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Made it his mission to expand opportunity for people in his hometown of new orleans and across louisiana. As mayor, he has worked tirelessly to make his cities , and to attract new business and investment. s words reaffirmed a simple, undeniable fact, that any attempt to emphasize the lost cause of the confederacy is a decision to embrace a culture that systematically is stripped of innocent men, women, and children. How could an africanamerican Family Living in new orleans explained to their daughter why a statue of robert e lee stood atop their city . When i heard that, i had to say at the t...

Good morning everyone. It is my great honor to welcome you to the center for American Progress. We are really excited to have special guest today. This is 61st mayor of new orleans. Mitch landrieu. During his 30 year career in public service, mayor landrieu made his mission to expand opportunity for people in his hometown of new orleans and across louisiana. As mayor hes worked tirelessly to make his city safer, move to revitalize neighborhoods and attractses new business. His many initiatives is big reason new orleans is one of the Fastest Growing cities. Of course, last month, mayor landrieu...

Progressive caucus has always wee, for a number of years, have the annual progressive caucus budget that we put forth that is full of those big ideas trying to move the ball forward. Only giving us policy solutions that people are asking for but how we can help elect electorally. I will let each person kind of say whatever they want. We will have five minutes to make some initial comments. We will ask a couple questions by the panel. So first, i will go in order here that we have. I will start this way. We have the president of democracy and color. Next to her, from the 17th district in califo...

Wilmer, recalls her personal and professional connection to east germany. This is tonight on cspan2s, booktv. [inaudible conversations]. I think were going to go ahead and get started. Thank you, everybody, for coming. A quick show of hands, this is your first time to book culture of columbus. Oh, welcome to the family. 20 years ago this space was the endicott book seller and it was lost to the Upper West Side along with many other wonderful bookstores over the years, but almost two years ago we took the plunge and opened our third location here. Were so happy to be a space that is able to hos...

You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] in the new book, James Baldwin escape from america, we have plenty of copies up front, so we do encourage you to pick up a copy or two or three so we can stay in this neighborhood as a community space. [laughter] okay. Im going to do this very elegantly. So, first, let me introduce our panelists. Carol weinstein is the mother of taan yell Baldwin Daniel baldwin, also on the panel, and was a partner of david whom she met in 1964. Later, jimmy would refer to her as his sister out of law, and when jimmy bought ...