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Host we are back live with h wil haygood. We will put up the numbers. 2028488200 in the east and central time zones. 7488201 for the mount and pacific time zone. We will put up our email, facebook and twitter as well. Those are other ways you can contact us if the phone lines are busy. We have mentioned it in black and white. I will read a couple quotes from your book about sammy davis, jr. He loved white women and the site of one on his black sheets. His american dream. You go on to write nixon...

Everything like that. I had a horrible home life. My mom is physically crazy, my father not working. I ago throughout this modern modern problems in addition to going to the problem of being an average american with these expectations and no site of any means to accomplish them. And that lead somebody to want to commit suicide. If you have no hope in this country with all the brain you can stay, i can do any class simply because i have to do with my parents situation and on top of that coming th...

Exciting to find the figures like Adam Clayton Powell junior, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall who were not born into Mainstream Society and who by dent of their enormous talent and gift sticks themselves into the fabric of the country via entertainment, politics, sports, or in marshalls case the law, in the case of the white house butler, extra ordinary service to the country. These figures, when i look back at the figures, society, culture, race and style. Gues guest there is legislat...

The Supreme Court nomination that changed america. He will be taking questions were the next three hours. Host author wil haygood, you write about black men who heroically manifested themselves into mainstream america. I think my writing is a relentless pursuit to explain all of america. What does that mean . Guest i think it has been exciting to find the figures like Adam Clayton Powell junior, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall who were not born into Mainstream Society and who by dent o...

Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. In depth is in next on book tv. Our our guest is the author of several books including his most recent, showdown on Thurgood Marshall. Author will haygood, this is a quote from you, i write about black men who heroically manifest themselves into mainstream america. Lentless purt i think my reading writing has been a relentless pursuit to explain all of america. What is t...

Exoplanet. Exoplanet, you ask . Its an extra solar planet resolving around a sunlike star buttoned the solar system beyond earth reside solar system. And i had that in there as a potential sixth chapter because during 1995, the first confirmed discovery of an exoplanet in the con sell addition of constellation of pegasus was confirmed and it, i thought was a small but important steppingstone in the search for alien life, and now thousands of exoplanets have been discovered many by the space tele...

The stories theyre covering. That certainly has been judy millers preference as a veteran journalist. But a decade ago judy ended up the subject of not one but two big controversies one involving the question of iraqs alleged possession and pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, and the other involving the disclosure of Valerie Plame as a cia a operative. Judy is here this evening to discuss those experiences and much more all chronicled in her new memoir, the story a reporters journey. The boo...

Issued or the fbi issued a report of an anarchist threat because on top of the building there was some graffiti near, i guess, where some of the delegates were and a brick. And so taken alone and even though there were very few protesters there, they issued a report, the media carried it, and it continues to perpetuate negative stereotypes about individuals who are merely, in cases, exercising their First Amendment rights but are being deemed because they question the status quo and corporate or...

Making changes sub rosa. If the court is going to make a change that actually changes the meaning of what was initially announced it should have an obligation to make that clear with some kind of supplement. [inaudible question] thank you, professor, for your presentation and your work. I was struck most of all for the freedom of speech in a deposition of the court in Citizens United. And i believe that the criticism about the individual judges raised a more profound question, and that is the as...

Secret info. Determination. Its hard to answer in the abstract yes in all cases, no in all cases but would it be an important suitability scrub. There would be instances where someone could be extremely careless but still maintain confidence . We have a lot of people who are competent in this country who would love to work for your agency but yet it would be potentially you would allow somebody to be extremely careless and continue on . Thats the trouble with answering the hypothetical. I can im...