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Changing course across the nation black men and women struggle for control of their lives. Develop box on the street in the schools at the call for power challenge. They established relationship between blacks and whites in america. Okay, so thats just a little review of where we were last week with the documentary from eyes and the prize looking at black power Stokely Carmichael provides a really great introduction and what purpose of black power is how it folds into this. Part is really fold i...

Thank you all for being here. Im directer of the kansas city public library, its a great pleasure to have you here and have will chafe here to talk about his excellent new book. Called the reflective, ranchy and rivetting. I want to write a book that gets that kind of press myself. Im trying to live a life that first of all. [laughter] but this book and tonights top i topic will remind us we have a president ial Campaign Going on in which there is a human cry about what is truth and what is fact...

Where it is women that are the most prominent and focusing on i mean, i recall martha grass who is a native american or mother of 11 children in oklahoma. Plays a prominent role in the solidarity day rally, and speaking about, you know, the challenges that she faces as a mom in the middle of the country and that poverty, you know, impacted women and children more than anybody else, right . And so in a lot of ways the campaign highlighted the it was it provided a space for women who did not see t...

Hear from panelists on how people from different races Work Together and why the movement was largely remembered as being dominated by africanamericans. This event was part of a symposium to Mark National hispanic heritage month. Its an hour and 20 minutes. Thank you so much, everybody, were going to move on to our first panel discussion. We are presenting this symposium, called organizing across the boundariries in the struggle for civil rights and justice. When poor people marched on washingto...

Thank you so much, everybody, were going to move on to our first panel discussion. We are presenting this symposium, called organizing across the boundariries in the struggle for civil rights and justice. When poor people marched on washington, the 68 campaign in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers briefly and then they can come up and begin the discussion. So the first person ill introduce is Gordon Mantler, whos an assistant professor at George Washington university specializing in ...

Its an hour and 20 minutes. Thank you so much, everybody. Well move on to our first panel discussion. I should say my name is steve and im the writer and editor here at the library of congress and were presenting this symposium entitled organizing across the bound rice in the struggle for civil rights and justice. This first Panel Presentation is called when poor people marched on washington taerks , the 68 in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers briefly and then they can come up and b...

Eve. The stateoftheunion address. The state of the union. President obama will pivot back to the economy. That is not a prescription for getting a budget deal with the House Republicans. The sequester turned into a ridiculous blame game. He is the one who proposed it in the first place. It is completely wrong and to make that argument requires a sequestration of memory. We have had plenty of spending cuts, what we need is growth deva vu all over again. There is a lot of energy coming from the te...

It is the state of the union eve. The stateoftheunion address. The state of the union. President obama will pivot back to the economy. That is not a prescription for getting a budget deal with the House Republicans. The sequester turned into a ridiculous blame game. He is the one who proposed it in the first place. It is completely wrong and to make that argument requires a sequestration of memory. We have had plenty of spending cuts, what we need is growth deva vu all over again. There is a lot...

Thank you for joining us. I am honored to be here with my women colleagues who have taken the lead on when american succeeds women succeed. And we have the leader of the issue here. She is the booster of it all shall we say and sets the pace for all of us. Donna edwards the share of the Workman Group is here. We have the vice chair of the ste steering community. You will be hearing singing from Michele Grisham from new mexico and judy chew of california is here of the asianpacific organization. ...

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