A long and troubling history so our question on to the point racism how to heal the hurt. From welcome to this weeks show where were going to try and cast some constructive light on the racism and discrimination that are apparently rooted in our societies im peter craven and these are my guests in media roy french my birth she is the founder and executive director of the center for intersectional justice thats a bill in based organization combine all forms of inequality and discrimination in europe and she says as long as there is racism in germany the word racist must not be removed from the constitution as so our proposal. Also with us is Brendan Keith brown hes a Classical Music conductor working with renowned orchestras here in germany. Believes its important to speak his mind on issues like race and exclusion and brandon says for reflection on racism these are only tolerated when people of color. And a very warm welcome to so many time to heat an author and journalist with the ger
Will give both our authors 20 minutes to speak and we allocate 10 minutes for questionandanswer. Im also admonished to remind you if youre really enjoying yourself, that the southern festival of books depends upon individual donations. If you really enjoy what youve seen over the past couple of days, id encourage you to donate as much as you can. We are in for a treat today. I asked these two jennifer bio gentleman for bios a couple of visio. They are esteemed scholars but also some of the most modest men that ive met. I will give you a brief and iuction to them encourage you to speak with them after the session ends. Our first presenter this morning gorn. Liott born chair and american urban history at Loyola University in chicago. Books author of five including a brief history of american sports, mother jones the most dangerous woman in ride thend wild year that made americas public enemy number one. And the work he will be talking about today is let the people see. To his right is ch
He manages the department lesbian gay transsexual and bisexual department. And mr. Trust thought. Were looking forward to learning a lot, and looking back through your eyes and perspectives on where we were 50 years ago. It is kind of hard to believe. I would like to start with you if we can. What was new york like what was america like, for gays and lesbian and transgender citizens before the stonewall riots. What was it like for the Lgbtq Community. It is really counter intuitive, because there is a common tendency in this country, to assume you dont for the we go back in history the worst things are going to be. But in the whole history of the entirety of the u. S. History, the sixties and fifties were probably the very worst time for lgbt people. That is because, there have been a period of liberalization in the 1920s, and you know it was generally a liberal period in the 1920s. With the Great Depression coming along, that seem to begin a clamp down on and i will use the term gay p
A question on to the point racism come to heal the hurt. Welcome to this weeks show where were going to try and cast some constructive light on the racism and discrimination that are apparently rooted in our societies im peter craven and these are my guests in media roy french by birth she is the founder and executive director of the center for intersectional justice thats a berlin based organization competent all forms of inequality and discrimination in europe and she says as long as there is racism in germany the word racist must not be removed from the constitution as. Also with us is Brendan Keith brown hes a Classical Music conductor working with renowned orchestras here in germany. Believes its important to speak his mind on issues like race and exclusion and brandon says reflection on racism is only tolerated when people of color. And a very warm welcome to so many heated underdog and journalist with the german we create sights husseins here in germany too we must have known hi
Justice system. Bring reform to policing. If seen the same situation happen 20, 30, 40 times. How many times you have to see the same situation before you act . And we are going to act in the state of new york. Transparency of records for Police Officers, which, by the way, the records of Police Officers will no longer be disclosure, so the records of Police Officers will be like every other public employee. They will be like teachers, they employees,e csea their records will be available. And if people make complaints about them, they will be in the record and they will be released. Ban chokehold. We went through it with eric garner, how many times . To pass a law that says that, the attorney general five years ago i did an executive order with the attorney general to investigate cases where police kill an unarmed person. Why . Because a local District Attorney and i have tremendous respect for a District Attorney, but a District Attorney works with the police force day in and day out