Speaking to audiences in all 50 states, to colleges, unity groups, companies and government agencies. The list goes on. Also help provide methods of dismantling racial inequity in the institutions. He appears to regulate on cnn and msnbc as well as other Media Outlets to discuss race issues and is the author of nine books including his latest, dispatches from the race war. We are so excited to partner with city lights books to launch that book here today and it just a moment well get to hear from tim nccic to questions about the book and our world right now. So please join me in welcoming tim wise. Hey, tim. Congratulations on your new book in thank you for joining us. Thanks for putting this together and doing all the legwork on it. I just show up in my Office Package really sort of easy. My part of this is really and i want to say i only say this at the outset of these, my Technological Prowess sort of ended with atari. Theres like every possibility that im going to knock the compute
She is the henry rogers professor of African American studies and greed of writing at Rutgers University new york and a contributing critic at large for the new york times. And like some of you, i have received a very special gift come the expense of being her student. She said dear mentor and beloved friend now nearly for two decades. I am beyond proud and grateful to say a few words to mark this special occasion. I first met salamishah winners just out of college and she was in the process of finishing her dissertation. It is fitting we spent much of our early time getting to know each other in a library on the second floor. At the time i didnt yet know how libraries and books have helped shape her journey. I found that out later, that when she was just out of college and at the same life juncture i was that when we met, she worked at the free library of philadelphia with her sister and with her now partner, solomon. So this event tonight at the free library of philadelphia is a home
But two democratic seniors represents less than 3 of the u. S. Population are blocking those policies supported by a whopping 62 of americans. Are we going to deliver universal prek to this country or fought . Are we going to expand healthcare to our seniors and dental or not . Are we going to invest in housing so that people back home on night shift can get hot water in winter time or not . Thats what we need to know. I know which are all committed to the same goal. Are you all committed to the same goal, though . As this country awaits the outcome of this vote, senator sinema flew home to arizona friday for a doctors appointment and a fundraiser at a highend resort and spa so while shes making it rain in the desert, the peoples patience has just about dried up. Not to be forgotten, the republicans here they plan to vote in the senate against the countrys debt ceiling. Eventually, this will help us default on our loans. We in the country dont know what happens if we default on our deb
Expanded medicaid, and measures to combat Climate Change which House Speaker nancy pelosi says is just not ready for a vote yet even though she had previously promised the two deals would be linked. That Test Standoff at this hour. Speaker pelosi saying shes still shooting for a vote on infrastructure sometime today even though there is a little bit of doubt it has votes to pass. Let me remind everybody how wildly popular both measures are among all voters. In a recent pew poll, supporters have a 31point advantage over opponents. A poll from show nearly two thirds of likely voters support the legislation. Over at fox news their numbers show 62 of all voters support this Infrastructure Bill. Also the vast majority of americans support the socalled social Spending Bill that progressives rallied around as well. The New York Times writes this about it, quote, the president and Top Democrats appeared as far as ever from an agreement but there is a darker reality looming that the picture of
who invented the birth-control pill or how we got it and i became curious. it struck me as odd that anybody would have on their agenda in the 1950s a pill for the sexual liberation of women something that would free women to control their fertility. who did that so that s where the idea came from. when i looked into it i found this incredible story of these outsiders these underdogs who had no enfranchisement no government support no university support in setting out to do something that everyone told them was impossible. host: can you sketch out what life was like before the pill? i think people today certainly i took it for granted and many people took it for granted before the 1960s when the pill became commonly used contraception was very limited. abstinence was your best bet in the absence was harder. you had and some options available for women who went to their doctors that women have to go through men to get access to those and a effective and accessible forms of