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Baltimore. About family, influences about shaping identity. Coates i was very fortunate. I have six brothers and sisters total. I lived in a household in west baltimore, right across the street where the disturbances in baltimore started earlier this year. You know, the world you grew up in, what you know in terms of what you are going to go out and see, and then theres the world thats on tv, and the world i knew was one in which there was a great deal of violence in the neighborhoods, where violence shaped the social customs of folks, and where a larger violence that was not as obvious, not n...

Last june sparked a national debate. His latest book is called between the world and me, written in the form of a letter to his 14yearold son. I am pleased to have him at the table the first time. Welcome. Thanks, charlie. Rose its a pleasure. Id like to talk biography first. Tell me about growing up in baltimore, about family, about influences, about shaping identity. Yeah well, i was very fortunate. I have six brothers and sisters total. I lived in a household in west baltimore, down the street from where the disturbances in baltimore started earlier this year. You know, the world you grow u...

Last june sparked a national debate. His latest book is called between the world and me, written in the form of a letter to his 14yearold son. I am pleased to have him at the table the first time. Welcome. Thanks, charlie. Rose its a pleasure. Id like to talk biography first. Tell me about growing up in baltimore, about family, about influences, about shaping identity. Yeah well, i was very fortunate. I have six brothers and sisters total. I lived in a household in west baltimore, down the street from where the disturbances in baltimore started earlier this year. You know, the world you grow u...

With iraq, the u. S. Had just invaded afghanistan, and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11, and we started laughing about the color code alerts. Remember the george w. Bush alerts, yellow, orange, red, and said it was to keep people in a state of fear, and that we needed another color coded alert to say, theres a different way of dealing with this. We go after whoever attacked us, not wholesale invasion of countries, thats when we came up with the idea of codepink. We originally wanted to by code code hot pink ...

Coming up next from earlier today code pink founder was on the indepth program to discuss her writing and answer viewer questions. Among her books bridging the global gap how to stop the next war now into and at the most recent, drone warfare. Host Medea Benjamin how and when was code pink found it . Guest we were a group of women environmentalists sitting together in a retreat right after 9 11 talking about how he we could deal with the Climate Crisis and during the lunch break we started talking about the 9 11 attack and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to i...