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African descent has the same opinions, shares the same music, can play and dance pretty much the same way only to discover that that is not true. Course, have formalized this notion, and it is something called the one drop rule, which we used to distinguish Race Relations on america, orland compare race or understanding race on mainland north america from elsewhere in the world, and it of course speaks to the fact that africanamericans and africans have had a common enemy and have had a shared experience, all of which complicates our understanding of ,he question of who is black and those of y...

Women and distinctions of gender. We are not guiloing to talk abo all of distinctions today but well deal with this question of whos black and some way set the table for the rest of the sessions during the next two days. My colleagues on the platform, most of you know who they are. They a their bios are in the program. Miles, just to the left of me at the university of michigan, sheshe does just about everything, africanAmerican Culture and native American Culture and going down the list it is quite impressive. My colleague at the university of maryland. Elsah Barkley Brown will lead off our d...

Period. Good question, curt. I guess were through. Tonight on cspan3s American History tv in primetime, the start of two weeks of our series the contenders. At the ran and lost but changed political history. Programs about henry clay lead off the series. Well show you a profile of the former House Speaker from kentucky known as the great compromiser in the early 19th century. Well also tour his ashland estate in lexington. Also, senator Mitch Mcconnell talks about the legacy of henry clay as a member of the house and nat for overfour deckeds and then a look at the compromise of 1850 and the im...

He and other p. O. W. S used to communicate. Every night they tapped out goodnight and God Bless America from their cells to each other. When you knew the man in the cell next to you was down and hurting his feet locked and ankle cuffs at the foot of the concrete slab come his hands cuffed tightly behind him, he had been like that for a week or a month, you get up to your wall frequently and you tapped to him gb and he knew that meant god bless. He knew that it also meant to be tough, hang in there. I am praying for you. And then in a week or a month or whenever hed be up on his wall to encour...

There are an array of options and that is certainly one that is there. We are going to turn to membership for questions. Im told to remind you it is on the record. We ask you wait for a microphone. It will bring it to you. Speak directly into the microphone, stand stand up, tell us your name, affiliation and limit yourself to one question. Lets start over here with this gentleman. Hello. My memory on this may be hazy, but i was on the defense policy board at the time of the earliest crises. Somehow or another at the time the cold war was ending they made it possible for some of their records t...