Exhibit, descendants of slaves, in alabama may be close and i am giving you a synopsis of a synopsis, ultimately the first lady, at the end of the tour, these black women, five black women who i do not believe were republicans, they were so happy, they embraced the first lady in a huddle, thank you jesus and started to climb and a descendant of a slave, fifth generation removed from a slave. Mayor are a lot of human stories people can relate to in this book and it is about you and me, not just black but white and all of us coming together. People go to booktv and type in april ryan, they will see this big panel, an author panel, what was that . Panel discussion on race. He talked about criminal justice. Wheat had julie reid, an author as well. And we had michael eric dyson, author himself. I was a moderator. We had a serious discussion, serious civil discussion on issues of race, and my authors have written about it and researched it. We had a panel discussion, people from all walks of
Chance to get up close view of the presidency of the United States. What is the blackandwhite . The black and white is cyclical and continues to happen. The placement of africans in the country. Theres a problem with race in this country and has yet to be fixed. We saw major legislation, major laws, there is an intrinsic problem that should be fixed. Today we are seeing tensions between the black community and police, not saying we dont enforce law enforcement, wholeheartedly, but they have to be winning out of that. A lot of the problems, settled, some of it is over. I talked to president obama recently on a flight, he is here to close the gap, gaps still remain in this nation, there are still gaps. This is an issue that is not going away. Other countries are watching us. If someone picks up the presidency in black and white will they hear stories something you want to share . When the person picks of the presidency black and white, three president s in america, does get very confused
and so we need for him to have a change of heart and that s going to come because of the pressure of people, people in his own state. more than 700,000 people in west virginia are poor and low income and 75 to 80% of people support the expansion of voting rights and he as a politician elected by the people stands with the people say they want and it s immoral and it s wrong and we ll keep fighting and keep on pushing until we win what the people, poor and low income people in this country need. reverend liz, theoharis, thank you for your time. thank you. ready or not, student loan payments are coming back and what it means politically next.
Athan Theoharis, Chronicler of F.B.I. Abuses, Dies at 84
He found his way through the formerly unobtainable files of J. Edgar Hoover, whom he called “an insubordinate bureaucrat in charge of a lawless organization.”
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Athan Theoharis in his office at Marquette University in 1991. He used Freedom of Information Act requests to uncover secrets about the F.B.I.Credit.Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Athan Theoharis, a pre-eminent historian of the F.B.I. whose indefatigable research into the agency’s formerly unobtainable files produced revelations about decades of civil liberties abuses under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover, died on July 3 at his home in Syracuse, N.Y. He was 84.