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research service. we re happy to have her in the medicine building down the street. she s a regular contributor to our dome. the latest article that she submitted was in eighth issue a couple years ago on bootlegging in the capital, that might suggest that she s really entered again out interesting little hidden corners of the capital, now janette is not a hidden anything. all of us know who she is. she s got a statue. it s precisely those kinds of figures in history that have the most to surprise us with, because we think we know who they are with their legacies. but maybe jane will share some new information that she s come across. [applause] thank you, truck it s honor to be here. i ve had a lot of great experiences with a capital historic society, lauren in charlotte was very helpful as well. i appreciate that some of my current colleagues are here, and my boss jim is here with other people from my new office, and also people from might hold office. heather and ma ....
they had another constitutional change. they knew we needed to put gender equality into our constitution. and so these women among them alice paul wrote the equal rights amendment. and first introduced in congress in 1923 in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the sen he cana falls convention, the first women rights convention in our country and introduced in the house by daniel anthony, nephew of the great sufficient fra gift leader, susan b. anthony to honor her work like the like elizabeth katey stanton. we honor these women as constitution makers. what verbal praise alone is not enough. we must also carry out their wishes because now, a full 100 years later, the equal rights amendment is still not part of the u.s. constitution. i thank jackie spir and all the women and like-minded men in this congress that voted to move the equal rights movement forward. 85% of u.s. states have constitutions that guarantee equality for women and girls. these constitutional guara ....
the future hopefully about good news. thank you for coming on today. great to have you and thank you all so much for joining us, seeing a news night with abby. the loop starts right now race, america, and a fiery debate over jim crow in the stalls yeah, that s tonight. on this time good evening. i m abby phillip in new york and i want to get right to it tonight. one of donald trump s vice presidential contenders, congressman byron donalds. he made some comments that has a lot of you take in a lot of democrats fired up. i m gonna speak with him, live in just a couple of minutes but here are the original remarks they were made as a part part of a pitch to black voters in philadelphia. and i want you to hear it in its full context. listen girl with my mom my dad about things don t work out as an adult i ll look at my father and i say grow i don t know what happened. when you want father and i love here. i don t know what happened. i wasn t what i m going to say it ....
ford s theater, we know we have work to do. we commit to using our platform to tell stories that speak to the present moment with courage, inspiration, healing, and of course, abraham lincoln. today, we re talking with richard, craig, and david about a specific play in which they all took part, necessary sacrifices, which ford s theater premiered in 2012. ford s commissioned richard to write the play to celebrate the opening of our center for education leadership in 2011. this play explores the relationship between president abraham lincoln, played by david selby, and the abolitionist frederick douglass, played by craig wallace. it seems particularly important this week to consider the leadership of these two great americans as they helped our country find its way through one of our greatest crises. so i want to start this afternoon just by, first of all, welcoming you all. thank you so much for being with us, from across the country, california and d.c. we go coast-t ....
welcome back to miami and date to a booktv s live coverage of the miami book fair. charlie sykes, van jones gumshoe atkinson are some of the authors you will hear from today and have the opportunity to talk with. the full schedule for the day is available @booktv.org. if you don t already follow us on social media, on twitter, facebook and instagram. faster behind the scenes videos and photos @booktv is her handle. well, how the right lost its mind is a type of charlie s new book indicates of the fair today from the campus of miami-dade college. live coverage on booktv on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] and, unfortunately, we are experiencing [inaudible conversations] good morning, miami. good morning. it is the 34th annual book fair. let s give the book fair a round of applause. [applause] i am the dean of the honors college at miami dade college and is an absolute pleasure to have the chance to share today with you if we are so fortunate in our commun ....