Monuments. This is in washington d. C. And they hosted the event and provided the video. I am pleased to introduce todays discussion, during the last several years, how we remember and memorialize the civil war has been a topic in the United States and we have seen a renewed interest in these conversations in the recent weeks. At this site of Political Violence and national memory, we see our work as looking not only to the actions of the past but also how the passed informs to these circumstances throughout the country and the world, people raise questions about the purposes of the leaders who supported or profited from slavery, whether in richmond, boston, or birmingham, monuments and statues have become a flashpoint for the black lives matter movement. Since 2015, ford has held an annual Summer Institute set in stone, memory, monument, and myths that has explored questions of remembrance and memorialization. Each year, we find the spring has brought new and urgent crises that requir
Spending Federal Reserve governor bernard said that the recovery remains highly uneven and without government funding our Government Spending long standing disparities in the economy and labor market could make matters worse in prepared remarks to an online conference bernard said premature withdrawal of fiscal support would risk allowing recessionary dynamics to become entrenched Holding Back Employment and spending increasing scarring from extended unemployment spells leaving more businesses to shutter and ultimately harming productive capacity last month Photo Officials said they plan to keep Interest Rates near 0 until the labor market has recovered while keeping inflation at a 2 percent for more on this and the overall state of the economy were joined by boom cohost christine and host of economic update and author of understanding socialism professor Richard Wolffe professor we have now heard from bernard from from powell that more stimulus is needed in order to continue this reco
Live now to hearing on White Supremacists infiltration of Police Department. The House Oversight and reform subcommittee on civil rights and Civil Liberties is hosting. This is live coverage on cspan2. Good morning to the chair of the committee, ms. Maloney has joined us. Good morning to our Ranking Member mr. Roys whos with us and good morning to the vice chair and all of our wonderful members who joined us. I want to take a moment to extend a special welcome to rashida to leave of michigan come to our subcommittee. This is her first hearing with our subcommittee and were delighted to have her choice. Welcome, ms. Tlaib. I wanted show a video to set the stage. Please play the video. White supremacy permeates every corner of society and our institution. Please agencies to the fbi to department of justice, all of them. The Southern Poverty Law Center combover is engaged in those groups wherever that might lead. We have outed a number of Law Enforcement officers who have connections to w
I will be your moderator for todays debate against senator ben sasse and democrat chris janicek. Follow on social media. Find us on facebook and twitter. And at the nesen. We welcome those watching nationwide on cspan tonight. The next hour, the candidates will face questions from nebraska journalists. The rules are fairly simple. Each candidate will have three minutes to respond to the question with 32nd rebuttals if needed. Onwill begin with questions domestic policy and transition to Foreign Policy. Before the debate, we held simple coin tosses to determine the order of different parts of the debate. As a result, the first candidate to present an opening candidate is mr. Janicek. Ready to go. I am going to start off with a personal story. Me, andry personal to it is the reason i am in this race. My father died of a heart attack when he was 54 years old. His father, my grandfather, died of a heart attack when he was 58 years old. My greatgrandfather dropped dead at age 60. When i tur
Welcome. My name is Vivian Schiller and the executive director of aspen digital of the Aspen Institute program really glad you could be with us today. The York Times Bestseller list can often seem to be a near untimely or of the national psyche. As such this year seems to reflect a nation going through and awaking of matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists. Both fiction and nonfiction prayed that is the good news. Sadly, the Publishing Industry does not necessarily always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest has back publishing paid and exposed a major pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. There are few people of color who serve as publishing staff or literary agents. And even fewer who operate as decisionmaking levels. And for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure coming sub optimal. This year, of National Reckoning on racism, we can take a look at the boo