Sponsors National Art Commission and content group, and about university and in this book. This special session is entitled remake america. Have a panel authors and three books in first, we are going to read some but i will introduce the authors first and ill begin with she grewp in bosnia. After surviving cousin cleansing and the 111 days underilitary siege, she immigrated to the u. S. In 1996. Friday 71999, she earned aa in economics from Brown University and later obtained two masters degrees of doctrine from Columbia University. Currently, a profeor at Columbia University working on understanding how and why societies fall apart and wha role education plays in this countr shes published extensively on education related issues and lectured around the world adolescent audience. Hertudents feedback, nsistently praised as one of the most aspirin professors th have encountered throughout theicareers. Our second guest, stephanie, and often from staff sectors. Her books include the awardw
On your to join us to honor Sandra Day Oconnor. It turns out that Justice Ginsburg and Justice Oconnor sharon distinction that is interesting nicknames. When Justice Oconnor was confirmed she owned the moniker f w. Oh tsv for first women on the Supreme Court. Justice ginsburg meanwhile has been crowned the notorious rbg. Ill leave it to you to decide which one is catcher. The justices also share a lifelong commitment to expanding opportunities for women. So it makes sense that when Justice Ginsburg joins us Justice Oconnor on the bench in 1993 the two bonded over their historic role and current in transforming the Supreme Court. Both justices had to overcome discrimination and professional rejection but Justice Oconnor once put a helpful spin on it. If they had come of age when women could easily be lawyers she told Justice Ginsburg. They would probably have ended up has retired partners of some law firm. But because that round was not open to us Justice Oconnor explained, we had to fi
In the capital tens of thousands demand change. Cramming into a camp thousands of refugees are relocated on the last boss there are new fears for their health and safety. And in sport patrick reed has a half way to the u. S. So then. When his 2nd major title. She spend a pillar of the fight for womens rights and a liberal leader in the u. S. Now the death of long serving Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg is poised to trigger a significant political battle just weeks ahead of the president ial election even as the 87 year old was dying from pancreatic cancer she passed on a plea that there should be no rush to fill the vacancy in americas highest legal body aljazeera as alan fischer looks at ginsbergs legacy. They started to gather on the steps of the Supreme Court in washington his use of Ruth Bader Ginsburgs death broke it brought flowers and candles the number swelled people marking a loss they felt personally. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was physically small but her presence loomed
Learn about the history of women in congress. Of a second of a two part program we begin the story beginning in the 19 with Republican Congress one woman claire recluse. On the curator for the house of representatives. That means i take a care of a lot of the artifacts, artwork objects that document the houses rich heritage. And that was a risky on the horse historian of the house and my job is to collect biographical information on members, to gather data, and historicless, to conduct oral histories. We answer reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. We try to tell the story of the house which is very big Old Institution in a way that people can connect with it at a human level. So we do that through telling biographical stories or clips from oral histories that give people kind of a human sense. A very large institution. Today, we thought we try to do that with you about telling you about the history of women in congress which is the history that
Of a looming election joining me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. Say theyre welcome to the stream home edition im josh rushing sitting in for femi ok now look if youre watching this on you tube live stream i need your help to that chat box over there thats a live chat box theres actually a stream producer in there right now waiting to get your comments and questions to me so i can get into our experts that are in the show today and it could not be a more important show were talking about Family Planning tearing coated in 1000 im going to take you right to my computers to show you a table here now its not a its not a pretty picture but it is an important picture i want you to look right down here at this number 6 months of lockdown will what happens if were in 6 months and lockdown is this is the estimated number of women not able to use modern contraceptives 47000000 women and now this is