and later sarah garland discusses the segregation of the kentucky town in the book "divided we fail."> and why you dialogues hosted this form. this is 90 minutes. >> and everyone hear me okay? i'm the executive director and this is the fourth in our series of democracy next forms that we have been pleased to do. i am so happy to welcome you here to the global site for this very important discussion on the impact of womes

. >> now, afterwards future sarah garland author of "divided we fail," the story of an african-american community into the air of school desegregation. she is indeed the guest host marc lamont hill, and african-american studies professor at columbia university. this is about an hour. >> host: tell me, why did you start to write this book? i know your first book was about like games in america. why this book? >> guest: in some ways it is in some ways it is and i got into these things around segregation in the suburbs of my last book, and was looking at exchange segregation between school district in long island so that spurred me to think about these issues. that the reason i wrote it is because i'm from legal. i grew up going to the public school there, and i was busted when i was in second grade to a school that was an inner-city and i'm surrounded by housing projects. so is something i've thought about actively since i was a little kid. and so when the case went to the supreme court i was obviously very interested in following it because it was very personal in some ways. >> host: tal

after that, sarah garland discusses "divided we fail: the story of an african-american community that ended the era of school desegregation." booktv is in prime time this month on c-span2. >>> the cato institute is hosting a forum today on the costs of social security disability insurance. our live coverage is on c-span at noon eastern. >>> the 50th anniversary of the march on washington is a week from wednesday. up next, an economic policy institute forum on how the march has affected the economy and civil rights today. this nearly three hour event was at the afl-cio headquarters many washington last month. -- in washington last month. [inaudible conversations] >> so, ladies and gentlemen, we do expect a full crowd, so at some point if we gets folks who come in this and we don't have enough seats, i may ask you to raise your hand so we can identify seats unoccupied next to you so we can get people seated in as expeditious a fashion as possible. well, let me welcome you all to this unfinished march symposium. my name is christian dorsey, i'm the director of external affairs at the eco

and our final author tonight, sarah garland, "divided we fail."he story of an african-american community that ended the era of school segregation. all tonight starting at 8 eastern here on c-span2. and now some to have latest on egypt and u.s. aid. the national security council issued a statement that says it is not quietly cutting military aid to egypt after a daily beast article came out yesterday that the u.s. had decided privately to halt some aid because of egypt's crackdown on protesters who are supporters of the elected president, mohamed morsi. a spokesman for senator patrick leahy had told cnn funds for egypt were being reprogrammed while the u.s. continues to review the situation there. we talked to a daily beast reporter about the u.s. cutting aid to egypt. >> the administration public line, they're disputing the term "suspended." so they are saying that this is under review, that no final decisions have been made, and that is, of course, true because no final decisions have been made. but at the same time, as senator leahy's office tol

sarah garland talks about divided we fail, the story about an african american community in the air of of school this degradation. all here on c-span2. >> c-span is hosting a live show tonight taking a look at congressional town hall meetings law members on recess. he recently spoke about the data collection program, health care, and immigration. he also got a question about same-sex marriage. here's a look. >> what i'm worried about is on the right stuff. i'm thinking that this could be another racism thing. for gays and non-gays, it's just a big fight. i mean, who really cares, does it really matter? [applause] [cheers] >> that is a great point. i don't believe the government should be involved in deciding who should get married. i don't think that is an appropriate role for the federal government or for government. marriage is a private institution between people and their personal lives and i am an orthodox christian. my wife and i do not need the government telling us that we can get married and nobody else needs the government telling them that they can get married. this is up to

and later sarah garland discusses the segregation of the kentucky town in the book "divided we fail." >> and why you dialogues hosted this form. this is 90 minutes. >> and everyone hear me okay? i'm the executive director and this is the fourth in our series of democracy next forms that we have been pleased to do. i am so happy to welcome you here to the global site for this very important discussion on the impact of women's representation. this is the fourth event in a series. we are posting all the forms of democracy.com. so this is a live screening and we are also being joined by c-span today. you can see everything and every form that is taking place and it has really been an exciting series so far. we've had members of congress speak about this just right after the voting rights act was talked about by the supreme court. everything is an important topic because of something that is at the heart of our democracy. we have the chair of the representation 2020. please welcome cynthia. >> hello, i am cynthia and i am on the board and i am also the new chair of our representation proje