day talked about the big stories of 2014, race as an american flash point came up plenty. not only in the shootings of michael brown, eric garner tamir rice and others, but the legal process and backlash that followed. more than half a century after the final vestiges of jim crow were torn down, housing, education, voting, it was illustrated again and again in in 2014 that there is more than one way to look at america. an opportunity and rights, personal safety on the streets. this was the scene earlier in december in new york city. washington, d.c. chicago, and oakland. in cities across the country people took to the streets to protest the decisions of two grand juries not to indict police officers in the deaths of two unarmed african-american men. what comes as we ve seen in recent days in our criminal justice system too many americans feel deep unfairness when it comes to the gap of professed ideals and how laws are applied on a day-to-day basis. the grand jury decis
training will remain a component of any adequate system of military security until such time as the united nations have established an international police force with adequate powers and without weakening limitations. [ applause ] . up next on american history tv, a panel of history ans talk about race relations in ferguson and develops methods about protest. they also examine how policing and the criminal justice has related to this top. the annual meeting is about two hours. good morning everybody. my name is khalil mohammed. i am filling in as your chair. thomas came down with a terrible stomach bug and is not able to be with us today. so we all will miss him terribly and i know many of you who came to see and hear tom participate in in discussion are also disappointed. but we wish him we wish him well and we will proceed in his absence. because there are a couple of housekeeping things, including a note i just received. let me get it out of the way before i forget i
just as feverishly as our public follows our contemporary celebrities. and it was given as a gift by a wealthy industrialist to an orthopedic surgeon. so you see the handle you ve been watching a preview of our weekly)j alf hour american artifacts program. visit cspan.org/history for schedule information and to view entire programs online. the deadline for the c-span student cam video competition is tuesday. so get your entries completed now. produce a five to seven-minute documentary on the theme the three branches and you for your chance to win the grand prize of $5,000. for a list of rules go to studentcam.org. up next on american history tv, a panel of his torials talk about race relations in ferguson and develops methods about protest. they also examine how policing pe=? and the criminal justice has historically related to racial conflict. this session about the association s annual meeting is about two hours.,úq?)zw good morning, everyone. my name is kh
reasons. we ask all of you to be active participants in tweeting. in tom s place, let me say something i think he might have wanted to say about the importance of race and space and the importance of the ways in which policing have defined the spaces propriety of citizenship, in the united states of america. ferguson brings us here. ferguson is just a metaphor for an ongoing history that the state forces, that the white citizens that sees white citizens and class as the defining marker for the ways in which race continues to be made in the united dates of america. that said, i want to thank jim grossman from the american historical association for encouraging panels like this that link the past, present, and future. we all know as members of this august association that the american historical association has not always been responsive to contemporary moments and sometimes has been on the wrong side of history. we want to applaud the leadership in this moment for allowing u
she s 17 years old. in 2012, she was shot in the head by a taliban gunman who boarded her school bus. she survived and continued to campaign for the rights of girls to go to school. she shares the award with kailash satyarthi, a leader in the international movement against child slavery and the exploitation of child workers. yousafzai is a pakistini muslim, satyarthi is a hindu from india. then, as tens of thousands are expected to converge in ferguson, missouri, for a weekend of protests demanding justice for michael brown, we speak with three of protests lead organizers, including st. louis rapper, tef poe. i told the police officer the other day but we were protesting, you have the guns and we don t. so the notion that you are afraid of us when you have all of the weapons in the world, is ridiculous. you can bring a tank, armored vehicles, tear gas, smoke bombs, you can bring assault rifles. all i have is this. it makes zero sense. and here in detroit, a judge has rule