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Soninlaw of naacp Board Chairman channing tobias. As the chief of the African Union unit for the united nations, dean immediately sent white a draft of the report. It dismantled all of eugene blacks cliches about rising tides raising all boats. Deans analysis laid out that while south africa had the highest per capita annual income on the continent most of that went to the white minority population. Africans in the union in fact made 75 less per year. And minors despite the growing demand for la...

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Their job to come in and do this. Im not sure that they want to have a clean investigation. And so they did ask us to stand down a third party investigator, but i know the superintendent has expressed his dismay to me about how hes worried about the time for that. So we agree. Okay. Well, in the case of mr. Wayne, there were no allegations against him. There were no allegations, to my knowledge, that he knew and looked the other way. What about the case where that is not true. What about the cas...

Today primary voters went to the polls in five states, connecticut, rhode island, maryland, delaware and pennsylvania. We have live Election Night results and analysis and live candidate speeches beginning in a half hour on cspan. Today two senators discussed the constitutional role of the u. S. Senate in confirming judicial nominees including nominees to the Supreme Court. Democrat Patrick Leahy and republican orrin hatch, both members of the Judiciary Committee, discussed their views on judici...

Its a little over an hour. Good afternoon. My name is dane kennedy. Im the director of the National History center, which is associated with the American Historical Association. I want to welcome all of you this afternoon to this congressional briefing on the history of incarceration. I should say as a preface, this is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the National History center that brings historical perspectives to issues that currently confront congress. Is strictly nonpartisan and the ...

States. The panelists examine different e ands in prison structur inmate control from the early days of the republic to modern times. They also discussed the issue of race in the prison system. It is a little over one hour. Good afternoon. My name is dane kennedy. Im the director of the National History center, which is associated with the American Historical Association. I want to welcome all of you this afternoon to this congressional briefing on the history of incarceration. I should say as a...

For any particular policy or set of policies, but rather to provide the Historical Context that can help inform policymakers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. I want to acknowledge first off the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which has made this program possible, and also the work of amanda mooneys, the assistant director, and Frankie Lyons for organizing todays event. The history of mass incarceration, the us you of ofs incarceration issue mass incarceration has re...

House conveniences for business at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. The house is expected to take up Energy Legislation that week. Live coverage of the house of representatives is on cspan. On cspan2, the senate comes back monday at 3 00 p. M. Later that day the Senate Begins debate on the nomination of gail smith to be administrator of the u. S. Agency for international development. Coming up next, a subcommittee looks at policing and the role of the Civil Rights Division. They heard members from that divis...

To put forward, so, i commend the u. S. Senate proappropriatio committee providing some assistance in that regard. I want to just invite david to ask, to address whether the, whether we can wait another 30 or 40 or 50 years to take action and expect not to have consequences. Thank you for the question. Not acting increases the cost of action. The longer we delay in action will increase the cost of action. Because we will have infrastructure lock in and other dynamics that will make it increasing...

The Justice Department statistics show that nationally only 16 of state prisoners are in for drug crimes and less than 4 are there for drug possession. And yet, our very president is going around stating an untruth. That is because this is an administration i think that is ruled by an ideology that claims that Law Enforcement is somehow racist. And that, as you say, is a disservice to officers of all colors who are there to help the good people in the community. Mr. Mccarthy, you rightly observe...