Sunday at 1 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. On American History tv, Georgetown University professor Bonnie Morris on title ix, discrimination against women in sports and the edge issue amendments of 1972. Now the rest of our after words interview with aram goudsouzian, author of down to the crossroads. Host okay, i want to ask you about the title, crossroads, as a physical place but as a symbolic place in history. How does this march marked a historical crossroads . Guest the march in a lot of ways is a process for the Civil Rights Movement in the sense it is mostly still in the popular mind at least associated with the tenants of nonviolence and racial integration as its core goals. Underneath that, of course, especially among grassroots organizers, that the Civil Rights Movement is more about us putting blacks in positions of power, into positions where they can lift themselves up. Those goals can be intertwined of course but theyre not necessarily exactly the same thing. The march becomes
Good afternoon. I would like to welcome you all to this very special conference in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the u. S. China diplomatic relationship. Director of the china center here at brookings. Im thrilled to see such a big crowd of people. I had no idea i was this popular. Just as we finally saw a thaw in the temperature in washington this week, after a very long in u. S. Chinaaw relations more than three decades ago was almost equally as long awaited. The thaw began with pingpong diplomacy during the presidency of richard nixon. The ice finally fully mended by andtime president carter the chinese leader agreed to the 1979 joint community on establishments of diplomatic relations. It seems quite fitting that we are holding this event during a week when we have seen pictures streaming back from china of First Lady Michelle Obama playing pingpong, learning tai chi. Quite impressive, if you saw the picture. And appearing at schools to speak to the future generations of c
Recently, seventh and eighth grade students at Pierz Healy High School had the opportunity to visit the Agricultural Career Expo at the Central Lakes College campus in Staples. There, they