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Continues next on cnn [the Beatles Revolution plays] [screaming] you say you want a revolution well, you know all chanting peace now we all want to change the world were tired of fulltime jobs for parttime income. You tell me that its evolution well, you know i know nonviolence will work. We all want to change the world is this what you want to do . Destroy the country . Ill destroy a whole bunch of yall. But when you talk about destruction the american embassy is under siege. Dont you know that...

Afterwards is a a weekly interw program with relevant guest hosts anything top nonfiction authors about their latest work. All afterwards programs are available as podcasts. Reverend sharpton i dont want to start this conversation about your book by quoting something you wrote towards the end of your book which i think its a great jumping off point for this conversation pick you write i tell everyone the hardest job of being a preacher is to eulogize a life that someone who did nothing. My frien...

Claims he could have died from his own covid infection. Not yet confirming that he is negative tor the virus. And casing spike in parts of northeast and 11 states in the middle of the country see record rates of infection and. And one of the oldest state fairs is maintaining the tradition while keeping patrons today. But we begin with todays eye opener. Youre world in 90 seconds. It is a Tropical Storm so it continues to elongate and it weakens but still the threat of rain, still the threat of s...

About your book, with something you wrote toward the end of your book, which i think is jumping off for your book, he right, i tell everyone the hardest job is to eulogize the life of someone who did nothing. My friends, is harder still to eulogize the lifeblood of the country who did nothing and then you say i beg of you, give me something to work with when your time comes and im standing before your family as they prepare to take me to god, let there be something worthy, something of merit you...

To the life of one of the iconic figures of not just the Civil Rights Movement, but of the ways and Means Committee. I sat next to john lewis for 25 years on the ways and Means Committee and i must tell you, he was the bravest, most gentle person i ever met. He nearly lost his life in pursuit of justice and confronted some of the darkest society at the Edmund Pettus bridge as a very young man. But he never lost faith in what america could become. During those many conversations, and he offered a...

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For a longer piece. It is an extraordinary watershed, historical moment. I think we are living through a third american reconstruction effort to reconstruct democracy so that it is multiracial, multicultural. Our first efforts were after the civil war. 1865 to 1877. We did achieve some racial progress. We had black elected officials. 1500 we had a freedmens bureau. We had the creation of black churches and Public Schools, but we also institutionalized racial segregation rather quickly by the 188...

Susan dr. Peniel joseph, you and i planned this interview three months back, but we got sideways with the covid lockdown. As a historian, how are you processing this time this country is going through . Prof. Joseph i have been writing a lot, both opeds in for a longer piece. It is extraordinary watershed moment. I think we are living through a third american reconstruction effort to reconstruct democracy so that it is multiracial, multicultural. Our first efforts were after the civil war. 1865 ...

Ago. Taken should have been care of 40 years ago. My family and i are victims of Police Brutality. In 1980, i was pregnant with my son. Ago, there was a dialogue with the vatican and we 1700thrilled to have people. As that of a minute ago, we had rsvps. N six 6500 some people will watch this later but that is a sign that i think there is something important happening in the community. Peoples an openness, want to listen and learn and express their solidarity and they want to act together to over...

A professor ill get back to. Austin and the author all the sword and the shield their revolution or realize it. And Martin Luther king jr Professor Joseph its good to talk to you thank you very much which im. Aaron and congratulations on the your book which was released just last month from my commercial mind of your i guess you can wish for more should really say but as an american citizen as a goal or how do you feel about whats happening around. Well i think i take great hope and inspiration ...