2020. we hear the same. thing that s a huge so effectively in the propaganda what was everybody what was the world who could see that who could hear that and yet did it mean nothing to say. that it s. also coming up tonight morning mamba the former l.a. lakers superstar kobe bryant his untimely death has triggered an outpouring of emotions beyond the basketball court beyond borders. on a bigger than basketball i.q. reached. more than a man seems. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day when the largest death. camp in nazi germany s killing machine was finally shut down when the measure of a perverse productivity ceased to be the amount of human ashes smokestacks spewed into the sky 75 years ago today soviet soldiers arrived at and liberated the auschwitz death camp in what had been nazi occupied poland for some 1300000 men women and children most of them jews the red army arrived too late for those who survived wife it w
distinguished socialist mitch duneier. i am a former professor at the john hopkins university up the street. my baltimore connection. as a school i take delight in books which were painstakingly researched and keen interpretation, help me understand a complex continue or phenomenon with greater clarity. the book ghetto is just such a book. i had the opportunity to teach get to in my last semester at hopkins in 2016 with the professor of history and director of jewish studies. ken and i were impressed with the manner which the professor discussed the conflict of the ghetto. and i don t mean the context of jewish and black communes, and also how the concept itself and its application has shifted over time and n both the poplar? scholarly imagination. we re not alone in our admiration for ghetto. wrote an important review recently in new york times that the professor has provided a, quote, stunningly detailed and timely survey of the ghetto as concept and phenomenon. o
as a scholar who painstakingly served the interpretation helped me understand the complex topic or phenomena in greater clarity. the invention of a place and idea is just such a book. i had the opportunity in 2016 with the professor of history and studies. both were impressed with the manner of which bottle me the context of the black communities ranging to the southside of chicago after world war ii but also how the concept itself in its application has shifted over time in the popular and scholarly imagination. we are not alone in our affirmation for ghetto. here the director for research. the professor has provided a detailed and timely survey in the phenomena. the professor insists we need a consequence of people specifically blacks and jews with their own choosing for the structure for success both inside or outside the ghetto while at the same time helping produce the inequality for the everyday observers. they solidify earlier the care career. they examined the institu
in battle-worn cities throughout europe and japan to the creation of the united nations and the continued rise of communism in the soviet union and china. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. in buruma, the henry r. ruth professor of journalism was educated in japan. he s won several awards for his work. the publications he writes for include the new york review of books, the new yorker, the new york times, nrc, and the guardian, which recently published his iley-learn iley-learned review of the book. among his previous books are taming the gods, murder in amsterdam, and inventing japan: 1863-1964. in year zero, most of which he wrote while he was a fellow at the common center in 2011- 12 to the serious envy of his fellow fellows that he was so ructive, he s productive, he s produced a brilliant or trail of the world emerging from the unspeakable horrors of world wor ii in europe and asia. he wanted to know, he writes, what those who lived through the war a
stories i came across of the person who actually took the photograph. he was a white southern photographer and it was during the sit-ins that he actually had a change of heart. he was a segregationist when he walked into that woolworths and he was an integrationist when he walked out because he saw the quiet dignity of the demonstrators against the mob mentality of his friend and neighbors. and he realized that segregation could no longer rule. it was a very powerful story. that s what we had in the book. you also mentioned medgar evers. how much did you get into his murder and the investigation? well we start the book with his story. call it, medgar s mississippi. we paint the picture what mississippi was like at that time. what it was like for somebody like medgar to come back for the war where he fought for freedom in his country and not be able to experience it himself. so his story is is really woven throughout and of course with his assassination which is part of th