History. The archives launches a new exhibit called rightfully hers comemorating the 100th anniversry of the 19th amendment. Ratified by 36 states in 1920, the 19th amendment prohibited states from denying the vote on the basis of sex. It was a victory for womens rights, but not for all women. For some perspective, i sat down with three historians, ann gordon, the preeminent scholar on the Womens Suffrage Movement and the editor of the Elizabeth Cady stanton and susan b. Anthony papers at rutgers university. Marcia chatelain, an associate professor of history and africanamerican studies at Georgetown University, and maggie blackhawk, a law professor at the university of pennsylvania and a member of the ojibwe tribe. Talk to me about the long, very long fight for women who were trying to get the right to vote, and who were some of them the boldface names if you will who were leading this charge . Ann well, the central people from the early stages of themom Elizabeth Cady stanton would b
Soledad do you see that as part of your role, if youre a very visible and successful black chef . Announcer can he change the face of fine dining . Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. 2020 is just around the corner. But before you change your calendar, we wanted to look back at some of the important stories we covered this year, including a recordbreaking year in politics. When the 116th congress was sworn in, it became the most diverse in u. S. History. It includes the first native american women to be elected to the house of representatives. Deb haaland from new mexico and Sharice Davids from kansas promised to tackle the epidemic of violence against Indigenous Women. Native american women have a murder rate 10 times higher than nonnative women. We spotlighted the crisis earlier this year and found native women are disappearing without a trace, leaving their families without hope or justice. Ive been having a lot of friends that have gone missing and never found. So
The kind of music you were playing. Did you have that feeling at the time that you were breaking ground or, of course, you were just trying to make it too, werent you . June kuramoto yeah, we were just trying to do something and not having any predecessors to follow, it was very hard and difficult. It was blood, sweat, and tears, and blind leading the blind almost, you know . But thats what it takes, you know, if you wanna do something, and you have to create. But you have to have the vision and we had the vision of incorporating these different kinds of instruments and so when you have that, then it, i think, that helps longevity. Robert yeah, when you were sitting there with hiroshima and trying to decide what the sound was going to be, what did you think about . What are, likewhat do musicians do when theyre trying to analyze what they want to play or what they wanna convey . June well, my thing is, i think, you know, we are all different. I am not analytical at all so i just impuls
Happening in our world today. And finally, we will highlight some other big events coming up, including the big indian festival diwali, all on our show today. Well, ive had the pleasure of attending the Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival. I have hosted some q a sessions with filmmakers. The event is a project of cats, contemporary asian theater scene, and is still growing and evolving. Joining me now is an old friend, he is cofounder of cats and the cochair of the Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival, steve yamaguma. And also with us, i have the privilege of welcoming filmmaker andrea yuchieh chung. Born in taipei, she is a trained classical musician who found she had a passion for documentary filmmaking and on a global scale. She is presenting her latest work, finding nasseebi, a film where she turns the camera on herself and her journey to understand islam. Welcome to the show. Andrea yuchieh chung thank you for having us. Robert good to see you again. Steve yamaguma go
Weve done quite a few shows on census 2020 because so much is riding on the results, especially for the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. To talk about whats at stake and how the community can help is tim olson, associate director for Field Operations for the us census bureau, and the agencys hiring manager, salvador noble. Welcome to the show. Both thank you. Thank you. Robert now, you know people all think they know what the census is and we know that its kind of the population count, but give us sort of an overview in terms of what the census is so people understand what were talking about. Tim robert, thank you for having us. So the census, we conduct it once every 10 years. We started it in 1790 at the very founding of the country. Its in the us constitution. And the reason we do the census is to make sure that the us house of representatives fairly represents each state based on their population. So today when we conduct the census, whats critical is that every per