next q&a with aviva kempner. ♪ announcer: this week, documentary filmmaker aviva kempner.he discusses her latest film, americand," about the businessman and philanthropist julius rosenwald. , why didiva kempner you do a documentary on julius rosenwald? aviva: i was lucky enough to be at martha's vineyard to attend a lecture that rabbi david saperstein, who is now our investor for religion at the state department, was speaking and julian bomb. join bomb was my hero. i thought i was going to a talk about the civil rights era. but i was very surprised to rosenwald. julius a light bulb went off in my head about under known jewish euros. i have to say he is the most -- jewish heroes. i have to say he was the most under known. brian: who was he? aviva: he was a midwesterner, the son of an immigrant. born in springfield, which i think was a lot to do with what he was going to do later. his home was right across the street from abraham lincoln. diedln had, of course, before jewish rosenwald was born. but his of gold told him the whole legacy of lingo say -- of lincoln was in the h

aviva: we had great reviews.ank, mali, in all of them, i hired them to take the books as far as they could. really, some of these docs that got it had hollywood studios behind them. and they would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars with television ads or adds to come see the movie. i just can't afford that. brian: why did the oscar group put all of the focus on "the l.a. times" and "the new york times" for the films to be considered? aviva: i don't know. those are the two cities where most of the film makers live. a lot of us don't live there. but the studios and the producing entities are there. it's a whole story. i did send out a notice last week to people and said, ok, the film did not get shortlisted. i can't help but be disappointed. but to me other things i listed work for came out and said this is what the film and for me and mostly saying i never knew about him, it's so inspiring, that to me is an oscar. brian: what are the chances you get your money back from the theaters and from dvd sales and this

aviva: right now, 100. hoping from seeing the movie -- i wase being more lucky because steven spielberg foundation gave me money for the film. they got so excited about the schools they even gave more money to restore the schools. home depot was another supporter. brian: anybody use the schools anymore? aviva: now they are museums, senior centers, or community centers. brian: when did they stop funding them? aviva: when desegregation came. brian: 1954? aviva: yes. that is the next film. it is really an incredible story of not only philanthropy but really the african-americans who -- the community members, building the schools, maintaining it and now restoring it. a wonderful story of building. brian: you mentioned when you started talking about julius rosenwald, a man named emile hirsch. rabbi hirsch from your documentary. [video clip] >> bistro nurse scholar and rabbi who attract hundreds of without -- >> julius rosenwald found it stimulating. he said hirsch was one of his mentors. >> hq had to be reserved

announcer: this week, documentary filmmaker aviva kempner. she discusses her latest film, "rosenwald," about the late american businessman and philanthropist julius rosenwald. brian: aviva kempner, why did you do a documentary on julius rosenwald? aviva: i was lucky enough 12 years ago to be at martha's vineyard to attend a lecture that rabbi david saperstein, who

next q&a with aviva kempner. ♪ announcer: this week, documentary filmmaker aviva kempner.he discusses her latest film, americand," about the businessman and philanthropist julius rosenwald. , why didiva kempner you do a documentary on julius rosenwald? aviva: i was lucky enough to be at martha's vineyard to attend a lecture that rabbi david saperstein, who is nor

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. ♪ announcer: this week, documentary filmmaker aviva kempner.he discusses her latest film, "rosenwald," about the late american businessman and philanthropist julius rosenwald.

tonight on q&a, documentary filmmaker aviva kempner talks her latestnwald," movie about a partnership to build schools and bring -- to ruralducation schools in america. said why do we not use the houses? the best thing booker t. washington said was now, i want the communities to build it. morphed into 5000 schools all over the south, including maryland. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span "q&a." of staff denisef mcdonough says he has a lot of admiration for south carolina .overnor nikki haley he gave a recap of the state of the union speech and with governor haley's response as he spoke with reporters. this is just under an hour. mr. cook: ok. here we go. i'm dave cook, "christian science monitor." thanks for coming after i know what was a long night for many of you covering president obama's state of the union address. in the 50 years, that the monitor has been hosting these gatherings, we have welcomed white house chiefs of staff up to rahm emanuel. we are especially pleased to have our first breakfast -- it is true. it's true. it's true. so we are especially pleased to have our fi

you can go to aviva standoff and bling is the new black. all the links are on my facebook page. >> and other thing i would like to make a tuxedo out of it ma'am ingoing to an event and have everybody stroking you. >> you hate to be touched, though. >> in this case i'll do it. >> i like. it it works. >> steve go have pants made or something you'll be fine. >> this is the mermaid pillow. >> bling is the new black i like that i didn't get the other name. it's probably sold out. >> there's a show on 9:00 tonight looks so good imagine getting second chance at life. the star of show is here okay? 75 years old and died and comes back as 35-year-old. would you repair your mistakes or end up screwing up all over again? >> keep your dreams coming in. we're getting more people dreaming this morning. my dream has been the same since 1964. meet paul mccartney. that's from trisha and let's check on quinncy. he will be quinncivio. >> is that i rolls royce. >> this say ghost. my dreams are coming true. i don't know what will happen. maybe they'll give me m

. >> sunday night, aviva kempner talks about "rosenwald" and the partnership of the african-american communities in the south to build schools and bring elementary education to children in rural america. so

. >> sunday night, aviva kempner talks about "rosenwald" and the partnership of the african-american communities in the south to build schools and bring elementary education to children in rural america. >> so first he said, oh, you know, sears puts together the kit houses. why don't we just use the kit houses? and the best thing booker. the washington ever did was sa, i want, just like we do, i want the communities to build it. so first these six schools were built. and that's amazing. but from that it morphed into 5,000 schools, all over the south, including maryland. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q and a. >>> monday is martin luther king jr. day. with congress not in session we have featured programs on all three c-span networks. live coverage of the british house of commons debate on whether to ban donald trump from their country. that debate is expected to last three hours. coverage will reair at 8:00 eastern. university of wisconsin professor william p. jones and his book "the march on washington." jobs, freedom and forgotten history of civil rights. >> when rando

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sunday night on q&a aviva kempner has a book called "rosenwald," about the african-american communitiesn the south to build scols and bring elementary education to children in rural area. >> so first he said, you know, puts together these kid houses, why don't we use the kid houses? and the best thing booker t. washington ever said was, no, i just want like we did at tuskegee, i want the communities to build it. first these six schools were built and it was amazing. from that it morphed into 5,000 schools all over the south, including maryland. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> former intelligence and diplomatic officials testified before the house armed services committee this week on combating the islamic state in iraq and syria. other witnesses included former u.s. ambassador to sear yarks robert ford, and former defense undersecretary, michael vickers, who urged the administration to step up air strikes without increasing collateral damage. this is 2 1/2 hours. >> the committee will come to order. the committee is very pleased today to welcome three distinguished

. >> sunday night on q&a, documentary film maker aviva kempner talks about her latest film rosenwald about julie's rosenwald and his partnership with booker t. washington and african-american communities in the south to build schools in elementary education to children in rural america. >> first he said sears puts together these can't house a. why don't we use of those? the best thing booker t. washington, no, just like we do in this peak. i want to communities to build it. so first these six schools were built and that's amazing your but found that it morphed into 5000 schools all over the south including maryland. >> sunday night at eight eastern on c-span's q&a. >> the house passed a bill yesterday that aims to punish north korea for conducting its latest nuclear tests. the "christian science monitor" reports that it proposes stronger sanctions that denying -- deny pyongyang money in his for developing miniaturized nuclear warheads and the long range missile to deliver them. here's a house foreign affairs subcommittee hearing now from today examining the recent nuclear tests and s

. >> sunday night on q&a, documentary filmmaker aviva kemptner talks about her film "rosenwald" about the partnership with booker t. washington and the african-american communities in the south to build schools and bring elementary education to children in rural america. >> so first he said, oh, you know, sears puts together these kit houses. why don't we just use the kit houses? and the best thing booker t. washington ever did was say, no, i want, just like we do at tuskegee, i want the communities to build it. so first these six schools were built and it's amazing but from that it morphed into 5,000 schools all over the south including maryland. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >>> today the american association of university women hosts a forum on preventing campus sexual assaults. they'll outline findings of an education department study on the subject and look at potential legislative action this year. it's live at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span3. >>> new jersey governor and republican presidential candidate chris christie delivered his annual state of the stat

. >> sunday night on q and a, documentary filmmaker aviva talks about her book rosenwald about juliansenwald and his work with booker t. washington and african-american communities in the south to build schools and bring elementary education to children in rural america. said weirst time they put together the small houses. why do not just use than? the best thing he ever did was say no. just like we do it test geeky, i want the community to build it. -- teske -- from that, it morphed into 5000 schools. they are all over the south, including maryland. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern time. c-span2 monday. >> washington journal continues. host: kenneth smiley, 10 years ago, the covenant with black america. this is 10 years later. what are you trying to get at 10 years ago? guest: first of all, happy new year, good to see. 10 years ago, we are the middle of the bush administration. hit005 hurricane katrina and kanye west said george bush doesn't care about black people. whatever they think that he did or did not do, it was black people who lost most of their lives in new orleans. in 2006