How are we culture he . On rosa parks 101st day, her birthday, the author explores the question of rosa parks. What was behind that . Those that know her. What is the price paid for having done something . Dr. Jeanne theoharis answers some of those questions and she writes it in her new book the rebellious life of mrs. Rosa parks. Jeanne theoharis was born in Staten Island six weeks ago and her family moved to milwaukee, wisconsin, where she was raised. She held the first chair in womans studies and as professor of science at boca raton college, she is also cofounder of educators for civil liberty. She is the author of numerous books on the Civilrights Movement and the politics of race in the United States including as coauthor of schools suck students talk back to the segregated nation and its failures of segregated schools. Jeanne theoharis received her ab in afroamerican studies from Harvard College and ph. D. In American Culture from the university of michigan. She is author or coa
Its an embarrassment of riches, and we must thank the city of Savannah Department of cultural affairs, festival upon spores, members, and individual donors for their support. It is because of them that we are able to bring you these esteemed authors for free. If you enjoyed todays speakers and would like to make a donation to the festival, weve provided yellow buckets at the door when you exit. Please consider giving to our bucket list for next years gifted scribes. Before we get started, i just have a couple of housekeeping notes for you. Please take a moment to silence your cell phones. I had to do that myself. Okay. Immediately following his presentation, mr. Gore will be signing copies of his book. Please go to the Fellowship Hall which is located directly behind the pulpit, and you go out the doors and around, and a right turn as you enter the exit the sanctuary. Theres volunteers outside to direct you. Mr. Gore will be able to sign 400 books, and you must have the numbered card t
Obama has gotten 300 of his judicial nominees confirmed. 300. At the same point in his presidency, george w. Bush got through 35 fewer confirmations than obama to this point. Progress is being made to clear that. We know what to thank for that, right . In november of last year, harry reid triggered the socalled Nuclear Option. He did away with filibusters on most nominations and made it impossible for members of the Minority Party to block the nominations. No more 60 votes. Thats the idea, anyway. But the Nuclear Option didnt fix everything, either. Theres still something called the blue slip. For a nominee to get a confirmation, both senators from that nominee state must sign off on it. They have to submit a blue slip consenting to the nominee getting a hearing. If they dont, the nomination dies. The blue slip is an old Senate Tradition but the rules of it have changed over the years. When republicans controlled the white house under george w. Bush, they did away with it and democrats
Nigeria rescue those girls. So far some 50 advisors are there and the u. S. Is flying intelligence flights over parts of that country. The former Deputy Director of the cia Counterterrorism Center knows exactly what it means to use u. S. Intelligence in terror hot spots and phil mudd is here this morning a Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs committee convening next weeks hearing is elliot engel. I want to play sound from highRanking Members of congress about the u. S. Role in the crisis. I would like to see special forces deployed to help rescue these young girls. If the president decided to use special forces, i certainly would not oppose them. I would utilize every tool that we have to rescue these young girls. And that means it would be done surgically, it could be done in a way that is very efficient. But for us not to do that, in my view, would be an obligation of our responsibilities. A lot of tough talk from your colleagues. Do you buy into what you just heard . Youre h
Been taken out in his first term. Well tell you what else the butler said. Good evening, jim. Were hearing the word unity a lot today but no paul ryan endorsement yet so whats the holdup here . Its always a little hard to close the deal on the first date. The holdup is donald trump still has to win over paul ryan if he wants the speakers endorsement. Ryan said he liked Donald Trumps penalty today but he wants to know his policies a little better and trump and ryan are as far apart as they can be on issues like Social Security and trade. Heres what ryan had to say. I was encouraged with what i heard from donald trump today. I do believe we are now planting the seeds to get ourselves unified, to bridge the gaps and differences and its very important that we dont fake unifying, we dont pretend unification, that we truly and actually unify so that we are full strengthin thefall. I dont want us to have a fake unification process here. I want to make sure we really, truly understand each ot