Join us live next weekend to discuss all of her books and take your questions. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Former new York City Police officer steve osborn is next. Talks about some of the experiences he had throughout his career. Our you doing. My name is steve osborn. I used to be in new york city cop for 20 years and years, the accent is real. The funny thing is a didnt know i had an accent and a liking to savannah. I was a cop for 20 years and became a writer. People ask me how do you go from being a cop to a writer . I dont like telling this story especially at a book festival with all the writers because they want to strangle me. A happened by accident. After retiring from the Police Department my life went from the fast lane to the slow lane and all of a sudden i have all this time on my hands. When you are caught, like a real cop and living that life you have no life. Working aroundtheclock, working nights, we cans, holidays, and never home. Then all of a sudden
Exhibit, descendants of slaves, in alabama may be close and i am giving you a synopsis of a synopsis, ultimately the first lady, at the end of the tour, these black women, five black women who i do not believe were republicans, they were so happy, they embraced the first lady in a huddle, thank you jesus and started to climb and a descendant of a slave, fifth generation removed from a slave. Mayor are a lot of human stories people can relate to in this book and it is about you and me, not just black but white and all of us coming together. People go to booktv and type in april ryan, they will see this big panel, an author panel, what was that . Panel discussion on race. He talked about criminal justice. Wheat had julie reid, an author as well. And we had michael eric dyson, author himself. I was a moderator. We had a serious discussion, serious civil discussion on issues of race, and my authors have written about it and researched it. We had a panel discussion, people from all walks of
Chance to get up close view of the presidency of the United States. What is the blackandwhite . The black and white is cyclical and continues to happen. The placement of africans in the country. Theres a problem with race in this country and has yet to be fixed. We saw major legislation, major laws, there is an intrinsic problem that should be fixed. Today we are seeing tensions between the black community and police, not saying we dont enforce law enforcement, wholeheartedly, but they have to be winning out of that. A lot of the problems, settled, some of it is over. I talked to president obama recently on a flight, he is here to close the gap, gaps still remain in this nation, there are still gaps. This is an issue that is not going away. Other countries are watching us. If someone picks up the presidency in black and white will they hear stories something you want to share . When the person picks of the presidency black and white, three president s in america, does get very confused
I agree with your comments about the challenges, the situation being unacceptable, saying if we arent talking about the problems, we arent addressing them. Aggressively working in the great plains area. Members of the senate a couple weeks ago who werent on the committee such as senator thune were here because of the concern that we have with regard to the conditions of the Indian Health service in the great plains areas specifically. In fiscal year 2016 i know youve only been on the job for a short period ever Time Congress appropriated 2 million specifically to help address some of these emergent issues. Despite the dire conditions in the great plains area, it took the administration several months to even figure out what to do with the 2 million in appropriated funds. I know you werent there at the time. Meanwhile, the facilities in the area have lost their medicare provider status, on the verge of losing it. Patients at the facilities are ultimately paying the price. I note funds w
Tourism. For years the u. S. Statement has been working with state department has been working with countries trying to protect these children and u. S. Justice department has been going after offenders. A ground break lawsuit currently playing out in a federal court in minnesota and the lawsuit is dividing a tight community of immigrants from laos. I sat down with the plaintiff, a woman from Southeast Asia who says that an american man raped her. Translator i wonder to myself what will happen to me if my parents find out that i have been raped and then i ask myself what will happen to me if he doesnt agree to marry me. Panea vang was just 14 whether she left her home. Lured from her home by a much older american man vang says instead of becoming a sing are she became a victim. Of child sex tourism. I was sitting in his hotel room, looking at the clothes and the shoes that he had bought for me and i wanted to leave but he said take a seat have a seat just relax and lets just talk. So a