But sometimes the bolt that connects the rod to the van itself can just snap off without any warning at all. Whats her name, man . Announcer its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight beg your pardon. Plus, stephen welcomes kate winslet and Michael Eric Dyson featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen welcome. Welcome to a late show. Ladies and gentlemen, im your host, Stephen Colbert. Tomorrow marks one month since the election, and the president has spent that entire time throwing a loud, pantsfilling tantrum. If we dont change president s soon, hes going to get a rash. Ill tell you all about it in tonights installment of our neverending segment. Dump dump dump illegal massive dumps im a dope, proud boyeeee the road from the white house stephen wooo the president s complaints about fake Election Fraud are more than just recreational whining. In fact, his refusal to concede i
Men of the Twentieth Century is the title king of the cats the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, jr. Because it so aptly describes Adam Clayton Powell. He was smooth, he was cool, he was goodlooking, he was smart, and he always was a complete package that spoke eloquently for africanamericans and the poor in this country. One of the great things about this is not long ago we had a student come in who was looking for a biography of Adam Clayton Powell and there wasnt one. All the books about him were outofprint so it is a privilege to have king of the cats the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, jr. Back in print. It is a privilege to have wil haygood here to talk about his book. Welcome. [applause] welcome, thank you. It is always nice to be here at this bookstore. They do treat me like i live in the neighborhood which i do, treat me as if i come here and do my book shopping which i do. I also notice there are these posters advertising the authors for the month of february. My
The vaccine protected monkeys with a single dose , most need two doses given two weeks apart. Of early human trials go well, Johnson Johnson plans to start to late stage trials on as many as 30,000 people in september. A leaders at a church in berkeley are speaking out after the say their house of worship was targeted because of a blacklivesmatter banner. The pastor at the way church on University Says members hung the banner tuesday afternoon, less than 12 hours later about 12 30 am on wednesday, someone deliberately set a fire behind the church the neighbor says he saw someone and called 911. Church leaders say they hope the case will be taken seriously. We are not as far from the 1960s and 70s of racial tear. Its our duty as people ra voices about the history of racial violence that has been facing black people for centuries. Berkeley police are investigating this is arson. Theyve not determined whether or not it was a hate crime. Leaders at the way church are holding a News Confere
For a longer piece. It is an extraordinary watershed, historical moment. I think we are living through a third american reconstruction effort to reconstruct democracy so that it is multiracial, multicultural. Our first efforts were after the civil war. 1865 to 1877. We did achieve some racial progress. We had black elected officials. 1500 we had a freedmens bureau. We had the creation of black churches and Public Schools, but we also institutionalized racial segregation rather quickly by the 1880s and 1890s. And we did it through racial violence and public policy. Our second reconstruction is the Civil Rights Movement between 1954 and 1965. When we think about Public School desegregation and the Voting Rights act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There was again racial progress, but that was really quickly closed off when we think about 1968. The assassination of Martin Luther king jr. , the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, the assassination of malcolm x. Now, we have another effort. In
Susan dr. Peniel joseph, you and i planned this interview three months back, but we got sideways with the covid lockdown. As a historian, how are you processing this time this country is going through . Prof. Joseph i have been writing a lot, both opeds in for a longer piece. It is extraordinary watershed moment. I think we are living through a third american reconstruction effort to reconstruct democracy so that it is multiracial, multicultural. Our first efforts were after the civil war. 1865 to 1877. We did achieve some racial progress. We had 15 black elected officials. We had a freedmens bureau. We had the creation of black churches and Public Schools, but we also institutionalized racial segregation rather quickly by the 1880s and 1890s. We did it through racial violence and public policy. Our second reconstruction is the Civil Rights Movement between 1954 and 1965. When we think about Public School desegregation and the Voting Rights act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Bute wa