Opportunity for the nation to imagine itself otherwise. Where the country had an opportunity to leave behind the realitycynd how to organize our society and that each of those moments the country double down. And we saw was some call a backlash. We saw instead was an ongoing betrayal. What we think about the post reconstruction. And a lost cause and that anglosaxon and what it meant for the United States and the world as a betrayal. Think the mid 20th century the black freedom movement, law and order and the tax revolt in california, we need double down on our ugliness and here we are facing a chance to we imagine ourselves. If our history is any indicatio indication. Has there been an arc of progress . Of course. My life is not what my fathers life was and his life is not his fatherss. So what does it mean to suggest we live in the afterlife of jim crow is to suggest there has been and indication of change and i think one way is look at American History ofan democracy in the believe t
Good morning good afternoon good evening. The Second Annual Schaumburg Center leader is one Literary Festival. s programs here at the Schaumburg Center coming to you live from new york city in my little one in my living room thank you for tuning in for conversation with authors from across the world life magazine profile of James Baldwin talked about where he grew up which is where he became the Schaumburg Center and said the pain and heartbreak those that connected me to all the people who are alive to introduce us to those with the joy and the sorrow and to spark the imagination and then to confront the present a plan for the future thank you to all the moderators 11 00 a. M. To 5 30 p. M. Eastern and alexandria and those thinkers who exhibit what i described previously earlier the Schaumburg Center for adults and young people i hope you will add to the list we have createds by visiting the website at Schaumburg Center one of the leading cultural institutions to research preservation
tentative from me for now, now it s time to the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. good evening rachel, we ve heard many speeches on this day, and martin luther king s birthday over the years since his assassination. i heard when today for the first time, that was delivered in 1983. and it is just the most extraordinary, 60 minutes long, we re gonna show some of it later in this hour, the most extraordinary speech about martin luther king, i ve ever heard, it was delivered by then funniest man in the world, richard pryor. in washington d.c.. and thanks to c-span, which is something we say all the time, thanks to c-span, it is been preserved, and we must show some of it later, it s like nothing you ve ever seen on this day, i have no memory of it, i don t member seeing it, know remember hearing about it. it wasn t in a news cycle that day, that s for sure. that is fantastic i did not know this existed. not only have not heard it before, they know exi
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i m just gonna take control here because otherwise i won t be able to so you all may remember in 1962 john kennedy held a very successful state visit to france. and mrs. kennedy was enormously popular and at the farewell dinner the closing dinner in front of degoll and others. jfk said i used to be the president of the united states, but now i am simply the man who accompanied jacqueline kennedy to paris. i m the man who accompanied eddie gloud to new orleans? where this is like saddam s baghdad his pictures everywhere. have y all noticed this? it s just everywhere. so. i m going to start with a serious question. you wrote a marvelous book about baldwin and what he meant in real time and can mean to us. so give us your origin story with baldwin. when did you first read him? when did he become so vital to you? well, first of all, thank you for the question and you see how he lies. this is john. why right? i got a sedantry. yeah, this car here. eddie is a cigar man. it s the on