i'm marcia eli from the brooklyn public library center for brooklyn history and the arts and culture team. this year, brooklyn public library celebrates its 125th anniversary. our birthday is a chance to talk about all that the library does, and one important part of that work is due wording the extraordinary special collections of the brooklyn center for history. these archives are the combined materials for the brooklyn public library's special collections at those of the former brooklyn historical society, and they are literally the most comprehensive collection of brooklyn related materials in the world. so, we are celebrating these amazing collections in a 125th anniversary series titled out of the box. five programs that put just a few of the most important or most frequently used or beloved materials center stage. clearly, the dodgers and jackie robinson have to be part of that lineup. so, tonight, we are bringing together a really fantastic panel of experts to dip into just some of what the center for brooklyn history has. especially as it relates to the groundbreaking player

you were and brooklyn. you are in the greatest metropolis is felt to be the greatest country on earth. watching book tv on cspan2 look at author programs with award-winning david mccullough to discuss 1776. >> the revolutionary war era the 18th century more to who we are the way we are and what we hold to be our american secular faith. then most people realize. unfortunately it has portrayed so often almost as though the people who were involved in particularly the protagonists were figures in a costume pageant. the clothing of the time, the renditions of jefferson, washington and others in the paintings and that this theatrical quality to them. we do not see them and photographs. we have the recordings of their voices. we cannot see film footage. those who fought in the war have no on the spot drawings by correspondence it's almost impossible to reach them but the written diaries and letters and sometimes in orderly books records of one kind or another. and memoirs or autobiographies written after the fact

, they think that everything is fine and it should be now with the brooklyn activist.task is to find those who will spit on the flag of ukraine and come up with another way to perpetuate it in new york the name of president zelensky well, he is still such a hero yuriy mamon nina vyshneva voice of america at the beginning of a full-scale war in ukraine created the spend vide ukraine platform which united 190 ukrainian companies and such initiatives to support the ukrainian economy by promoting world-class ukrainian goods and services to the whole world and help companies find customers abroad, the founders of the platform are sure to buy ukrainian - this is another way to support ukraine during the war, how does the ukraine spinbot work and which companies are included see further in the story of lesya bakalets ukraine has been fighting for independence and territorial integrity for six months not only on the battlefield but also on the economic front business is trying to survive in war conditions at the beginning of a full-scale invasion in the country they created a

brooklyn. in the late 1970s and 1980s, archaeologists excavated the ground outside of the empire stores warehouse. it was originally an 1860s coffee storage warehouse. it had been home to centuries of new york's urban industry and commercial growth. when they went to dig out in front of this space, they found remnants of timber frame cribs. structures used to expand the cities shoreline to create more land. when they excavated the interior of these cribs, they found thousands of objects. stuff like shoe leather, metal pieces, glass bottles, ceramic plates. why do you think all of this stuff was doing inside of a landfill crib? a structure that's meant to sit beneath the ground. lucy? >> all trash people used to weigh down the cribs. >> exactly, this was all of their garbage. these items were there because 19th century new yorkers threw them away. these items had ended up in the trash heap of history. they got uncovered by archaeologists centuries later. they comprised the landfill that would ha

i could go today 30 years later and take a test on the brooklyn bridge and do extremely well. it's part of me now because i had to do it on my own. one reason when to bring the lab technique to the teaching of humanity's and we do presently. rosalie and i drove up from our home in white plains, a beautiful saturday, every thing in glorious color. we got to the campus in new york and almost no one was there, it must have been a football weekend or something and we went to the library, an old church converted into a library, a very victorian church. i went to the desk and called in advance and said we are here to look at the collection and she said we are so shorthanded today, i'll just give you the key and if you go to the top of the stairs to the attic, there are light switches on the way up the stairs and if you turn left, there's a door to a closet to the left. we went up the stairs and turning on the light switches which were like 40-watt bulbs. [laughter] the stairs creaked with something like stephen king returns to the left of the top of the stairs and opened the door an

. >> and the managing librarian of the brooklyn heights branch of the brooklyn public library as wech eagerly anticipate the opening of our brand-new branch it is my pleasure to introduce the event tonight on the free black brotherhood i'm so excited to be given this honor due to the connection between friends of the brooklyn heights group and a robust group that supports the brooklyn heights library that connection and as a branch i was asked if you be interested and after discovering the story behind the book and just jumped at the opportunity as the accolades in felicity group and then threw her friend on board the brilliant author of manhattan beach this has become an event and we knew and with an economy hall sharing with the world the free black brotherhood founded in 1836 supporting its community through the civil war and reconstruction and the birth of jazz the nonfiction narrative is american history that needs to be shared and highlights voices that need to be heard as a deeply personal story as a defendant in the community of the brotherhood spirit the book is a treasure i'

. > >> kevin durant gives the nets n ultimatum if they want to keep him in brooklyn.he's asking for for quite a bit. > >> and a review wound up being e difference in san diego tonighte last call between the >> massive series is under way n san diego. if the giants want to to earn a play off berth they're they're going to to leapfrog tht the giant padres at some point.t them swinging. soto almost shott of his shoes there. frustration for the 26-year-old. 7 inning, giants up 1-0 there's kim. down the left field line. mind you brandon tkraour drury is running. crawford the relay. the relay. the tag from bart. that was a thing of beauty. they call call him safe. they review it and they overturn it. so the score remains the same. bottom ninth. camilo devon on. that's josh bell and you know what to do with a bell you ring them on up. they've now won three straight. > >> a's and angels they came for ohtani shohei ohtani who didn't didn't play. into the left field field seats that was the only run cole irvin allowed in 8 innings. and the renhifo homer was the difference in th

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. >> i'm the managing librarian of the brooklyn heights branch of the brooklyn public library, temporarily offering lobby service out of the new center for brooklyn history as we anticipate the opening of our new branch this fall. it is my pleasure to introduce the cpl presenter tonight, fatima shaik and jennifer egan on "economy hall," the industry of a free black brotherhood. i'm excited to be given this honor in part due to the connection between the friends of her brooklyn heights library friends group and it is a robust group that supports the brooklyn heights library in so many ways. i have a connection with fatima shaik and was asked by deborah how if as a branch we would be interested in supporting her in a virtual book launch for economy hall. after discovering the story behind the book and seeing the glowing review in the new york times i jumped at the opportunity to host a program sharing this monumental book but as the accolades and publicity grew, so did the importance of this program and then fatima shaik brought her friend jennifer egan on board, the author of manhattan beac

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. >> my name is rachel team and on the managing librarian at the brooklyn heights branch ofei the brooklyn public library temporarily offering lobby service out of the new center for brooklyn history as we eagerlyan anticipate the opening of a brand-new branch this fall. it is my pleasure to introduce this event tonight, fatima shaik and jennifer egan on economy hall, the hidden history of the free black brotherhood. i am so excited to be given this honor in part due to the connection between the friends of the brooklyn heights library friends group and it's a robust group that supports the brooklyn heights library in so many ways. the connection with fatima's, as a branch would be interested in supporting her in in a virtuk launch for economy hall. after discovering the story behind the book and thing the review and reading the glowing review in the "new york times" i jumped at the opportunity to be able to host a program sharing this monumental book. but as the accolades and the publicity grew, so did the importance of this program. and then fatima trooper friend jennifer egan on board,

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. ♪ ♪ >> so jackie robinson made his major-league debut in brooklyn and again managed by clive.il 14, 1947. he broke baseball's color barrier against the braves. the game was not a sellout. robinson went hitless in his first major league game. still, he made an impact. in the seventh inning, jackie laid down a bunch. the blazing speed he displayed as he ran to first base resulted in an error. later in the inning, he went home and he would go on to an eventual winning run. >> it is the 75th anniversary of jackie robinson breaking the color barrier in major league baseball. with the distance of time, what is the significance of that event? kostya: it was a tremendously significant event. it was not a sellout at the time , but the impact resonated in the season that followed and the years that followed and to this day. one way to think about this is to realize that when he made that debut, martin luther king had never given a public speech or sermon. he was not a large figure yet. we think of that era of the civil rights movement and it had not really begun. jackie was a pioneer. w

now the man is behind bars in a federal prison in brooklyn. once again, as you'll hear, her only crime she says is giving a voice to voiceless people. >> martha: she's done that for years over social media to bring attention to her cause. with that, we have masih alinejad, iranian journalist and author. she continues to do the things that we take for granted here that women are punished for. mace, welcome. this has been a tough week and tough time for you. tell us about what you think is going on here based on what you know? >> look, i get goose bumps when i think about this. this is america. this is the last of immigrants. a lot of people left their country to come here to be safe. but here, i was in my home. i was alone. this man was trying to enter my home. i learned from the fbi that he had a weapon ready to kel me. i was shocked. imagine if he opened fire. who knows how many of my neighbors could have been killed. my children live in the same house. this gun right now, he could have used to kill people in ukrainian. now it's used here to

i'm marcia eli from the brooklyn public library center for brooklyn history and the arts and culture team. this year, brooklyn public library celebrates its 125th

this goes back to brooklyn, where red's philosophy was simply this. to sell you a car, is it better for me to talk to you about the merits of the car, or have you listened to so-and-so and have them tell you about the merits of the car. so what i'm doing, i'm talking to the listener. i will say, by the way, i foot to tell you. i don't want the microphone to be in the way. i want them to know i'm sitting next to them in the ballpark. yankee stadium shivering in its concrete foundation right now. >> you call john larson's jim for the program yankees in 1966. >> got him. >> nine years later, scully was therefore sandy koufax's perfect game. >> swung on and missed, the perfect game. high fly ball into right wheel. she is gone! in a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened. >> then there was the famous 1988 world series walk-off homerun by humble kirk gibson. that crowd noise in the silence from the broadcast booth is another scully trademark. >> when i was very small, maybe eight years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs a

bÁsicamente la corte federal de brooklyn determinÓ que aquellas personas que no hayan adquirido el beneficio la posibilidad de pedirlo. carolina: hablamos de aproximadamente 100,000 jÓvenes. ¿quÉ significa para una persona que depende de esta renovaciÓn cada dos aÑos de daca? >> el que obtuvo el beneficio antes del 16 de junio de 2021... esa persona queda amparada y sigue renovando su protecciÓn de daca. afecta a las personas que no obtuvieron la protecciÓn de daca antes del 16 de junio de 21. incluso pueden mandar la solicitud a la protecciÓn, pero migraciÓn no la puede adjudicar hasta que exista una nueva orden de la corte. borja: despuÉs de todo esto, cÓmo queda el futuro de daca en el paÍs y quÉ pasa con el futuro de los jÓvenes protegidos bajo el programa? >> es incierto. la demanda colectiva del cual vimos el fallo de ayer tuvo que ver con personas que aspiraban a la protecciÓn de daca. hay dos casos en conflicto... el de texas y otra batalla del distrito de nueva york. bÁsicamente, hasta que esto no llegue a la corte suprema, no vamos a saber realmente futuro de daca. no sÓlo para qui

that ends the inning. >> in los angeles but also incredibly going all the way back to brooklyn in thetch is ball one. admittedly, there are days when you think, i would rather sit under a tree and read a book than go to the ballpark. what is great is, you come to the park, you do the routine stuff and the crowd comes in and the team takes the field and the crowd roars and all of a sudden, you are delighted as a kid in a candy shop. >> in an age when the broadcast booth was crammed with two or three announcers, scully prefers to work alone. >> the county's 0-1. >>'s mastery of language and longevity have made him legend in sports circles. began with lessons in attitude from his mentor, red barber, another broadcasting great to gave scully his big break and brought him into the booth in brooklyn. >> one of my many jobs as the junior partner in the broadcasting firm would be to get the lineups every day. let's say one day i brought up a lineup where smith was hitting in front of round. the next day i brought a lineup up and brown was hitting in front of smith. red would ask why. the firs

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from jackie robinson in brooklyn through the dodgers move to los angeles where fans had trouble following the action at the huge la coliseum and brought radios to the games to hear skully's unique descriptive accounts. >> the 1962 race is underway at dodger stadium. >> he brought baseball's grandest moments to countless living rooms including historic homeruns by hank aaron, an kirk gibson. he left his signature on the nfl too. >> montana looking, looking, throwing in the end zone and he caught it. it's a mad house at candle stick. >> skully became nbc's lead broadcaster in the 1980s before returning to the dodgers in 1990 where he would share six dodger titles and more than 10,000 games before calling his last game in october of 2016 at the age of 88. >> i have said enough for a lifetime and for the last time, i wish you all a very pleasant good afternoon. >> kirk gregory, nbc news. >>> what a legend. news of skully's death was announced california sports teams, athletes, politicians, all fans took to twitter to pay tribute to the sports legend. the ceo of the 49ers wrote "thank you for

over the last decade, she helped parts of queens and brooklyn as well. search patel is a businessman and professor. >> these are the rules for tonight past 90 minute debate. each candidate will have 60 seconds to respond to questions and they will be given an opportunity to respond if they are addressed by his and her opponent. they will be a lightning round where answers have to be yes or no for a very short response. >> you can see this full debate on the spectrum news app at any time or you can listen along on wnyc radio. for those of you at home, please join the conversation. we begin now with short opening statements. the order was different -- the order was determined. quick i am the congresswoman for the 12 conditional -- 12 congressional district of the city of new york. that is why i have been rated number three in the entire congress as being the most affected -- effective by republicans and democrats by two independent congressional rating organizations. change does not come easily but it will come if you never quit. i do not quit on our first

not sure really represent new sources if you're interested writing for the los angeles times in brooklyn i learned about you don't picture story on woke media or infrastructure, that could be the front page of the california-based newspaper play different interested in the fires that hit the west coast the los angeles times is a great first. i'm a fan of newsletters gathering organizations on the things you need to know i don't agree need differing views on the california fires, you need to know what the air quality is, i also loved the vaccine newsletter from new york times took talk about vaccine rates because are so heartening and rather reading wire will bring cloth masks and that doesn't fit the description of woke, expect that by saying, we used to get our seersucker is in the beginning of the vaccine and now we should know we need and 95. what are we talking about i don't need an essay on that. maybe it's a woke thing i don't now. >> i'm worried about you. >> i was inspired to go to amazon and buying n95 and in 90s about how to be thin or magic on people. getting us to fan into ri

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you are there in brooklyn, new york. "the new york times" op-ed pages have a piece by a priest in the anglican church in north america, arguing that faith often enters the conversation in this country only in political arguments. i wonder your thoughts about that? caller: well, i don't think so. i think those of us that have consciousness of a supreme being are conscious of him in certain situations. maybe in the public forum it does not enter the conversation, but when things get tough, the tough get going. that is when they will bring god in, because they feel they really need him. we need more of that in our life and morality, caring about each other, including those outside of the political spectrum. i even care about --, because they have been misled somewhere in their life and they are all human beings. that's why so many of them are in jail or going to court for what they did. i just pray that all is well that ends well, that it will end well, and i thank you for being there, c-span. i hope that answers your quest

she started out in brooklyn. and then she wound up here on long island what that rockville center, here we go, but she's a red sax fan, although that wasn't true in her younger days. you want to learn about her and her father that she wrote a wonderful book. what's it called? next year wait till next year about baseball. it's a terrific book and and many others she went to colby then she went to harvard got her various degrees up to her phd from harvard taught at harvard for a while then got into politics. so to speak staffer lbj and other i think you'll say a few words about this. lbj was really her focus for quite a while then she got into writing and has written all these wonderful books i have offered her. blurb anytime she wants it my blurb for her will be if doris kearns goodwin wrote a book a biography of bullwinkle. i'd buy it and read it in one night. so let me introduce to you doris kearns cooper. thank you. i'm so glad to be with all of you today, and i'm really glad i can talk to you tonight. and espe

he's a fantastically funny guy you know him from "the office," "brooklyn nine-nine," "pineapple expressthis is the end." his new show,"killing it," is on peacock now. i think it's great he's great craig robinson will also be joining me tonight [ cheers and applause he is an award-winning tv and comic book writer whose graphic novel "adora and the distance" is on sale now marc bernardin will be here as well [ cheers and applause we got a great show. but, you guys, before we get to all that, here at "late night," every night, i deliver a monologue made up of jokes written by a diverse team of writers. as a result, a lot of jokes come across my desk that, due to my being a straight, white, male would be difficult -- if we're being honest, would be difficult for me to deliver. but we don't think that should stop you from enjoying them. so we'd like to share them with you now in a segment called "jokes seth can't tell." [ cheers and applause ♪ >> seth: hey, everybody, these are two of our writers, amber and jenny. >> i'm black >> and i'm gay >> and we're both women. >> seth: and i'm not so h

it is people that don't know what they are doing engineering the brooklyn bridge and watching it fall apart bit by bit. host: we are showing the viewers at home a photo of president truman, actually president johnson signing the legislation of the law. president truman and his wife receiving the first medicare cards. what is the sign up like for the country or the response of the country once it becomes law? guest: johnson told them don't go out to independent missouri -- independence, missouri, because he is associated with socialism. he said, no, we are here and i am going to do it. at first, the physicians struggled against the legislation. but here is something most people don't know. as they were implementing the law, the rules and implementation said you may not segregate the hospitals you want to get medicare from. overnight, american hospitals throughout the south went from absolutely segregated to desegregated. so medicare is what desegregated the hospitals in many cities in the north but throughout the south. within a year, there were 30 small segregated hospitals left that

. >> joining us from las vegas and brooklyn, podcasters. of the grio daily podcast and christina greer hosts the blackest questions podcast. first could either one of you tell us what the grio is exactly? michael: the grio is a network over the air, we have a streaming service, an app that you can download, similar to netflix and we -- the journalism site, the digital new site focuses on african-american news around the world and we talk about politics, culture, entertainment and those other things that we are creating a podcast network about. host: christina greer also teaches political science at florida university but your podcast is called "the blackest questions podcast." what is the format? christina: in addition to what michael shared, this is a podcast put together to invest in the importance of black media. my podcast is essentially a game show/podcast. we had michael on as well. that episode will be airing shortly. we ask different questions about black history and the entire diaspora. the questions are not meant to stump you what

i got to have some more oysters >> let's go. >> reporter: harry smith, nbc news, brooklyn. >> nice, harryy news" for this wednesday. thank you for watching i'm kate snow. stay safe and have a great night. >>> right now on nbc bay area another shark attack. >>> the local guy had been out before. he was 500 yards out. >> we will take you to the beach where it happened. >>> skipping the doctor and going straight to the pharmacy. this is not an easy process. >>> a laundry mat is hit by thieves, again and again. >> it is out of control.

now, time for your daily daily kevin durant update, he still wants to be traded out of brooklyn thiseighed in on his point forward podcast and had advice k.d. may not want to hear. >> i always support him, but, as as he's getting older, he should should embrace the hard parts of of being the star player, he should stay in brooklyn. a big market is good for the game, and and make it work. everybody grow grow up and make it work. >> for today's kicker, young tigers fans enjoying a hot, come come on. ross the dog, there, he he can't believe it, 10 can rule. get down there, pick it up, no. he had to deal with the bun but if you toss mustard catch up and relish on it, a bun bun is delicious, but that's a tough way to go down at the ballpark especially with the eight dollar hot dogs they are selling nowadays. >> i think the mom deep down was was like once the camera is off there's a five second rule, pick pick up the hotdog. >> you have a little face palm, too. >> they captured that one, charlie, thank you. > >> california in a drought, why is the city of livermore giving away free wa ♪ ♪