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Fascinating extracts from the memoir of Elaine Brown, the only female leader in the Black Panther Party. Here she recalls Jean Seberg and other celebrities' involvement, the role of COINTELPRO, and the manoeuvrings of Eldridge Cleaver within the party.
AMY GOODMAN: Fifty years ago this week, Viking Press published Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road. The book was an immediate hit and remains one of the key works of the Beat Generation. On the Road was a fictionalized account of Kerouac’s travels across the country in the late 1940s. He originally wrote the book over a three-week stretch in the early 1950s. Kerouac typed it on a scroll, single-spaced with no margins or paragraph breaks. JACK KEROUAC: So Dean and I raced on to the East Coast. At one point we drove a 1947 Cadillac limousine across the state of Nebraska 110 miles an hour, be...
-Sandhills Cattle Association THEDFORD, Neb. — The Sandhills Cattle Association kicked off its two-day Annual Convention on Sept. 20 with the Fall Feeder Calf Preview, held in conjunction with the Nebraska Cow-Calf Council. This year’s ranch tour program was cut a little short from standard tours to accommodate all the activities they had in store. The first stop was Craig and Joy Miles, Miles Family Ranch, located north of Thedford. Roughly 38 folks showed up to listen as Craig and his son Caleb explained their operation to participants. Their ranch raises Angus cattle and typically sell...
political arena and trying to achieve our goals. i personally think it would be better off if we accepted the 21st century and that some of these social issues behind, but there is a minority of the country that strongly disagrees. so i don't expect these issues to all of a sudden just be our political debate. >> host: column is watching us in scottsdale, arizona. are you dare? let's do syed and lindenhurst, new york. go ahead, please. you're on. >> caller: first of all, i'd like to say that i am not some lunatic right-wing bible thumping person. i'm a democrat. i am all for women's ...
night and prejudice we thought before. >> host: will the presidential election ultimately be decided on the issues to write about in this poker economic issues issues are a mix thereof? >> guest: and mix thereof, but the social issues should stay front and center and if they don't, it's because republicans want to start talking about it because they know how unpopular views are. that's going to be incumbent upon democrats to keep front and center. >> host: her book is called "delirium." find it wherever you buy your books. >> host: it's time for our final panel session. let me tell y...