Moment. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Jennifer brea was an active harvard phd student that was about to marry the love of her life when she was struck down by a Chronic Fatigue syndrome, the film, called unrest. Welcome this evening, and omar wasow will be here as well. First, the clip from the documentary unrest. That is my husband, omar. I met him when i was 25. We were both at harvard. Getting our phds. Three months later, i knew i wanted to marry him. I mean sure, we all know nothing lasts forever. I just thought i would have more time. And then one day i got a fever of 104. 7 degrees. I got better, but something was not right. Jennifer, take me back to that day and tell me more about what happened. So we had been traveling together and i came back and had a really high fever. And i thought it was just the flu. I had been sick before so i expected i would get better. And when my fever broke i was so dizzy when i tried to get up out of be
And p by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. So pleased to welcome Jason Mitchell and writer director dee rees to the program. The film mud bound as the stars go home to cope with post war. Here is a clip from mudbound. Go on, son. We dont want know trouble here. Twhen weapon was overseas,in they didnt make us use the backdoor. General patton put us on the front line. Yes, sir. You know what we did . We kicked the hell out of hitler and them japs. You are home safe and sound. So and i were whispering before we came on camera here about the fact there is there is a presis tant narrative in the black community. And i actually understand it and i am not sure that i disagree with it. Given what hollywood has done over the last 20 years or so. But there is a narrative that black people buy into that hollywood has given us too many slave movies. When you see a trailer, you have to be careful to try to decipher, is it a slave movie or a movie in a particular er
Amy that was donald trump months ago. We will speak with pittsburgh s there is one city that the president can point to that would represent with that city is, it is pittsburgh. We have exceeded what we have promised in the Paris Agreement and that is been happening throughout this country, throughout the United States. Amy and we will talk with Virginia Governor terry mcauliffe. I am here because we need to send a message to the world. Or yet would donald trump says, that were serious about Climate Change. Im the governor of virginia and went trump moved out of the paris climate agreement allows the first governor to come out and say were going to do it ourselves. Amy Virginia Governor Tim Mcauliffe about the climate and the Political Climate in his regime and socialist a transgender woman have just one race is or public office. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In zimbabwe, longtime leader Robert M
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Im not just pleased or honored. I am always tickled with marilyn and alan bergman come to this program. This month was the World Premiere of their latest project different kind of memories, a new take of many classic songs and stars tyne daly and robert forester. Here is a highlight from tyne in the project. Running away could lead you further astray and for fishing in streams for pieces of dreams those pieces will never fit what is the sense of it little boy so a little birdie told me its already been extended because the tickets are so hot. Yeah thats what they tell us. How cool is that . Yeah, really cool. Let me shut up for a second and i will let the two of you explain what this is. Im dying to see it. What is it exactly . Well, its a play a play with music. Its not a musical. Its a different kind of musical. That is what they are calling it. Yeah. Many of the songs, songs that occurred to the characters th
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. I am pleased to welcome my friend, threetime grammy winner w , wyclef jean. And his latest album, carnival iii the fall and rise of a refugee. And now the single borrowed time. Were on borrowed time we cant waste no time these are the days of our life when we will fall just so we can rise just so we can rise not only is that a great track, but thats a great story behind how that track came to be. Tell the story. Yeah. Well, i wanted to say what up to you, man . Good to see you for a minute. One of the greatest minds of our generation. Get out of here. I want to talk about what happened since i last saw you in march. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Youre running with the cops. Yeah, yeah. Well come back to that. The back story here. You know, so i get a colin powell a call from apple music and nassau. The idea was there was a shuttle called juno, and the shuttle would go to jupiter, record sounds and bring back to earth. The i