Democracy. That is a shame. It is a disgrace. It is really an open scandal. And we need to do something about that. I would totally embrace the comment that we need you as much as we can, first of all to change our policies we dont incarcerate so many people. And secondly for those people have been incarcerated i think we do over stigmatize them. We do hurt their ability to come out of prison and get on with the gainful, productive life. I wholeheartedly embrace the sentiment of that collect. Host gelled in florida. Caller good morning. I have a question for professor kennedy. Some of us look towards affirmative action us to blacks entering university circuit. I happened to be one who graduated from a Major University, white Major University in the state of ohio. This was before affirmative action. Far too many times there is nothing said about those of us who were participants in the collegiate atmosphere, collegiate i guess academia, that existed before affirmative action. What is hi
America and three the. I would like to thank everyone especially my friend and my poet and everyone else that is here for giving me the pleasure and privilege of sharing what it means to me. And i thought of that before beginning to share with those thoughts and ideas i want to honor two groups. Yesterday i was in such a hurry to actually listen to others. This is the kind of place everybody asks me what is the public of imagination. And i tell them this is the republic of imagination. You have people come communities, publishers. The publishers, leaders, booksellers all of us gathered together and the most important thing is with acts of that acts of imagination and ideas you transcend, you transcend the boundaries that reality is in front of you and you transcend the boundaries of the nationality, religion, language, race and gender. And one of the things about books, book sales and libraries is how central they are. I sometimes feel like a naughty child going to a bookstore and feel
Again as you mentioned, a rental truck with home depot on the side of it t. Person driving that truck went several blocks down the wrong way of the bike path on the west side highway here in new york city, mowing over people before colliding with a school bus and getting out. We are told that witnesses of that person ran around with two fake guns in their hand. One and then before being shot by authorities there on the scene, shot in the abdomen then taken to a local hospital here in new york city. Just a chaotic scene, with many witnesses describing how horrific this was, especially not knowing how this was going on halloween night the nypd and the governor gave here in new york city not long ago. It was a very painful day in our city, horrible tragedy on the west side. Let me be clear based on the information we have at this moment. This was an act of terror and a particularly cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilian, aimed at people going about their lives, who had no idea
Charles Tyson Castleman
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With more in common than being dependable, poor, black Virginians, Earnest Baugh and William Ball would have but one fate. The two men likely never knew each other, but as nearly all blacks from the state of Virginia they were accustomed to provide services to white employers. However, in contrast to generations past, they would expect to be paid for their labour. Alas, in their final run, Earnest and William, like their earlier slave ancestors, would not be.
And then there were the Castlemans .
The Good, All-American Charles Tyson Castleman
Charles (b November 18, 1902), representing the sixth generation of Castlemans that lived by the West Virginia-Virginia boundary, started life on his father s farm by Charles Town WVa. Charles