And well be following this roll call as it plays out. It happens over several minutes. There are a lot of states who want to be counted. You see the tally at the bottom of your screen. Well bring you highlights as we go this evening. Well of course go to that big moment when joe biden officially clinches the nomination with 2,374 votes needed. We can dip in if you want. Theres montana now. Joe biden has a plan to make it happen. Montana casts one vote for Bernie Sanders and 18 votes for our next president , joe biden. Nebraska. And thats the way its been playing out. This is really a nomination on location. There are also some big speeches ahead this evening, including former secretary of state john kerry, who was the democrats 2004 president ial nominee, form secretary of state colin powell, a republican, and tonights headliner, joe bidens wife, dr. Jill biden. Well, its been a busy night. They have been on the air over an hour now. Weve seen a number of noteworthy speakers, including
Cspan3. Next, a visit to the Smithsonians National portrait gallery. In the second of a twopart program, historian Kate Clarke Lemay gives American History tv a guided tour of an exhibit marking the centennial of the 19th amendment using political cartoons and images of suffragists picketing the white house, ms. Lemay explores the National Womens Party Tactics under the leadership of alice paul. Hi, im kate lemay, and im the curator of votes for women, a portrait of persistence, which is an exhibition on view at the National Portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. And im standing in front of what we call our title treatment. Its a large blowup of headwig lik riker who was a german born actress. During the finnish or the conclusion of the 1913 parade in washington, d. C. , andst that just one event of the long Suffrage Movement that this exhibition highlights, and we have 124 objects that goes into the long history beginning in the 1832 and bringing it right up to 1920, but the
Happened applause you have chosen the path of love, the path of perfect love that casts out fear, and i want you to know that that is the path not only to your own healing, its the path to the healing of the whole world, it is the path of partnering with god in redeeming the world, and it is a difficult path. You have been asked to carry a burden that would have crushed most people, and you have borne it with grace and courage. Youve called those who disrupted protests with violence or looting to honor georges life with love. You called a president who sought to dominate to live in a leaseful world where we depeople whose perfect fear that casts out anything that looks like love to have a love that casts out fear and you have been a model for the whole world and now we must follow your good example, calling out anything that doesnt honor george or any of the rest of us domination, injustice, oppression, racism. Stephen kleinburg, the imminent socialist at Rice University has taught us
Not long ago was the vice president. I was second vice presd hugh was secretary. We were mentored by the great senioralhe did. Junior, i met later and had the privilege of marrying. Junior and his wife, elaine. They reminded me of thatlast ar and 40 some years now. That i moved to fairfield about 8 years ago and heard a gog on dr. Jackie. Dr. Jackie will preach the paint off the sanctuary. So i was there in fairfield and one friday night i came to the good friday services. At beaver memorial. Oh, wow she did leave some paint on the sanctuary but it was definitely a dynamic, electrifying message. So today, we are honored to have the Senior Pastor of Allen Temple Baptist church. The first elected pastor, a woman pastor, Senior Pastor of allen temple, reverend dr. Jaclyn thompson. It is great to have you. It is great to be here. Thank you for having me. Thank you for coming. Reginald liles, the deacon, brothers to brother, reverend long, had to make the contact. I know you are all over th
Booktv and free speech tv. So i would ask to everybody to check their cellphones just to make sure that your cellphone is off. And also just so you know its being filmed tonight. We will be taking questions later, and passing around note cards, and then reading the questions from up here so they can also be part of the livestream and the booktv and there will be a booksigning afterwardded. Hay market books has a table and gary will by signing books. So please join is. This weekend i went to d. C. And had a couple of extra hour size went to she the king memorial. How many people have seen it . Its exceedingly depressing. Im sure he monument included alcoves to honor other civil rights martyr its but those were scrapped. King towers over us, the sculpture is flanked with a granite wall, 14 quotes on the wall, not one uses the word racism or segregation or Racial Injustice or apartheid, not one. Theyre earned like crossstretches, in 1963, 1967, 1955, 1963, 1964. Completely out of context