Black power to barack obama. One of those wonderful, unhurried, cspan book conversations, and i had never met him before, and i was so impressed, not only by his intellect, but by his ease, his humility, and his intro specifics. Intro specifics. I left thinking, im going to read all of that dudes books, from now on, whatever he writes. He is ward of waiting until the midnight hour a narrative history of back pour in america. But the book he has come to discuss today and why im sure youre all here iris stokeley a life reviewed as an insight. Biography of stokley carmichael, the man widely seep at heir apparent to Martin Luther king and malcolm x, stokley started out as a believer in nonviolence but his open experience led them to concentrate his thinking on notion of black selfdefense. Carmichael was a complex figure, and that complexity is captured wonderfully in this definitive biography, stokley, life you can never be disappoint with the book when you have chapter titles like, the ch
Facebook. Com booktv. I first met sally ride in 1981 when, as a correspondent for abc news, i was invited to join the team covering the thenupcoming Space Shuttle program. The first shuttle flew in april of 81. So in january of 81, i joined our group going down to the Johnson Space center in houston to start preparing the stories ahead of time. And we had a great team. Im sure you will remember many of them. The anchorman was frank reynolds, the abc anchorman who knew, who was extremely knowledgeable about space. Our space correspondent was Jules Bergman who, essentially, who had sort of half invented the field of science journalism and was brilliant at what he did. I was brought in to be what i now describe, its like in the baseball booth, i was the color guy, right . I was supposed to do the feature stories and all that. Because of a variety of incidents, i wound up anchoring and becoming the lead space reporter and anchoring almost all the shuttle liftoffs and landings for the first
David brooks appeared on booknotes to talk about bobos in paradise the new upper class and how they got there. As people who combine the attitudes of the bohemian counterculture of the 1960s with the conservative 1980s attitudes regarding finance and family. This is about an hour. Cspan david brooks, were do we find a bobo in paradise . Guest bobos are spread across upscale america. If youre looking for the hunting signs of them, i suppose what you do is you look for people whove renovated their kitchen so big it looks like an aircraft hangar with plumbing. You see these big kitchens with islands in the middle of them. Theyve got a big refrigerator so bigyou know, subzero. It looks like you could fit an inlaw suite in one side of them. Theyve got the six burner, duelfuel viking ranges. So basically, bobos are across upscale america. Theyre in leftwing towns, like berkeley, california, burlington, vermont; in rightwing towns wayne, pennsylvania, where i went to high school, orange count
Mr. Thank you for the opportunity. Mr. Yanukovich. You dont have your office now. You dont have Law Enforcement structures. You dont even have the opportunity to go back to ukraine. How can you confirm and prove now that you are the real and genuine and lilingt president of ukraine . I have facts to prove that. The laws that were passed through force and violence by the parliament will never be accepted by me. I did sign nem, and not sign them, and this means that these laws were not passed into action. I, as the legitimate president , did not resign according to the constitution. If you do not deny that i am and sinceyou can see, i have not been impeached by the of iament, with the use force, cannot be called an impeachment. I cannot accept that. Will never accept that. What role can russia claim . I think all the russians in ukraine are content over this . What kind of role can russia play in this conflict in solving this . How do you see this as an action president . Ukraine has alw
Allow their employees to be able to help out as poll workers on election day and then to have sufficient training. Your report also talked about importance of access the information in languages other than english, including outlets in other languages, outreach to nonenglish media outlets, bilingual poll workers. I know weve made some effort in minnesota with voters with asian and Pacific Islander groups, and why our efforts so important . Want to stress, that the broader theme that the commission struck, and i think its well within its charge, is improving the Voter Experience for language minority voters to go to the polls and to find that theres nobody there to help them who can speak the language successfully. It is simply not consistent with our been the kind of experience to all of our voters, that all of our voters deserve. And as we pointed out, there is support by federal law, this congress has tendered to these voters and the statutes that provide for this protection are not