Book club get started quick. It exists because of one young man who wanted to give back but go his name was glenn and was on death row in texas at the age of 16. He wrote a letter to kelly taylor and myself at the time when we were Television News producers in dc at australia broadcasting and basically said i want to stay alive and i want the world to know how many men of color are on death row. He was next ordinary person and human being. And then they became friends. She is a book lover they would read the same book and discuss it by letters. So the idea for the book club was born because after he was executed in 2000, he wanted us to work with the youth charges we started free mines just for the boys that are in the adult criminal legal system. But then the insatiable curiosity and hunger for knowledge and learning took over and young men wanted to keep it going so eventually starting 2002 and 2005 we became an official nonprofit. Host how many prisons or jails around the country qu
Im adam longo. Im jan jeffcoat. Recent gonements suggest the same group could have staged the violence in both cities, and now they are searching for more suspects. Mola lenghi has more. Reporter here at the Belgium Embassy in dc, people are stopping by the makeshift memorial, laying flowers and lighting candles, and its a haste of the outpouring of support for bell belgium. The search expands. Reporter the devastation of the bombs packed with screws and nails were of the dead remain unidentified. The shrapnel was let loose in the city. Isis claimed responsibility for the attack. Its believed the same terror cell carried out the attacks on paris last year and brussels this year. Its beginning. Its france and all over the world and now brussels, and now its never ending. That scares me. Reporter while the raids continue throughout brussels, the man hunt continues for this man whose suitcase bomb failed to properly identify at the airport a. The other two are said to be brothers. Both ha
Hours after ukrainian president s Petro Poroshenko accused russia direct and open aggression, authorities lost control of the luhansk airport. One month after Vladimir Putin called for talks on statehood for Eastern Ukraine. Al jazeera am peter sharp has more from southEastern Ukraine. 30 kilometers to the west is russia. This is russias second huge humanitarian convey, destination donetsk. The drivers of this military base tell us the drivers have yet to be cleared by the International Red cross but that didnt stop the first convoy pushing across the frontier and wont stop this either. Kiev says its not going to accept this convoy unless it goes through the red cross checks but whats clear is this convoy will roll and i think soon whether kiev likes it or not. The eu warned the kremlin on the weekend it would impose tough new sanctions within seven days unless russia curbed its issues with ukraine. There wont be a military solution in this situation. This is the view of the other eu m
All of the news of the day. I and introduce you to some of the important newsmakers of the day and most importantly, give you a chance to sound off and tell us what the issues mean to you by giving us a call at 86655press. Our interactive townhall here on current tv. I have to tell you, whether you are a union member or not, if you are a working class american, a middle class american, the republican war has declared war on you. It started in wisconsin. Is spread to ohio. It has hopped up to michigan they are out to destroy working families families, and we intend to fight back. We will get into that and you bet. A lot more. Lets get the latest. Current news update from Lisa Ferguson out in los angeles. Hi, lisa. Good morning to you. Hey, bill. Good morning to you. Good morning everyone. President obama is begin talking his fiscal cliff plans today. He will be on a Conference Call from the white house with a Bipartisan Group of mayors and Community Leaders. The group will focus on how
We cant thank all of you enough for your support of the library of congress back home. You know, we want to remind you that the library is there for you whether youre here in washington or youre at your library back home in your communities. We are the Nations Library and it is at your disposable to use any time. So if you want to look at Thomas Jeffersons collection or George Washingtons or rosa parks or Frederick Douglass collection, i could go on and on you could do it from home. Thank you to everyone who have stopped by the loc pavilion and of course everyone who stopped by our open house yesterday. We cant thank you enough your stories your work have completely inspired us from prison librarians to army librarians to of course children and youth young adult librarians. We were so inspired by all the stories. We were hearing. One thing that was spotlighted during the pandemic was the Important Role of libraries across the nation. People discover that librarians are frontline worker