The u. S. Information agency that was part of our show we say cold war apparatus . [laughter] and surveying postcolonial nations and keeping an eye on things so this is a benign side of the cia published topic magazine and Richard Tsongas was a photographer here taking a picture of james brown and legos nigeria in 1970. He has an expansive body of work and we have the entire collections of the images here are they meet the description of the show which is lesserknown images across the continent starting from pittsburgh to nigeria. Its a pretty the show. There also images of malcolm x for malcolm x for example or Elijah Mohammad as a rarely seen in terms of what people would find on a Google Search for example. Lets see that Elijah Mohammad photo down here. This is Elijah Mohammad at the end, correct . Right here, big as life and there is malcolm x. This is a 1961 shot in washington d. C. With a church of god figure. Debating the merits of islam. Host do you think we could have that deb
Andfather was an academic president of a college in pennsylvania. School up at a quaker which was obviously an integrated quaker school. Graduated, the family moved to atlanta which he tells me was for him a terrifying experience because of all that he had heard that happens to africanamericans. He started at Morehouse College and in 1960 was a cofounder of the student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which is one of the majors for those of you are not old enough to older history, one of the major activist organizations of to know your history, one of the major activist organizations of the day. The legislature was read on ran grown redrawn and he and won. The assembly of the state of onrgia declined to seat him the grounds that he had endorsed the position against the war in vietnam and indicated that people who tried to evade the draft, while he was not going to encourage them, or people who should be commended for courage. For those reasons he was not seated in the state legislatu
She urged him to remember to write, rights for women, into that seminal document. A drawing on a range of sources including letters, speeches, newspaper accounts, photosdrawings, angela highlights the milestones in an historic push for womens Voting Rights. Her book provides portraits of a number of the leaders of the womens Suffrage Movement. And places that movement in the context of other major social request and Political Developments that were unfolding. Today, more women than men attend a turnout to vote, but lest anyone think the fight is over, just recall the massive turnout on the mall last january. A reaffirming womens rights and effectively protesting Donald Trumps election. Angela has lots of experience herself, report reporting and telling newsworthy stories amount veteran journalist who after starting with gannett news landed at the new york times. There she rows from copy editor become the first africanamerican woman promoted to a Senior Editor position at the times. She
I want to welcome you all back to a wonderful saturday afternoon here. To let you know that this is our First Signing of the month of october, the first of about 10 or 15 of them. If you look up on uc tuesday, wednesday and thursday of next week we have signing. The following week we have signings. Even more coming. If you are not on the email list and you would like to get on the email list we would be more than happy to put you on there. But today we are very very happy to have doctor gerald horne with us today. Cspan is also with us and i think you will talk about when they come up to the microphone this will all be filmed and broadcast. Gerald is here to talk about to have his new books. Storming the heavens. The book asserted that he just saw it today. [laughter] is published by our friends at black classic press and we are happy to see them to get into the book and the story the associated negro press is the other book you will be discussing. Hopefully we will have him back in a
Defense than all other nato countries combined. If all nato members has been just 2 of their gdp. Who wouldve have another 119 billion for our collective defense. And for the financing of additional nato reserves. Meeting with european readers today. There was a few awkward moments lets just put it that way. A picture is worth a thousand words. The guy looked like he was so confused. This is not the first time they heard this. Its time to pony up. It is awesome. All you need to know to know that he have a damn good day is look at how miserable those liberal elites are. They were also uncomfortable. This was a reminder of why he got elected. Time to put the American People first. That he would say on any political rally here in america last year. Im tired of having america pay for the worlds problems. They were so uncomfortable. Obviously present trump went there with his agenda. And to also change the Mission Statement and i think what they wanted was for him to acknowledge that its im