I am pleased to introduce tonight speaker Professor Emeritus at virginia, the university he chairs the History Department the editor of a five volume collection of letters as well as the author of dissent of the Supreme Court and the nations constitutional dialogue the lies in the state for affirmativeaction is part of the national dialogue. Many of us have struggled to explain the policy and how it works. In his new book the affirmativeaction puzzle traces to through the present day with Historical Context how affirmative action takes on racism. On the cover Orlando Patterson rates it is a comprehensive account for this nonwhite version of affirmativeaction and in the challenging historical task that no other issue divides americans more it is meticulously researched and honestly crafted work to draw their own conclusions about the value of this experiment. Please join me to welcome Melvin Urofsky to harvard bookstore. [applause] thank you. As a historian my mentor always told me to s
About the most difficult period of our familys lives. What did you find out that your parents had been communists at one point i knew as i was growing up but it was never talked about. It was a shadow of our familys life. But the time i knew my dad he was conscious of him, he had moved on and survived very well and taught me all the lessons i used in my own journalistic career, dont fall for any rigid ideology, search for the truth wherever it takes you. It was only a shadow in our family after that. But at the same time, you didnt talk about it within the family was it was it because tothey wanted to keep it camped down or why . I dont think my father was embarrassed by it but i think he didnt want to be defined by it. He had learned some lessons from that soperiod he always ma clear his idealism and optimism. It was different times. He was in a different place he wanted his family to flourish so it wasnt brought up. How did it affect your life growing up . It affected my life mostly
Senate majority leader, senators cruz,rubio, ted congressman mark meadows, one of our heroes. Were just getting started. You will hear from four members of the cabinet this morning, heroes of our cause, senators, congressmen, and it is my great privilege to kick off the morning with a man who is truly one of the most articulate and one of the most courageous defenders of faith and freedom in america today, he is a dear friend of this organization, his personal story i think is one of the most inspiring of our time. A man who grew up in poverty, a man who many statistically would a life ofgned to hopelessness and deprivation and instead he rose to a point where he graduated from yale university, the university of Michigan Law School and the medicals school sorry dan i just give you a different vocation, we are glad you are a doctor and not a lawyer by the way. Evan may that as the son d. Of an mg. He was the director of new or logical pediatric. He performed the First Successful separat
Tonight on the reidout and remember this, remember this, joe biden is a great threat to our democracy. Hes a tremendous threat to our democracy. Trump over the weekend doing his best George Orwell trying to turn the tables on his own autocratic plans by claiming joe biden is a threat to democracy. Meanwhile, the selfprofessed billionaire apparently doesnt have enough cash to secure a bond in his civil fraud case. Also tonight, the family of a liberal icon was furious that an award given in her name is be handed to the likes of elon musk and Rupert Murdoch, and tonight theres an update on this story. Plus, Nikole Hannahjones at the table tonight on how the right has hijacked the term color blindedness, not to advance racial progress but rather to reverse it. But we begin tonight with a sad and terrifying reality that we face in america. Namely that a mad man is running for president. And too many people are pretending that that is not the case. Americans seem to be numb to the ramblings
This is what democracy looks like covered by cable. Regulation and policy goals at a Communications Technology summit in washington, d. C. Hosted by the tradea1 associati. His remarks on about 15. Welcome back. We are ready to move on to the next speaker. Everybody is so excited after that last session. I am so honored to introduce the commissioner. He was nominated to serve as the commissioner by President Trump several years ago and he joined us policy summit. We are so happy to haveo him back. He previously was the Senior Advisor and in he worked on many aspects of the Telecommunications Policy including allocation and planning broadband the internet. He also has a long the private sector experience, which i think isisxp crucial to understanding the needs of the private sector and consumers prior to joining the commission he was the senior counsel and led the negotiated of the leading providers and over 20 countries. Prior to joining, he worked as an attorney in private of the unive