and a group of Roman Catholic nuns launched to talk about the budget proposal. This is a little under ab hour. An hour. [inaudible conversations] good morning, everybody. I want to go ahead and ask us to find a seat. So we can get started. While the 2014 Community Action Partnership Annual convention actually technically starts this afternoon with our general opening Plenary Session at one, we have, actually, a very special guest and a great opportunity for those of us who are here and able to make it here early. Its a great pleasure for me to be a part of introducing a friend of Community Action to you to engage in an interview of sorts. Well first hear some of the thoughts and the heart of our guest, and then afterwards well have an opportunity for some question and ans
And to our great cspan audience here is whats going on at the National Constitution center today. The most exciting bill of rights day in memory. Today, december 15 is the 223rd anniversary of the bill of rights ratification at the 225th anniversary of its proposal, this is the day we at the National Constitution center open a new gallery displaying one of the 12 original copies of the bill of rights along with rare copies of the declaration of independence and the Constitution Center. I should say i am jeff rosen president of the National Constitution center which as a hearty audience knows because of introduced it to times already is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. We had the idea of summoning the best constitutional thinkers in america from the left and right at all sides of the political spectrum who have written of the most interesting books about the constitution for the Constitu
Nearly three quarters of the American People thought he was irrev irrelevant and i dont know just mean black folk i mean the naacp came out against him. The urban league was against him. The leading black era. Carl rowen is against him. Ralph bunch, another noble peace prize lawyer comes out against him. Supreme Court Justice mash marshal turned on him. The media, Whitehouse White folk and black folk turn against him. And that is how he navigated the last year. He would die broke and in the last year of his life he cannot get a book deal a paid speech he is disinvited to the whitehouse and black church and this is the last mile of the way when king has to walk. So when martin takes the bullet a year later. Killed april 4th 1968 and he believes and dies believing that everything is everybody has turned on him. The cosmos have shifted against him. Five decades later, martin was right and everybody was else wrong but that is not the way he got out of here you can watch this and other prog
[inaudible conversations] finish good afternoon. Welcome to the Cato Institute. Im roger pilon the director for constitutional studies and your host for this event. I want also to welcome our cspan audience and those of us those who are looking at the event on cato Live Streaming and later through the archives. Were here to discuss religious liberty as it may or may not be exercised in the context of the modern Business Corporation pursuant to both statutory and constitutional law. More immediately, were here also to mark the publication of a new book on that subject from palgrave religious liberties for corporations, and i note the title ends with a question mark. In the book our two main speakers today ilya shapiro and david gans provide a comprehensive analysis of thish shoes in burwell very can issues in burwell v. Hobby lobby in the blockbuster decision the Supreme Court rejected the obamacare regulation that proviewedded employersponsored Health Care Plans to provide which requir
You can see the entire program tonight at 8 00 on cspan. Here are some of the highlights for this weekend. Sites, we visit important in the history of the civil rights movement. Highlights from this years new york ideas forum. Charliey, q a with wrangle at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Reza aslan. H goldstoneht, lawrence on the competition between the wright brothers. Merican history tv on cspan3 a look at hollywoods portrayal of slavery. Saturday night from the 200th anniversary of the battle of bladensburg. How president s make decisions. Find our Television Schedule one week in advance on cspan. Org and let us know what you think about the programs youre watching. Join the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Eric holder is scheduled to get the latest on the independent federal investigation when he travels to ferguson, missouri today. The Associated Press says hes meeting with fbi and other officials looking at the death of Michael Brown eared that Fatal Shooting ha