Miles davis and lena horne, generation africanamericans who found success in their respective fields during the start of a broader Civil Rights Movement. Wil haygood discusses his book with dave cybercom sports columnist for the nation magazine and author of a peoples history of sports in the United States. Host welcome to after words. I am days island, the Sports Editor for the nation magazine and an absolutely thrilled to be interviewing a man who has written a tremendous biography about the greatest out for pound boxer of the 20th century. That boxers name is walker smith, jr. , better known as Sugar Ray Robinson. And the author is will haywood. Will come how are you doing . Guest good to be here. Host great to have you. I really do think this book is worthy of sugar sugar ray robi. Instruments achieve it so congratulations right away trade to thank you. Host you are not a sports biographer of by trade. Guest right. Host why did you decide to spend five years of your life writing th
1921, 1985 right reason, through his entire series through his latest collection of speeches, let us talk of many things throughout the end of this month. The next three hours mr. Buckley joins to take your calls and questions as we explore his life and writing and politics. Welcome. Thank you very much. This is old and musty. This is what, 49 years old. Yes came out in 1951. He had supposed i calculated to come out on the 250th anniversary and i was coincidental. The picture on the back you remember that . No. What is in the book. The book was an examination from yale was given to the impulses and the closest to which he was exposed having to do with government. It was enthusiasm for government or enthusiasm for lesser government. And also in respect to religion. And what was encouraged with religion that has touched. Faith or skepticism. I concluded in the collective this of impulses and retrospect to the other, should i rattle on or do you want to . I was going to say and became par
Exhibit that began at the New York Historical society and has traveled here, and it was a real pleasure to work on that, and i hope that you all get a chance to see it. Its an interesting exhibit. Today im going to talk a bit about my current research, which, as camille said, is about how the u. S. Army as an institution was trying to manage a crisis that its leaders perceived during the war in vietnam, a crisis around race. And as i imagine almost all of you know, the u. S. War in vietnam was the first major conflict that the United States fought from the beginning with an integrated armed force, with a racially integrated armed force. And for much of that war, that process was treated as a great success. And in combat, it almost without exception was. But by the end of the 1960s, army leaders were talking about the war within the war and trying to figure out how to manage a racial crisis that they saw as starting to tear the army apart. So, my research right now is trying to think ab
Current research, which, as camille said, is how the u. S. Army as an institution was trying to manage a crisis that its leaders perceived during the war in vietnam, a crisis around race. As i imagined almost all of you know, the u. S. War in vietnam was the first major conflict that the United States thoughts from the beginning was a a racially integrated armed force. Through much of the war, the process was treated as a great success. In combat, it almost without exception was. But by the end of the 1960s, army leaders were talking about the war within the war and trying to figure out how to manage a racial crisis that they saw as starting to tear the army apart. My research right now is trying to think about how this massive institution tried to manage a racial crisis. I look at the theories of series of actions the army took, a whole variety of actions that range from the predictable actions of education and training, to an emphasis on cultural sensitivity, to visible leadership an
Down in south Koreas Capital after a surge in new infections is going to party goers. And volunteers in spain paul out there sewing machines to ease the shortage of protective equipment to. Install the return of the ultimate fighting championship its a bump as one of its fighters test positive for corona virus but the comeback event in florida still goes ahead behind closed doors. We begin in libya where forces loyal to war also before have to have 5 at least 80 rockets into tripolis only functioning airport its believed a civilian plane on the tarmac of airport was hit one person has been killed after us forces had targeted some residential areas in the capital close to the turkish and italian embassies. In this story lets bring in Mahmoud Abdulla why have you in tripoli a man who weve seen over the last few days half the forces intensifying shelling on the airport and civilian areas on embassies are they advancing towards the capital. Will they are not advancing at all. In fact they