Disclosure that a u. N. Peacekeeping force from nepal was the source of a cholera outbreak. He leaves readers fully aware of how much remains to be done if haiti is to have a Brighter Future is and it currently is looking at. That is it, they were all fabulous books but one of them has to win the bernstein award. That is dan fagin for toms river a story of science and salvation. [applause] dont go quite yet. Have two words. Wow. All right. I long for liz. [applause] wow. Long form lives because of people like the bernstein family. Thank you very much for places like New York Public Library that care about reality, care about what actually is in this world. It lives because of people like you that support this kind of work and it especially lives because of amazing books like david and jonathan and fred and sheri fink and we are just surrogates for a much Larger Population of people who do this work everyday. This is an amazing faint. Truth actually matters and when it stopped smatterin
You think the source is . And i just to the extent that you can say time and date and if you will, accountable individual who you think is the Decision Maker or the impediment, i would like that answer as succinctly as possible. Miss buller . In my case its very easy to pinpoint the time and the person. The passage of the act mandating the restrictive reporting was the impetus. The person was the general counsel. Basically, he has taken the opportunity to interpret the act to impede our access. Mr. Elkins . In my case, you know, i have two agencies that i oversee, the csb and Environmental Protection agency. In both cases, i have to say that issues relative to access starts at the top with a clear message from the top that access will be granted, it will be granted. To the extent that there is a muddled message or the message is not clear, you end up in situations that we have here today. Some of the on the csb side of the house, the issues started back in 2010, 2011. On the epa side o
Rights and other courses in critical race studies and constitutional law. Shes been a leader in the Critical Race Theory movement. And in fact, founded a think tank devoted to the study of issues of race and gender entitled the africanamerican policy forum. Shes published extensively in this area. A graduate of cornell and Harvard Law School and has a masters degree from the university of wisconsin. To my immediate right, larry gibson is distinguished professor at the university of Maryland School of law. Professor gibson is the author of a book that i hope many of you have purchased and will read and its called Young Thurgood. A wonderful biography of Justice Marshalls years growing up here in baltimore and beginning to practice law here. Professor gibson himself grew up in baltimore, attended Howard University as under graduate, then earned his law degree from l columbia. The first africanamerican law professor at the university of virginia before accepting a faculty position here in
Cases and civil cases here in baltimore and all the way up to the Supreme Court. Hes taught here and at the Wharton School and has received awards for his teaching, scholarship and mentorship. Ill begin the questioning of this panel. Then i would invite people who have questions to come to the microphone. Ill turn it over to the audience as we progress, but i want to start by asking mick the filmmaker, what brought him to this subject. Why Thurgood Marshall. How did you get from Hubert Humphrey to Thurgood Marshall . That was actually a direct route. What happened was we interviewed Roger Wilkins in the Hubert Humphrey film. They were friends. When we were close to the end of the film i was looking for a new subject and i called roger and said id like to do a film on your uncle roy. He said i love my uncle roy. He was just straight, he did all kinds of wonderful work but he was sort of a midrange sort of businessman type. He was a suit and he just its not that exciting a story. If you
Maneuverings, americas ability to be enlightened and to be challenged. To appreciate the significance of the tuskegee experience, its necessary for it to be viewed through the content of the american Racial Climate and the tonic that it was executed. The impetus of establishing a flying program for blacks began at the beginning of world war ii. As a consequence of black discontent, resulting from decades of nontreatment as secondclass citizens, and pacific league, the denial of opportunities to serve our military other than jobs of service or labor. In the face of strong resistance from the military establishment and most officials in the war department, a relentless effort was carried out by a number of black organizations in a and a sympathetic white minority to accept blacks for military Aviation Training in the Army Air Corps. After considerable debate on the subject, the government agreed to establish a program in which blacks would be trained in all aspects of military aviation.