And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Bob moses was just 25 when he began his lifelong commitment to civil rights in mississippi for the student nonviolent coordinating committee. He was the architect of the. Ummer object project. He is prominently featured in freedom summer. Moses is also the recipient of the Macarthur Jesus genius grant. Conversation our looking at a clip from freedom summer. We hope to send in upwards of 1000 students all over the country who will engage in Community Center programs and in designed toogram open up mississippi to the country. Us fromoses joins boston. Its an honor to have you on this program. Somethingstart with that always struck me as interesting given that i was born in mississippi. When you are in mississippi the rest of america doesnt seem real and when you are in the rest of america mississippi doesnt seem real. Know what you meant by that. Unpack that for me. Mississippi during the congressional second cong
Launch an offensive against the city of baqubah less than 40 miles from baghdad. We will speak to professor juan cole of the university of michigan. He just wrote a piece titled dont trust the bombers on iraq shock and awe never works. Then 50 years after freedom summer, Voting Rights are under attack again in the south. They have attacked early voting, making it harder to vote with voter id laws. Every one of those reforms voter repression laws and tactics have the same effect of driving down the black vote. We will speak to former naacp president ben jealous on true south voters of color in the black belt 50 years after after freedom summer. And on the First Anniversary of the death of Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings, his widow publishes the novel she found on his computer after he died in a fiery car crash. It is a scathing critique of the news media today called the last magazine. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace re
Could not have been more different. One horse establishment and one was grassroots. One was evidently mobile and the other one from a background described as almost two grand. One wasnt obvious routine and another unlikely and later in lifefe. It changed the course of history and neither one were given to do. Hopefully the biographieshi discussed will help change that, a dean of the grad institute, law professor and history professor at harvard university. Her earlier book is to send, offense and the Civil Rights Movement. The civil rights clean speaker. A scholar conclude meant tuckman, the kennedy daughter and the plot to kill abraham lincoln. They will talk about a biography. I will assume many of you are like me, maybe you have heard a little bit or nothing. I hope you will introduce us to the subjects of these books. Yours i think is unjustly less known, tell us about who she was and why you chose her. Happy to. Thank you to all of you for being here, i am delighted to share, a le
Good morning, im melissa harrisperry. We begin this morning with a story thats hard to hear but necessary to discuss. Now, im going to be referring to this clock behind me, okay, dont get too distracted by it. Ill bring it back whenever we need it. The state of oklahoma was scheduled to execute two convicted murderers, Clayton Lockett and charles warner. Tha their crimes were heinous. The inmates challenged the execution claiming that they had the right to know the source of the drugs. A District Court judge ruled on march 26th that the secrecy law signed by governor mary fallon in 2011 was unconstitutional. But after the States Supreme Court granted a stay of the executions on april 22nd so that it could rule on the issue of secrecy, the governor responded, saying the court had acted, quote, outside of its constitutional authority. At the same time a fellow republican in the state house began working on a bill to impeach the five justices who voted for the stay. The state Supreme Cour
Apples to oranges here, quantitative easing, however we dealt with the banks in 2008 right or wrong, those loans, zero interest in some cases were repaid. So that would not erase student debt. No matter what Interest Rate it is, you still have the principal. Its not the same mechanism with the bank and how would you get a congress that wants to do nothing like this to do Something Like this. It was easy for the banks to repay the loan. Theyre an extremely advantaged and privileged group. They get the money at zero interest, they loan it out at 7 so its really easy for them to pay back those loans. Young people are not in that situation. They dont have the jobs that we need. We dont have an economy that can employ them. So heres what im suggesting. That debt is largely owned now by the federal government, the vast bulk of it. Im suggesting that the Federal Reserve actually buy that debt like it did for wall street but in this case that it buy that date and basically declare that debt nu