And by characteristics to your pbs contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. Thank you. The immigrant experience continues to define this nation, prompting us you to examine again and again what it means to be an american. Eric liu, author of several texts on the Asian American experience has written a tone, a chinamans chance one familys journey into the American Dream, talking about the conflicts inneernt a you inherent in a you do youal cultural upbringing. I want to read a passage that i think is poignant and at the epicenter of our conversation tonight about what this text is about, what so many of us struggle with when it comes to this notion of identity in america. Certainly in a multicultural, multiethnic america. I wonder if you might read the passage starting on page 71. Sure. As americans, we have our own set of identity needs. Our own smaller hierarchies of how we are seen. Heres mine i need to be seen not as an enemy. I need to be seen not as an alien other. I
And by characteristics to your pbs contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. Thank you. The immigrant experience continues to define this nation, prompting us you to examine again and again what it means to be an american. Eric liu, author of several texts on the Asian American experience has written a tone, a chinamans chance one familys journey into the American Dream, talking about the conflicts inneernt a you inherent in a you do youal cultural upbringing. I want to read a passage that i think is poignant and at the epicenter of our conversation tonight about what this text is about, what so many of us struggle with when it comes to this notion of identity in america. Certainly in a multicultural, multiethnic america. I wonder if you might read the passage starting on page 71. Sure. As americans, we have our own set of identity needs. Our own smaller hierarchies of how we are seen. Heres mine i need to be seen not as an enemy. I need to be seen not as an alien other. I
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis june marks 50 years since the anniversary of freedom summer when civil rights workers launched an allout camp aim in mississippi to campaign in mississippi to register voters. On june 21,lled 1964. Carolyn goodman was determined to keep the legacy of her sons fight for social justice alive, a journey sure counts in a memoir that has just been published. Your enemy to talk about the impact of freedom summer is Andrew Goodmans younger brother david who is now the president of the Andrew Goodman foundation. Good to have a year. This book is now coming up with a beautiful forward by my angelo. Your mother is deceased. She wrote this book when and why is it coming out now . She started writing this book 20 years before she passed away, 2007. Was it was pretty much finished but she met brad herzog who happens to be a cornell graduate and my mother was a cornell graduate. They worked on it together. After she die
Halfway to completely eliminate hunger, and we have a lot of work to do. Walmart committed 2 billion to fighting hunger in the u. S. As we Work Together, we can stamp hunger out. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis more than a decade before civil rights activists took to the streets to challenge jim crow laws, branch rickey, general manager of the then brooklyn dodgers, and played by Harrison Ford in the movie 42, went up against a wall of segregation and brought in Jackie Roosevelt Robinson to integrate americas then all white pastime. It was a courageous move by both men. Robinson endured horrendous opposition, of course, from racially charged taunts to death threats, all the while triumphing on the field. Rickey took on the baseball establishment, defied owners, general managers, and fans. That important piece of history is front and center in 42, a movie that celebrates how rickey and robinson changed america. Before we start our convers
Is aware the government was installed through a military coup. He said there can be no dialogue until morsi returns to the presidency. The brotherhood is calling for another round of major demonstrations on thursday when a festival begins to celebrate the end of the muslim holy month of ramadan. Observers say more clashes could erupt. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry and eu Foreign Policy chief Katherine Ashton have released a joint statement expressing concern about the egypt crisis. The statement says they remain troubled that the government and opposition havent found a way to break the dangerous stalemate but kerry and ashton say they remain ready to help in any way they can. The u. S. And russia are still at loggerheads over the decision to grant fugitive Edward Snowden temporary asylum. Washington admits that decision was a factor behind the cancellation of a moscow summit between president barack obama and president vladimir putin. The oneonone meeting was supposed to take pl