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founder s vision for america? he is ben frj lynn would be horrified by obamacare. he it doesn t even cover leech-kraft or bone purging for female hysteria. but folks what is most insidious about obama s a againa is how is our brainwashing our children. take michelle obama s let s move campaign to combat childhood obesity. oh o i m sorry, i m sorry. no, that s north korean dictator kim jong you know. it s so easy to mistakes this two, they both look great in pant suits. (laughter) oh, and dear leader has his own very effective anti-obesity program. he is the only one in north korea who gets to eat. (laughter) well, nation, i am sad to say that i am terrified to report that generalisima michelle is winning the battle of the baby bulge. a big step forward in the battle against childhood obesity. a new study using federal data says obesity in children between the ages 26 and 5 has dramatically decreased. over 40% in a decade. this report comes out just as the first lady s ....
now on booktv from the 13th annual national book festival on the national mall in washington, d.c., harvard university law professor kenneth mack presents his book representing the race: the creation of the civil rightsr lawyer. kennet thank you. thank you to the library of congress for inviting me. and thank you to all of you for coming. what i would like to do today is talk a little bit about the bitt book, lived about how i came to little bit write it and i ll be just ae to little bit also. and then we will tak e questions. will take questions. so the book, the book is a biographical account of men and women to change america, men and women who helped transform america from a country that denied basic citizenship rights to a portion of its citizens based on race to the country we know today that embraces racial equality as one of its core principles. is a collective biography of african-americans who practiced law during the era of jim crow. lawyers like thurgo ....
300 megahertz. the presidents five megahertz that he called for a couple years ago, and we certainly applaud him for that effort. and we want to continue to push and get the spectrum as quickly as possible. because companies like the two gentlemen represent on either side of me are using the spectrum for new and varied uses, and the people who stand to gain the most are our consumers that are now over 310 million in this country. and so we want to see that continue. okay, thank you, steve. craig. a lot of good comments made and agree with all this but i think from a single highest priority i m going to agree with steve on this. it s spectrum. to elaborate, spectrum, spectrum, spectrum. by the way, let me tell you why. i agree strongly with the untreated, for example, he regulatory a lot of these areas where the innovation and investment in the industry and the technological progress are going to bring tremendous consumer benefits and really what we are looking for ....
mack presents his book, representing th representing te creation of the civil rights lawyer. well, thank you. thank you to the library of congress for inviting me, and thank you to all of you for coming. what i would like to do today is talk little bit about the book, a little bit about how i came to write it, and i ll read just a little but also and then we will take questions. so the book. the book is a biographical account of men and women who changed america. men and women who helped transform america from a country that denied basic citizenship rights to a portion of its citizens based on race to the country that we know today that embraces racial equality as one of its core principles. it s a collective biography of a group of african-american civil rights lawyers who practice law during the era of jim crow. lawyers like thurgood marshall and a number of lesser-known figures like los angeles lawyer laura miller, polly murray who has spent some of her career here ....
and so we couldn t possibly find a better person in the history of sports and civil rights than dr. harry edwards and he was gracious enough to lend his name to that lecture and we expect we ll have several presentations under that name in the coming years. today is we have a conversation that s going to occur on the area of sports and civil rights. i ve been a part of many panels and many presentations over the years and normally you try and find the best panelists and the best people to make that presentation. rarely do you have the people, the top people, who are presenting. in other words, if you had to pick one, two and three, rarely do you get one, two and three. today we re fortunate that we have probably the three most important people in the civil rights sports and society and sports and civil rights movement in the last 50 years and we re ecstatic, we re pleased, we re proud that we can present them and have a conversation with them with you today. so let me ....