alabama. he worked for three southern newspapers, joined the times in 1978. as of correspondent in atlanta. he then white house correspondent and then became deputy washington correspondent bureau chief to became then london bureau chief, then became washington bureau chief. as you can see, he was moving up the ladder. then he was editor of the editorial for eight years and. finally, in 2000, one was named executive editor, which is the top job at the times. in his spare time. he won the pulitzer prize for his writing and he's managed to find way to write five books in the process of this. some of you may have attended the appearance of his son ben raines, who participated in open book open mind during the pandemic and it was a virtual appearance. we were doing it remotely at that time and he had done a book on his role in the discovery of the last slave ship. go, hilda. so this this is a second appearance for the raines family in conversation with howell as edward ball, who was another southe

when you grow up in alabama as i have, especially when you grow up black in alabama, you know the roleorically play in making it right by people in this state, especially by black people in this state. and this district is yet again another example of that. >> less than a year after the supreme court ruled that alabama's voting map be redrawn, the u.s. supreme court restored a congressional voting map in louisiana this week that adds a second majority black district less than six months before the november election, based on what's happened in alabama, what do you expect that to mean for democrats and black voters in that state? >> look, i think people there will equally be as excited about the opportunity to elect leadership that reflects the communities and towns and citizens that make that up district. it's been far too long for many place, including here in the state of alabama in the district we represent, too many communities and counties and towns have never had the opportunity to be elected -- to elect leadership that can bring a level of care and focus and concern on the issue

vickers: i was born in demopolis, alabama, which is a small town in the black belt of alabama.ural farming area where my parents were educators. david: your parents were extremely well educated for blacks in the south at that time. how did they get so well educated? dr. vickers: on my father's side, it was really parents who themselves had limited education. my grandfather with a fourth-grade education. he did not learn how to write and read until he was in his 40's. he really felt his children needed a college education. on my mother's side, her mother, in the 1920's, had to travel 200 miles to an academy started by presbyterians in the southern part of alabama to get her high school degree. then went 10 summers to get her bachelor's degree. they had foundations of understanding the value of education and the ability, particularly for a negro in the south to have a chance to advance their lives and careers. david: you grew up in a segregated environment, i assume, so you were the only child of your parents, and did they say, we are putting all our hope in you, and we want you

mobile, alabama, then was the closest port city to selma, alabama, a port city back then meant bananas. bananas would come in via the port and end up wherever. bananas ended up throughout the united states. sam quickly learned that bananas have an inherent banana problem. what is the problem with bananas. they who they rot, right? they ripen too fast. they turn brown, they turn sticky, they turn to goo. right. gross and a accord thing to lure samson. murray began picking up loose brown two ripe bananas along the docks of mobile, alabama, tossed off bananas, bananas that were worthless to the main purveyor, the main shipper of bananas into this pour into the port of mobile. he began picking up, collecting these bananas probably eating a few of them himself. and he sold them for cheaper then the market's yellow bananas. the fresh bananas. by the age of 21, samson, murray was specializing in the overripe banana trade. he had a 100 grand, $100,000 in his bank account, or around ¥3.5 million dollars today from selling overripe brown bananas. in 1903. he joined forces with the united fruit c

library association and angie hayden, founding member of read freely alabama.for being here. take us back to the moment you decided to take action against the library board. talk to me about your personal connection to what we are seeing happening in prattville. >> to clarify, i am -- alabama library association. i passed the torch on about a month ago. at this began, as soon as i was sworn in as president of the library association. things were already blowing up and in prattville, all this past year we have been dealing with challenge after challenge. then in february, when this new board past the policies, we knew that we had to do something. so that became the time for us, instead of being reactive, to take action and challenge what was happening in prattville. because it is our feeling as library and, that -- librarians , that parents have the right to choose for their children what is the right material for them to read as a family. so this group of extremists have decided that their narrow view of what is acceptable should be acceptable for everyone. and

the argument provided to the court is if it is illegal in alabama it is illegal for a person in alabamae obtain any sort of abortion outside of the state. for us that means we cannot provide any information. obviously it would seem like somebody, a friend, acquaintance could say, actually it turns out there is a clinic in north carolina and you can go to. but after what we've seen in texas it is a possibility that there could be an ex-partner, someone involved is like, i'm going to get a lawyer and i'm going to slap suit you in order to see what information i can get to scare you out of doing anything again. >> tell us about what it is like across the south right now. there's lots of talk about how to support clinics in states where abortion is legal, to help them handle the influx of patients were coming from states where abortion is now illegal. but what is happening to folks were living in antiabortion states, who can't get out? you described in great detail after the fall of roe and we have tried to convey to you as it is not an easy thing, that the roles, the expenses, the cost and

at alabama department of corrections. >> deborah: hi, mr.e than a year since you heard a jury say guilty. do you still remember what that felt like? >> absolutely. every day i'm still confused. i mean, it's hard to accept and hard to believe. >> deborah: you surprised people by saying that you knew j.b. beasley, that you had met her, that you had a consensual sexual encounter with her. there are those who suspect you just made that story up just to sort of cover the dna connection. >> well, sadly, when people are looking for a villain, it's not hard to just point the finger at whoever you want. >> deborah: you didn't put it together that the girl you said introduced herself as jennifer was that girl who had been found dead? >> no, i didn't. >> deborah: did you expect that you would see her again after that night? >> after that night, i had no expectations, because a lot of girls that i hooked up with, sometimes we'd get back together, sometimes by didn't. >> deborah: and why would somebody want to kill them in your view? >> i know one thing.

mahala} mercedes workers in alabama, why do they want to organise?— they want to organise? to organise? uaw had their big strike last — they want to organise? uaw had their big strike last year _ they want to organise? uaw had their big strike last year against _ they want to organise? uaw had their big strike last year against the - they want to organise? uaw had their big strike last year against the big - big strike last year against the big three, ford, federal motors compressed alliances, got a lot of attention leading to a strong contract at those auto—makers,. it caught the attention of autoworkers elsewhere including the nine union plans in the south where the contracts were very attractive to them. we rapidly saw workers signing union cards in tennessee and alabama and workers want racist but there is more to it, a lot of the workers i talked to said they wanted a voice on thejob, talked to said they wanted a voice on the job, they have talked to said they wanted a voice on thejob, they have been in the planter while. when there is discipline they want records, a g

she was and still is running what used to be an abortion clinic and alabama.d. her clinic was obviously not allowed to provide abortion anymore. listen to what she said about even talking about abortion or even telling someone how to get a legal abortion in a different state. >> i walk in here and i see you wearing a shirt that says medication abortion is extremely safe and effective and i say, can i get some? >> no. >> i can't say anything. if i were a regular person, i would say something like a person can go to aidaccess.org and obtain medication abortion without a prescription and have it shipped to them regardless of whether it is a legal state or illegal state but that person is running a lot of risk of surveillance and should be very careful week that is something i could say if i were a regular person. i'm not a regular person so i cannot say that to a patient or to anyone. honestly, wearing this shirt is a risk and i do it on purpose because i know that this is one way to make a conversation happen and make people think about this. but i cannot provid

but in alabama, they didn't ban ivf. the supreme court just came out there a rule that essentially embryos count is children, and that was why you saw there's not that many ivf clinics. a lot of them closed down out of fear of what the legal landscape was there. if there was a federal law protecting access to ivf, that wouldn't have happened well, that's right. and that's why i think we should pass a federal law. and i think it's notable when the alabama supreme court decision came down that the alabama legislature came in very quickly within weeks and pass you don't often see from, you don't often and they move quickly to make clear, ivf has fully protect an alabama and that's true in all 50 states that i'm not aware. i literally don't know of a state legislator in any state that wants to ban ivf. but i want to take the fear off the table because people are afraid and i understand and you're right in alabama, following the supreme court decisions, the clinics there halted their treatments and that's fundamentally wrong

caller: no, it was all us school kids at the county jail in alabama. and i had all the state troopers and policemen and they asked us if we seen one more protester out here, we'd be locked up. we did. they lined us up, put us on a school bus and took us to the state prison in selma, alabama. host: this was 1963, glenn? caller: 1964. host: trying to find a picture of that. but when you say the students organized, how did the students -- how did young kids organize, who helped organize that for you, how did you get there? caller: we had someone by the name of james and another fella by the name of abbott turner. martin luther king was supposed to have come to town that day but i think he knew that we was going to get arrested but we had the whole school, most of us. and like i say, this year's thing called -- 1965 debate at cambridge university in england with james baldwin and this conservative -- what's his -- conservative commentator. i can't remember his name right now. but that was my only time that i was protested. host: glenn, thanks for talking a

is that the sale they're trying to make in alabama? >> how are they -- >> you're -- you're right about the message, and the message is a pretty simple one. if you are a mercedes line worker in alabama, you're looking at people up for general motors in michigan saying wait a second, they got a 25% raise. and they were already making more than me? i want a piece of that pie. that's a pretty easy message to sell. in terms. your other point that you're making, in terms of higher prices means more inflation and makes it -- makes these plants less competitive, that's what we're hearing from governors of southern states. kay ivey, governor of alabama, has been emphatic along with other governors saying don't do this, you do this, you're not going to have a plant that is as effective, as cost effective for the automaker, and someday that automaker is going to make choices about where to cut costs. >> all right, phil. thank you so much. phil lebeau reporting. we'll know the results of that vote sometime later today probably. >>> let's get to ka

s 2024 small business persons of the year in alabama. ... that was sana'a, timothy, and robert of transformation partner's llc in tuscaloosa, alabama. beginning in the year 2000 as a statewide training provider, her firm has grown tremendously over the past two decades. today they serve numerous clients in the field of higher education, government, military, corporate america covering consulting services and employee development programming. transformation partners was hit hard by covid-19 pandemic but once again thanks to the assistance of the s.b.a. the firm remained operational and weathered the storm. now the efforts have earned them national recognition of s.b.a.'s 2024 national small businesspersons of the year for alabama. i ask my colleagues to join me in celebrating the outstanding entrepreneurship in alabama's seventh congressional district. congratulations to all of our winners. we wish you much success in the years ahead. thank you. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields. the chair re

it all began the skies over tuskegee, alabama. i remember the tuskegee because they started what they call civilian pilot training program, five black they wanted qualified black people to start flying. the only reason i knew something about the program is because my mother teaching down in turkey and she heard about the starting up this black air corps the day after pearl harbor, the whole gang went and applied for admission to the aviation cadet traini program. it wasn't until a year later, though, that i was admitted, but i think we had to wait for about a lf before.y a year, a year a we went into the program. i was in black leather school that up for the air force and they didn't know what to do with me going into combat, it gave a lot o our race. and one of the prime contributors to and early part of the flying program. was chief anderson there are standing onth west but what used to be tuegee is army air corps. you here's where the cadets came out finishing in the voting field take the advanced training how's here? in barrac

it's more expensive for alabama consumer to bite gas powered vehicles in alabama because the effortscalifornia. that gives us a reason to be engaged. >> general wilson you want to chime in on the environmental side and the mother to some questions? >> people and systems except change at a rate they can absorb it. i feel are trying to force a change faster than the economy. faster than society can absorb it. i'm not appear to have not going to speak for my colleagues but i would imagine they would agree were not new and innovative technologies. the buggy and the horses gave way to the motor vehicle the fax machine gave way to the computer. technology comes but the thing is they're trying to force through administrative fiat policies the lot is not given the power to you and they're trying to do it faster than can be absorbed by society. people are really trying to survive out there. the cost are crippling and crushing people, people who have never had been to be responsible to employ someone or responsible for the consequences of their own policies are trying to run this country. that

. >> in alabama, there is my low's hamburgers. absolutely some of the best french fries. >> cindy didn't stay and eat her fries. >> as bizarre as it sounds, yes. >> he wasn't around when the murder took place. >> that is what he said. >> who do you feel you are looking in the eyes? >> cold-blooded killer. >>> hello and welcome to dateline. cindy hauser sent a michael reese needed the same thing. change. the relationship was a second chance at love for both and they fell hard. then, after five years of marriage, tragedy struck. investigators would have to sort through small town golf gossip to uncover the truth. here is even the devil went to church. >>> out here in rural sweet home, alabama, where churches outnumber streetlights, faith is a way of life. >> i grew up in the church. everyone i knew went to church. >> sunday sermons, wednesday services, church picnics. >> faith is a huge part and always has been a huge part of southern my. >> a small town outside of birmingham, they come together to celebrate life and the word. >> th

the senator from alabama just explained they didn't have time to read it.i recall, there were several days that passed where that bill was available for our staffs to analyze and others to at. most of us who wanted to knew the contents of it and iwas a s right direction moving forward. but it was rejected same republicans who initiated the process by re wl be no supplemental for defense, until there's a bipartisan and the bipartisan bills being put together by sators of oklahoma and when it finally appeared they walked away from it. i would tell theens of alabama i worked on this issue for number of the only effort i have seen that resulted in comprehensiven refoo the floor was partan. and the other senatorn received a bill, and it wasn't taken up in the house, but it was a good bipartisan effort. legislation that's meaningful when it comes to immigration. the bill the senator fromle an al produces t secure our border, it will not prevent-- flow-- it will not prevent the floor public safety. it would allow the secretary of homeland security to suspend the e

for what purpose does the gentleman from alabama seek recognition? mr. karl: i ask unanimous consent further consideration of the veto message and the joint resolution h.j. resolution 9 will be postponed until legislative day may 7, 2024. the speaker: is there objection to the request? without objection, so ordered. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess subject to the be held around 6:30 eastern. live coverage of the u.s. house when lawmakers return here on c-span. ♪ >> nonfiction book lovers, c-span has a number of podcasts for you. listen to best-selling nonfiction authors and influential interviewers on the afterwards podcast and on q&a hear wide ranging conversations with the nonfiction authors and others making things happen. book note plus conversations are hour long conversations that feature fascinating authors of nonfiction books on a wide variety of topics and takes you behind the scenes of the publishing industry and updates and bestsellers lists. download the free c-span now app or wherever you get your pod

thank you so much for visiting alabama this year.m deeply grateful for your time and letting you come and visit with the incredible men and women that work there, see the work that's being done, figuring out how we can partner to continue to change lives for the better. really, really appreciate it. and then also, and here we're going to have another challenge with how to say your name, is it -- marrazzo, jeez louise. we are very proud, obviously, you having been at uab, and to see you in this job now, you know what a special place is uab is, the tremendous work that is done there, and look forward to working with you in your new position. as you both know, in alabama over a third of our 67 counties are classified as maternity care deserts, areas without access to birthing facilities or maternity care providers. last fall, three more alabama hospitals announced closures of their labor and delivery departments, leaving both shelby county and monroe county without access to labor and delivery services. additionally, alabama hams the hi