Including john lewis, maxine walters. This is two and a half hours. [ applause ] good morning, my brothers and sisters. Oh, that is not good enough. Good morning, my brothers and sisters. From the faith that the dark past have brought us. We will, we will, we will march on. Until victory is won. I welcome you on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus foundation. You are at the 47th annual legislative conference, a conference you could not afford to miss and be reminded and still i rise. I welcome you again and delighted that you have come for the focus of todays discussion is fighting the systemic destruction of our civil rights, it is very timely, it is urgent and i am confident that well have a productive discussion. Early this morning, i was at one of our missions for homeless men here in washington, d. C. , along with the Congressional Black Caucus foundation spouses. I said to them, we must live with hope, but when you see individuals where the system has failed them, where ther
Know this is al jazeera live from doha im fully back to also coming out the fallout from catalonia secession referendum the head of the Regional Police appears before a judge in madrid on charges of sedition. A funeral is about to begin of iraqs former president talabani a champion of the kurdish independence struggle and with only hours to go before this years Nobel Peace Prize is announced we look at a past noriega who now stands accused of being involved in ethnic cleansing. Both sides in the war in yemen have been strongly criticizing the United Nations on your report on children and conflicts the saudi arabia Led Coalition and who the rebels are jointly accused of killing and maiming many children but the u. N. Also says Coalition Forces have taken action to improve Child Protection mike hanna has more from un headquarters in new york. The report focuses on children in conflict across the globe in countries ranging from afghanistan to colombia to syria mali myanmar and war the lis
Might have been making a couple of hundred you know, a dime was a significant amount of would especially when he hand it to children. Hildren were able to then go out and buy things and it was all because of mr. Rockefeller. Good guy rather than this bad businessman everyone has come to know him as. Oil, the company that rockefeller founded here in leveland, quickly became successful. Obviously making rockefeller the it also an he was but impacted cleveland economically. Brought money into the city ut also the ability of rockefeller to be able to pay decent wage, and llow them to live a good life here in cleveland. It was just another one of those cleveland at e in the time that was doing so well that theauto industry, citizens of cleveland had a you know good, quality of life in the city at the time thanks to these major be it the auto industry, bringing that wealth into the city. Our citys tour staff recently traveled to cleveland learn about its rich history. Learn more about the ci
All weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Leah wright rigeueur is the author of the loneliness of the black republican. Cspans American History tv interviewed the professor at this years annual meeting of the organization of american historians in providence, rhode island. This is about 10 minutes. The loneliness of the black republican, pragmatic politics and the pursuit of power toga what is power. What is this book about . Prof. Rigueur it looks at the black men and women who worked within the Publican Party from 1956 to present day. This spans a huge expanse of africanamericans. It has is as broad as a jackie robinson, but also includes figures like a Whitney Young of the National Urban league or a Jesse Jackson of the rainbow coalition. You focus on the role of women within the rePublican Party. In the time period we are looking at, 1936 to the present, how have africanamerican women tended to vote in president ial elections . Prof. Rigueur one might describe africanamerican women as
Nomination. The failure to do anything about high prices and the failure to do anything about housing. My duty as president requires that i use every means within my power to get the laws of that people need on matters of such importance and urgency. On american00 artifacts, we take a look at the new society and National Museum of African American history and culture with its director. The museum opens its doors to the public in september of this year. Were able to get amazing collections of movie posters such as the ones behind you. That is an early oscar poster from the 1920s and then this is part of our job is to help people relearn history they think they know. That movie posters from spencer williams. He is known by most people as playing amos and andy did he was one of the most important black film directors in the late 30s and 40s. And sunday night at 8 00 on the presidency, historian john talk about the process of writing a president ial biography. For our complete American His