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Frozen in their tracks. And its been a weekend of winning numbers after two big jackpots. Two lucky winners start the new year sitting on a fortune. Well, its not us, im sitting on a chair, but its not a fortune, good day, its sunday, january 7, 2018. Some people will start 2018 at the bank one winner in florida yesterday, then big one last night in New Hampshire, just one winner for both. For both. They dont have to share the money. We have to talk about this. Lets take a look at the pennsylvan...

Before the womens march last year that said this was the boldest most intersectional platform that is ever come out of any march historically, and that was one, the moment i was most proud. After words airs every saturday at 10 p. M. Eastern and sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern and pacific. Founded in 1747, its one of the oldest libraries in the country. This building is essentially the first purpose built Library Structure in america. We often talk about franklin and his Library Company of philadelphi...

Im really sad. That was our school. Severe storms whipped through the midatlantic. In philadelphia strong winds and rain caused major flooding. The Confederate Flag will be officially removed from the South Carolina state house. The flag had to come down and thank god it has. The fbi with a sweep of terrortear terrorist arrests. Negotiateing a deal with nuclear iran. Hackers got their hands on more than 21 million Social Security numbers. Im one of those people and my own information was stole s...

Blacks had no rights and were considered property. 3 5 a person. Ot even a full human being if you have an institution like that that flourishes for hundreds of years, even when the laws change, it is still embedded in peoples minds and psyches. It is important to set the tone for what happened in the later years. A very important supreme courts we focus on is the 1896 plessy versus ferguson which established the separate but equal doctrine, putting a legal stamp on jim crow laws and black codes...

Welcome to Little Rock High School National Historic site. And an interpretive ranger, my tie to this story is that my mother was one of the little name going to buy the media to describe the first nine students at Little Rock High School. In 1957, the first black students walked up the steps. Puts the little rock central high crisis in the context of the greater civil rights movement. It began with the institution of slavery and the fact that blacks had absolutely no rights and and nsidered rob...

With sydney blumenthal, former Senior Advisor to president bill clinton. His book is a look at the political life of Abraham Lincoln. With that, im going to throw it over to our interviewer, elizabeth taylor, the literary editor at large for the chicago tribune. [applause] hi. Thank you. Are these mics on . Great. You can hear me . Thank you so much for coming out. This is a wonderful turnout for a wonderful book, and were delighted to be here. Ive actually in this chair, year ago, talking about...

How have you been . I am [inaudible conversations] leaving money to their children . A lot of them are against it. I know about warren buffett. Not that they are worried about corrupting. Through. That kicks the problem. More money a lot have more money than we can ever of course. That is the general attitude. Thank you. Thanks for your talk, i enjoyed. [inaudible conversations] i have a question. What platform is considered [inaudible conversations] if you give 10 million to harvard. Booktv is ...

Think he would have counted that as success. Im standing in front of the Concord Free Library were up next the curator will feature some of the special collections. The special collection started growing when the library was founded in 1873 and it was part of the vision of the founder of the library, william monroe, who set this place up specifically to collect local materials. He was very proud of the history of literature and he wanted to set up something that would both documents and do credi...

With that, im going to throw it over to our interviewer, elizabeth taylor, the literary editor at large for the chicago tribune. [applause] hi. Thank you. Are these mics on . Great. You can hear me . Thank you so much for coming out. This is a wonderful turnout for a wonderful book, and were delighted to be here. Ive actually in this chair, year ago, talking about the first volume of Sidney Blumenthals four to be four volumes on lincoln, and im really excite it excited about this one. I loved th...

With that, im going to throw it over to our interviewer, elizabeth taylor, the literary editor at large for the chicago tribune. [applause] hi. Thank you. Are these mics on . Great. You can hear me . Thank you so much for coming out. This is a wonderful turnout for a wonderful book, and were delighted to be here. Ive actually in this chair, year ago, talking about the first volume of Sidney Blumenthals four to be four volumes on lincoln, and im really excite it excited about this one. I loved th...