Good afternoon everyone and thank you for coming to the session. Civil rights in american issue. I am doctor sidney mcdaniels, im a graduate school. Will have about 45 minutes for this and 15 for q a. Also i lost you at this time to place silencer phones. Our sponsors for this panel are the Mississippi Humanities Council. Do we have any members from the Advisory Board or cancel . Thank you. And also ray harper who recently retired from congress from mississippis third district. Longtime supporter of the festival. Thank you. [applause] our moderator for the session is the ralph. Visiting professor of english and southern studies at the university of mississippi. When he is also the former editor of the virginia orderly review. And the other of two from ours. We introducing our distinguished panelists. [applause] thank you and thank you all for joining us in this panel this afternoon. If i were to wreak title this panel, i would call it family memory history in civil rights because our p
And thousandses take to the streets this morning for annual philadelphia aid run and walk. Good morning, 6 00 a. M. On a sunday morning sky 6hd is overlooking Philadelphia International airport, kind of foggy, also, misty out there. Meteorologist chris sowers is at a look at the weekend forecast, good morning, chris. We are starting to get used to this lots of cloud this morning. We are seeing drizzle out there and some locations as we go over to Storm Tracker six we are picking up some shower activity across south jersey, delaware in a line from south of the dover, through vineland to fortecoup area seeing showers. If you are not picking up a sure we are seeing visibility drop off because of the fog that is settling n reading down to a mile. Philadelphia a mile. Trenton one and a half. Millville 3 miles. You get up in the Lehigh Valley. Allentown is all right, currently reporting a visibility of 9 miles. So damp, glummy out here this morning but warm, temperatures already in the mid t
He says in order to understand why lincoln is revered it is important to understand the criticisms of his detractors. The Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia hosted this one hour 20 minute event. Good evening. I am former Vice President of the Lincoln Group and the District Of Columbia. It is my honor and privilege to invite tonights speaker, john mckee barr, a professor of history at Lone Star College kingwood, for the past seven years, teaching a class on darwin and lincoln, who were born on the same day. Before that, he was a High School Teacher in the Houston Public School system. That is good preparation for the kind of flack he has to put up now at it. This is his first book, and he has started a blog. I highly recommend it. It is very lively. It is loathinglincoln. Com. The book has received a lot of praise. I want to read you a couple summaries. Paradoxically, americas most revered president has also been its most reviled. Detractors of the rail splitter have been a crowd
Coming up live on cspan2 at 6 30 p. M. A conversation on human rights with the state departments undersecretary for civilian security, democracy and human rights. Shell discuss the work beingos5n done by the u. S. Atrocities prevention board which was created in 2012 to respond to and prevent genocide and other Human Rights Violations around the world. The council on Foreign Relations hosts the event. n8u4 tonight on American History tv programs on the 50th anniversary of the selma march. At 8 p. M. , selma 50th Anniversary Commemoration ceremony with president obama and one of the participants in that march, congressman john lewis. At 9 10 p. M. Abc news footage of march 25 1965 Voting Rights rally in montgomery alabama. After that president Lyndon Johnsons address to congress on Voting Rights. Then the selma 50th anniversary brown chapel ame church commemorative service. All of this coming up tonight on cspan3. Luy next, an update from this mornings washington journal on the future o
Bargain and what both parties to the contract had to do, we have this messy thing called love into the bargain and it is a fancier way to up the ante again. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Booktv continues with john lott who argues partisan politicians dont like to nominate smart judges because my judge lets have the ability to think independently and influence other judges. Judges who graduated in the top10 of their law classes go through a much longer confirmation process than judges who dont. This is all little over an hour. Thanks for having me again. Is always nice to get back to the southern california. I have to say i cant take credit for having taught in a couple of those schools but i had Research Positions at them. How did i get started on this book . I think we all have been concerned by how contentious and vicious the confirmation process has gotten over the years and at first i was just trying to figure out exactly how much has changed and more