She is a former senior fellow with the Ford Foundation and advisor to the world bank. She joins us tonight to discuss her life, work and new book, being human. She will be in conversation with our very good friend Pamela Edwards and abc news anchor of the morning addition. Duty and pam, the screen is yours. Andy, this new age of social distancing is great to see we can get it done. Duty, it was an honor to read your book. It is a running theme in the book, how often people tell you they should know they had no idea and im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made. In fact, thats where i want to start, to give people a perspective and i wanted you to compare and contrast what it was like when you are a young person pick you up in the book talk about your childhood in brooklyn. What it was like to be a person coming into the world then with a disability a
Stanton. She is a historian of womens history. We are delighted to have her here tonight. Elizabeth griffith, thank you for being here. [applause] hello, everybody. We are making a few adjustments here. The light relates to cspan filming, so we are stuck with the light, which is affecting some of the colors. I hope you have already noticed that the background was suffrage for all. [laughter] hello, welcome, and thank you for being here. Thank you to the smithsonian for the invitation and the opportunity to talk about what im learning as i write a new book. This book is about women in the 20th century between the two betweenon washington, the march 1913 suffrage march, organized by alice paul the day before Woodrow Wilson was a nigra, and the march january here, around the country and around the world the day after president trumps inauguration. Spanhundredyour encompasses economic, legal rights for women, large cultural shift, sexual expectations, as and. As sexism, misogyny, historian
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Words. Although gadgets you need to organize your kitchen and, of course, ambush makeover. Time magazine picked its 100 most influential people, and the big reveal happened today. Influential can mean a lot of things. It can be entertainers. It can be people who were influential not in a great way, like putin is one of those people on the list. On the cover is beyonce. Yeah. She is the titan and cover girl. She has transformed, you know, a lot of things in the music industry. She is something special. Definitely. Definitely, definitely. Who else is on there . Pharrell williams is on there and his hat. Is he ready to make a new fashion statement. Lets see something different. Okay. I bet he will mix it up. He wore that one a little while ago. Yes. We also have seth myers is also recognized and so is steve mcqueen, it were for 12 years a slave, and miley cyrus. She is influential. All right. Icon category, robert redford, and Carrie Underwood is in the icon category. Honor to be recogniz
One, Timothy Simons. He is with us today. So funny. So funny. Unfortunately we cant even show a clip. You have to tiptoe around the words. Although gadgets you need to organize your kitchen and, of course, ambush makeover. Time magazine picked its 100 most influential people, and the big reveal happened today. Influential can mean a lot of things. It can be entertainers. It can be people who were influential not in a great way, like putin is one of those people on the list. On the cover is beyonce. Yeah. She is the titan and cover girl. She has transformed, you know, a lot of things in the music industry. She is something special. Definitely. Definitely, definitely. Who else is on there . Pharrell williams is on there and his hat. Is he ready to make a new fashion statement. Lets see something different. Okay. I bet he will mix it up. He wore that one a little while ago. Yes. We also have seth myers is also recognized and so is steve mcqueen, it were for 12 years a slave, and miley cyr