Peter and youve been listening to some of Eleanor Roosevelts radio address hours after the attack on pearl harbor in 1941. In fact, she gave that address before her husband, fdr, even spoke to the nation. For the next two hours, were going to get to know this transformational first lady. Shes consistently ranked first in historians polls on first ladies. And were going to look at her life, her relationships, and her time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Well, good evening and welcome to cspans first ladies influence and image series. Joining us this evening to talk about Eleanor Roosevelt, allida black, who is the editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt papers project at George Washington university and a historian, and another historian, Doug Brinkley, who is also an author from rice university. Thank you both for being here with us this evening. Doug brinkley, its march 1933. The roosevelts are being inaugurated. They enter the white house. What are they walking into . What was the coun
Now on booktv from the 13th annual National Book festival on the National Mall in washington, d. C. , Harvard University law professor kenneth mack presents his book representing the race the creation of the civil rightsr lawyer. Kennet thank you. Thank you to the library of congress for inviting me. And thank you to all of you for coming. What i would like to do today is talk a little bit about the bitt book, lived about how i came to little bit write it and ill be just ae to little bit also. And then we will tak e questions. Will take questions. So the book, the book is a biographical account of men and women to change america, men and women who helped transform america from a country that denied basic Citizenship Rights to a portion of its citizens based on race to the country we know today that embraces racial equality as one of its core principles. Is a collective biography of africanamericans who practiced law during the era of jim crow. Lawyers like Thurgood Marshall and lesser
Deference. An agency enjoys, when it interprets its own organic statute, for example, how much deference epa enjoys when it the Clean Air Act at the state levels. That same level of deference has under serious and sustained attack for a long time and and and successful attack and in a lot of states agencies simply do not enjoy deference when they interpret their own organic statutes. And i think thats really really deeply unfortunate and think there is something about the political economy of state of states or state governments as opposed to the federal government that really me less optimistic about about state regulatory apparatuses. And maybe ill just kind of leave it at that for and chris, when i think about some of the greatest changes in the criminal legal system and criminal procedure much of it has started at the state level. And when the us court decided that people with intellectual disability could no longer be subject to capital punishment, they surveyed states and there w
This person who i like, who cares about me thinks differently from me, maybe like we can actually have a conversation about this. That happens a lot on shows. But again, like were talking off people, we need all of us doing that work. We need all of us to keep showing up for each other and keep talking to each other with grace. Right. And i think that there that way lies the path to salvation. There we go with grace. Thank you very much. The books are for sale outside. Welcome welcome. Welcome. Im here with two of my brilliant colleagues and a fantastic and fierce postcovid action lawyer and i am so excited to dive into texts and to start this conversation. Please note that all the books are available for sale through a Greenlight Bookstore here at the law school. So from the u. S. Supreme court to the president ial administration from a local criminal courts, state election bureaus, americans of all political leanings are increasingly voicing skepticism about the legitimacy of our law
Thank you so much for joining my class today at Saint Josephs university today. Were going to explore five women who use their writing and singing to create a Better Future for black people in our country polymari Billie Holiday Lorraine Hansberry, nina simone and anne moody. Why choose these five women you may ask as writers their work highlights a significant element of the civil rights movement, and it also broadens the more wellknown narrative on the key participants from this time. Some of these women participated in sitins and other actions to be sure but even when their own work was very visible such as holidays and simone songs hansburys plays and moodys encounter at woolworths as we talked about last time. There are full contribution to the civil rights struggle is not always widely appreciated as those who have used the power of words. They are also a time together the expanding protest of our time and of their era interestingly too all of them spent some time in new york cit