Becomes more relevant all the time. Anthony pitch is the author of many nonfiction books. Dead,ing, kill pop the and the burning of washington. He is a former associate of press staffer in london and a broadcast editor in philadelphia. A Senior Writer who has reported from israel and africa. Following his letter, he will be signing books in front of the archives store. Please welcome anthony pitch back to the National Archives. [applause] anthony hello, everybody. I am glad that you managed to take time off to come here. I have concentrated on American History in my last five books and they all have to do with catastrophe. That is what i am attracted to. I think in the closing years of my life that my books, the book is the best id, have written. Sometimes i read it and i wondered if i wrote it. This book, i had wanted to write about a lynching since 1998. And i could not find a lynching that had documentary evidence to back it up. I found one in maryland that interested me, but the re
He is a former associate of press staffer in london and a broadcast editor in philadelphia. A Senior Writer who has reported from israel and africa. Following his letter, he will be signing books in front of the archives store. Please welcome anthony pitch back to the National Archives. [applause] anthony hello, everybody. I am glad that you managed to take time off to come here. I have concentrated on American History in my last five books and they all have to do with catastrophe. That is what i am attracted to. I think in the closing years of my life that my books, the book kill papa dead, is the best i have written. Sometimes i read it and i wondered if i wrote it. This book, i had wanted to write about a lynching since 1998. And i could not find a lynching that had documentary evidence to back it up. I found one in maryland that interested me, but the records had been destroyed, so there was nothing to write about, nothing to research. Eventually, i found this lynching and it struc
Still alive, took part in the murders. We will speak to edward duboise, the former state president of the naacp in georgia. Then we remember malcolm x. The history of unpunished violence against our people clearly indicates we must be prepared to defend ourselves or we will continue to be a defenseless people at the mercy of a ruthless and violent mob. 50 years ago on february 21 1965, malcolm x was assassinated in the audobon ballroom in harlem. Today, we will hear malcolm in his own words and speak to herb boyd who just published , malcolms diary from 1946. 1964. Then we will look at how the nsa and gchq hacked into the largest manufacturer of sim cards in the world and stole Encryption Keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Record cold temperatures are continuing across the eastern and midwestern United States today with a blas
Remember malcolm x. The history of unpunished violence against our people clearly indicates we must be prepared to defend ourselves or we will continue to be a defenseless people at the mercy of a ruthless and violent mob. 50 years ago on february 21 1965, malcolm x was assassinated in the audobon ballroom in harlem. Today, we will hear malcolm in his own words and speak to herb boyd who just published , malcolms diary from 1946. 1964. Then we will look at how the nsa and gchq hacked into the largest manufacturer of sim cards in the world and stole Encryption Keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Record cold temperatures are continuing across the eastern and midwestern United States today with a blast of arctic air scientists warn is part of a pattern fueled by Climate Change. In kentucky, temperatures are in the negative digits,
Lynching may well be the most morbid, inhumane, and disheartening form of vigilante justice. Typically, it involves a mob of people injuring or killing