Midnight here and campus chaos continues, you are looking screen right at a live shot of the campus of ucla, where Hundreds Of Police Clad in riot gear have been massed for several hours now, apparently waiting for the final order to go in and dismantle the encampment. Set up almost a week ago by propalestinian protesters. But as yet, they have not made the move. On the campus itself is our correspondent, bill melugin. He has been there for hours now. Bill and as we watch and wait, bill, i wonder if you have noticed any change in the posture over the last couple of hours or are we simply where we have been with the Skirmish Lines and no movement . Jonathan, good evening to you. I can tell you its gotten eerily quiet. All the protesters behind us, hundreds of them have stopped all their chants. They had been chanting for hours, free palestine, free palestine. Now its kind of quiet and eerie, and you get the sense that it could potentially be the calm before the storm. If police do end u
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Book World: The Three Mothers honors the women who made Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin
Lisa Page, The Washington Post
Feb. 12, 2021
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Motherhood is said to be its own reward. You learn to give of yourself, and this will stretch you, as a person. But you may also learn to put yourself in the background, which will shrink you - and even make you disappear.
History does this to us anyway, argues scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs. Black women in particular are largely erased from the American historical trajectory - marginalized, at best. Tubbs tries to remedy this with a new book about women who gave birth to extraordinary men, women who have been hidden not only behind their sons but also behind their husbands . . . presented as footnotes that are out of context. In The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation, Tubbs resurrects thes