you see her there advancing another message, the importance of good sleep. now, she s all grown up, over 30 years later, elmo and sesame street still at work showing us a little support can go a very long way. the reidout with joy reid is up next. tonight on the reidout and we can t just continue to open the border. by the way, we can t pass a bill that possibly would make it harder for trump to do his job. they re not even trying to hide it. the republicans top priority is not securing the border. it s helping donald trump return to the white house. also tonight, president biden is greeted in michigan by pro-palestinian protesters. the mayor of dearborn who recently turned down a meeting with biden s campaign joins me tonight. plus, nbc begins its new deciders focus group series. pennsylvania women who voted for trump last time talk about what they re thinking now, after trump s supreme court overturned women s reproductive rights. and writer, producer, dire
Founding editors of the intercept. And for those of you who have never been here. To get some of your essential news. As an amazing online news service. Hes an Investigative Reporter and work and the international bestselling book. The world as is a battlefield. And blackwater. He has reported from afghanistan iraq somalia yemen nigeria the list goes on and on. Scale served as the National Security correspondent for the nation. And democracy now. He was twice awarded the prestigious george polk award. He is a producer and writer of the Award Winning film dirty wars. His latest book the assassination complex is based on leak secret documents on the u. S. Global drone program. Another superstar who is here with us tonights distinguished professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and the author of core coal author. The politics of race and education. Her wisely acclaimed biography one and 2014 naacp image award and the leticia woods brown woods brown a war. Her work has appeared i
Rdf president of the United States. Amy moments after sanders spoke , hundreds of his delegates walked out in protest. [chanting walk out ] amy we will get the latest from the dnc and speak to Illinois Congress member Luis Gutierrez and the actor and activist danny glover. All that and more, coming up. Amy welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, breaking with convention war, peace, and the presidency. Im amy goodman. Hillary clinton has secured the Democratic Partys president ial nomination, becoming the first woman to head the ticket of a major party in u. S. History even as the nominating process was marked by dissent on the Convention Floor. During the roll call vote, Bernie Sanders joined the vermont delegation and then moved to give clinton the partys president ial nomination by acclamation. Chair, irs madam moved that the convention suspend the procedural rules. I move that all votes cast by delegates be reflected in the official record, and i move that Hillary Clinton be s
An idea whose time has come looks at the political battles involved in passing the Civil Rights Act, 50 years ago this summer and regarded as one of the most significant legislative achievements of the moment. Todd burnham spent years at the white house as Diplomatic Correspondent Dan Los Angeles bureau chief, now National Editor of vanity fair. And david ship hells waking from the dream tracks the history of the Movement Since the death of dr. King. David chappell is professor of modern American History, taught in arkansas, russia and upstate new york. Washington d. C. And policy work, in addition to waking from the dream he has written inside is of the Civil Rights Movement and prophetic religion in the death of jim crow. He has written numerous articles and essays so our format today i will start by asking a few questions for panelists to discuss and then we will switch to audience questions. Please go to the microphone in the middle. It 3 15 we will move to the activity building fo
Whose time has come, eyes on the prize, and waking from the dream this is just under an hour. Nowk festival, a discussion about the Civil Rights Movement with dave chapelle, and Juan Williams. Thank you all for coming. And share of the humanities department. I would just like to ask that you would all silence in the cell phones or other Electronic Devices of the panel is not disrupted. I want to start by acknowledging that yesterday was the 46th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther king. Would like to ask if we can all take a brief moment of silence in his honor. Thank you. We have an interesting array of books represented year. They cover a chronology of the Civil Rights Movement. I guess i will introduce them in sort of the order of the periods that they cover. Eyes on the price covers the Civilrights Movement from 1954 to 65 offering closeups of the struggles of many of the people who made up the movement. A contributor to fox news since 1997 and has worked for npr, a W