The 114th Congress Gavels in tomorrow at noon eastern. Well see the swearing in of members and the election for house speaker. Watch the house live on cspan, and the senate live on cspan 2. And with the new congress youll have the best access the most extensive coverage anywhere. Track the g. O. P. As it leads on capitol hill and have your say as events unfold on tv, radio, and the web. This sunday on q a author talks about the film the birth of the nation. Its depiction of former slaves after the civil war ask the effort biz africanamerican civil rights advocate and newspaper publisher to prevent the movies release. Part two of the movie some is after the war exreconstruction, is the heart of the protest in the sense that this is where the blacks are just appalled by the portrayal of freed slaves. This is a scene showing what happens when you give former slaves the right to vote the right to be elected, the right to govern. Its a scene in the South Carolina legislature where their fir
Years peterson being picked up the neighbors or family members picked up. So that plays out one way or as access to Reproductive Health care in the Africanamerican Community plays out a very different way. We take children away from African American single mothers. That is an aspect. In service of the society that is headed by one group and others are kept in places. That is the interrelationship piece. It is harder to grasp. The lived experience. All right. I said i would talk for 15 minutes. I will count on you to not let me ramble too much. So that is what i want to talk about today what does the minimum wage have to do with reproductive rights and justice. So justice. So i think the easiest answer, of course, is it is a womens issue. Reproductive rights and justice is an Economic Justice issue. Unpack. Unpack and explain why we get to that. Two thirds of minimumwage workers in. And the Progressive Community that has become a mantra. Democrats and the Progressive Community have been
20. You probably heard about that when president obama announced cases of executive acts that would not only expand the deferred action program, but also expand it to undocumented parents of children and or other measures less novel shall be discussed as part of this program. And surprisingly, this move has proven extremely controversial and political, leading to denouncements against congress and lawsuits challenging the legality of the acts, including one by nearly half of the state join in the litigation. So in this program we wanted to situate the conversation on immigration executive acts into a broader context and include other areas of law such as health, environment, gay rights, National Security where the president has also been accused of acting as an imperial president. What makes todays program particularly exciting, therefore, is that it is bring together scholars writing on issues of separation of powers federalism, Administrative Law and legislation, and writes rights ac
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Willing to do. Rescue people trapped by saturdays earthquake, and give aid to survivors. More than 4,600 people are noun to have died but the Prime Minister warned that the true figure is likely to be more than 10,000. The United Nations says 8 Million People have been effected many of whom have been left without food or shelter, rescuers are still trying to reach areas near the epicenter where Officials Say 250 people are missing after a new mudslide and avalanche. Meanwhile, a serj and rescue team has pulled a man from a collapsed apartment block. 28yearold spent around 80 hours in a room with three dead bodies before being rescued. He appears to have no access to food or water. He was on the second near of a building when the quake struck. Joins us live now andrew, you have been out in the katmandu valley, what have you seen and how bad is the damage many the places that are hard to reach outside the capitol . It is very cheering to hear something positive coming out of these effort