of birmingham a memoir.dford woodfin, thank you for joining us this evening. you criticized president trump's federal di ban as the alabama vacation of america, referring to state officials attempts to remove diversity practices in alabama, where republican state officials banned dei in public colleges and government offices. are you concerned that the president known to pick fights with lawmakers and public officials of color like yourself, will retaliate against birmingham somehow? >> well, thanks. >> for having. >> me on. you know, there's a. there's an. honest expectation from our leaders that it's okay for us to disagree. >> and that. >> retaliation should not. be a part of the conversation. i mean, let's remember what these. letters stand for. we don't say them. >> out loud enough. we don't. >> say them out loud enough. >> diversity, >> equity, inclusion on their face. these at minimum, these words are neutral. but at best these are values, american values. and it doesn't matter if it's in. >> the. >>

and then the ballad of birmingham came up again and i said, oh, the watsons need to go to birmingham. i really wanted to do was show how young people try to deal with tragedies and see things in ways that we as adults don't see. there's a naivety, and kenny is somebody who can understand, and he comes up with quick reasons why things are happening, and a lot of times they just don't make sense to us. but i did my best to try to portray a young person's reaction to something so horrible that they couldn't really actually see it. >> so let's talk a little bit more about kenny. he's he's confronted by a shadowy gray figure two times in the story. the first time he almost drowns at the swimming hole and then again during the 16th street baptist church bombing. this was a masterful way to do what you just described to, to explain how children deal with traumatic events. tell me a little more about this. >> well, that would be the undertone. we originally started out. it represented death. it was a representation of death. and kenny would see this thing. zora neale hurston, in their eyes, w

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king's letter from birmingham jail and talks about the book in the work done by freedom rates. an organization he founded that builds libraries and prisons. ask the judge might have been under no illusion sending me to prison would help. he did say i could get something out of it if i tried. i think this is a testament not just that i got something out of it, but i came home to a world where it might feel overwhelming , like it is absolutely hard to make a way when you have hurt somebody in the past. but i also came to a world that has radically changed and shifted and created more opportunities for people to reflect on the ways in which they have changed and to be welcomed back into what i like to think of as a beloved community. >> reginald wayne betts, sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q and a. listen to all of our podcasts on the free c-span now app. next week on the c-span networks. the house and senate are in session. the house will consider legislation establisng new penalties for evading u.s. border patrol agents in car chases. the senate continues voting on

"letter from birmingham jail. an organization that he founded that builds libraries in prisons. >> the judge might have not been under an illusion and saying i could get something out of it if i tried and this is a testament that i got something out of it but i came home to a world where it might feel overwhelming and might feel like it is absolutely hard to make a way when you have hurt somebody in the past but i have created more opportunities for people to to reflect on the ways in which he changed and what king said the beloved community. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> acting education secretary denise carter was accused by house democrats of locking the doors not allowing employees to come inside. mark takano and other democrats on the scags and oversight committees held a press conference where they demanded a meeting. mr. takano: good morning everyone. we are here today at the department of education because we have a duty, a duty to our constituents, a duty to our country and a duty to

host: tom in birmingham, michigan. please go ahead. caller: good morning and thank you, c-span, for having mr. reisinger. i'm proud of what you are doing. you are right where you should be. i understand you are lamenting leaving the family but your purpose is being served. as a past national president of a national board of physician and nutrition specialist. nutrition and food are two different things. i would love to get your perspective on what you've been touching on. i am centered in metric to try. on one part of the parking lot, it takes me six dollars to buy a plane of raspberries and on the other end, mcdonald's is selling a five dollar value meal. can you comment a little further on the impression come the general impression people have where all of our subsidizing commodity crops at 220 million acres in the united states, 30% of his corn? and the modest, if any so-called specialty crops where we would find fruit and vegetable and the mismatch if everyone tried to eatprices would skyroc. i would appreciate deeper thoughts on t

kings letter from birmingham jail and talks about the book and the work done by freedom readers.that organization he founded that builds libraries in prisons. >> the judge might have been under no illusion sending me to prison would help. but he said i could get something out of it if i tried. i think this is a testament not just that i got something out of it, but i came home to a world where it might feel overwhelming , it might feel like it is absolutely hard to make a wave when you have hurt somebody in the past. but i also came to a world that has radically changed and ship it in gated more opportunities for people to reflect on the ways in which they have changed and to be welcomed back into what i like to think of as the beloved community. >> reginald wayne betts sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on q and a. listen to q and a and all of our podcasts on our free c-span now app. >> democracy. it isn't just an idea. it is a process. a process shaped by leaders elected to the highest offices and entrusted to the select few regarding its basic principles. where debates unfold,

when he said in the letter from birmingham jail, just because they say it's legal, that doesn't make. right. >> and as judith does with the. advancement project, we. >> got to. >> learn from frederick douglass. >> without struggle, there. >> can be no. >> progress, and we're going to have to struggle in these next. >> four years. >> but we can't get this. press for the struggle. reverend al, as you have taught me, we have. >> to celebrate. >> the struggle every day. because that's how we make progress for our children. now, martin, your home city of atlanta is one of several that have seen immigration and customs enforcement raids really under the president's mass deportation action, ice says it has arrested 7400 people in nine days since the crackdown began, with few specifics as to who has been targeted and their origins. but i want to remind our viewers that black migrants are also caught in the crosshairs of this purge, with thousands of haitian nationals fearful that trump will end their temporary protected status after he demonized them during the campaign. and haitian leaders a

understand why that's i'm not from the northeast, but i can say it's somebody who just spent a summer in birmingham, alabama, i can really identify. so anyway, as we kind of think about the travel genre, though, a really key figure and somebody who i think takes it away from there's this kind of cruder yankee humor that you see is augustus hoppin. he is the st prolific artist of travel narratives and develops various iterations of the travelog strip over the course of about 30 years. so theirst strips that he does appear in about. 1852 with the last ones which are by then graphic albums appearing in 1880 or so and hop and has this just extruded ornery evolution over over this period in time. and i think something to that that is notable about hopping and i think travel genre in general is that you rarely see scenery in travel comics of the 19th century, at least in the us. and a big reason for that is what's going on is that there's an interest in kind of experience of travel right? so that, that what you're being to consider think about is not the kind of sublime mountain landscape, the kind of le

and a graduate student from birmingham, michigan... is the host of "jeopardy!"--ken jennings. thank you, johnny gilbert. welcome to the last of our three semifinal games in this "jeopardy!" tournament of champions. so far, adriana harmeyer and isaac hirsch, our two players with the longest winning streaks in the regular season, have advanced to the toc finals. today, it will be the battle of the drews and neilesh, all hoping to claim that one remaining finals spot. obviously, having two different players named drew today poses a bit of a challenge for a "jeopardy!" host. so, to smoothe things out, the drews will be going by their last names, basile and goins, although drew goins did ask if he could play as lisa ann-- [laughter] in honor of our "celebrity jeopardy!" champion lisa ann walter, whose spot he took in the toc. instead, it will be basile and goins, and neilesh. good luck to our drews and our honorary third drew. here we go into the jeopardy! round. your categories will be...

host: tom in birmingham, michigan. please go ahead. caller: good morning and thank you, c-span, for having mr. reisinger. i'm proud of what you are doing. you are right where you should be. i understand you are lamenting leaving the family but your purpose is being served. as a past national president of a national board of physician and nutrition specialist. nutrition and food are two different things. i would love to get your perspective on what you've been touching on. i am centered in metric to try. on one part of the parking lot, it takes me six dollars to buy a plane of raspberries and on the other end, mcdonald's is selling a five dollar value meal. can you comment a little further on the impression come the general impression people have where all of our subsidizing commodity crops at 220 million acres in the united states, 30% of his corn? and the modest, if any so-called specialty crops where we would find fruit and vegetable and the mismatch if everyone tried to eatprices would skyroc. i would appreciate deeper thoughts on t

he wrote the "letter from birmingham jail" and talks about the work by freedom reads an organization that builds libraries in prison. >> you know, the judge might have been under no illusion that sending me to prison would help. but he did say i could get something out of it if i tried. this is a testament not just that i got something out of it but i came home to a world where it might feel overwhelming. it might feel like it is absolutely hard to make a way when you have -- we have murder somebody in the past. but i also came to a world that has radically changed and shifted and created more and more opportunities for people to -- to reflect on the ways in which they changed and to be welcomed back into what i love to say the king save the community. reginald betts, on q&a. you can listen to q&a on our free c-span now app. >> up next, vice president j.d. vance speaks at the international religious freedom summit. his speech came after they pause most of the agency for international development works as part of the review of federal government work. the vice president told those gat

the best, most succinct explaining of quaker civil disobedience in letter from a letter from a birmingham jail in 1963, he did so at the behest of quakers and quakers published the first 50,000 copies of it. so this is what dickinson offered and it's one of the reasons that he and john adams clashed so mightily during the founding and in if i could just continue for a moment one of the major reasons dickinson did not want independence and refused to sign the declaration of independence was that he was very afraid that the quakers would be denied their religious and persecuted and so dickinson did not so he went off and he the battalion he he founded after independence declared. and then a year later what he feared happened did happen. and so after americans basically, you know, excised his provision for religious liberty in the articles of confederation and they they then turned on quakers and and instituted the most severe persecutions quakers and since the 17th century and they and it was at the behest john adams by the way, and that a group of quakers in philadelphia were rounded up, t

christopher paul curtis, author of numerous novels, including the watsons go to birmingham, 1963, which i just learned was originally the watsons go to florida. but then he changed it. that does it for me. thank you for watching. the katie phang show begins right now. >> i'm katie phang, live from telemundo studios in miami, florida. we begin today's show with breaking news on two tragic aviation incidents. the faa says the national transportation safety board will lead the investigation into a small private medical transport jet that crashed into a neighborhood late last night in northeast philadelphia just moments ago. in a press conference, officials said that all six people on board the plane and one person on the ground were killed. meanwhile, crews continue to search the potomac river investigating the horrific mid-air collision wednesday near ronald reagan washington national airport. coast guard personnel and additional salvage equipment is expected to arrive later today. the ntsb is hoping to learn more information from the black boxes recovered from both the passenger jet and

and then a lady pops up and goes, "hey, i was on 'jeopardy' in '92 in the birmingham school system.ool. to which i said, "oh, my lord, it's you." >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> i'm so sorry. >> seth: but there's a nice conclusion to this story which is her twitter name, doctor. she's a doctor now. >> yeah. yeah, she's a doctor. [ cheers and applause ] she may not have become a doctor if me and my classmates had not harassed her. [ light lahter ] >> seth: oh, you're gonna take credit of her medical degree now. >> we drove her out of public education into the private sector. [ light laughter ] >> seth: you also just did sundance. i've never been lucky enough to go to sundance. it's called "love, brooklyn." did you enjoy being -- for this film? >> it was wonderful. wonderful cast. you know, rachel abigail holder our director. just a wonderful story about black love and what it means to be changing yourself in a city that's also changing. andre holland, dewanda wise, nicole baharie. just a great cast, cassandra freeman. i don't want to miss her. like, it was -- sundance, bro, i've never

we will start with gilbert in birmingham, alabama. caller: good morning. give condolences to the victims in washington and philadelphia. i talk about this precarious situation america finds itself in today. in accordance to the committee and get the cabinet together. america is in a dangerous situation in my mind. it is as dangerous as it was from the first american revolution or even the civil war. when i look at the cabinet people, i can only think about the vile racists like john c. calhoun before the civil war or strom thurmond in the early 1940's and 1950's. what we have here is a confederacy/fascist type government that we have. the conservatives -- the polarizing situation we find ourselves in today. the repercussions of what america has done to the world. when we think about immigration, the world -- people across the world have become nomads and each country has to bear its own load from wars and everything. the whole world is in a state of confusion. we as a country have come to a place where we are tearing down our institutions, laws and policie

but in birmingham, alabama they had a women's auxiliary for minutemen operation. the four minutemen. in minnesota, a contest in which students prepared speeches buying war stamps. this led to the creation of a junior for minutemen and these little orators all over. and they were told to advise younger friends to earn extra money in order to buy a war bond and to tell their parents to to the limit to their government. think about that. going to children, telling them to go home and propagandize their parents that's what we're doing for programs propped up popped up on campuses including this one at louisiana state university in 44 states, wounded veterans had their own division in new mexico they had 1500 motor four minutemen who drove around the state with musicians singing. they also had singing for minutemen because people the people want to exercise their in moments of patriotism. and again, these songs were had instructions and they said, make sure you do these songs. make sure you use very patriotic ones like dixie and when johnny comes marching home, and als

king's letters from birmingham jail. and talks about the work done by freedom reads. an organization he founded that builds libraries in prisons. >> the judge might have been under no illusion that sending me to prison to help, but he did say i could get something out of it if i tried. and i think that this is a testament not just that i got something out of it, but that i came home to a world where it might feel overwhelming, it might feel like it is absolutely hard to make a way when you have hurt somebody in the past, but i also came to a world that has radically changed and shifted and create more and more opportunities for people to reflect on the ways in which they changed, and to be welcomed back in what i think of as the beloved community. >> sunday night at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span's "q&a." you can listen to "q&a" and all of our podcasts on our free c-span now app. >> house speaker mike johnson and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke briefly to the press after their meeting at the u.s. capitol.

where the people are and i went to 70 cities in our country visited places like pennsylvania and birmingham, alabama, dallas, texas, liberty city miami, yesterday the is a commitment from you from me to you in this committee that i will go to the people of america, visit the neighborhoods and the leaders and serve the leaders of our country and how can we work together to have sustainable solution and make this very important and the housing needs of our citizens and over 7 million in my housing act for the definition of manufacturing needs to be updated in improving the definition of manufactured homes in the removing the per minute chasity requirement is incredibly important to the hud code to manufactured homes. >> thank you mr. sherman i know how important manufactured homes are when it comes to housing availability and housing affordability look at those codes and all the codes and take inventory and how we can reduce the burden and make it less cumbersome including manufacturer housing is a commitment i do give to you. >> my opening statement the homelessness has increased by 30% sinc

it was in this great body of work called "the letters from the birmingham jail" and if he only knew his words would resound in history, these spiritual words would speak to a scientific truth. he said this, he said, we are all caught in an inescapable network of muuality -- mut mutuality, that we are tied in a common garment of destiny, that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. powerful words, right? but what do they have to with science, cory? what do they have to do with our present political crisis, our present constitutional crisis? what do they have to do with that? well, here's what they have to do with that -- you see, the wisdom of this body, as i've worked in a bipartisan way on the foreign relations committee, we fund the usaid to do things to protect us, but we're not doing them at home. usaid officials are around the globe. and one of the reasons why we, in the wisdom of congress that this president is trying to violate, one of the things that we know, because we've got engineers in this place, we've got doctors in this place, we've got dedicated public serv

are i went over 70 cities in our country visited places like pennsylvania, visited places like birmingham, alabama, dallas, texas liberty city, miami and so yes that is a commitment from me too you and this committee i will go to the people of america, visit the neighborhoods, visit the leaders the servant leaders and see what is a problem you're having? how can we work together to come up with sustainable solutions and i think that is very important. >> thank you. one of the challenges we have in the housing needs of our citizens and we both agree is over 7 million needed units. part of my road to housing act suggests the definition of what we need to use for manufacturing needs to be updated for going to meet the needs of the average person improving the definition of manufactured home in the hud code to remove the permanent chassis requirement is incredibly important. the use of updated the code to change the definition of manufactured homes for. >> think it mr. chairman. i know how important manufactured homes are when it comes to housing availability and housing affordability. such a

he was sentenced earlier at birmingham crown court.sted has unveiled its new school inspection report cards, set to launch in the autumn of this year, replacing single word grades with detailed assessments. while schools will be rated across areas like behaviour, leadership and safeguarding. there will be five new categories from cause and concern to exemplary. ofsted says the changes will give parents more meaningful insights. teaching unions, though, are warning it could increase pressure on schools and worsen the teacher recruitment crisis. the overhaul follows a controversy after the death in 2023 of headteacher ruth perry, which a coroner linked to an inspection at her school. the israeli prime minister is in the us for talks with donald trump at the white house, like the focus on victory over hamas, the ongoing gaza ceasefire and indeed expanding peace in the middle east. it's trump's first meeting with a foreign leader since returning to office. benjamin netanyahu there in the us capital. the talks come as us and arab mediators

. >> be in birmingham. click the link and join the biggest rally held in british politics for decades. thank you. okay. >> joining me on my panel tonight is gb news contributor will kingston. political commentator chloe dobbs and the former labour mp stephen pound. and our very own chloe dobbs has just returned back from a month abroad, mimicking the life of a migrant destined for britain for a new tv documentary. >> i really am an empathetic person, but if we don't put a stop to these ridiculously high levels of both legal and illegal migration, britain is going to be a hellhole. >> can't disagree with that. she'll share all the details before the night is out. first, though, your news headlines with aaron armstrong. >> good evening to you. our headlines. the prime minister says the uk will seek a strong trading relationship with the us as north america moves closer to as north america moves closer to a trade war. mr starmer spoke to reporters while hosting the german chancellor, olaf scholz, ahead of a tr

>> well, bradford council will put up their council tax by 10% here in birmingham. permission given for 7.5%. that means since 2012 it's gone up by 73%. i'll have all the details. >> and take more refugees. a group of mps has warned that britain should resettle at least 5000 refugees each year, and make it easier for them to get here. do you agree? >> and luis rubiales on trial? spain's former football federation president could face. can you believe this? two and a half years in jail for sexual assault after kissing jenni hermoso after they won the 2023 women's world cup? >> gosh. and as a growing number of organisations introduce language guidance to appease the woke, is it time to protect the beautiful english language, or do we just need to embrace the change? we're going to have a good debate about that. >> and victory for common sense. we're putting it down to gb news cats are safe for now from an snp ban, as the scottish first minister, john swinney, rules out a crackdown. so inflation is currently 2.7%. some of these inflation council tax increases 10%. yeah