Yet to take it one day at a time and think about all the new day she survived already. I glanced at cynthia to see if shes appreciating this and her eyes are wide and a wet with amazement. We are witnessing a pivotal moment, a collective responsibility to care for someone else and no one wanted to end. You can watch this and other programs online at the tv. Org. [inaudible conversations] the texas book festival live from austin continues and this is the knob author conversation about race and the Justice System. Good afternoon. Welcome to the texas book festival and our panel on mass incarceration, racing criminal Justice System. Im a professor of Public Affairs and history at the university of texas at austin and we have really two very very brilliant and important scholar activists today talking about two brandnew books. To my immediate left and to your right is James Foreman junior, professor professor lott Yale University in his new book. Terrific book and i am going to give it som
Find offensive. [applause] thanks. Go ahead. You start. Figure out what to do. So much of this book is based on the interview, interviewing people. I am going to be up front. I am really intimidated by this guy. I thought i was intimidated by you. I want to give a little bit of background. I never really met john. I heard of jon else. He is this ghost. My first job was with chinese american filmmaker, legendary filmmaker and i came on the tail end of a series called bean sprouts. The crew a crewmember they would talk about jon else as the white guy that passed the asian litmus test and so i never met him but heard of him. I was working with wayne weighing in monaco and john was her, wayne congratulated him, winning the macarthur fellowship. I had no idea what it was at the time. Wayne said it is called a genius grant. And then i was actually in started working on a film that was actually because what we did is we gave don a camera to just film his everyday life for a full year of his s
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Last week, President Trump showed the world he was not afraid to use military force when he launched a missile strike in syria and dropped the mother of all bombs in afghanistan, but now all eyes are on north Koreas Nuclear Missile Program and rising tensions with the u. S. So, with mr. Trumps Foreign Policy plans still largely unknown and a confluence of domestic and world crises at his feet what next . Pleased to welcome Nicholas Kristof from the New York Times back on this program. Good to see you, nick. Good to see you. Welcome back to the program, in seattle, for a change. Glad to have you back on the coast. The west coast. Before we jump into these crises, i was on the plane back from the coast to see you today, and i was reading your brilliant conversation with president carter yesterday. And the title was, am i a christian . A question that you posed to president carter. Right. I love the questions that
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Last week, President Trump showed the world he was not afraid to use military force when he launched a missile strike in syria and dropped the mother of all bombs in afghanistan, but now all eyes are on north Koreas Nuclear Missile Program and rising tensions with the u. S. So, with mr. Trumps Foreign Policy plans still largely unknown and a confluence of domestic and world crises at his feet what next . Pleased to welcome Nicholas Kristof from the New York Times back on this program. Good to see you, nick. Good to see you. Welcome back to the program, in seattle, for a change. Glad to have you back on the coast. The west coast. Before we jump into these crises, i was on the plane back from the coast to see you today, and i was reading your brilliant conversation with president carter yesterday. And the title was, am i a christian . A question that you posed to president carter. Right. I love the questions that
Sift. Coming up right now. Contributions fromm to your pbs station from viewers like you, thank you. Americas criminal Justice System has become a critical debate. The impact on people of color. However, the war on crime that deeg began in the 1970s, in the book locking up our own, crime and punishment in america. Professor foreman, good to have you on this program. Ru part of a grand legacy. Good to be here. Let me start with the remarks of the relatively new attorney general, Jeff Sessions. He wants to go back to the re n reagan era tactics, my read of it was undoing everything that eric holder tried to do. Is that the right or wrong direction . It is the wrong direction, he wants to take us back to policy that is have proven to have fail and caused great damage. If you think about attorney general session, he said marijuana is slightly less deadly than heroine. People have gotten to a point where they recognize the era in the approach, they recognize the incredible damage and pain t