Welcome to Washington Post live. Im delighted to have alecia garza with me today. She is one of the cofounders of the black lives matter and she is a leading voice on contemporary race issues, civilrights, and police reform. She also launched the black futures lab, an organization that works with advocacy groups to promote policies that support black communities. The purpose of power, was released today. So much fork you joining me and congratulations on your book. Thank you so much for having me, it is great to join you today. A i wanted to start with point that you make in your book which is the importance of controlling the narrative and to belowing your story lost to cultural amnesia. With those things in mind, what was it that sparked the idea for you to sit down and write what is really a memoir at your ripe young age . [laughter] you know, i was skeptical of trying to write a memoir. And i think you are right that there is still a lot of life left. To me, part of why i was inspi
Good afternoon i am the president Bookings Institution is my sincere pleasure to welcome you to todays event celebrating our brookings fellow release of his new book. Know your face. Roughly 104 year history we have taken powerful positions on issues of race and equality and civil rights these matters stand at the top since becoming president i have made this a president ial priority both personally and for the institution that only has there an obligation then to study these issues but also our responsibility of the organization as well that we examine race and policy not just because were capable of impact and committed to the cap public good but based on washington dc our Nations Capital as a city of politics but also great adversity and history of the roughly 700,000 residents that call the city home nearly half are black america. Walking past such sites as the Lincoln Memorial in the immortal words of doctor mlk i have a dream speech a wonderful place to live and work we at brooki
Election 1976, a case study. Your host is political analyst richard scannan. With me here in washington today are mr. Steven hess of the Bookings Institution and professor Howard Penniman of georgetown university. Now, this is the first of a series of programs that are going to extend over the full period of the campaign until beyond the election in november in our bicentennial political year. What we want to do is to bring a picture of the american electoral process. We will have special programs dealing with the parties and the media, and the campaign technique and polling and the rest. But what we are really aiming to do is to give you a picture of the way in which we select our american president. And how 215 or 220 million americans can provide every four years a process by which leadership can be developed and transferred over these 200 years of American History. Who what we hope to do is bring you discussions of these various aspects of the Electoral Campaign and begin that disc
Alphabet. We will have details. Wework went from one of the most anticipated ipos to a floundering Coworking Company just trying to survive. We will look at what it faces in the new year. But first, our top story. Bloomberg was the first to report the iphone maker has a secret team working on a satellite technology, striving to find new ways to beam data directly to its devices. This is all according to people familiar with the matter. The company has about a dozen engineers from the aerospace satellite, and antenna Design Industries working on the project with the goal of deploying their results within five years. For more, i want to bring in bloomberg technologys mark gurman. What do we know so far . It is topsecret. It is operating like a startup in apple. It has the right funding. It has the ear of tim cook. It has a bunch of Aerospace Engineers and executives working on a plan to let iphones and other apple devices receive their data directly from apple developed antenna towers, s
From the university of notre dame, this is an hour and a half. [applause] my name is maggie garnet. It is my privilege to introduce erythroid guests today for what i am confident will be an energized discussion and debate. Introduction has no implicit meaning. No tweets necessary. Ahmari has been an editor with the wall street journal and opinion pages in london. His spiritual memoir about his conversion to roman catholicism was published by Nations Press this year. It is our privilege to invite him to the Catholic Disney world here in disney notre dame. Is a best selling author. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School. He is also a former lecturer at cornell law school. He has served as senior counsel for the Alliance Defending freedom. Finally, dr. Charles kessler. Kesler. Of americanlar constitutionalism and the intellectual history of american conservatism. He is the author of i and the change, barack obama and the crisis of liberalism. The bestselling addition in the country. Editi