Preparation for the event tonight and they said that is the new faulkner biography. I said well, you got the faulkner part right. The best way i can describe this book is equal parts military history, social commentary, and literary criticism. And i think it will appeal equally to fans of any of those subjects. What the book really did for me is force me to give some serious thought to where faulkner stands at a time when we are asking ourselves some difficult and longoverdue questions about our countrys historic difficulties when it comes to matters of race. Was he something of a pioneer on those issues or was he or another white writer profiting off of racist caricatures of black americans . Dr. Michael gorra, as you might imagine, has some thoughts on that. He is a professor of English Literature at Smith College in massachusetts. He is the author of several books including portrait of a novel, the making of an american masterpiece, which was a finalist for the pool surprise and bio
The scope of what we are talking about when we are talking about changes in policing. Instead of focusing primarily on reform, there are conversations about defunding or shrieking or abolishing the police, fundamentally changing the institution of the police and what they do. Data is really being proffered in many ways as this sort of panacea or Silver Bullet with many of these issues. In the defunding debate, lets say we are going to defund the cut costs. People say data can be used to allocate resources more efficiently. Or lets reduce racial bias and officer decisionmaking. Lets automate it. Or you want to reduce the categorical suspicion of young black males and more accurately predict crime, try predictive algorithms. I think we need to be cautious , when we using data are trying to solve social problems with technological solutions. The first thing i would suggest in moving forward is that we pause,moment to stop, to and really invert the order of operations of what has been goin
When spring comes in. This is the first day of spring. Spring is a time that of renewal, rebirth, always a time of hope. So i think it is significant that we think about that today. We are in dead winter. We know this winter, what we are going through, is going to continue for a while. But we also know there is hope. And we know that spring will come. Spring will come to ohio and across this country and it reminds us of how good life is, and the importance of all of us to do everything we can to get through this and to move forward. There will be a new day coming. And if dr. Acton was right, we may see a baby boom. See a lot of babies born. Thans nothing more joyful the birth of a child. So we have a lot to look forward to. I want to thank all my fellow citizens in ohio. For what they are doing. Because it truly is a patriotic act, individual things that people are doing, what people are doing to help their fellow citizens, what they are doing to stay away from their fellow citizens. T
Borisjohnsons denials in absolute tatters. That theyre having. After a cinema chain bans a film its total nonsense. About gangs after brawls broke out, and this is brought up time its director tells us his movie had and again by the labour Party Nothing to do with the violence. As a distraction from the problems is it prejudiced . That they are having. Do they believe this film after a cinema chain bans a new film brings a certain type . Is it a colour thing . About gangs after brawls broke out, you start thinking all these things, you know, and then, i dont know, its director tells us his movie had it was an upsetting time. Nothing to do with the violence. Coming up on afternoon live is it prejudiced . All the sport with katie shanahan. Do they believe this film brings a certain type . Well bring you the remarkable story is it a colour thing . Of max taylor who, at 19 years old, could step out for Manchester United you start thinking all these things, you know, and then, i dont know,
Morning here in moscow youre watching our International News team here a very warm welcome to you. In germany the Left Wing Movement has published online photos of Police Officers it claims have used Excessive Force and the move was a response after Police Published photos of activists suspended suspected of breaking the law. Taking a much closer look at the continued animosity between the two. These days the German Police dont have the greatest of relationships with the far left the pontiff but the latter have certainly stepped up their tactics of late following the hunt for hamburg t twenty protesters were in commitments of fights against the states anti far published photographs of fifty four Police Officers on a website saying that they were in the wrong for last years most addiction here in berlin. It was in the news it was like. I. Was putting out these photos was revenge. For the police releasing over one hundred images of people they want to speak to in connection with the hamb