Im mark, president and im proud to be here with professor eddie. I am honored, as we say back home this is really great. We have some time to talk and you have written a new book and we sorely want to talk about, we also want to talk about how fascinating it is to viewers and certainly too many how you got from mississippi, a a Great Community down in the gulf coast, all the way to princeton university. Maybe we ought to start with you talking about yourself. Guest im a country boy who made it big, thats what i like to say. My dad was the second africanamerican postman hired at the post office. That was a big job. We were living in moss point at the time and he moved us from one side of time to the other side. Where the third africanamerican family that moved into the nice neighborhood on the hill. We went to a better school, much more disciplined. It didnt have as many distractions. We went to an integrated school because it was predominantly black. People worked in the shipyard, lisa
Author and Princeton University professor eddie glaude sits down for after words with National Urban League President marc morial to discuss the state of black america. This book is democracy in black. Host im marc morial, im the president of the National Urban league and im proud to be here with professor eddie glaude of Princeton University. Professor, welcome. Guest im honored. As my mother would say back home in mississippi, this is high time. Im really honored. Host youve written a new book we want to talk about. We also want i think its always fascinating to viewers and certainly too many how you got from moss point mississippi, a Great Community down on the gulf coast, all the way to Princeton University. Maybe we are just over the toggle bit about yourself estimate its because folks like me. Im a country boy who made it big. Thats what id like to see. My dad was a the second posting from black africanamerican postman hard at the post office. Host that was a big job. Guest we we
Texas, boulder and with the efforts like what steve case is doing and what eda is doing to actually help fund a number of these organizations. Were helping entrepreneurs around the United States get access not only to mentorship and to training remember, theyre going to a business idea to a Business Plan to how to actually create an organization legally to having to hire people et cetera. That whole process is something daunting if youre not dont come from folks who can help you do that. And so these are really centers that are able to help young folks, and its old folks doesnt matter what age you are. Just any entrepreneur, and its very exciting what is happening there. I will put in a plug that we just started this past month with eric levin who is one of the incubator, has come here so we can have an incubation at the aspen institute. Both for profit and nonprofit entrepreneurs, people want to be social entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs in the private sector because that notion of brin
Accounts were hacked. This is snapchat which is an account that allows data to come in and disappear. They were hacked. Our privacy is under attack. The problem today, there is virtually zero relationship between private industry and government. Private industry which has 85 of the networks and government has 15 of the networks but has vast resources that could help protect individuals against attacks. Our government has a duty, a responsibility to protect the American People. And thats what this bill seeks to do. It does it in a number of ways. First and foremost, this is a voluntary program thats being created. No business is required to turn over their breach or hack information to the government. Instead there is a format, a procedure, that is now in place that will incentivize them to work with the government to identify in a way that strips out through a number of protections personal identifiable information. The first way it is stripped out when the business that has been hacke
When youre buying food youre stimulating the farm economy, youre stimulating the economy in lot of and lots of ways. Another misconception about snap is that people are free loading off of it because they dont want to work. The majority of able bodied people on snap work for a liing. They earn so little that they still qualify for snap. But snap is the last federal program one could accuse of being inefficient. Theres so many who want to say that theres fraud in the program. The snap program the Food Stamp Program thats the lowest one of the lowest error rates of any federal program. 3. 8 . But the den gration and the hue millation of people who find themselves in difficult straits some who never thought they would have to apply for the Food Stamp Program that we would say no its not what were about. And we ought to tackle this program we can solve it and if we solve it you know what i think we could be a good example for the rest of the world. Recently gave a speech at the end of it o