so that's why i, as a good brown girl from the hood -- and i am very, very proud of being a brown girl from the hood who made it to congress -- that i am here to defend and to speak for those people who were my viewers, and some of them turned into my voters. the brown community in this country is the largest minority in the country, 20% of the population, 50 million people. we want dignity. and unfortunately, the democratic party has played political football with us since reagan. i was at that press conference where he promised in the first 100 days of his presidency, he was going to give immigration reform law. and you know what happened? use that political capital into obamacare. and that's fine. he's the president. he can use that political capital into anything he wants. but you know what? don't lie to us. now in 2020, president biden said the same thing. within the one -- first 100 days of my presidency, i'm going to give my immigration reform law. and he has abandoned us, as well. for what? for childcare care, for elderly care, for vision care. and that's fine. he's the preside

herman brown the younger brother had died.eorge idolized his older brother and what he had done his trying to build things around texas with his brother's name on it. it was the herman brown laboratory at rice university etc. so one time on this hill country town, it's a little town out of the western set with wooden buildings around the square. on that square there was a two-story building in on it said herman brown memorial library. i knew a lobbyist for george brown to tried to get in to talk to me before. i called him and i had an inspiration right at that moment to say to george brown to get them to talk to me that went into a phonebooth right on that square and put in a call and i said i'd like to talk to mr. brown one more time said no bob i'm not going to do that or that acetaminophen i said posh all you have to do is say one sentence to him. tell him the amount -- no matter how many buildings he built the names at the herman brown no one is going to know who herman ngbrown was unless he's in the book. so posh made the

>> brown: and that was you, huh? “the joke” ♪) >> brown: her stunning 9 grammy's “the joke,” a ballad to those who feel marginalized, brought her national attention. now 40, carlile told her own coming-of-age story in a recent memoir, titled “broken horses,” about growing up poor in rural washington state, moving from place to place, her father's battles with alcoholism, her mother's aspirations to be a country singer. a self-described "misfit," carlile writes of being gay in a community with few role models and a church that didn't accept her. from the beginning, though, she was “addicted to performing.” >> it's easy to get addicted to performing, because it's quite an adrenaline rush, you know. i would say that it was something that i experienced so young that i just always wanted to do it. i wanted to do it! i wanted to feel understood and seen. >> brown: did you feel misunderstood and unseen? >> not for the most part, but i felt like i chose those moments to reveal myself. >> brown: her musical collaborators and

brown was unless he's in a book. so, posh made the call and at about 6:00 this morning, the phone rings and george brown himself is inviting me to lunch and he tells me that, he had raised the money, 30,000 dollars, a lot of money in those days, remember. 1940. and that in fact had bought texas the influence in congress that it needed. and he told me that i couldn't use this story unless i had some sort of documentation. and i had been told over and over again that i would never get any sort of documentation about lyndon johnson's move because it was said to me, over and over again, lyndon never wrote anything down. but then i thought, george brown was a businessman. he wrote things down. i started looking for george brown letters in the lyndon johnson library. i remember those letters were in a lot of different files. and in the johnson library, you request files and the archivist brings the files up to your desk in boxes, right boxes, each box holds about 800 pages. in fact, one of the archivists, and the one who h

gordon brown and the beef.— because it's very christmas. gordon brown and the beef. living out here _ brown and the beef. my mum and dad were living out here in _ brown and the beef. my mum and dad were living out here in italy _ brown and the beef. my mum and dad were living out here in italy and - were living out here in italy and we were living out here in italy and we were going out that night for christmas flying out and my mum said the beef in italy is not as good as you can get in an english butcher, can you bring out a sirloin? so i buy one and we are staying with my mum and dad and drove up from hampshire at te heathrow and as we are driving into heathrow events, my phone rings and it's gordon brown on his mobile phone and he said he said peter has resigned and this is when peter has resigned and this is when peter madison was exposed for the geoffrey robinson known after a couple of days in 1998. so geoffrey robinson known after a couple of days in 1998.— couple of days in 1998. so for treole couple of days in 1998. so for people of— couple of days in 1998.

brown is also worried about california's massive surplus forecast. it's very hard to split a lot of money in government without doing stupid things generational and transformational budget. what do you think we should do with this surplus now? it's very difficult to spend money well, particularly when you know it's not gonna be there in two years. we are going to we have to be. that's the history of california . the money flows in and then it goes away. arnold's wishing i had a deficit of 60 billion next deficits going to be just like that. we have no piers. what would your advice to governor newsom be? why show you spend that money? because it can. it looks okay now, but two years he's going to be re elected. i feel comfortable about that. and then i think that second term can be can be difficult. also the low year in and the more exposure to get, the more they get tired of you. brown is busy now is chair of the california china climate institute. and share of the oakland military institute, which he found it he doesn't spend too much time thinking

>> brown: it's a real question, right? >> yeah.torean food and be plant-based at the same time, then it's not a choice. so, the question that i set out to answer when i started cooking more was, is there a way to adjust the ingredients, the recipes, tweak them here and there, so they still taste like the food i grew up eating, but don't have any animal products, and it is a little bit healthier. and that's really how it all started. so, i'm chopping some carrots right now, to add to our tteokbokki... >> brown: we got a demonstration, and taste, of what it became. >> tteokbokki. so, "tteok" means rice cake-- yes, right here. --and "bokki" is kind of a reference to booka, which means fried. a little bit of gochugaru, which is korean pepper powder. we've got gochujang, which is the main sauce that you're going to use for this particular sauce. we got here just a lot of vegetables. we also have the aromatics, and onions and some garlic. >> brown: then this came together quickly. >> so, i've made you a bowl of food, which has the rice,

gordon brown and the beef.e were going out, yvette and i, for christmas, flying out, and my mum said the beef in italy is not as good as you can get in an english butcher, can you bring out a sirloinjoint? so i buy one and we are staying with yvette�*s mum and dad, drove up from hampshire to heathrow and as we are driving into heathrow, yvette�*s dad driving, me and yvette with the beef, my phone rings and it's gordon brown on his mobile phone and he said... "ed," he said, "peter mandelson has resigned," and this is when peter mandelson was exposed for the geoffrey robinson loan, and after a couple of days in 1998, this would be... so for people of a certain age, gordon brown is the new chancellor. and peter mandelson is very close to gordon brown and tony blair at the time, in theory at least. and a cabinet minister, dti secretary. but he had taken a loan that he had not declared, from geoffrey robinson, and after 48 hours... back in those days people resigned and he resigned quickly. so he rings me and as he

brown: thank you. the director does not need me to defend him, but he has been in the job three weeks. the former acting director wrote back and said they don't push out career employees. my understanding is the i.g. is looking into this. senator menendez is recognized. sen. menendez: i hope the agency will be more responsive. i certainly hope under your leadership there will be greater responses. two of the largest services that manage student federal loans announced they would be exiting their contracts. one of the firms that will exit servicing is also in charge of managing the public service loan forgiveness program. did the last student loan servicing transfer on the scale student loan -- scale harm student loan borrowers? dir. chopra: transfers can be problematic when records have errors and systems are not appropriately tested. i am worried about transfers. we have seen it in mortgage too. we will work with the education department, with other regu lators to make sure that large transfers are do

brown. i cannot understand the separation of the country. i mentioned -- he mentioned earlier the black and the brown. to me, i think the black and the brown is trying to do away with a lot of people, and all you all are doing is you know -- dividing the united states more and more all the time. that is all i have to say to him. guest: thank you for the comments. i think you and i see things differently. i go back to the founding of this country and this is a great nation. and it was founded on a document that treated me as only 3/5 of a person, right? and we were a country that was at civil war because of the difference between black and white, and black people's desire to enjoy the human rights of freedom, free of slavery. we have a civil war that almost tore the country apart and in many ways it did but we are resilient and a country today. we went through three construction and jim crow laws. you hear black and brown people say we want equity and fairness, that is not saying we want to somehow deprive white people of anything, what we ar

and i'm going to keep writing. >> brown: all right, the book “" woke racism.”ch. >> thank you, jeffrey. >> woodruff: and some late breaking news. a jury in chicago this evening convicted actor jussie smollett of faking a hate crime attack on himself. the panel deliberated about nine hours over two days. smollett said that he was the subject of a racist, homophobic attack by white men, in 2019. prosecutors said that he paid two black men to stage a mock attack, in a bid for publicity. and that is the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. you can join us online, and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, please stay safe, and we'll see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> for 25 years, consumer cellular has been offering no-contract wireless plans, designed to help people do more of what they like. our u.s.-based customer service team can help find a plan that fits you. to learn more, visit www.consumercellular.tv. >> johnson & johnson. >> bnsf railway. >> the ford foundation. working with

especially my friend congressman brown for being here. this is such an important conversation and cap's national policy blueprint on combat in white supremacy is very important. and the first and foremost key is the recognition. you know, talking about this in today's world and enlight of everything that is going on, that has been one of the most significant developments in the last year. so cap has been leading that effort. getting this front and center and there's any number of things -- i would encourage those that are watching today, if you haven't gone on the cap website and see this blue print, please do that. take a look at it, spread it around. because it encompasses so many good recommendations, but also provides the basis for where we are today. things we've got to do our relatively simple. [inaudible] for instance, i think it's incumbent upon doj to establish some federal advisory committees. this needs to be a whole of government approach to develop policies and guidelines to implement strategies. that's the key. implementing

. >> maryland democrat congressman anthony brown and former alabama senator doug jones talk about white supremacy in law enforcement and the military. in a discussion hosted by the center for american progress. >> thank you so much. pleasure to be here today. first, i want to introduce both of our panelists. starting with senator jones, i want to welcome former u.s. senator from alabama, senator doug jones, who will be one of our two panelists in today's conversation. at the u.s. attorney for alabama senator jones successfully prosecuted two kkk members for their role in the 1963 16th street baptist church bombing. he has been a prominent civil rights advocate throughout his career. notably, senator jones has joined cap action as a distinguished senior fellow focusing on racial equity and social justice issues as well as criminal justice and democracy reform. i'm also very excited to welcome representative anthony brown from maryland's fourth congressional district. representative brown serves on the house armed services committee as well as the committees on veterans affairs and transp

they told me that he got the money from george brown, george and herman brown who were the two principals of the great texas contracting and politically well-connected firm. i have been trying to talk to john brown for years. he wouldn't talk to me at all. i would call and his secretary would say he was busy, he never called back. i wrote him letters. he'd never spnld. but i needed to talk to him if if i wanted him to understand what would happen in this month. one day i had an inspiration how to get him to talk. herman brown, the older brother, died. george idolized his older brother. and what he had done, he was trying to build things in various -- around texas with his brother's name on it. there was a herman brown laboratory at bryce university, et cetera. so one day i'm in this little hill country town, and it's a little town like a scene out of a western set with wooden buildings all around a square. but on that square there was one gleaming white, two-story building and on it said herman brown memorial library. i knew one had tried to get him to talk to me before. if i called him a

i started looking through george brown letters in the library. i remember his letters were in a lot of different files. johnson library, you request files and archivist brings files thup in red boxes. the one that has been helping the most over the years has been nice enough to come today. you look at these boxes and you really say, you know, how long it will l take you to look throh these pages. consciously or not, i was in the habit of turning every page. i remember finding what i needed and some file in turning page after page, letter after letter that had no significance. there was a yellow western union telegraph form. on it was signed by george brown you were supposed to have the checks by friday. on the bottom, johnson secretary had written a reply. to all of the folks that you have talked to have been heard from. i am not acknowledging the letters.er ensuring that the fellows in the checks have been received. that is part of it. who are the people who had given the 30,000 dollars. let me tell you, there are moments when i really felt i fo

jeffrey brown has this story, part of our ongoing arts and culture coverage, canvas. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> browna theatre in st. paul, minnesota, langston hughes' ¡black nativity' has become a holiday season staple. performed here nearly every year for decades. it was the opening show of the 45th season at penumbra, one of the nation's largest and most renowned black theater companies. >> i wanted to provide a space where we could still plumb the human condition, but do it through the african-american experience. >> brown: director lou bellamy founded penumbra in 1976. he's since handed the reins to his daughter sarah. early on, he says, there were few opportunities for african- americans on stage. you weren't seeing enough opportunities both for actors and directors and writers, but you also weren't seeing the stories. >> that's the most important thing, the stories. one of the things about the these are not characters that are distant from us. they are parents, they are cousins. this-- we're a professional theater inside of a community >> brown: over the past 45 years, penumbra has cemented it

brown: thank you. you agree with her? that stable coins do not show promise as a payment system? >> i think that is true. i also think about the distributive ledger. it is not something you can go to. if there is a problem on a decentralized ledger with a lot of notes and governance, debts. sen. brown: do they hold promise for faster and more inclusive payments, do you think it would make sense to bring them into a traditional finance? ms. allen: i think there are concerns about the traditional finance. primarily because of their relationship with decentralized finance. there's also the issue of their own risks. if they were brought to be used as payments and procured into the proper financial system, we would have to be very careful about systemic rates that plant -- play an important role. sen. brown: thank you. last week's hearing in the house -- your ceo agreed that stable coins are mostly used for trading in speculation, but your company is seeking a bank charter based on what you call usdc. just

thats especially true of women who are browning or don't have an experience of pregnancy before.eir life circumstances change, they lose their job or their relationship breaks apart or they have medical complications. or for many women they don't have the resources to pay for it earlier. >> woodruff: and mary, we were saying earlier that the chief justice seems to be searching for a middle ground here. >> right, i think that going into this, it is a stretch to call it a middle ground because to get rid of viability as the dividing line would be to reverse a core dimension of roe v. wade that has been there since 1973. but that seemed to be the solution that chief justice john roberts was interested in, he unared to this viability several times suggesting if there is a right to choose abortion, does it really have to go until 24 weeks, why couldn't it be, for example, 12 weeks or 15 weeks when most abortions take place, relatively early in prel nancy. that wasn't surprising in and of itself. i think what was more surprising that more of the justices didn't seem interested in that

>> charlie brown and the peanuts gang. >> in 1965, a year after rudolph, cbs aired another christmasssic. >> we love charlie brown christmas. >> i love the feel of it with great sound track. >> someone pared jazz with a christmas special for kids. >> every time you hear it. >> charlie brown is a strange hero for kids, appears to suffer from depression, he goes to therapy. >> even though his therapist is lucy and she charges 5 cents. >> he was against the commercialism of christmas. >> charlie brown wrestles with the issues, and linus turns to him, shocking for the time, he site scripture. >> for you. >> not about charlie brown. >> a public school play. >> school board was probably against it. but no one was understand them anyway it was wawawa . >> there is no way that charlie brown special gets made today and does not end with department of justice policing a school board meeting. >> something about simplicity of children that makes it easier to know the simplicity of the message of christmas, that is what charlie brown nails. >> you hope that is still on. until the end of time. >>

>> brown: and have you foundt? >> i have multiple voices.: sanford biggers' “code switch” exhibition is in los angeles until january 23rd, before moving to the speed museum in louisville beginning mid-march. his washington, d.c. work is on display through january 9. for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown at the phillips collection. >> woodruff: and we'll be back shortly with a brief but spectacular take on talking to your kids about sex. but first, take a moment to hear from your local pbs station. it's a chance to offer your support, which helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> woodruff: for those stations staying with us, we take look back at the dixie fire that burned in california over the summer. as the state faced a shortage of firefighters, william brangham discovered a critical resource: prison inmates. its part of our series, "searching for justice." >> brangham: in the hills of the san bernardino national forest, the firefighters begin their ascent. there are only three men on today's arduous journey. but, in this tinderbox

a lawyer for antonio brown denied those accusations and insists that brown is vaccinated but that heeal with lingering injuries. now, if you have been following the news about the nfl and vaccinated players, you might want to be wondering about this and rightfully so, why was antonio brown suspended for three games but green bay packers quarterback aaron rogers was not suspended at all? after all, rogers also lied about his vaccination status. the nfl is saying rogers lied to the world but not to his team or nfl. apparently they knew that rogers was not vaccinated. if you want to boil this down, i guess it means the nfl is fine if players lie to the world just don't lie to the nfl or your team about your vaccination status. let's get a quick reaction from our panel on this. dean and ida, what is your reaction. i'll start with you, ida. what is your reaction in the disparity in punishment? the players knew they had to be vaccinated. they know what the protocols are, both of them. i don't care if you're telling me are you did some cocktail drink that made you think you're vaccinated or

i'm excited to announce representative brown, serves on the house armed services committee as well as the committees on veterans affairs, and transportation and infrastructure. the congressman is also cochair of the new democrat coalition for national security task force. he is a retired colonel in the united states army reserve. he has a military record spanning more than a quarter century as an aviator and jag officer and he was awarded the legion of merit and a bronze star for his military service. he's the author of legislation, trucking extremism within armed services. so to get our conversation started, violent white supremacy currently poses one of the most lethal threats to american democracy and security. senator jones, you have prosecuted one of the most infamous hate crimes in american hit, and now you're a senior fellow at cap action, and you worked on the team that recently released the comprehensive national blueprint to end white supremacist violence. can you talk about the key federal actions needed to curb white supremacist activities in our government institutions an

catching up with former governor jerry brown .h to cracking down on retail thefts and other problems. the x-rays from your urgent care visit look good. just stay off that leg, okay? what about my rec team? i'm all they got. next season. thanks doc. wow, he already scheduled my pt. i love doctors who work with athletes. does he know you tripped over a basketball? that's a sports injury. at kaiser permanente, we make getting care easy so you can get back on the court quicker. office. he's enjoying retired life on his family's ranch and colusa county, but he is not keeping quiet. alex michaelson, host of our political show of the issue, is paid him a visit recently and asked him about his successors performance and some of the bigger issues that are facing our state. jerry brown and his dogs are taking us on a ride will never forget. make sure my foot is on the accelerator. like most of his life, brown is pedal to the metal. so this is all your property when we look out. as he traverses up the mountains of his 2500 acre ranch, about

congressman brown. >> sure, look.mee back up, too, because about a year ago or so, there wass talk on capitol hill to mandate the n vaccine for the m andn women in uniform. i actually was against that. i said, look, i don't think we should mandate the vaccine for our men and women in uniform if we're not going to do that for our civilian federal workforce and other essential workers. we nowee have since mandated th vaccine widely, certainly federal government femployees, federal contractors, the military, and i fully support that. i believe firmly that vaccination is an important step if we're really going to defeat this virus and the ever evolving variants, if we're going i to g our arms around it and sort of be able to get it to the level of threat as the common flu. i thinkr vaccination is importt and i encourage listeners who have even been vaccinated to make sure they get their boosters. and for men and women in the military, we have for as long as i have been in the army, and i was in for 30 years, and i can't t

bob brown heard his calling in tasmania's wilderness. - bob brown, as the former leader of the australian greens, and he remains to me to be quite an inspirational person. - the fight for the tarkine is not over. - [man] he's devoted his life to campaigning to save these special places. - i often have people say, "oh who is the next bob brown?" and i think, "there isn't another bob brown." (gentle music) (birds tweeting) - i came to tasmania as a young locum, that means temporary doctor. the very weekend i drove onto this land, off the ferry and into the mountains, i was galvanized by the beauty of tasmania. in-fact, i sent my parents a card saying, "dear mum and dad, i am home." well i was a pretty pent-up young fellow, you see, i happen to be a presbyterian and gay at the same time, and those two things don't mix very well. the criminal penalties for homosexuality were 20 years in jail, and i was the son of a policeman to boot. i was internally hemorrhaging a bit, and i found in nature a great ease, it doesn't try to hone us all down to one particular description, it celebrates variety.

she's an emergency physician and acadic dean at brown university's school of public health. dr. ranney, i know you were working in the er all day so i especially thank you for joining us with your time. so case lloyds, as you know personally at hospitals are surpassing what we saw last winter. but so far death and hospitalization aren't tracking as closely with the case rates we have seen in previous surge does that jive with what you are seeing on the ground? >> it does. listen, even today the only people that i admitted to the hospital for covid were people who were unvaccinated. and thanks to our tremendous vaccination campaign across the u.s. over the last year, about 60 percent of us have received both shots and a significant percentage have gotten the boosters. that is protecting us even in the midst of this surge. on top of that there is some preliminary evidence that omicron itself may be slightly more mild. but let's not kid ourselves. even a mild covid infection particularly for the unvaccinated is still really unpleasant. you are still looking at days out of work, alt

it's part of our arts and culture series, canvas >> brown: i'm joined here in studio by carlos lozadaion book critic of the "washington post." he won the pulitzer prize for criticism in 2019. and from brooklyn, jacqueline woodson, author of novels for adults, as well as newbery honor, winning titles for young readers. she was the library of congress national ambassador for young people's literature and a macarthur fellow lasyear, and it's really nice to see and talk to both of you. i feel like i always start with fiction, so for once we're going to start with nonfiction. carlos, you give us a couple of picks. >> yes, i want to start with two books that i think get to some current major crises we're facing, but do so in really novel ways. first is "under a white sky" by elizabeth kolbert. she's probably best known for her book "the sixth extinction," which depicted the crushing of the planet's biodiversity under the human footprint. this subsequent book is kind of a perfect sequel because it's a warning about how even very well-intentioned fixes to our environmental problems can be cau

brown: thank you, senator toomey. mr. michael bray barry joins us from north carolina, senior advisor for hagerty consulting and previously served emergency management roles in the state of north carolina for two years, leading the response team recovery efforts and served as president of the national emergency management association from 2017 two 2018. welcome. matt mayer is the president of opportunity ohio and is joining us remotely from our home state. prior to this he wrote on national security issues and is a visiting fellow with the american enterprise and statute and scholar for the heritage foundation and he serves as a senior, served to past tense is a senior official to the department of homeland security under secretaries ridge and chertoff. welcome. doppler carlos martin joins us remotely also, if fellow at the brookings institute and director of the remodeling futures program at the harvard joint center for housing studies. previously of the built environment practice area leading in research efficiency, cli

classic. >> i love charlie brown christmas.not to love, right?ro i love the feel of it. it had that great sound track. >> someone paired jazz with a christmas special for kids. >> every time you hear it, you just got to go. >> charlie brown is a strange hero for kids because he appears to suffer from depression. i mean, he is in therapy even though his therapist is lucy and she charges 5 cents. >> kind of go through this awakening, i suppose through the christmas season. >> he was against the commercialism of christmas. >> charlie brown wrestles with all of these issues and you know, eventually lioness turns to him and shocking for the time, he cites scripture. >> for you to born in the city of david is a savior who is christ the lord. >> that's what christmas is all about charlie brown. >> these kids put on a nativity scene as part of a public school play. >> school board was against it, nynobody could understand him anyway it was workers' comp anyway it wah, wah. >> no way it is department of justice school board meeting. >>

this is john brown the opposite, slave trade around cofounder of brown university. in the back of his magisterial home is a little annex where there is what is known as john brown's chariot and it is to our modern i tiny. i compare the forward facing seats to the backseat of the the w bug, a tiny little thing and according to family tradition when the newly inaugurated president, george washington, was visiting providence, john brown gave washington a ride in that cherry it down to the shipyard where he was building a ship named for the new president. that got me to wondering. in the book i was writing, washington visited providence several times but i had no idea he had come to providence once he was president. why? why was he there? that led me to realize he went on a series of presidential trips in an attempt to create a sense of nationhood among 13 former colonies. finishing up this book of straight history, close to a dozen books i had written in the last 25 years. i live on nantucket island, 14 miles long, i grew up in pittsburgh, a sailor in the maritime capi

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you certainly weren't taught that british history is brown history at school because i want to take youack to your schooling, to your childhood. brought up in an industrial town in the west midlands, your parents immigrants from punjab in india, you were taught very little about the connections between your family and your new country. yeah, i guess, on paper, i had quite a bad start. my dad, totally illiterate and has schizophrenia. i arrived at school not being able to speak english. i was working in a factory myself throughout my schooling for 50p an hour, but i'm now a bestselling author. and i think i say that not to boast, but because i think my story is typical of many immigrants, and this is what immigrant families do. they arrive, they face adversity and they do well. they enhance the culture and the economy of this country. but the only narrative you hear is that immigrants are a burden. right. but if your contention is that your story is very typical of the immigrant story, then it raises a fundamental question about the sort of overarching theme of much of your work, which i