Tales from a new york city cop. And author travis mills who wrote tough as they come. Dana perino is live to talk about her new book. And rancor buck, author of the oregon trail; a new american journey. Join us live from savannah, georgia on cspan2. Be sure to tweet us on twitter and comment on facebook. Programs that tell the american story. We kick off a series on the 1966 vietnam war hearings 50 years later. Donald ritchie the vietnam hearings were the most extraordinary hearings held by congress. They were an investigation into a war that was still being fought. The congress and particularly the senate wanted to know why we were in vietnam, what the administrations policies were and they wanted to hear from opponents of the war. They gave equal status to critics s of the war. Two president s that opposed president johnson policy. First a february 1966 abc news special report that includes the testimony of the former ambassador to the soviet union. Then retired general and a chairma
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
Carrying about additional instruction for the students, teachers being undertrained, teachers been afraid of the technology you oftentimes hear nothing sufficient budget to provide any kind of the i. T. Maintenance. Heres another context with the technology we devised worked very well but did not have much impact a larger rollout. Similarly we had another project where we try to provide a kind of kiosk for women to live in bangalore to search for jobs whether employed as domestic laborers in private households. And we set a basically a terminal in which the system was designed to be without any tax so the women monitored could still navigate. And Research Pilot we were able to show the women could navigate, find jobs and so forth but we eventually found that actually getting the employers decide on this particular system and then providing the training that many of the women needed to qualify for those jobs was much, much bigger task. Here again we had working technology that addressed