Ford school for policy and International Policy center. We want to give a special thanks to cspan for the interest they have taken in this conversation today and for joining us here to capture the discussion. Director of wallets house which is home to the night wallace fellowship for journalists. Its the livingston awards for young journalists that brings us here today. The livingston awards is a prestigious prize often referred to as the polluters for the young but awards excellence in journalism by journalists under the age of 35. Brooke jarvis, our special guest won the livingston award for National Reporting in 2017 for her story unclaimed and it is that story that brings us to our talk today beyond the wall, the human toll of border crossing. Tell thells that story of an anonymous, undocumented man left in a vegetative state after a tragic truck accident during a border crossing. Unclaimed, he languished in a hospital bed for nearly two decades. The man came to be called 66 garage
Our privilege to host conversations like this that bring remarkable people who do remarkable things and sometimes are Difficult Conversations to this stage. Tonight what youll hear is as i said that front row seat on history. Being a woman of color at this time and in this place is something that is too rare and that we need to be thinking about on a lot of different levels. So i know your thoughts will be challenged with that and probably in places you be regaled by some of the stories along the way. It is a pleasure and a privilege for me as well to introduce to you a very special student who is going to introduce professor thompson and bring out the panel. She is a a junior. She is our journalism major. She is done remarkable things here at gw and beyond, and schepens be president of the Gw Association of black journalists. Lauryn hill is in her prime of her life i would like to say here at gw. Shes a assistant editor of the ace multicultural magazine. She interned last summer and s
What they do and who they are. It is a pleasure and a privilege ar me to introduce to you very special student who is going to introduce professor is a junior, a journalism major, she has done unremarkable things at gw and beyond and is president of the Gw Association of black journalists. Lauryn hill is in her prime of her life, i would love to say here. She is the assistant editor of the multicultural magazine, she entered last summer at the afroamerican newspaper in d. C. , and is destined to go onto a really remarkable career, and she is launching right here, so join me please in welcoming lauryn hill, and have a very good evening. Lauren good evening, and thank you professor say that professor professor sesno. I would first like to thank the school of media and public hostrs for helping tonights event and allowing our organization to be a part of another great series of programming. Our organization believes it is important to discuss the Trump Administration from the perspective
Important conversation with people who are both on the front lines of history and to make history, because of what they do and of who they are. And reallylace here, our privilege, at smpa to host conversations like this that bring remarkable people who do remarkable things and sometimes very Difficult Conversations to this stage. Tonight, what you will hear is, as i said, that front row seat on history. Being a woman of color at this time and in this place is something that is too rare, something we need to be thinking about on a lot of different levels. I know your thoughts will be challenged with that, and probably in places you will be regaled by some of the stories along the way. It is a pleasure and a privilege for me, as well, to introduce to you a very special student who was going to introduce professor thompson and bring out the panel. She is a junior. She is a journalism major. She has done remarkable things here at gw and beyond. She happens to be president of the Gw Associa
Im sarah montague. My guest today is one of the big beasts of british politics. Known as the father of the house because he is the longest serving member of the commons, hes also held more cabinet posts than any other living british politician. Yet, ken clark says we are now in the maddest situation of his lifetime and talks of a political system that is broken. It is one of the reasons he could not quite bring himself to retire at the last election, staying on to fight against brexit and for the conservative party. Is it a fight he can win . Ken clark, welcome to hardtalk. Glad to be here. You have served under four Prime Ministers, heath, thatcher, major and cameron and yet you say we are now in the maddest situation. What do you mean by that . It is so chaotic and unpredictable. We got here by accident, nobody planned it. Nobody thought that leave would win the referendum campaign. Neither side did. Nigel farage was as amazed as David Cameron to find he had won. Nobody had planned f