The honorable John Charles Thomas graduated from the university of virginia with an arts degree in american the honorable John Charles Thomas graduated from the university of virginia with a bachelor of arts degree in 1972. He attended the university of Virginia School of law and obtained a law degree in 1975. He was the first African American and the youngest person to live there. In 1995, Justice Thomas received the naacp lifetime image award. In 2005, thomas was named in 2006, as we will discuss today, the poetic justice, now a memoir. Judge thomas will be in conversation with you. He is a distinguished scholar and author of multiple Award Winning books. I am delighted to have you both here. Please join me in welcoming John Charles Thomas as he reads about his book. Thank you. Thank you, sarah. Can everyone hear me . Great. It is harder to see me, i know. Thank you, sarah for that lovely introduction. It is such a pleasure to be here in such an honor to be in conversation with Justi
First week of testimony comes to an end. Protests over the war in gaza are spreading across Americas College campuses. With the growing unrest could mean for president bidens re election campaign. From books online to e commerce giants, how amazon became the retailer with everything, everywhere, all at once. The 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. Good evening, im jonathan capehart. We are now 193 days away from the election and today, attorneys for president ial candidate, donald trump, tried to poke holes in a tabloid publishers sworn testimony after four days stand, david pecker wrapped up testimony in the trumps New York Criminal Trial , that he helped the Trump Campaign by covering up true but damaging stories about him. We then heard from tumor witnesses, a banker and trumps longtime Executive Assistant. Here is Laura Jarrett with moore. Check by the prosecution closed out the first week of testimony by offering the jury a peek inside the Inner Workings of the Trump Org
Featuring and Elizabeth Gilbert im so sorry elizabeth the pilbara and kate zernike the we are so happy to have them all here to discuss their their books and to honor womens history month. So i can kate to nikki is a Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter and, author of the just released book, the thousand. Nancy hopkins a mighty in the fight for women in science Allison Gilbert is an Emmy Award Winning journalist and coauthor of alice in the world how the intrepid Elsie Robinson became americas most read woman, a groundbreaking biography that the wall street journal receives is an important to womens history and Elisabeth Griffith historian, a former leader in the National Womens political caucus and womens Campaign Fund and author of formidable american women and the fight for equality the 1922 2020. But far available for sale and finding after the program and i youth give them a very warm welcome welcome here to. I also qualify as a biographer too. My first book was a biogra
Following school, palmers joined princeton and williams and smiled. Continue williams gain gibson. He was the first africanamerican at the firm. He is now a retired partner of the firm of hunt andrews. In 1983, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of virginia, becoming the first africanamerican and being 32, the youngest person of any race to serve. There. In 1995 of this time, as received his lifetime image award. In 2005, thomas was named a member of the court of arbitration for sport, which is based in lausanne, switzerland. So settling International Sports with global jurisdiction. In 2006, he was appointed the board of visitors of william and mary and was reappointed to 39. He is a published poet and as we will discuss today, now a maurice. Jones thomas will be in conversation with risa goluboff, who is the first female dean of the university of india, Virginia School of law. Dean ghalibaf is a renowned legal historian with scholarship and teaching focused on american constitutio
To a creator, a supreme judge, or Divine Providence. He also highlights the importance of the great awaken awakening, a protestant religious revival in the 1740s, that influenced many founding fathers. This class took place at Georgetown University and is an hour and 45 minutes. It was organized by the j madison memorial fellowship foundation. Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smartlooking set this morning. The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. You recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. Thats what i was calling them. So we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. We looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things. Then i mentioned protestant christianity as the third of those headwaters that i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism. And we deferred that to today