and mississippi. by listening to these accounts and noticing these details, we understand not only mississippi's racial past, but the voices and deeds that resisted and fought back to create more just state, region and country. historian robin d.g. kelley sums up the emmett till generation in this way. the emmett till case a spark for a new generation to commit their lives to social change. they said, we're not going to die like this. instead, we're going to live and transform the south so people won't have to die like this. and if anything, if any events of the 1950s inspired young people to be committed to that kind of change, it was the lynching of emmett till. after seeing till's corpse, the young activist of the emmett till generation decided that enough was enough because they understood if they did not fight for societal change, they could be the victims of violence to mamie till-mobley orchestration and introduce young black people to a level of racial hatred that many did not know. black chil

i believe that the mississippi mississippi jumped out the volunteer from the dance and rabbit to god treated through the trails of tears. and um, i'm glad that our ancestors had evolved here. and um, i'm proud that we are still here and they know going anywhere in the mississippi. chuck to reservation covers about 140 square kilometers in 10 different rural areas . in the states, the mississippi river is nearly full 1000 kilometers loan. and while it's the country's most important river, it's not the longest. memphis, tennessee, in new orleans louisiana to key cities in the lower mississippi delta, which ends at the river's mouth. the minutes that sees the gateway to the southern course of the mississippi and is named us to the ancient egyptian city of memphis, once the gateway to the nile delta. the name led to the selection of a gloss pyramid as a new land mom. the but for most memphis still stands for blues and rock and roll the beale street is the hoss of its music scene. the careers of many stones began here, louis armstrong, joining cash. and of course, the king of rock and rol

they held field hearings. 96 mississippi voters, black mississippi voters, did the bravest thing imaginabletified at those hearings about the intimidation and the violence that was brought against them to stop them from voting that year. and the point of the petition was that the senate should void his election and not seat him in the united states senate. and they assigned segregationist senators to hear the -- to be on the panel to hear that system, to hold those hearings. and the segregationist senators decided, well, they weren't going to prevent bilbo from being seated on this basis of this. but it did get a lot of national attention. it became a national scandal. and the scandal was an embarrassment, and the senator bilbo was an embarrassment to the united states senate. ultimately they decided we may not keep him out of here inciting murderous mobs against black voters, but instead we'll get him for his wild ass corruption. he took bribes, up to and including, as joy describes in the book, a new cadillac, a new swimming pool, the excavation of a lake to create an island for his home.

when he got across the river, mississippi. and there's that famous scene in the autobiography, i'm happy to be here, you know, dry land, etc.. he was supposed to halt and send a corps maclaren's corps down to a little place called port hudson about 4 hours south, vicksburg. and take care of port hudson first because those were the two remain. he fresh water ports that the confederacy possessed and then the two armies. okay. would unite the operation from port hudson and the vicksburg operation. they would unite in march on vicksburg, together only problem is grant. so a couple of things really quickly. one, the commander that would come up from the south outranked grant and he would ever get bad. often they would add in the vicksburg operation. and secondly, he said, i am now between two armies. one in vicksburg and a relief army that's arriving at jackson. yes. and i'm in the pincers and i've got to move against one of the other inmates. really? yes. and i can't wait for orders because if you were at vicksburg, they'd have di

the gentleman from mississippi is recognized mr. thompson: i yield three minutes to the gentlelady from california. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is recognized for three minutes. >> thank you, ranking member thompson. we should be offended at the lies. ms. barragan: we should be offended that the american people are lied to. we should be offended that kids were separated from their parents and families under the republican party and the republican leadership. that's what the american people should be offended about. house republicans are living in land of make believe when it comes to the record of vice president harris. we keep hearing the term over and over again. the lies that she was the border czar. vice president harris was never the administration's border czar. republicans even know that because they had to change the resolution. there has never been such a position. it was invented by republicans. border secure is the responsibility of homeland security secretary mayorkas. he has been to the border

the gentleman from mississippi is recognized mr.hompson: i yield three minutes to the gentlelady from california. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is recognized for three minutes. >> thank you, ranking member thompson. we should be offended at the lies. ms. barragan: we should be offended that the american people are lied to. we should be offended that kids were separated from their parents and families under the republican party and the republican leadership. that's what the american people should be offended about. house republicans are living in land of make believe when it comes to the record of vice president harris. we keep hearing the term over and over again. the lies that she was the border czar. vice president harris was never the administration's border czar. republicans even know that because they had to change the resolution. there has never been such a position. it was invented by republicans. border secure is the responsibility of homeland security secretary mayorkas. he has been to the border.

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mississippi -- i said we would go back to mississippi, didn't i -- but it brings to mind that mississippi is what brought us the dobbs decision, and we are in the aftermath of talking about emtala and mifepristone, which we would not have been safe for the jobs decision -- dobbs decision. jamelle, what you are mentioning make me think of the work of fannie lou hamer. fannie lou hamer six years ago was talking about what it was like to be a black woman in mississippi before the nation and talking about what happened to her and a group of black women as they attempted to vote, and how they were dragged off of a bus, taken to a jail, were beaten, how when she was not being beaten forcefully enough by an inmate, that the guard took the baton and began beating her in her head. and then she tells the nation all of this because we want to be able to vote in mississippi. all of this because black people don't want to be second-class citizens in mississippi, the mississippi that brought us dobbs. and fannie lou hamer, just to tie up that thread, was the person who then said "let me tell you about

mississippi was a state that had laws if you were a black you could notn park.could not play billiards. bowl. in mississippi, if you wanted to vote, you had t were black, guess how many jellybeans in a jar? n a bar of soap. recite the state's constitution. in 1865, congress ratified the 13th amendment which banned slavery in the united states.ano it. that is the state t brought us the dobbs case that overturned roe v. wade? ithow think the past does notnf today, then we're woefully mistaken. the dobbs decision was actually forestalled by a judge who dirict courttrict court opinion opinion it was really one of the most profound district court opinions i've ever read. carlton reeves, closing my eyes to think of judge carlton reeves who is from the american south. and in his opinion, athe time mississippi was making the claim it was legislating in this space in order to protect women. in his district court opinion, justice reeves said i call you on this, mississippi, you say you want abortion bans to pr women's health, how is it you have the highest rate of materna

wade, it was mississippi. if we somehow think that the past does not inform where we are today then we're woefully mistaken. the dobbs decision was actually forestalled by a judge, a judge who issued a district court opinion and in that district court opinion it was really one of the most profound district court opinions that i've ever read, carlton reeves, closing my eyes to think of judge carlton reeves, who's from the american south. and in his opinion, the time mississippi was making the claim that it was legislating in this space in order to protect women. in his district court opinion, justice-- or judge reeves said i call you on this, mississippi, you say that you want abortion bans to protect women's health. how is it then, that you have the highest rate of maternal mortality in the country? how is it that you have the highest rate of women morbidity in the country. how is it that 80% of black women who-- 80% of black women succumb during pregnancy to cardiac death of those who have maternal mortality

that staffer for mississippi democrats benny thompson, she resigned. and trump implored the country to stand united. president biden capped off a day of what sounded like the beginning of rhetorical reflection. >> our unity is the most elusive of goals right now. nothing is more important for us now. then standing together. we can do this. >> reporter: may be, but political passions have artie spawned violence, republicans wounded in the 2017 congressional baseball shooting, the january 6th riot, the shooting of congresswoman gabby giffords. they hammer attack on house speaker nancy pelosi's husband, and the mockery that followed. >> how was her husband doing by the way, anybody no? >> reporter: part or send ship remains that reflex, feeding the hunger for combative language, mark robinson, leading candidate in north carolina was free to sounds like this. >> some folks need killing. >> reporter: in america cool down for more than a minute? if past is prologue, the answer is no. for now, political figures are offering a glimmer of light in an era of dar

goes up to the mississippi river. he's he's thinking the country is going to expand into the northwest. he didn't like the south. he went on this southerner did not like the south. he went on as president. he did tours of the country. he thought he should show himself. his first one was 1789 to new england, and he goes to rhode island. it's after ratifies constitution of 1790 and he really likes new england. it's orderly at things put together. well, there he had learned to deal with the new england soldiers. they he understood this was already a country of cultural diversity in the revolution. and the way you dealt with virginia soldiers and the way you dealt with new england soldiers was different. and you better figure it out. he goes, he loves that part of the country. the next year, too, he goes on a trip to the south, trudging through north carolina, trying to find a decent in the ramshackle buildings. he doesn't like the south carolina coast that has 90% of the population are black slaves. he does not like that

one is in the mississippi delta. it is really designed to get people in high school, a diverse student body in high school to think about law school. then we stay in touch with the students and now they are just starting to apply the law school. so that kind of approach is critical. also to remember the stories. because they are so powerful. the three young men who died. emmett till, another horrific story. these are very important. the final thing to go back to thurgood marshall, he had a game plan, a long-term game plan. when he started in 1940, who would have dreamed that in 14 years, the supreme court would have brown v. board of education? but he had a strategy and again i think we are thinking what is the strategy moving forward. >> and that brings me to the second to last question. what is the strategy? on one heat if you think about it the reconstruction amendment we are looking at starting 1865 and moving on, 1964 we get the civil rights act. 1965, at the voting rights act. that is 100 years. how much forwar

the gentleman from mississippi is recognized mr. thompson: i yield three minutes to the gentlelady from california. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is recognized for three minutes. >> thank you, ranking member thompson. we should be offended at the lies. ms. barragan: we should be offended that the american people are lied to. we should be offended that kids were separated from their parents and families under the republican party and the republican leadership. that's what the american people should be offended about. house republicans are living in land of make believe when it comes to the record of vice president harris. we keep hearing the term over and over again. the lies that she was the border czar. vice president harris was never the administration's border czar. republicans even know that because they had to change the resolution. there has never been such a position. it was invented by republicans. border secure is the responsibility of homeland security secretary mayorkas. he has been to the border

lincoln's as they left them hanging on the trees of mississippi like the spanish moss. and then we have the killing of the white abolition. elijah lovejoy, who wrote very vehemently and increasingly so against slavery, but also condemned in harsh language the burning of francis mackintosh, a free black man in st lovejoy, was forced to leave st louis and set up his print shop in alton, illinois, a southern part of illinois. a free state. nevertheless, he was tracked down and months later killed. there, and his printing press famously thrown into the river. each of these events, lincoln highlights and i think importantly links them together as part of this abandonment of what washington and others hoped for in this country, which is if someone is guilty, there's a process we go through a judicial process. we don't just string people up on trees or shoot them or burn them. he goes on to explain why recourse to the rule of law and to the courts is the thing that can hold americans together amid all of these disagreements and differences that that's all we have. and lincoln

because the former governor of mississippi is a public figure suing for defamation.e would show that there is actual ballots, basically a reckless disregard for the truth so he is asking for the papers internal emails and the names of confidential sources. that is something journalists simply do not bibles if wolf and her editor do not turn over their files, they face possible prison time. >> are you willing to go to jail? >> yeah. >> is real. it is scary but something i think we feel very strongly about. >> free press is essential to the workings of a free society. and what our editors are facing right now is really scary stuff. the broad coalition of american democracy, meaning donald trump . amanda carpenter serves as a republican communications director on capitol hill. she is now a writer and nonprofit project democracy, she published the authoritarian playbook for 2025, outlining the threat of predator 2025. an opinion columnist for the new york times, in our most recent piece, she writes there's no reason to reside ourselves to biden. michelle, going to ask wh

one is in the mississippi delta. designed to get people in high diverse student body in high school to think about law schoo students and now they are just starting to apply the law school.so that kind of approach is critical. also to remember the stories. because they are so powerful. the three young men who died. emmett till, story. these are very important. the final back to thurgood marshall, he had a game , a long-term game plan. when 1940, who would have dreamed that 14 years, the supreme court would have b education? but he had a strategy and i think we thinking what is the strategy moving forward. >> me to the second to last question. what is the strategy? you think about it the reconstruction amendment we are looking at starting 1865 and moving on, 1964 we get the civil rights act. 65, at the voting rights act. that is 100 years. how much forward should we be looking in these times serious they are? y seen the dismantling of part of the voting rights act something y be solemn before congress it was bipartisa

the series ran and a small outlet called mississippi today. we featured it quite a bit.y in 2022. it was a remarkably impressive piece of investigative journalism that went on to win a pulitzer last year. since then as ken dilanian explains, the reporter has been embroiled in a lawsuit that might land her in jail. >> this is the kind of corruption the mississippians know all too well. >> reporter: anna wolfe's reporting at mississippi today exposed a huge scandal at the poorest state in america. $77 million in welfare funds went to multiple pet projects including this horse ranch, this volleyball arena and to sports celebrities like hall of fame quarterback brett favre. he was never charged, but the reporting led to eight criminal indictments and journalism's biggest prize. adam ganucheau is editor of the paper. >> you can't win the pulitzer without real impact. >> two days after the announcement we got the first threat of legal action. >> reporter: armor mississippi governor phil bryant is suing the newspaper, wolfe, and other staffers for defamation. allegations in cou

we'd go from atlantic to mississippi. jefferson was unique in thinking it goes all the way to the pacific. and he commissioned meriwether lewis and and clark william clark. we now know of recent years that we with a really some people say pittsburgh was where they convened but basically going up the missouri river across the continental divide to astoria oregon. lewis and clark they these my new brilliant journals because was a naturalist excellent and he was dealing with different fern plants seen different bird never seen before documenting interacting with indigenous people that nobody knew who lived there. sacajawea becomes a big part of that core of discovery. but the journals are golden for their detailed scientific observations, as the tragedy is, they were kind of dispatched for science, but also was there a shortcut to trade to china. and they had to come back and tell jefferson? no, the rocky mountain regions, too. there no way that we're going to be able to go quickly and use the pacific to a gateway to china a

, and was the only giant waterfall on the mississippi in the dakota language. the name for the waterfall was called a warm the omni, which kind of translates loosely to the place of the following swirling water. and it's a restaurant. but with a mission. yeah, i understand the space is owned by your non profit need is. tell me about your mission. so the restaurant is a part of the non profit family. everything we do is really through the non profit because we're trying to showcase a way to help preserve indigenous knowledge bases to start to see more indigenous food operations out there. and to really become a support center or to guiding principles that native switches the name of the non profit or north american traditional indigenous boot systems. just the last name is that we're trying to create something that brings helps us spring, were access to indigenous foods and brings access to indigenous education. and we've tied those hand in hand because it's one thing to give people some healthy food. but if they don't know what to do with it, and that doesn't r

and was the only giant waterfall on the mississippi in the dakota language. the name for the waterfall was called alarm the name, which kind of translates loosely to the place of the following swirling water. and it's a restaurant. but with a mission. yeah, i understand the space is owned by your non profit need is. tell me about your mission. so the restaurant is a part of the non profit family. everything we do is really through the non profit because we're trying to showcase a way to help preserve indigenous knowledge bases to start to see more indigenous food operations out there. and to really become a support center or to guiding principles that native switches the name of the non profit or north american traditional indigenous food systems. because the law name is that we're trying to create something that brings helps us spring more access to indigenous foods. and brings access to indigenous education, and we have tied those hand in hand because it's one thing to give people some healthy food. but if they don't know what to do with it, and that doesn'

talking about other things in mississippi, mr. secretary, the extreme drought conditions that mississippians experienced in the summer and fall of 2023 left behind almost 13 million dead trees across the state. the drought severely distressed the trees, especially the softwood, and lead to major outbreaks of southern pine beetles that are wreaking havoc on our timber harvesting communities and landowners. many of these trees stand along right of ways maintained by the state department of transportation. you see them everywhere. it is something like i have never seen. but dying trees throughout the pine belt region and the entire state have fallen on roadways, posing safety hazards and forcing mississippi dot to expand limited highway maintenance resources on the cleanup. we have the obvious risk of the traveling public, that i understand these activities may not be a great fit under the federal highway administration emergency relief program, in part because they are largely preventative. still the fact remains this is an emergenc

the initiative in kentucky, alabama, louisiana, mississippi. want to be where individuals are to understand their risks and improve their care, including the use of mobile ct scan to further understand those things. >> good. i was just talking with one of my west virginia university doctors about a mobile unit to look more at heart. i want to thank all of you. it is always so informative and helpful. also, my last comment will be to dr. bertagnolli, 27 institutes, that is a lot to manage. not just physically manage, but there is so much interplay between what is going on. as we look at a time of dollars shrinking, we have to be more efficient. in the efficiencies -- and he that can be found across the 27 institutes, i think you will reap the results of that and we talked about that failure. thank you very much, i am re- shaded. i have not voted yet. >> i have voted. thank you for being here today and the work you do everyday. i really want to focus my questions on the area of substance misuse. and you have been so helpful and willing to come to

so, his group really sees a lot of patients in the mississippi area.hat group is working across federal agencies, v.a., indian health service, cms, american cancer society, where there are grassroots efforts to see how we can make clinical trials more accessible and more desired and more available. and then we are doing other things as well. smaller centers cannot necessarily have all of the staff that they need to run clinical trials, and so we have piloted a virtual clinical trials office which has been heralded as a different opportunity to take the clinical research nursing virtual space into these places. i think that that will democratize the ability to bring clinical trials a lot further. that is part of with this group will be looking at. sen. hyde-smith: thank you for that. and i am certainly going to ask for your commitment as well at ummc to help us get there. your recent editorial stressed the importance of clinical trials, the infrastructure to addressing and eliminating the inequities in the health care system, you highlighted that increa

mississippi -- i said we would go back to mississippi, didn't i -- but it brings to mind that mississippis what brought us the dobbs decision, and we are in the aftermath of talking about emtala and mifepristone, which we would not have been safe for the jobs decision -- dobbs decision. jamelle, what you are mentioning make me think of the work of fannie lou hamer. fannie lou hamer six years ago was talking about what it was like to be a black woman in mississippi before the nation and talking about what happened to her and a group of black women as they attempted to vote, and how they were dragged off of a bus, taken to a jail, were beaten, how when she was not being beaten forcefully enough by an inmate, that the guard took the baton and began beating her in her head. and then she tells the nation all of this because we want to be able to vote in mississippi. all of this because black people don't want to be second-class citizens in mississippi, the mississippi that brought us dobbs. and fannie lou hamer, just to tie up that thread, was the person who then said "let me tell you about wh

in the book huckleberry finn -- he escapes down the mississippi river.long the way they encounter steamships. mark twain used a number of dialects and colloquial expressions to go straight light along the mississippi, satire, hypocrisy and racism. since the publication, huckleberry finn has been controversial and relevant. >> welcome to books that shaped america, a series that looks at how books have influenced we are today. in partnership with the library of congress, the series is exploring different viewpoints and we are glad you are joining us. so far, we looked at foundations of expansion, slavery and the legal system. tonight, we travel along the mississippi river and explore a book called one of the great american novels. publisd in 1884, it was cororsial from the beginning but sold more than 23 million pi worldwide and has had a major impact on american literature. our guest is an english professor. professor leavy, in 1884, what was america? >> it was a chaotic place. you could see an extraordinary number of violence, they loved covering it. nor

so it's a fascinating moment from mississippi history. but, yeah, i the movie's militaristic.t tells a different, you know, different story about the americans of more than we typically by most of us until that movie man yeah i think it's a real credit to matthew mcconaughey because. i think what he got behind the project, it got funded, you know. and so i think it was really interesting. he lived in new orleans during the filming of it. it was a really and dr. bynum was there and did a lot of historical advice know and she was she was really great. and that's a wonderful book, free state of. jones vicky bynum.

so it's a fascinating moment from mississippi history. but, yeah, i the movie's militaristic.t tells a different, you know, different story about the americans of more than we typically by most of us until that movie man yeah i think it's a real credit to matthew mcconaughey because. i think what he got behind the project, it got funded, you know. and so i think it was really interesting. he lived in new orleans during the filming of it. it was a really and dr. bynum was there and did a lot of historical advice know and she was she was really great. and that's a wonderful book, free state of. jones vicky bynum. our last speaker is, ann robertson, who has both the may and ph.d., is the historian for the girl

so it's a fascinating moment from mississippi history. but, yeah, i the movie's militaristic.t tells a different, you know, different story about the americans of more than we typically by most of us until that movie man yeah i think it's a real credit to matthew mcconaughey because. i think what he got behind the project, it got funded, you know. and so i think it was really interesting. he lived in new orleans during the filming of it. it was a really and dr. bynum was there and did a lot of historical advice know and she was she was really great. and that's a wonderful book, free state of. jones vicky bynum. our last speaker is, ann robertson,