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his historic program and event. we just completed a film festival showing i am not your negro and our particular guest and keynote speaker spoke about that particular film. since she is a biographer for james baldwin. his voice is very significant to detroit. he is a founder of metro times but has had deep experience in terms of launching the black study department at wane state university. herb in many ways is like malcolm-x having foots in harlem and detroit. we are very happy to have him and dr. rita kiki edozie here today. i would like to give you background on dr. edozie. she is the former director of studies at michigan university and professor of african-american relations and african affairs. she has written seven books. five in print and two forthcoming and several journal articles and book chapters on research topics that include the comparative politics and international relationships of africa, global development, and pan-african and diasper studies. her r ....
self-determination. .. host: author herb boyd with us on this independence day weekend. professor boyd, what is july 4 me deal? guest: it means the same thing what it meant to frederick douglass, you know. while you can have the general celebration and everything, we have a different perspective from the african-american community. this was a long history to understand exactly the distinction in terms of the celebration for one community and the kind of lack of observers on the other part of the community. what does it mean to people who history of segregation. you have to understand the kind of sensitivity that might be distinct from one community to another. obviously we start talking about this history of this country and the role of african-americans in terms of providing that celebration, that is a whole another question because we have been in the forefront of the so-called battle for freedom and justice and liberty in this country from day one. from day one!g ....
introduce you, and this is really a fun one, to the southern avenger. a wild and wacky character who thinks poor john wilkes booth was misunderstood and happens to work for a united states senator. that is coming up. first tonight, democrats have said enough and are calling attention to one of the most outrageous acts of gop obstructionism which is, of course, saying a lot given the stiff competition in the cat fwoir of outrageous acts of gop obstruction. by refusing to confirm the president s nominees, republicans have effectively shut down the supreme court of labor law in this country. the national labor relations board. and today 201 house members sent a letter to senator mitch mcconnell demanding that the filibuster of nlrb nominations come to an end. without the nlrb, 80 million private sector workers will have nowhere to turn for legal protection. hardworking americans deserve better than mitch mcconnell s political stunts. a pillar of american justice is i ....
category of outrageous acts of gop obstruction. by refusing to confirm the president s nominees, republicans have effectively shut down the supreme court of labor law in this country. the national labor relations board. and today 201 house members sent a letter to senator mitch mcconnell demanding that the filibuster of nlrb nominations come to an end. without the nlrb, 80 million private sector workers will have nowhere to turn for legal protection. hardworking americans deserve better than mitch mcconnell s political stunts. a pillar of american justice is if you don t have a remedy then you don t have meaningful rights. our republican colleagues treat labor rights as toxic. they re wrong. if you don t have a remedy, you don t have meaningful rights. supreme court of labor law, the nlrb has been inoperable for a year and a half. it s really astounding. i mean, think about just turning off the supreme court for a year and a half. all those big decisions that ca ....
period of time the fcc should look at its good faith authority in the communications act and help to do something about it. you also asked though do i think these will occur with more more frequency? the honest answer is they are getting more attention right now because the number of plot arms we can use to watch video is expanding. the issue of digital rights for programmers can access those different platforms is much more complicated than it used to be but it s also really good for consumers. we no longer are limited to just watching television sitting on yourself in the living room. you can have all the screens in all these digital platforms around you when you can watch programming content so i think that s one of the sources of making this dispute so heated. host: jessica rosenworcel is the new member of the fcc and howard buskirk is the executive senior at medicatiomedicatio ns daily and this has been the communicators on c-span. mr. president, president ob ....