Professor of english at university of vermont. Her latest book stories from my grandmothers time, my mothers time and mine is an extraordinary exquisitely written memoir to look at race and a fearless and penetrating and honest way. These essays that explore up close the complexities and the haunting memories of growing up black in the south with the family name inherited from a white man, getting impeached for mail and marrying a white man from the north, adopting two babies from in the loan ethiopia Henry Louis Gates calls it a major contribution in the Washington Post says it is magnificent. Caroline is an american poet editor and translator and activist. Her books of poetry are blue hour, the country between us in 2013 she received the American Academy of poets fellowship given for distinguished poetic achievement in 2017 she became one of the first two poets to receive the campbell prize back a professor at georgetown university. Her newest book what you have heard is true is call
Programs youll see today. You can check your Program Guide or visit our website booktv. Org who a full schedule. And joining harris is the author of this book information wars. We lost the global battle against this information and what we can do about it. Information about the u. S. To the world track is yes. In olden days during the cold war we used to say telling americas story to the world. And how did you do your job, its funny, took me a while to figure out the parameters of the job what are the things i came to the conclusion was the way we tell our story is will be to our store to ourselves with american media, newspapers, magazines, tv. Rather than produce content ourselves i used to do during the cold war i thought lets show people how they cover ourselves. That was one part of it. The other part was the more strictly Public Affairs things where people are standing in front and you have to have the government line. Its safe use of your stance on issues, heres our policy, make
Youre having a white christmas. We may see a passing flurry, snow showers in a couple spots tonight, but the chance for a windy christmas is much higher than a white christmas. Theres no song about that. Get writing. Well show you whats happening because were watching a clipper system and this guy passing to our north, you can see that spin up toward cleveland and buffalo and when we have clippers that move to our north, down here, like heres the spin, we dont get a lot of snow. Yes, the snow is in the mountains of West Virginia and western maryland, but locally we had a couple sprinkles and snow showers earlier. All this really has lifted quickly to the east. There may be some wet flakes mixed in north of baltimore, so were watching that and also a few flakes are trying to fall just east of hagerstown racing in toward western Frederick County and in western maryland throughout areas from hancock west in toward allegheny and Garrett County to 4 inches by morning. Weve got Winter Weathe
Conference continuing through most of the day today. If you missed any of what Vice President pence had to say, you will be able to watch it on cspan. Org. The search bar on our home page. We will also reair his remarks tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Coming up next, live coverage of the John Batchelor Radio Program from the stage. Later, we will have conversations with senator ted cruz, education secretary betsy devos, and labor secretary alex acosta. Trumps sonsident eric trump to read tomorrow, we will have President Trump speaking to the gathering after washington journal. Comments fromave Kellyanne Conway and fcc chair ai. High a ajit p [general chatter] [general chatter] you heard Vice President pence mention the reverend billy graham who passed away yesterday at the age of 99. Officepeaker paul ryans announced plans for a memorial at the capitol. Speaker ryan said in a statement, the late reverend billy graham will be brought to the capitol, where he will lie in on in the rotu
In this panel from cpac, a discussion about free speech on College Campuses and strategies for giving conservatives a greater voice. Speakers include the chair from the college of the College Republican committee. This is 30 minutes. Hello, cpac. Really nice to be in a place where i am not being protested. How about you . Wonderfully tolerant people. We probably should have run out to walked out to rocket maam. Title of ourhe session today. We are going to talk about College Campuses and the problems we see and the offensive things that groups are doing on campus. Charlie, tell us about yourself. I am charlie kirk. This is my fifth cpac. I am the founder of turning point usa. Wide studenton activist movement focused on the idea of Smaller Government and Free Enterprise. We believe america is the greatest country in the history of the world. And we believe Free Enterprise is the most assured way to lift people out of poverty. Wildlyld not be controversial things to say on a campus. It r