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Readers. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is john allen, president of the Brookings Institution and it is my sincere pleasure to welcome you to todays event celebrating andre perrys release of his new book know your price, valuing black lives, across brookingss roughly 104 year history brookings has taken powerful positions on issues of race, equality and civil rights. These issues stand at the top of brookings qualities and i have made this president ial priority, certainly for the institution. Brookings not only made an obligation to study these issues but it is also the respons...

Barack obama. This is a 45 minutes. My name is steve crown and on behalf of the crown family its my pleasure to welcome you to the Second Annual leicester crown distinguished lecture on u. S. Foreign policy. For last your selection we hosted former defense secretary jim mattis in front of an audience of 900, a scenario which would be unthinkable today. Covid19 pandemic has transformed americas economy, society and international relations. And along with protest for Racial Justice there are questions about americas Global Leadership, image and power. These questions have elevated the importance...

Is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. Next, a look at one of our city tour visits. Today, we are on the campus of the university of North Carolina at chapel hill, the First State University in the country. This is a contested claim that we argue with chartered first, chartered in 1785. Was first to open and had already graduated a couple of classes for the university of georgia. The university and the city were founded at the same time. Selected,area was there was no town or village. Farms, therefew was a chapel located on what is now the site of the carolina inn, but there was no t...

Good afternoon i am the president Bookings Institution is my sincere pleasure to welcome you to todays event celebrating our brookings fellow release of his new book. Know your face. Roughly 104 year history we have taken powerful positions on issues of race and equality and civil rights these matters stand at the top since becoming president i have made this a president ial priority both personally and for the institution that only has there an obligation then to study these issues but also our responsibility of the organization as well that we examine race and policy not just because were ca...

Here is a look at our recent visit to chapel hill, North Carolina. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story. As we take book tv and American History tv on the road. With the support of our cable partners, we traveled to chapel hill, North Carolina. Over the next hour, we will go to notable locations, speak with experts about the citys history and talk with some history makers themselves. In a moment, the story of the university of North Carolinas planetarium and the role it played in early nasa missions. Following that, in ten minutes, a conversation with howard lee, chapel hills ...