those eight minutes and 46 seconds opened the eyes of millions of americans and millions of people all over the world. perhaps we can step into a different way of being, to actually step into the promised land, but first it will require of us to confront our ghastly failures, to tell the truth about who we are. hey, everyone, i m tremaine lee. president biden is in the white house, in no small part thanks to black voters. 87% of the vote went to joe biden, but now that he s in office, what comes next for black america? after four deeply-divided years of scandal, rebellion and plague, the trump era ended in a fog of violence. and this democracy, our democracy, was nearly brought to its knees. as the smoke clears on this new day and a new administration rises in the white house, questions remain about what we ve lost and what we stand to gain, because, in this moment, americans are hurting. and few feel the pain more than black americans. we ve weathered a summer of police
hour and a half. good morning, everyone. thank you for coming. the navy league has chosen to frame this kickoff panel in a very interesting way. what does it take to command our maritime forces? and it reminds me of a conversation i had some years ago with the senior detailer of the service warfare officers and i asked him, why do navy command tours last about 18 months? and he said, well, you see, it is just so hard to stay awake any longer than that. [ laughter ] so you don t know if that rings any bells, with richardson or commandant neller, beth of which are about to wrap up their very senior command tours or commandant schultz or administrator buzby but i know we are delighted and grateful to have the sea service chiefs here to lead off our date. so what does it take to command our maritime forces. i understand this is seeking to know both what the leadership philosophies are, necessary to guide us through our changing times and how we apply these philosophies to tod
you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. [inaudible conversations] in the new book, james baldwin: escape from america, we have plenty of copies up front, so we do encourage you to pick up a copy or two or three so we can stay in this neighborhood as a community space. [laughter] okay. i m going to do this very elegantly. so, first, let me introduce our panelists. carol weinstein is the mother of taan yell baldwin daniel baldwin, also on the panel, and was a partner of david whom she met in 1964. later, jimmy would refer to her as his sister out of law, and when jimmy bought the house in st. paul [inaudible conversations] thank you, david and carol first visited jimmy there together in 1977 from amsterdam where they were living at the time. they drove there to celebrate his buying the house. carol also visited in 1974 and then again several summers from 1975 into the 80s with daniel. she and daniel also made nostalgic visits several years later
it s an missouri. it s an hour. what is that? what is that black thing be with the numbers on it? it s a sex tant. what do you use sextants for? sorry? thought i heard an answer. yeah. naveigation. it s actually for shooting the stars. maybe the professors here remember, but i doubt if anybody else does. there was a time in this world where you did not just pull this thing up and it pulled you to where you were within 10 meters on the planet. on my first ship i got to be navigator, which is like the coolest job in the navy because you got to tell the captain where to go. nobody else got to tell the captain where to go. there was no g., g.p.s., no satellite naveigation. it really hasn t changed much for huvens years. you shoot the stars, use a lot of landmark, and what you learned pretty quickly as a naive i gator, otherwise you you would end up being a wal-mart greeter, you look at evidence, you don t lock only or use any one thing 100%, but you look at efrling everyt
spent because he was trying to build the ranch of good intentions. that took a lot of his time. see all of our programs today at 2:00 on american history tv on c-span3. tinsleyed admiral david is a retired meteorologist and expert in climatology. the penn state meteorology professor recently talked about the effects of climate change on security and public policy. this was hosted by westminster college in fulton missouri. it is an hour. what is that? what is that black thing with the numbers on it? it is a sextant. shat do you sextant for? navigation. it is for shooting the stars. maybe the professors here remember. i doubt if anybody else does, there was a time in this world where do you did not just pull this thing up and it told you where you were within 10 meters on this planet. ship,ou went out on this this was my first ship, i got to be navigator, the coolest job in the navy. you got to tell the captain where to go. nobody else got to tell the captain were to go.