You are looking at the National Museum of African American history and culture on the mall in washington dc. It is the newest smithsonian museum. It welcomed its one millionth visitor this week. We will take you inside the Museum Gallery for a look at the stories at artifacts that chronicle the africanamerican experience and tell a shared american story. We will be live for the next 2. 5 hours. We will be taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts. We are joined with judge Robert Wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. He is the author of the book long road to hard truth, the 100 year mission to create the National Museum of African American history and culture. Talk of this museum began back in 1916. It took a century to be built. Walk us through the process. Judge wilkins in early 1916, a gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee created a nonprofit called the National Memorial association. Its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the Nations Capital to honor the co
For Boston Public Schools to revise its Exam School Admissions policy so that boston latin, the crown jewel of make sure Education System here is more representative of this great stiff. The Lawyers Committee has also chimed in on ballot issue two in the up examining election. To tell us more abtheir positions weve invited ivan espinozamadrigal, connective director for Lawyers Committee for civil rightsnd matt cregor. He is the education project director for the lawyers completely gentleman, weather headline to urban update. Thanks for coming in. Maybe can i start with you, i van. Lets begin with the current situation. Give our viewers a beep synonymous of where he stand at boston latin. Well townships events at boston latin which have been dominating the air waves from time to time now started back africanamerican students congressmen commented on their experience, and if fact that School Officials were not really taking the complaints seriously, byron. And so once this information go
Good afternoon, im steve mills, reporter the talk tribune tied we talk about prison, the astounding growth of the prison population in america and the roll prisons play in society and how that might change in the future mitchell guests are Baz Dreisinger and Elizabeth Hinton. Baz is the author of incarceration nation a she visited prisons in Nine Countries to better understand our attitudes towards crime, punishment and incarceration. A professor at john j. College in new york, baz is also a journalist, film and radio producer and a prison rights activist. The founds the prison to College Pipeline program which provides inmates access to College Course cozy college when theyre released. To my far right is Elizabeth Hinton asian assistant professor of history and africanamerican studies at harvard university. Her Research Focus us on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the 20th 20th century united states. She is the author or from the war of poverty to the war on crime.
Railroad town, earning it the nickname pub city. Today this southcentral Mississippi City is best known as the home of the university of southern minute southern mississippi and camp shelby, one of the countrys largest Training Bases. With the help of our comcast training partners, over the next hour here how they became a center for the Civil Rights Movement. Instance, weg, for had registration. Africanamericans could not register. Everything was still segregated. A lot of the businesses, restaurants, and hotels were still under these kind of old jim crow laws. Later, the story of a hattiesburg washerwoman who saved her lifes earnings and then gave it all away. She started out by boiling clothes and a big tub in the house. She would wash them, she would hang them up to dry, and when she ironed them she would put them out there as well. She started out by charging a dime, if you can believe that. From a dime i guess she went to a quarter and then maybe up to . 50 and a dollar. What was
Pleasure to welcome you to this particular conversation this evening. The center for arts and culture teams up with the new press for pushout the criminalization of black girls in schools. This conversation is deeply meaningful to restoration and the press as we share the marginalized voices and stories. We want to thank diane and the new team for their incredible partnership in tonights conversation. Thank you so much. A round of applause. [applause] i also want to note books are for sale following the conversation to my left and youre right. Gloria steinem asked to this writer and journalist wrote about pushout, if you ever doubted that the supremacy crime, those devoted to maintaining hierarchy are rooted in both race and sex, read pushout. She tells us how the schools are crushing the spirit and talent this country needs. Guiding us through tonights conversation of cheryl harris, executive director of Field Support from new york schools she will be speaking with the author doctor M