Tonight is as the scholar in residence of the Kansas City Missouri Public Library system. Excitingn for a very treat. To keep it going in a flowing way, i am destined to read the introduction so we stay on point , but the person, my friend who is here tonight, who came from salt lake, utah, is the author till thek, emmett murder that shocked the world and propelled the Civil Rights Movement. Of the most definitive books on the subject. It took him 21 years from conception to completion to write the book youre i had the privilege to work on emmett tills case the book. I had the privilege to work on witht tills case, to work his mother to have the case reinvestigated and to have the the unsolved pass Civil Rights Congress is working on it right now. We expect it to pass. He is an editor at signature working onah and is a masters degree in publishing. He is the editor of several books on mormon history. He published his book on emmett basis ofit will be the a miniseries produced by jayz,
Before we get started id like too thank our sponsors. We will leave about 10 minutes at the end of the program for a q a session, so if you have questions please sign up at the microphone to your right and ask questions at the microphone so the home viewing audience can hear the question and before we begin, please silence your phones and turn off camera flashes. With that i like to welcome my professor of Digital Media strategy at the Mcdill University in todays interview her, owen youngman. Thank you, tom and welcome here to Jones College prep. Great to have you here. Im sure you dont mind being in this airconditioned venue on this hot chicago day. We are delighted to welcome son of the north shore, justin peters, formally wrote a lot of things i read in the clumpy journalism review as well whos recently published book is the idealist. The idealist aaron swartz and the rise of free culture on the internet. Is a book that is both biography and exploration of history and musings on the
So, just like the jehovahs witnesses in 1943, the consequences are stark. Barnett held that people, including young students, could not be forced to say what was not in their minds. A concept we today called the rule against compelled speech. The court emphasized the constitutional limits on the states coercive power, which exercised by, quote, village tyrants or by the federal government. And it underscored that the First Amendment was designed to protect noncon officialists of all stripes them court particularly focused on schools because the case involved two Elementary School girls. It said because schools are educating the young for citizenship they must scrupulously protect individual rights. If wire not to strangle the free mind at its source and to teach youth to discount important principles of government as mere platitudes. You can watch this and other programs online at book of the doering booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] book tv is back live
A lot of ways. Things have gotten both better and worse and there always getting both better and worse. Thats what makes it so frustrating to be in and around politics. There is no easy argument to make about the direction of change. Theres always a cost of progress and theres always a cost to resisting progress. To your more general question, it does seem to me that in a lot of ways we are having too many of the most important fights in our political life at the national level. Part of what i mean by saying our politics need to be decentralizes that some of these arguments need to be had by people who are looking at one another. That is surely one way to get around that divide. Its a lot easier to sustain in the abstract then when its you and your neighbor. I cannot for the life of me see who has to decide who gets to go to what bathroom in the white house. I just dont think its necessary to do that. It would be a lot easier to live with one another if we didnt have to have one answer
Good morning. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. President obama is in hawaii beginning the first day of a 16day vacation. He was discussing a variety of stop kwreubgz, including the sony hack. Sony is a corporation, and it, you know, suffered signalant significant damage. I am sympathetic to the concerns they faced. Having said all that, yes, i think they made a mistake. But he defended his record especially on the economy. As a country, we have every right to be proud of what we have accomplished. More jobs, more people insured, a growing economy, shrinking deficits, bustling industry, booming energy, and take any metric that you want, and americas resurgence is real. He faced a republican controlled house and senate for the first time during his term in office and he promised to Work Together with the gop. I am being absolutely sincere when i say i want to work with the new congress to get things done. To make those investments. To make sure that government is working better and sm