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Will say to the people of ferguson missouri, get to the polls by 7 00 this evening so you wont have to march at midnight. Thats the kind of stuff we have got to do today. Use the tools that we have. We have great tools to communicate but Everything Else we can text what do we call it . Lets do some voting organizing over the internet. We have the tools. Lets use them for a new Massive Movement that will make sure that we can have in november 2014 the kind of turnout at the polls that we had in 2...

That is the root and seed bed for black political activism in the United States. He realized if you are going to say you want equal rights and Racial Justice and whether people believe it because of a philosophical reasons or god has led us to this movement he was fine. During freedom summer he is organizing in mississippi and he is with young white organizers who volunteered to come into the deep south. And he said i know some are marxist and some are others but he said if they thing this is a ...

Determination and black people thinking of themselves in way that that in the 1960s were profoundly impossible in some ways. That they were eloquent, beautiful, intelligent, that they had the right to disagree with each other and the mainstream is possible without Stokely Carmichael. I willconclude by saying that the most burped thing to me about writing the book, stokely a life, was providing an introduction to Stokely Carmichael kwame ture to a generation of americans who dont realize the prof...

To start off with a callin question and how many times were you arrested during the civil rights hay day . Guest i didnt keep track. But i talked about the first one and the last one in the book. The first one is the day i met my wife. We met in jail. The last time was in columbia, South Carolina in 1961. I remember that one because that arrest led to a landmark breach of peace case called edwards against South Carolina. It began a Law School Case that most universities use the case book method ...

Negotiations are going on right now to get these things passed . Guest what has happened so far is that the senate has pushed for this trade bill and got an advance only with lastminute maneuvering on the Chamber Floor yesterday. You had a band of senators who really want to get the Exportimport Bank passed and that also has a time sensitive deadline at the end of next month. And mcconnell got these senators on board and that bill was advance. Now they are tried to push through today and bunch o...

We have on our panel today a community developer, in investment maker, a next general banker and another. They all have a complex role to play. Let me introduce each one quickly. First, bart harvey. He joined enterprise in 1984 shortly after james rouse. He ran the foundation from 1993 until 19 98. He help form the foundations and the Financial Institutions trying to scale capacity of around the country. Like jennifer, bart lives in baltimore and has been in integral part that we will hear about...

Parting is such sweet sorrow. And now a policy form on it challenges of creating opportunities in communities experiencing poverty, racial divide, and foreclosures. Representatives from academic and nonprofit groups focus on what can be done to help families and the Lessons Learned since the redevelopment areas such as neighborhoods in baltimore. We have on our panel, a community developer, and anchor partner, an investment banker, a resident and next generation later, and a philanthropist and p...

America, thank you. [applause] every weekend booktv offers programming focus on nonfiction authors and books. Keep watching for more here on cspan2 and watch any of our past programs online booktv. Org. Next come a look at ways to improve the lives of innercity cores and what can be learned from initiatives around the country. We will burn for my brothers keeper which looks to improve the lives of minority boys and men. This event is from the brookings institution. It runs an hour and 50 minutes...

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