Bringing a chicago neighborhood together by focusing on its most basic needs. How you going to change anything in your neighborhood, if you really cant start with the place that really sustains the neighborhood . And thats the food, right . Woodruff and, its friday. Mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the weeks news. Sreenivasan all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan the Senate Republican Health Care Bill has suffered another critical defection the fifth so far. Nevada republican dean heller announced in las vegas t
Activism. The departure of the only africanamerican woman serving on the state legislature points to a points to an alarming lack of diversity in the legislative body. We welcome her to our program. Gloria thank you for having me. Karen thank you for being here. Let me start by asking you, you have been here for some time now, Public Service has a Bad Reputation in todays world. Lived in i began organizing in whittier street, and then i was prodded by pat rainer to be one of the paid Community Organizers through the antipoverty program. I worked my way from an organizer to the director of the i stayed there until i was asked to run in 1984. I came in, in a special election in 1985, because name could not be taken off the ballot. I had to come in, in the spring of 1985, and i have been there, ever since. Karen see women running for political office, then and what challenges do you still see, now . Gloria always, the issue around financing and money, the money it takes to run a campaign,
Announcer you are watching American History tv. 48 hours of programming on cspan3. Forow us on twitter information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. Masoncer at George University Professor Joseph genetinpilawa argues during the reconstruction era, native americans frequently worked directly with the u. S. Government but the advance of to the west was an overwhelming force that still cost native americans ttheir land. His classes about an hour and 15 minutes. Mr. Genetinpilawa today, we are going to pick up with u. S. Federal tribal relationships. Although you will notice and i did warn you we are jumping forward slightly. Last class, we were speaking about removal and the establishment of reservations in the 1830s, 1840s. Early 1850s. We are going to jump forward a bit into the civil war and after. One of the things i want to try and do is think about the ways that native history and the development of the west were directly connected to the civil war and rec
Bit into the civil war and after. The things i want to try and do is think about the ways that native history and the development of the west were directly connected to the civil war and reconstruction even though we dont always think of those things as related to one another. I think we kind of separate westward expansion and the civil war from one another but what the people who lived through that, i dont think they would have separated it. Get intoing to try to that mindset today. When we think about the term reconstruction, we usually use it to describe a series of policies and developments in the and 1877. Een 1863 these were policies that were designed to integrate free slaves into a mainstream thelation and readmit states back into the union. Welcome, everyone. [inaudible] free people themselves took an active role in reconstruction. Former slaves took an active role in the reconstruction process but there are Big Questions. This is just at the end of the civil war and their Big
Central brussels close to subway situations. As kelly was mentioned, a foreign minister did say art arrest of abdeslam the other day that there was evidence from that terror cell that he was to be hanging with was planning to restart something, that was their expression. And possibly, that may conclude what turns out to be the suspected attack today. A large amount of weapons were raids. There were kalashnikovs at a previous raid and isis flag found as well. So, clearly, authorities were aware that this terror cell has managed to accumulate a large amount of weapons and prepared to mount an attack that do place across several areas possibly as attack. Theres no indication that the attack on the Brussels Airport included any kind of warning or coordinated. Local time. Thats about 3 00 a. M. Eastern in the checkin area of the airport. The unsecured zone where people walk in from the curb. And it took place next to checkin 4 in departure hall 1. Thats a fairly small area used by a number