To be doing inperson eventuals until 2021 which is a bummer but we want to be real and safe and smart. Well keep bringing you interesting conversations with authors; so we have everything from wonderful event coming up in october with layla a conversation you tent want to miss dont want to miss. Everything from that to a conversation with matthew mcconathy. If thats not a wide ranging list of events witness ill be quite a fall. Follow our events on magic city books. Com. Tonight im so thrilled to have a conversation with mychal denzel smith. A book that was seems like written for the moment were living in, although books are written planned quite a bit before their published and printed but stereotype wed have these he prescient minds that are tapped into what is going on, and so especially for us here in tulsa and everything thats been happening in our community, 2021 is going to be such an important year for our community as well. Stakes is high. We had an event with just one of my f
President ial debates on American History tv on cspan3. The Senate Judiciary subcommittee on intellectual property held a hearing on u. S. Copy right law and the 1998 copy right act which says when hosts must remove pirated content. This hearing will come to order turn your microphone. This hearing will come to order. While im disappointed we cant be together in person today, im grateful to chairman graham and Ranking Member feinstein and our clerk for facilitating todays hearing through webex. I want to make clear that this hearing is no way distracting from the full committee and my personal work on other pressing issues facing our nation. Congress must address issues of Police Brutality and the horrific circumstances that led to the murder of george floyd and the senseless deaths of so many of our africanamerican brothers and sisters. Thats why im grateful to chairman graham and Ranking Member feinstein for agreeing to hold a full Committee Hearing on policing in america and i will
Racism and policing, and the role of Police Unions. Come to order. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning and thank you to everyone for being here for this important briefing. Black lives matter. I cant breathe. Hands up, dont shoot. No justice, no peace. These powerful phrases are rallying cries for fair minded americans seeking to live up to one of this countrys core principles. Equal justice under the law. Since our nations founding, africanamericans have struggled, fought and died for the right to be free and equal citizens. This month marks 99 years since the tulsa race massacre, where an entire, vibrant community was destroyed and black men, women and children were systemically murdered. Today is juneteenth. A holiday that celebrate s the freedom of black people in america. That freedom did not come until 1865. Two and a half years after president lincoln abolished slavery. We are still working for freedom and we are still working to provide equal opportuni
Additional funding is provided by. Corpore funding is provided by. Welcome back to firing line, leader abrams. Thank you for having me. So since you were first on firing line in january of 2019,d you delivee democratic response to the state of the union. You decided not to runun for thed states senate. And you have focused on fair fight, which is yourvo ng rights group. Youve also written another book, our time is now. You are widely rumored to be on the short list to become joe bidens Vice President ial nominee. An to get to all of that. But first, a man from your city, Rayshard Brooks, is dead after being shot in the back by police. This happened very near and a member of hily district. Said, i thought atlanta was higher than that. I thought we were bigger than that. Did you think atlanta was higher than that and bigger than that . I think the challenge is what is america . Because what has happened in atlanta, what happened in louisvill what happened in minneapolis, what has happene
Battle stations. That is what plays me everyone goes to their battle stations. Immediately people go well once again another example of blacker people resisting the cops and being criminals and why are you driving drunk and why are you running away from the police. And then of course you have other people, you know, in their battle stations saying of course, another story of cops who immediately shoot a black man for just sleeping in his car. But like, it is messy. No one wants to admit that the thing is messy. Its [bleep] messy. If the story didnt happen now, maybe we would be looking at it differently. But it is a messy story. It is not the per sphect perfect story. And in a weird way it not being the perfect story means we shouldnt look at it in the most perfect way possible. We should try and break it down and understand how Something Like this comes to be. Because we dont always have video like this, we dont always have stories like this. We dont always even look at it like. This