And good evening and welcome. Thank you so much for coming. It is an amazing house we have here this evening. I have to say, im thrilled and honored to take part in this Amazing Group of people we have here. I am a media studies and film professor here at the new school and i do teach about things like this black power mix tape thing. Alley. Ight up my so of course, i would love to moderate this. But we are really thrilled to have such an amazing set of powerhouse folks here this evening. Dont you think . [applause] so, in addition to thinking our panelists, i would also like to thank you as our audience, because what it means is that you recognize and support this ongoing work and commitment of these cultural warriors that we have here in our midst. And that we are continuing in the struggle for human rights, economic and educational equality and freedom of speech. The struggle continues. Tonight, i would like to frame the conversation that we have around this sort of issue of educati
Weather for our first weekend of fall, yes i did say fall. Chris sowers has a look at the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. The confused Mother Nature continues. Reporter it could be the warmest weekend we see until next spring. Lets get you outside and start you out with a view in Atlantic City. Its a quiet, tranquil morning, you can see patchy fog, it is clear and comfortable and everybody is getting set to enjoy a nice weekend around the delaware valley. 52 degrees in millville. 60 in philadelphia. Trenton, 55. Beach haven 59 degrees, 61 is the number for Sea Isle City on the boardwalk in Atlantic City. Allentown, 50, poconos 55, lancaster, 51. Theres the entire saturday right there. So far this morning we are not seeing any cloud cover. We expect to have a bright, blue sky all day long. Looks like a pictureperfect start to the weekend. The normal for this time of year by the time we get into sunday is 73 degrees, well be ten degrees warmer than that come sunday afternoon. Mo
Career. And at 10 on after words, qaz is city war tang looks back at the history of money. And we conclude our prime time programming at 11 p. M. Eastern with joe becker detailing the legal strategies and battles in recent years for marriage equality. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Next on booktv, actor danny glover is joined by Kathleen Cleaver and brian jones to talk about the black Power Movement. The Panel Discussed key participants in the Movement Like stockily Carmichael Stokely carmichael, angela davis, you would bridge cleaver, bobby seale and huey p. Newton. This is about an hour and ten minutes. [applause] good evening, and welcome. Thank you so much, everyone, for coming. This is an amazing house that we have here this evening. And needless to say, i am thrilled and honored to be able to partake in this Amazing Group of people that we have here. My name is michelle materre, i am a media studies and film professor here at the new school, and i do teach about thin
Words matter. And today the words changed at the top of United States command. Iraqi troops are losing ground to isis by the day. It is no better in syria. And with that as a backdrop in a briefing at the pentagon, the joint chiefs chair, general martin dempsey, said there is shut lay possibility well need Ground Troops to wipe out isis but that does not mean american troops on the ground. He and the defense secretary, chuck hagel, briefed reporters an hour ago. Last week general dempsey made beg headlines when he said he may recommend that president obama put american Ground Troops on the ground in the fight. Now a week later he says American Forces would not be as effective as the foreign fighters already on the ground. In fact, ideally, for the kind of issues were confronting there, the ideal force, in fact the only truly effective force, that will actually be able to reject isil from within its own population, is a force comprised of iraqis and kurds and moderate syrian opposition.