Bodies. How afraid we are for our children. How afraid we are for our loved ones on a daily basis. Amy between the world and me. Thats the title of the explosive new book i Tanehisi Coates written to his teenage son. It is released after nine churchgoers are killed in South Carolina and the horrifying death of sandra bland, a 28yearold africanamerican woman in texas who was pulled over for not signaling a lane change. In video of her arrest and officer commands are to get out of her car or he would light her up. He welcomed the nations marking the First Anniversary of the Police Killings of eric garner in Michael Brown and Michael Brown. After baltimore erupted in protest over the death of freddie gray in police custody. Even for those of us who escaped those neighborhoods, even those who are able to live in better places, the threat never quite leaves us. Once we are no longer afraid of the neighborhood, it turns out we actually have to have some fear of the very people we pay taxes t
Bodies. How afraid we are for our children. How afraid we are for our loved ones on a daily basis. Amy between the world and me. Thats the title of the explosive new book i Tanehisi Coates written to his teenage son. It is released after nine churchgoers are killed in South Carolina and the horrifying death of sandra bland, a 28yearold africanamerican woman in texas who was pulled over for not signaling a lane change. In video of her arrest and officer commands are to get out of her car or he would light her up. He welcomed the nations marking the First Anniversary of the Police Killings of eric garner in Michael Brown and Michael Brown. After baltimore erupted in protest over the death of freddie gray in police custody. Even for those of us who escaped those neighborhoods, even those who are able to live in better places, the threat never quite leaves us. Once we are no longer afraid of the neighborhood, it turns out we actually have to have some fear of the very people we pay taxes t
To pass information back and forth so the Northern Alliance guys knew what was going on in the south, that kind of thing, but we were not directly dealing with them, or any of the other ethnic groups. Vince please join me in thanking duane evans for taking the time to talk with us today. [applause] vince his book is foxtrot in kandahar. Will you stick around and find some books . Sign some books . Duane absolutely. Vince i ask that you will not a cost him right away accost him right away. Give him time to sit down and set up. Duane thank you. Thank you. [chatter] you are watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan3. Join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. Lectures and history, university of virginia professor Gary Gallagher teaches a class on civil war memory and how people in the north and south ofe interpreted the legacy the conflict from the postwar era to the present day. His class is about an hour and 15 minutes. Mr. Gallagher all right, h
Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Im the director for the center for free markets and regulatory reform. The Heritage Foundation. I would ask for those of you in the audience to please make that last little check now of your cell phones, to make sure that they wont interrupt proceedings today. And we will get started right now. The event today is really designed to celebrate the special report called a Government Policies that hurt the poor and how to address them. The United States is a very compassionate country and we have an awful lot of government activities that affect poorer members of our population in one way or the other. We have welfare programs, welfare spending of one kind or another that adds up to well over a trillion dollars tuesdays. That can be in things like health care, direct income supporters of one kind or another. We are not here to talk about those policies today. We want to talk about another set of Government Policies. Those that are put in place offense fo
Which killed a woman here on saturday. Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs. Including the kkk, neyo nazis. White supremacists. President trumps words coming after he faced intense criticism for not denouncing White Nationalist in the aftermath of the incident. 32yearold Heather Heyer killed saturday when a car ran into a counter protesters demonstrating against a White Nationalist rally. Many others suffering injuries. Now the Larger Community in charlottesville also trying to heal from the violence. Were saddened by this. Weve lost a young person who person who lived here and worked here. She didnt ask for this to happen to her. Reporter james fields, jr. , charged with Second Degree murder and other counts related to the car crash. The 20yearold making his First Court Appearance from jail via video link. Stoic and looking down during the hearing. A White Nationalist leader outside the courthouse monday blamed the violence over the weekend