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How are we culture he . On rosa parks 101st day, her birthday, the author explores the question of rosa parks. What was behind that . Those that know her. What is the price paid for having done something . Dr. Jeanne theoharis answers some of those questions and she writes it in her new book the rebellious life of mrs. Rosa parks. Jeanne theoharis was born in Staten Island six weeks ago and her family moved to milwaukee, wisconsin, where she was raised. She held the first chair in womans studies and as professor of science at boca raton college, she is also cofounder of educators for civil lib...

Its an embarrassment of riches, and we must thank the city of Savannah Department of cultural affairs, festival upon spores, members, and individual donors for their support. It is because of them that we are able to bring you these esteemed authors for free. If you enjoyed todays speakers and would like to make a donation to the festival, weve provided yellow buckets at the door when you exit. Please consider giving to our bucket list for next years gifted scribes. Before we get started, i just have a couple of housekeeping notes for you. Please take a moment to silence your cell phones. I ha...

Obama has gotten 300 of his judicial nominees confirmed. 300. At the same point in his presidency, george w. Bush got through 35 fewer confirmations than obama to this point. Progress is being made to clear that. We know what to thank for that, right . In november of last year, harry reid triggered the socalled Nuclear Option. He did away with filibusters on most nominations and made it impossible for members of the Minority Party to block the nominations. No more 60 votes. Thats the idea, anyway. But the Nuclear Option didnt fix everything, either. Theres still something called the blue slip....

Nigeria rescue those girls. So far some 50 advisors are there and the u. S. Is flying intelligence flights over parts of that country. The former Deputy Director of the cia Counterterrorism Center knows exactly what it means to use u. S. Intelligence in terror hot spots and phil mudd is here this morning a Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs committee convening next weeks hearing is elliot engel. I want to play sound from highRanking Members of congress about the u. S. Role in the crisis. I would like to see special forces deployed to help rescue these young girls. If the president dec...

Been taken out in his first term. Well tell you what else the butler said. Good evening, jim. Were hearing the word unity a lot today but no paul ryan endorsement yet so whats the holdup here . Its always a little hard to close the deal on the first date. The holdup is donald trump still has to win over paul ryan if he wants the speakers endorsement. Ryan said he liked Donald Trumps penalty today but he wants to know his policies a little better and trump and ryan are as far apart as they can be on issues like Social Security and trade. Heres what ryan had to say. I was encouraged with what i ...