Our next speaker really needs no introduction and stays on the frontline. Congresswoman ayana pressley. She is an activist, a legislator, survivor and the first woman of color to be elected to congress from the commonwealth of massachusetts. Throughout her career as a public servant, she has fought to ensure those closest to the pain are closest to the power. Prior to her being elected to congress she served on the Boston City Council for eight years and was the first woman of color elected to the council in its 100 year history. Congresswoman ayana pressley. [applause and cheers] good morning, beloveds. Today i am thinking of the ancestors, not just the ones reported in our history books, but the ones omitted from those pages. The justice seekers, the freedom riders, the organizers, community builders, anyone who passed a brown bag lunch, read a freedom song, set up a prayer. Sacrifice and selfdetermination shaped history and brought us to this moment. The truth of the matter is we ar
Hello and welcome to crossfire all things are considered im Peter Lavelle this spiral downward depending on who you believe in the media the civil unrest in america is the result of systematic racism this explains protests and rioting but it does it the commanding heights controlling the Financial System media and the Business World are loath to admit it its the economy stupid for them race always trumps. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Jason Nichols in able to consider. He is a professor of africanamerican studies and in new york we crossed to Margaret Kimberly she is the editor and senior columnist at the black gender report as well as the author of the book prejudicial black america and the president s are right process rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate ok was 1st go to margaret here in my introduction i said that race always trumps class and if you look at Mainstream Media particularly the liberal media that is the me
Cspan2. Tonight beginning at 8 00 eastern booktv features several programs with the late author and columnist William F Buckley junior. And joy booktv on cspan2. I am the director of programs and partnerships for the massachusetts political society. Our program is a look at tradition summaries. We are joined by professor Donna Harrington who will speak about books for 19thcentury publishing. She is a professor of English Communications in new rhode island, she has a degree from marymacs college and a phd from the university of illinois. As a former magazine writer and editor her Research Interests include 19thcentury culture, womens magazines and the radical alternative press. Before we begin i would like to extend a special welcome to anyone who will be joining us for the first time. If you are not familiar with the massachusetts Historical Society, we are the first Historical Society collecting and publishing and sharing our histories in 1791. An amazing collection of 14 million page
Do you remember what the significance of that year was . I know you know but for those who dont, that was the introduction of the iphone which literally changed the way we use devices with those multimedia functions and enabled and opened up several doors of opportunity for us to have this conversation today but on a regulatory front which is more in line with your questions in the 1980s the sec launched its first cell phone spectrum van and through a series of those decisions, based on that, we are now seeing that launch this Global Mobile revolution. Of course, revolutions often happen in different phases and different stages so now in terms of mobile revolution or evolution we are talking about the fifth stage in some ways but not in all communities and that is another topic for another time but the fifth wave or evolution when it comes to mobile phones and what we saw around the third wave or so is these devices becoming smaller, more nimble, less expensive and more ubiquitous so y
Congress and the in action of a president the people that have the most money are protected and now we have this horrific death of george lloyd which i think it was very i was very pleased that there was a universal virtually universal reaction to this this is this was an atrocity but that seems so long ago when we think of the of the riots and continued protests and the actions of the president here but the messages are always on race and i think thats misguided because at the end of the day this is a class issue it always is a class go ahead. You know in the in the u. S. Race determine what class one is in we can theres no clean dividing line in this country and floyds death is something that happens every day to a black person by the way every day to 3 people in this country an average of 3 People Killed by the police. And racism is a big part of that so this story begins with racism and the racism thats practiced all the time mostly against black people but i think the reaction to