Good morning. Today that committee convenes to a hearing on the faa oversight of aircraft certification i welcome our witnesses mr. Dixon and mr. Steele father sonja who tragically died plate three oh two and we thank them for participating. March 10 mark the oneyear anniversary of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines three oh two which was preceded by the p loss of flight 602. The aircraft involved in both accidents was the boeing 737 and max are deepest sympathies continue to go out to the families those loved ones who are among the 346 souls lost in these questions. Since the Ethiopian Airlines crash the committee has heard from many whistleblowers at the faa and boeing in the Aviation Industry. It is increasingly clear from our investigation the faa has a number of Serious Problems address. My investigation staff is interviewed dozens of witnesses many thousands of documents and emails and diligent pursuit of the facts. No matter where they lead i must express my profound frustration wi
This is about the criminal Justice System in the way in which United States over the last 52 years went from the Great Society in a war on poverty to a war on crime that criminalize the entire Africanamerican Community and were thinking about whether people are or rich in the context of everything from racial profiling to an equal sense as between blacks and whites for committing the same crime so we think about why are people protesting people are protesting because one they want policy changes and transformations they want to change the money thats being spent in the criminal Justice System and have that invested in communities that are africanamerican that are racially segregated theyre economically impoverished but they also want different policies in terms of. Tax policies only policy food justice and theres food deserts in all these different africanamerican communities theres environmental racism so many africanamericans and there. Children suffer just from asthma theres high ra
A professor ill give back to. Austin and the author all the sword and the shield their revolution or realize it. And Martin Luther king jr Professor Joseph its good to talk to you thank you very much which im. Your parent and congratulations on the your book which was released just last month from my commercial mind of your i guess you wish for more should really say but as an american citizen as a goal or how do you feel about whats happening around. Well i think i take great hope and inspiration in the fact that so many people have gone to the streets and to demonstrate most of the protests in over 100 cities actually have been peaceful you know the media is focused on the violence and theres been a huge amount of why protesters alongside of latin x. And asian and indigenous so its not just black people protesting Racial Justice so i think its a great generational opportunity for the United States of america to finally get rid of White Supremacy and institutional racism and equality
Capture, john mccain talks about the impact of the vietnam war on his life and country sunday at 6 00 and 10 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. Announcer American History tv is that the main Historical Society maine Historical Society collecting artifacts. One goes back to the 15th century. Welcome to the maine Historical Society, the third oldest Historical Society founded in 1822 and have been collecting at this location since 1907. For the early years, maine Historical Society moved around a bit, the public library, and city hall, and once the house was donated to the society, we built this library. In 2007, we underwent restoration and renovation where we added 13,000 feet to the back of the 1907 building. The temperature and humidity controls, climate controls. We also have an offsite storage case for larger collections since we have outgrown the footprint of our intown location. We collect specifically on maine , but our materials to reach back to the 15th century
Anthem. Ring the what cspans washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Join the discussion. All weekend long, American History tv is join our spectrum Cable Partners to showcase the history of portland maine. To learn more, visit cspan. Org citiestour. We continue with our look at the city of portland. Tour of the driving city. Thank you for showing us around. When people hear portland, theland, maine may not be first place that comes to mind. Portland, maine is the First Portland in the United States. Oregon is the one that stole our name. The two people who founded the city both wanted to name it after their hometown. In this city was a part of massachusetts when it started. Its one of the oldest working parishes in the city continuously. The original building was wooden with a steeple on top. Was the church with a Henry Wadsworth longfellow family worship. There is actually a revolutionary or cannonball in the chandelier that they found when they tore down the wooden structure.