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And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis imagine a narrative full of irreverent humor and packed with largerthanlife adventures thats also a thoughtprovoking commentary on our collective history, as i think about it, with colorful characters, both real and imagined. You have a sense of whats in store for you when you read James Mcbrides latest novel, the good lord bird. It takes place in 1856 kansas, when that region was a battleground between proslavery forces and abolitionists, and features both john brown and Frederick Douglass. Its hero is a runaway ...

But he has not used violence to project his message. He has used comedy. He was a headline performer. When america goes to war they dont send no comics. They accepted folk who can barely read and write. At 81 years old, and father to ten, dick gregory reflects on his past and the legacy his children will inherit. We spoke in washington, d. C. You got into the civil rights struggle early on. Could you have imagined, had i whispered into the ears of your 20somethingyearold self that six decades later we would till be having these arguments . Let me answer it this way. 120 years ago if you were a...

Testify against senator Jeff Sessions. But i think these are extraordinary times and they call for extraordinary measures. The first sitting senator ever to testify against a colleague. Sessions set to be grilled over his civil rights record 30 years after battling similar charges. I am not a racist. I am not intensetive to blacks. Weve got live coverage at every turn. Plus, the final farewell. President obamas last speech as commander in chief tonight, returning to the city of his victory speech back in 08. Because of what we did on this day in this election at this defining moment, change ha...