Test education, southerner birmingha Sondra Bernstein covid19, buddy educatiodyer, at that, at the, twha, twha, twha, monument medicaisandoval, buddy, bernsteo sondra Ryman Jefferson sondra jefferson, Senior Citizens jefferson,aru jefferson, melvin rymaodrigue, captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 which would result if a womens club in every town and village in the state. These are two of my favorite photos from research ive seen. Ill start with the one on the left. This is a label on the photo itself. A parlor is a place where in a home, this is where you would let the public enter the private so what i find interesting is here we are in a place where you are in amongst a lot of the public and yet there was still this emulation of having a space within your privacy of this tent, still the private part of the tent and then there was going to be the part you let the public come in or a parlor and you have three women who appear to be maybe doing some needle work or rea
To kill the bank itself. Watch as they explore whether history impacts contemporary rights. Voting they also answer audience questions on how to keep in the voting d process. His discussion was part of a 15thsium, 150 years of the amendment. Of the south hosted this event. Weve here now. Had this wonderful 24 learning uess, of opportunities from this rilliant panel of individuals and were now here for the wrapup, and they have to us all day and yesterday are now going to have collaborate with each other. That i did not introduce myself so let me back up. My name is jodie allen and im a isiting assistant professor here at swanee and im also consultant on the slavery project. Oing back to the panel, im asking them to answer the question thats in our program that is, does history matter of the 15th amendment . A going to talk about that little bit and then well open with the audience. Okay . Who would like to start. Okay. Thank you. I think about history and it me of the african word sanc
I just realized that i did not introduce myself, so, ok let me , back up. My name is jodie allen, and im a visiting assistant professor here, at swanee, and im also working as a consultant on the slavery project. Going back to the panel, im asking them to answer the question thats in our program , and that is does history matter to the future of the 15th amendment . And im going to ask them to ruminate on that a little bit, and then we will be opening up for q a with the audience. Okay . So i dont know who would like to start. Ok, thank you. I think about history and it , reminds me of the african word sancofa. The african word, and it means you have to know your past to understand the present to plan for your future. So when it comes to the 15th amendment what weve learned today and ive learned a great , deal from these wonderful panelists, that we have to understand the intent behind the 15th amendment, the history that gave rise to it, the effect of it those people who opposed and t
Its night to be here at politics and prose after all these years. Thank c sparks opinion cspan for coming which illustrates, by the way, how one person can make a difference. That was the idea of brian lamb many years ago. He persuaded the cable industry to allow that kind of immediate, unedited coverage of events. There are many good people here who ive worked with and who are active citizens in their own right. Mark pla, thekin is here, Joanne Anderson is here. [applause] she wrote the book for the people, whichs a cookbook, in effect, for civic action. Its very clear. Russells here, he never runs out of material. [laughter] robins here, she runs our d. C. Library renaissance project and started out ten years ago it was rated the Worst Library system of any major city, and now a lot of new branch libraries, and there is definitely a renaissance. Alan is here, the great, courageous human rights advocate. And john richard, the citizen networker [applause] is here as well. And many othe
A look at the days latest news and headlines. Supreme court. Harris i bring in my first guess this talk to the president during a golf game. South carolina senator Lindsey Graham is with us now, member of the Senate Judiciary committee. Great to see you tonight. Thank you. And so the president brings us up on the golf course. How does that happen and what did you tell him . He thinks this is a witch hunt and he didnt do anything wrong. Mr. President ive seen new evidence in collusion. Why do you think we didnt collude with the russians. We got to be patient and run its course, and we want to make sure hes treated fairly. I dont blame him for being frustrated. This has been going on for a very long time. Harris i know ive heard you say that it was about 20 or so time that he said that. I was joking. You dont want to hand losses to republicans, how would that go . If we shut down the Mueller Investigation publicly it would be the only thing that anyone talked about. That would just let t