But if anyone thinks the fight is over recall the massive turnout in january to reaffirm protesting Donald Trumps election. In july has lots of experience herself telling these stories as a veteran journalist working with the net will also landed at the new york times. There she wrote as copy editor to be the first africanamerican woman promoted to this Senior Editor position at the time. Then she left the paper and is edited various publications and also has edited or goes written a number of books. Angelo will be in conversations this evening with Carol Richards the Founding Editor of usa today and lecturing and George Washington school of media and public affairs. Of course a longtime columnist for the Washington Post writers even more do well a little more than a year from now. Please join me to welcome Angela Dodson. [applause] good afternoon, a good evening. Is a pleasure to be here at politics and prose. We are excited about Angela Dodson new book remember the ladies and before
Thesohoforum. Org. This is an oxford style debate whether they vote for, against of the resolution and then again after the debate is over. Todays resolution is as follows americas colleges, that makes them a hostile space for africanamerican students. Defending the resolution to my right we have lawrence ross, author of blackballed the black and white politics of race on americas campuses. Lawrence will be doing book igning and sales of his book blackballed after the debate. Youll find lawrence over at that tible signing books and response to any questions you put to him after the debate. Arguing for the negative we have kmele foster, a telecommunications entrepreneur and a host and cohost of the libertarian podcast, the fifth column. [applause] fifth column fans. Commoip oh. Gene dominating. Dominating. So now well close the initial voting and the debate can begin. Lawrence ross, you have 15 minutes to defend the proposition americas colleges have fostered a racist environment that m
And it really is. American history tv is featuring cspans original series at 8 00 eastern on sunday nights throughout the rest of the year. Cspan produced the series in cooperation with the White House Historical association through conversations with experts and questions from cspans audience, we tell the stories of americas 45 first ladies. Now we look at two administrations led by widowed president s and the women who serve as first ladies. We begin with Rachel Jackson and Emily Donelson. This is about 90 minutes. Rachel was not a fan of anything that took Andrew Jackson away from the hermitage. Her preferences apparently didnt strongly influence him but rachel was always the thing that he would come back to. She ran the plantation or the farm and kept everything in order. Everybody loved her who worked there or was enslaved there. She might not have been like Abigail Adams but she could write a nice letter and she had nice jewelry. She was not as frumpy as she was reputed to be. Th
Enslaved black people. He has more slaves than faculty. He has more slaves than trustees. Accounting, honest a bubbly more slaves than students. Today we speak with m. I. T. Historian greg Stephen Wilder about ebony and ivy race, slavery, and the troubled history of americas universities. And we look at traces of the trade, a story from the deep north. One know in my family realized were that the walls were the largest slave trading family in the nation. They brought over 10,000 africans to the americans in chains. Half a million of their descendents could be alive today. With katrinaeak brown about how she traced her familys shocking history. All that and more coming up. We turn to a new book 10 years in the making that looks at how some of the countrys major universities, harvard, yale, then, rutgers, williams, university of north carolina, just to name a few, are drenched in the sweat and sometimes blood of the african slaves that were brought here. The book is called ebony and ivy
Enslaved black people. He has more slaves than faculty. He has more slaves than trustees. Accounting, honest a bubbly more slaves than students. Today we speak with m. I. T. Historian greg Stephen Wilder about ebony and ivy race, slavery, and the troubled history of americas universities. And we look at traces of the trade, a story from the deep north. One know in my family realized were that the walls were the largest slave trading family in the nation. They brought over 10,000 africans to the americans in chains. Half a million of their descendents could be alive today. With katrinaeak brown about how she traced her familys shocking history. All that and more coming up. We turn to a new book 10 years in the making that looks at how some of the countrys major universities, harvard, yale, then, rutgers, williams, university of north carolina, just to name a few, are drenched in the sweat and sometimes blood of the african slaves that were brought here. The book is called ebony and ivy