discussed. this is 35 minutes. [background chatter] good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us. can you hear me? i am kimberly cline, president of long island university. it is fitting that we are here today in the first amendment lounge of the national press club that is truly representative of the mission of the polk awards. we have so much to be proud of at long island university, from our elite experiential learning programs to our world-class faculty and teachers throughout our university, from the vibrant heart of brooklyn to the 322-acre campus on long island s gulf coast area one of the longest lasting and proudest honors is to serve as the home of the george polk awards. this year we commemorate our 70th anniversary of the murder of george polk, who played paid the ultimate price for reporting truth during the greek civil war as a cbs news correspondent. long island university created a journalism award in 1949 to carry on george polk s legacy. and for 69 y
coates written to his teenage son. it is released after nine churchgoers are killed in south carolina and the horrifying death of sandra bland, a 28-year-old african-american woman in texas who was pulled over for not signaling a lane change. in video of her arrest and officer commands are to get out of her car or he would light her up. he welcomed the nation s marking the first anniversary of the police killings of eric garner in michael brown and michael brown. after baltimore erupted in protest over the death of freddie gray in police custody. even for those of us who escaped those neighborhoods, even those who are able to live in better places, the threat never quite leaves us. once we are no longer afraid of the neighborhood, it turns out we actually have to have some fear of the very people we pay taxes to to protect us. amy: ta-nehisi coates for the hour. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy go
bodies. how afraid we are for our children. how afraid we are for our loved ones on a daily basis. amy: between the world and me. that s the title of the explosive new book i ta-nehisi coates written to his teenage son. it is released after nine churchgoers are killed in south carolina and the horrifying death of sandra bland, a 28-year-old african-american woman in texas who was pulled over for not signaling a lane change. in video of her arrest and officer commands are to get out of her car or he would light her up. he welcomed the nation s marking the first anniversary of the police killings of eric garner in michael brown and michael brown. after baltimore erupted in protest over the death of freddie gray in police custody. even for those of us who escaped those neighborhoods, even those who are able to live in better places, the threat never quite leaves us. once we are no longer afraid of the neighborhood, it turns out we actually have to have some fear of the ver
bodies. how afraid we are for our children. how afraid we are for our loved ones on a daily basis. amy: between the world and me. that s the title of the explosive new book i ta-nehisi coates written to his teenage son. it is released after nine churchgoers are killed in south carolina and the horrifying death of sandra bland, a 28-year-old african-american woman in texas who was pulled over for not signaling a lane change. in video of her arrest and officer commands are to get out of her car or he would light her up. he welcomed the nation s marking the first anniversary of the police killings of eric garner in michael brown and michael brown. after baltimore erupted in protest over the death of freddie gray in police custody. even for those of us who escaped those neighborhoods, even those who are able to live in better places, the threat never quite leaves us. once we are no longer afraid of the neighborhood, it turns out we actually have to have some fear of the ver
young children of either gender so in the all voluntary military, this is a new thing where we have these children at home where these parents are doing multiple lengthy deployments. when i finish talking, desma took the microphone and said i just want to add something to that. she said, i am earned a lot of money during my deployment. i got combat pay and i chose to enlist and i chose to fulfill those orders. i appreciated having that opportunity to earn that money. i earned a lot more money doing this than i was making as a waitress at a truck stop, and i wouldn t want my experience used in a way that would deny anybody else the same economic opportunity. and so, she was essentially saying, you how in thorpe the author of this book might think it s not a great thing deploy a single mom, but that s easy for you to say because you weren t trying to raise my children on what i was earning. she told me later that she thought i was uppity, i think she meant upper class. [laughte