Discussion entitled, historically speaking, Thurgood Marshall, a life in American History, an evening with spencer crew and paul finkle man. Before we begin, let me also welcome our audience whos streaming the discussion through the museums you stream channel. Our twitter handle this evening is historicallyspeaking. We are also thrilled that this program will be broadcast via cspan book tv and will be aired at a later date. Through dr. Crews compelling new biography introduces us to the constant battles of equality faced by africanamericans through a study of Thurgood Marshalls extraordinary courage and his believe in the power of the law to change society. Thurgood marshall, a life in American History, follows his career from his youth in baltimore, maryland, to his days as a Supreme Court justice. Thurgood marshalls inspiring story illustrates how pervasive is racism in American Society and reveals the difficulty of the struggles of africanamericans to make progress against it. Throu
Cspan is brought to you by youe or satellite provider. The communicators looked at technology and its impact on voting and democracy recently with speakers at the state of the net Conference Held in washington d. C. Heres a look. Host katie harbath, is the Global Politics director for facebook. What does that entail . Guest being the Global Politics and government outreach director means that myself and my team who are situated across the world work with governments, elected officials, candidates on how to best use facebook to communicate with citizens. And then we also help to work on facebooks overall efforts in elections which includes protecting the integrity of elections on our platform whether thats through preventing foreign interference, fake accounts, etc. , but then also helping to teach people how to use their Civic Engagement tools so more people can have a voice in the political process. Host people heard you say what you did, and theyre going you didnt do a very good job
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Shh. Good morning. Welcome to a. C. S. s annual Supreme Court preview. Im kara stein, Vice President of policy and program at a. C. S. Which most of you likely know is a National Network of lawyers, law students, judges and policymakers who believe that a law should be a force to improve peoples lives. So here we are again. After a Supreme Court term that many felt was lackluster, despite the muchdelayed addition to the ninth justice to the bench, we are looking at an upcoming term that promises the high stakes we had grown accustomed to in recent years. You need only look at the first two weeks of oral arguments to see what i mean. During just those five days, the court will continue the constitutionality of the president s travel ban, legitimacy of wisconsins redistricting scheme and whether American Workers can be forced to arbitrate their disputes with their employers as opposed to have a day in court. Some might say the stakes are perhaps too high. To lead us through the discussio
Kara good morning, everyone. Shh. Good morning. Welcome to a. C. S. s annual Supreme Court preview. Im kara stein, Vice President of policy and program at a. C. S. Which most of you likely know is a National Network of lawyers, law students, judges and policymakers who believe that a law should be a force to improve peoples lives. So here we are again. After a Supreme Court term that many felt was lackluster, despite the muchdelayed addition to the ninth justice to the bench, we are looking at an upcoming term that promises the high stakes we had grown accustomed to in recent years. You need only look at the first two weeks of oral arguments to see what i mean. During just those five days, the court will continue the constitutionality of the president s travel ban, legitimacy of wisconsins redistricting scheme and whether American Workers can be forced to arbitrate their disputes with their employers as opposed to have a day in court. Some might say the stakes are perhaps too high. To