danny glover: i cannot add to that.hter] too often, and you mentioned, understanding what black radicalism is. this is a black -- there is a black radical tradition throughout the 20th century we do not call on. we think of the moment, specific moments in time when we look at .he civil rights movement but when you look at the beginning of the 20th century, w bois and others, the leaders who came through the commonest party. when you look at who was at the manchester conference on pan africanism. again, the 20th century, then again, the 20thpan-africanism we you have the future leaders of the caribbean, the leaders of africa, all of these great people who would come and were a part of this radical tradition, and we always never embrace that part of it. even today, in terms of understanding that whatever changes happen, you have to step outside of the context that you are functioning in, and find another voice and another narrative for liberation. that comes through the black radical tradition. the panther party, the blac

and staff as san francisco, include angela davis, erica walker, wade noble, alicia garza, and danny gloverof the future, sustaining scholars and opportunities for better life is an example of a better life. people often say to me as chair of the department that milennials only care about themselves. not true. you see that from today and you see that from the student sitting next to you, and it's not just doing it on your own, we're doing it in partnership. we're reaching back to move struggle. this is how we win. we know that the converse of war is peace. histo i i want to hear you say, this is how we win. this is how we win. this is how we win. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you so much. thank you so much for that wonderful presentation, those inspiring thoughts, and on behalf of the society, the committee, we'd like -- [ inaudible ] thank you very much. okay. in your program booklet, there is a page that talks about other events, and this is a listing of other activities. in the program and booklet, there's a list of other events that are going to be occurring at the societies involved

folks, my next guest is best known as the co-writer of the 1997 joe pesci and danny glover blockbusterams. ♪ ♪ >> stephen: no, no, please, it is not every director that people leap to their feet for. >> what an amazing crowd! hi. >> stephen: huge, huge "gone fishin'" fans here tonight. ( laughter ) you've also worked on a couple of other movies since then. >> i have, i have, yeah. >> stephen: and, you know, the big excitement is you're doing the new "star wars" film. you're doing episode 9. >> yup. exciting. >> stephen: now, if you could go back and talk to the young j.j. abrams. >> yup. >> stephen: how would he feel about this news? how young were you when you started making films? >> i would think it was a young creepy guy lying to me. i would never believe it. i was eight when i started making movies. 10 when i saw "star wars." can i say one thing? do you mind. i haven't said this to you ever-- hold on, this is important. i'm sitting here in this-- i've never been in this seat. this is an unbelievable place, and it makes me think what you came into, how insane it is that you came in

eight days after 9/11 she -- danny glover group put out a state call on the united states you know nowar. work within the international community no retaliation -- right she's she's a bad as right. but that -- that is been lost and i think part of why we lose it is also that we ask bad asses in one form she's shy. she is, you know -- we can talk about, i mean, i talk about her sort of a shy radical or a shy you know like a -- she's middle aged during the -- during black power. you know, people talk about how she come to israeli -- she would come to these talks and she would sit in the front row and she would nit. right, or she would send thank you notes she told me this amazing story. he was in rn airings and became mayor of jackson and his son now is -- now mayor of jackson. he become lawyer this is great sorts of legal justice work and one of the things he's repghting members of the rna in brings case they're being charged with conspiracy they drag in a whole bunch of radicals around conspiracy. hi gets home one night and there's a thank you though the in the person says you know, t

announcer: history bookshelf, actor and activist danny glover, black panther party member kathleen cleaver and another guest talk about our disciplines in the black power movement such as stokely carmichael, angela davis, angela cleaver and he would be new. mr. glover coproduced a documentary called "the black 1967-1975." it provided the basis for the book. recorded at the new school in new york city in 2014. it is one hour and 10 minutes.