Improvement in fastening pocket openings which is boring language for basically the invention of the blue jean. Sunday at noon on oral histories, we begin a series of five interviewses with prominent africanamerican women from the explorations and black relationship leadership oral collection. Discusses her life including her experience with racism in the newsroom. Getting in the door was one thing. When i got in, i had to prove to them i could write, meet a deadline, be a good colleague in a newsroom environment where once again i was one of very few people of color. Just getting in the door wasnt enough. Whey always say about affirmative action, its nice that the door opens. What do you do once you move through it . For our complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. In case you missed it, here are some clips of cspans programming last week. California senator Kamala Harris gives her first speech from the senate floor. Our country needs a secretary of education who has demonstrated basic competency when it comes to issues facing children. They just need to know what theyre talking about. When questioned in a hearing by my colleague, senator franken, it was clear miss devos didnt know the difference between two basic theories of testing. Proficiency and growth. Lantos Award Recipient and Iraqi Parliament member on president trumps travel ban. The iraqi soldiers blood with mixed with the american soldiers blood on the iraqi soil. We appreciation that it gave exception for the my tinorimino. Its unjustice and unfair to senator tim scott reflects on his hometown of charleston, south carolina. Its in my home city of charleston where the civil war began. It was my home city of charleston where nearly 40 of all the slaves that came to america would come through charleston, south carolina. And it was a charlestonian who came up with the concept written into our constitution, threefifths of a man. Members of congress conduct a panel on opioid abuse. Because its very difficult to understand why someone would keep on taking fentanyl when their mother already overdosed, it generates the brain state equivalent to depravation, the sense that its sending the message, if you dont eat, youre going not to survive. So it puts your brain in a state of emergency where youll do anything in order to get the drug, needed for to survive. West Virginia Governor jim justice gives his state of the state address. You elected me as your governor, a person who had never been a politician. In the wake of me running as a democrat at a time when donald trump won our state by 17,000,00 . All programs available an cspan. Org on our home page or by searching the video library. On tuesday a hearing on better ways to expedite the claims and appeals process for veterans. This is just over 90 minutes