African women became involved in womens suffrage and other political movements in the first half of the 20th century. United states capitalists already and the womens Suffrage Commission hosted this event doctor martha jones was the very first scholar that we recruited for this symposium. Back in the day when you could see one another, i went over to baltimore and we had coffee and got to know each other a little bit. She agreed that she would come and keynote our conference. So we are so honored. Doctor jones is a historian, a writer and a commentator whose work has focused on how black americans have shaped the history of american democracy. Her most recent book, which just came out, is called vanguard, how black when women overcame barriers won the vote and insisted on equality for all. This book is fascinating. You have to get it. It starts with doctor joneses grandmother, Soucie Soucie jones, and i must admit i have not finished the book, but it has Amazing Stories of women who re
First going tohe jackson bodegas life. When she worked as a newspaper columnist and writer and met and married future president john f. Kennedy. Welcome. Mr. Anthony thank you. I appreciate so much being able to join the White House Historical association today and very honored to give you a little bit of a background about Florence Harding and the book. I have to tell you, as is often said, a parent should not really have, per se, a favorite child, and i think an author perhaps should not have a favorite book. But i will say that the research of this book and then the unique promotion that i did for the book will always be a very important part of my life. I started writing this book and researching this book at a time when the sun was just setting on the last generation of people who knew the hardings firsthand. Of course, they had been young children, one or two had almost been teenagers. At the end of the process, the 75th anniversary of the death of president harding, of course he
In my mothers bedroom. Then on. Americas and the war. And why did you so much . Because we knew they were going to lose it. What did that mean for you in hungary . I did not cry then. Cold are you . I was 18. With that interview the late author john lucas in depth that was born 20 years ago. Since 2000, over 230 of the leading nonfiction and fiction authors of our time of appeared on in depth. Milton freedman, alice walker, Colton Whitehead bob woodward, neil degrasse, tyson george wells, just to name a few. So over the next three hours our goal is to review the last 20 years of indepth. But also to ask you a couple of questions, here they are. Who is your favorite indepth gas . What book are you reading now . And who is your favorite Nonfiction Author . And that is what will be talking about. Heres how you can dial in on the 20th anniversary of indepth. 2020 code 7488200. For those of you in the Eastern Central time zone, 202 7488201 if you live the mountain pacific time zone. And you
And how difficult it is to protect the population from acts of terror, a special forces in action during the attack. A nice 3 people are stabbed to death in paris. The teach us time with patty is the capitated for showing cartoons of the prophet mohammed in his classroom. President mccall wants to take vehement action against islamists and to forge a European Coalition against terror. France has been particularly hard hit exactly. 5 years ago on nov 13th, 130 people were killed in islamist attacks. The terrorists stormed the better cloth theatre in paris, and shot dead dozens of young people at a concert france never really recovered from the shock. These 2 men will forever be united through the attack for many in france, it is particularly remarkable that they together are standing up now against hatred and for reconciliation. It inflicted a National Trauma on france, the attack on the battlefield. 90 concert goers, most of them young people were brutally killed in the heart of paris
And then you have count those ballots. Then you have a paper trail you can audit and it is not a 110 million system, but it is what it is. Ive got to say to Brad Roethlisberger that he did a decent job. I want to thank Stacey Abrams for making sure that there were various Court Rulings in effect that mandated certain activities by the secretary of state, to ensure a free and fair election. I think that is exactly what we got november 3. Host what role did Stacey Abrams play in possibly, it looks like, a democrat winning that state for the First Time Since 1992 . Guest she played a huge role. For the last 10 years, stacey effective been a registrar of voters through her various organizations, and in the runup to the 2020 elections, there were one million newly registered voters. Were were 800,000 of those abramsthe work of stacey and her organizations in the act thoses association with organizations. Those 800,000 newly registered voters, mostly young, who made the difference and turned