and lastly, welcome to our newest partner, columbia university school of the arts. would like to work with you on this project and we get to work all year huang around other events. we are happy today to celebrate books, black authors, black scholars, most of all the host in this wonderful space in this auditorium, engaging and wonderful conversations so now please, let's have marcia from columbia university give a few words. thank you and enjoy the day. >> good morning. so exciting for columbia university school of the arts to be a partner in this amazing project that max has a glimmer in his eye 15 years ago couldn't have imagined how much it had grown and the impact it would have. it is indy also at amazing opportunity for us to parter with the schomburg, literacy partners and c-span in being part of the conversation around books. columbia university school of the arts has four division, film, theater, visual arts and writing in fiction and nonfiction and extremely right for us to be part of a project that engages people around ideas and around books and the impo

joining me now is an assistant the professor of science at columbia university.s the issue you studied. this walmart fight in chicago, it is ear eerie, i was in chicago reporting on it at the time. it is eerie how similar this fight is to that one. >> yes, chris, it is eerie, and i wish i could have bet on this in vegas somewhere. this is walmart's playbook. this is out of walmart's playbook for how they treat black communities and their elected officials. we saw this in 2006 as you mentioned, where they made explicit threats about a $10 an hour living wage. that was his first and only veto in 22 years in office. >> the council basically all they did was daly's bidding, they were this ridiculous rubber stamp body. they were vetoed. >> and he was able to twist some arms so they couldn't override the veto. what was walmart worried about in that case, the precedent that bill would set, that other municipalities, where it has to seek expansion, it has to open stores in urban america, urban america that it's avoided for 30 years. this is also, just to give you more co

professor at columbia university and a film maker and 2008 miss black massachusetts usa, lavar burton, actor and director, and jim o'shea, tim wise, the author of "color blind." and you at home tweeting us using #thenwordcnn. is it ever okay to use that word? >> yeah, i think that private instances where people use it. like women might call themselves girls. hey, girl, yeah, girl. but it's not cool for me to use it. i don't think because i hear a newscaster speak to another lady and say, yeah, girl. i'm going to say, yeah, girl. i think it has its place. >> but girl and the "n" word, two different meanings. did you think they're on the same level? >> "the n" word is an electromagnetic word. it has the electric, the power, it's part of our national history. people have referred to themselves as that, it is a word that has a lot of money attached to it. people made whole careers off using the "n" word. repels and attracts. it's not the same word but the usage is the same. there are private words and public words which you might call your wife or spouse. what you might call somebody is n

>> there are schools in the united states which look at violence as a problem, columbia university building public health and starting to look at that as well. i don't think it is yet part of the mainstream public health. that is for a number of reasons. we don't think of epidemiology of violence where we might -- i am not sure that is the way we have to, there are certain epidemiological things about violence, ways that social structures that would aid and abet violence. if it sounds like i am counting my answer is because i am, there are ways in which public health can intervene but there are ways in which it was not appropriate. and it is particularly urgent, demanding at this moment, the problem of mass incarceration in prisons. there we have a problem which is a solution which causes more problems than ever solved. many people who enter the system for petty crimes or quite often no crime at all will find themselves burdened with medical and public health issues that they had not had prior to entering the system and that goes to the community as well. for public health those are two of

designed by them because they're passionate about it and in 2010 i was accepted to transfer into columbia university in the city of new york which was really exciting. i would not have gotten in if it weren't for columbia -- city college because my program is for nontraditional returning students. city college as it was, mission statement as it was, allowed me to be nontraditional. and had i taken the sort of course of action that accjc seems to think is appropriate for students to take to return to work, there are no credits that would have transferred to city college. [speaker not understood]. the quirky classes that were offered anywhere else [speaker not understood] were the ones that got me -- were the ones that helped me find out what i wanted to do once i got to university and also saved me money because there is not that much in grants and i just think that there is so much [speaker not understood] the accjc, i understand that they and i have a totally different idea about the role of community education. but thinking that one course of action and spending six years is wrong or that taking t

nearly as much as it was the first drop and i'm jim you've taught finance and economics at columbia university how is it that our demand for physical gold is so large and yet the price goes down how is that possible professor jim rogers yes the demand is large but if you're talking about people shop buying go but more people selling the that's gold as well a lot of people selling that that go and that's why the price is going down goat is rarely if ever in the physical market go prices any more than we reprice the market they're all set in the futures market are you in the camp that believes that there are more paper claims on gold then there is gold in the physical existence and what i mean is it seems that there is an agenda here those that are supporting the paper market love to see the price of gold go down and they're willing to even manufacture naked claims against gold so called naked short selling to make that happen are you are you in the camp of those to believe this is what's going on or what are your thoughts there jim rogers. when i said about we yes the futures markets and we nee

we partner with columbia university, the schomburg center, even with supporters like 18 mobile supporting us for the mobile access to reading and developing from the internet. many communities in many distinct communities, and together to support books and writing and where do we go from here. of the black book review it is our answer to those publications that historic plea in the past did not review books of people of color. not of intention but i always turn to the index and the book to see wa

found by the grandchildren in the 1950's in the family stable in staten island and gave them to columbia university with they exist to this day and most of them are quite legible. i could read the letters at the time in when they were imprisoned so that is a godsend to know the guy could have written the book without that. >> eight you for your presentation. very interesting. i thank you mentioned at some point along the way either had contact with some extent with abraham lincoln. >> relating to the reporters in late 1862 a battle near vicksburg where sherman said then and they were the down swing was horrible but thomas knox was there a reporter from the herald. rethink junius was missing battles in he was funny that way but knox wrote the dispatch to send it back incentive in the mail bag with the union army boats. general sherman thought they were spies and would have them take the reporters letters out of the mailbag and read them and he got mad at knox to have to court-martialed as a spy and was a confederate. so richard had a talent for the powerful people after fredericksburg you a back to

basil smikle professor at columbia university. karen hunter teaches journalism at hunter college. and so you just saw the clip. senator mccain praising president obama's remarks on race and calling for a review of stand your ground. what do you make of a republican doing this, basil? >> i think it's a great stance for him to take. let's remember who john mccain was, he has been and is a maverick in his party for a very long time. when he ran against bush, the republicans excoriated him for some of the positions he took. he didn't even fit into this mainstream republican party at that time. now clearly the tea party has taken it him way to another stratosphere but i like this john mccain. >> john: karen, as we saw harry reid going behind mcconnell's back for filibuster reform to mccain is he enough of a presence to make something happen? >> first of all, we can discuss whether the stand your law is the issue or culprit here, which i don't think it is. but i agree with basil, john mccain laying down the gauntlet. he's an elder state

all my kids at columbia university walk through the campus with hoodies on.none of them robbing nobody. >> and we live on the upper east side. my nephew wears a hoodie and he's playing basketball right now. my nephew lives with me. so if he comes over and walks by your house to bring something down to you, you should be thinking oh, that could be star's nephew right there, instead that could be a criminal. >> i have to say this, i think we try to use the hoodies as this metaphor. but 35 years ago, there were not hoodies and they were still profiling african-american men. so we have to be real about it. >> i would love to know what you think about this. i'm hopeful. we've come a long way, but we have so long to go. what gives me hope is when i talk to kids. my 9-year-old daughter doesn't see a black person, she sees the president. am i being naive to think that we're a generation away, but this next generation is approaching things very different? that's what i'm starting to see. >> i think you're right. each generation deals with race differently. but there a

council on drug abuse and he is also an associate professor of psychology and psychiatry at columbia university. he is a board member of the college on problems of drug dependency and has conducted 22 years of research and psychopharmacology and the science of drug addiction. dr. hart welcome to "after words." >> guest: thanks for having me. >> host: this is a fascinating book and let me say up front it's your personal story as well as the work or the results of your work in science. but the heart and soul of that i would say and if i'm wrong i hope you will tell me i'm wrong is that you are saying you know what, i think there are 20 plus million americans who do illegal drugs. >> guest: the national government conducts a survey every year and this has been known for some time. there are 20 plus million americans who use drugs on them regular basis. >> host: then you also say that over the generations over time people have always use drugs. >> guest: people have always use drugs and people will always use drugs. that's a fact. i will have to use that one. i didn't know that one. >> host: when.

basil smikle, a democratic strategist and adjunct professor at columbia university. welcome.n't be more delighted about this panel. now i hate to say it, but mr. zimmerman there is clearly not alone in his blame the victim approach. i've become a bit numb over the past few days about a young man not around to defend himself. this will continue as the justice department investigation and potential trial kicks off. what do you make of this particular sound bike, sound bite, and what do you think is ahead for the trayvon martin family. >> he is correct. he is bringing people together, i saw blacks and whites coming together to rally around this notion of getting justice with trayvon. he's on to something like that. as far as what is up next for george zimmerman i hope there is a hearing and conviction that will come and give justice to trayvon finally. there is definitely going to be a civil suit, i'm sure, as we saw with the o.j. trial. he was acquitted, and then found responsible which is definitely the case here. i'm flabbergasted that he would go there so soon, too soon, by

. >> columbia university law professor harvey goldschmid is a former commissioner and general counselthe securities and exchange commission. he says passed at the height of wall street and washington's love affair with deregulation, an infatuation that was endorsed by president clinton at the white house and encouraged by federal reserve chairman alan greenspan. >> that was the wildest and silliest period, in many ways. now, again, that's with hindsight because the argument at the time was, "these are grownups. they're institutions with a great deal of money. government will only get in the way. fears it will be taken overseas. leave it alone." but it was a wrong-headed argument and turned out to be, of course, extraordinarily unwise. >> what role did alan greenspan play in all of this? >> well, he made clear in his public speeches and book that a libertarian drive was part of the way he looked at the world. he's a very talented man. but that didn't take us where we had to be. >> he was--another former commissioner told us, hard to argue with at that point. >> alan was most powerful m

the schomburg center and we have been watching a panel on african-americans and joining us is columbia university professor farah griffin who has a book coming out called "harlem nocturne." professor griffin what is your book a life -- about? >> guest: it's a book about three women artists featuring novelist. their involvement not only in the arts but in the rest of politics during world war ii. >> host: that will be coming out in the fall and you will see an extended conversation on booktv and a couple of months. let's start this call-in segment with a to be that we received. this is from free one month and as a professor of english and african-american studies should an african-american and african diaspora and -- diaspora curriculum vitae that? >> guest: very good question. there've been efforts to create an african-american curriculum that is taught in public schools philadelphia is one that is tried that. i certainly think the conclusion of work about african-americans and they african diaspora should be included in the public school curriculum. public school curriculum should be representat

professor of law and cofounder and director of the center for the study of law and culture at columbia university, and professor thomas is one of thed did temperatures of the-editors of a key writing for the movement. so we have powerful and visionary speakers. [applause] >> hooray. welcome, kendall. get settled. make yourself comfortable. we are so glad you made it. i was saying to peniel and farah before we came on that in so many ways, president obama had set up our conversation about blacks in the 21st century through his comments yesterday. but i want to put that into a larger context, because we're talking -- we're trying to take a backward and forward look on this national our conversation. the backward look is about, where have we come to, since in the 50 years since the march on washington. right? at the same time, this particular moment is framed by three undeniable events. the first is that in the last -- in the three and a half weeks ago, actually, the supreme court overturned the domestic marriage act, and struck down the voting rights act. at the same time seven days ago, george zim

advisory council on drug abuse and is also an associate professor of psychology and psychiatry at columbia university. he is a board member of the college on problems of drug dependency and has conducted 22 years of research in the pharmacology and the drug addiction. dr. hart, welcome to "after words." >> guest: thanks for having me. >> host: this is a fascinating book. let me say up front it is a fascinating story as well as the work or the result of your work in science. but the heart and soul i would say coming and i hope if i'm wrong you will tell me, but you are saying you estimate there are 20 plus million americans who do illegal drugs. >> guest: the national government conduct a survey every year and this has been known for some time there is 20 plus million americans who use drugs on a regular basis. >> host: then you also say that over the generations of retired people always used drugs >> guest: that is a fact. >> host: so birds fly and men get high. >> guest: i didn't know that one. [laughter] >> host: okay but you're point in writing this book is a scientist that given these realities,

he is a nobel laureate, professor at columbia university and howard hughes medical investigator. i'm pleased to have all of them at this table. and so we begin once again with my colleague dr. eric kandel to give us a look at what we might include in this program as we look at this initiative. welcome. >> chrlie, you outlined it very well as alwaysment today we look at the obama brain initiative which is designed to get a better understanding of the human brain. the human brain looks simple enough t weighs about 3 pounds and if you look at the image on the screen, as threatically pleasing. it looks like it would not be very difficult to understand. the fact is it's the most complex object in the universe. it makes us who we are. it's responsible for every behavior, every thought, action that we carry out from the simplest automatic behaviors like breathing and swallowing to walking, running, and cognitive acts like planning, thinking, creating works of art. but how one moves from those higher mental processes to understanding how the brain mediates that is an extraordinary diffic

the former editor and publisher of the nation magazine and now teaches at columbia university's graduate school of jurnism. thanks so much for being here. very interesting book. let's dive right in with a broad look. what role do you think political cartoons play in our society? >> very difficult to say because you could argue that images of richard nixon is what stays with us to this day or david levine's picture of lyndon johnson showing his scarf in the shape of vietnam will be with us in history books in perpetuity so they have a lot to do with it. but they seem to, despite the fact that art c.i.t. critics or many of them don't take them seriously, they seem toen rage people. the leading palestinian cartoonist was murdered on the streets of london. dammier was thrown into prison. they have a power that no one can fully understand. >> one of the man that you dubbed as the father of political american cartooning had boss tweed put in jail. tell us about thomas nash who really had this big influence in the late 1800s. >> he gave us or gave the democratic party its donkey and the republi

kenneth pew wit, public affairs professor at columbia university, presents his thoughts on race and the census in "what is your race: the census and our flawed efforts to classify americans." jesse james, the northfield raid and the wild west greatest escape, mark lee gardener details the rob toly of north feerld's first national bank. a reporter for bloomberg nudes in berlin recounts the career of germany's first female chancellor in "angola merkel." look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the fear future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> host: joining us on booktv to preview his upcoming new book, best selling author bill bryson. one summer america 1927 is the name of the book. mr. bryson, why 1927? >> well, i just stumbled into it really. i had always been fascinated by the fact that babe ruth hit 60 home runs and charles lend burg flew the public in the same summer. i had it in mind that that in itself made it an interesting summer. iconic events were happening in exact parallel, and i just had it in mind maybe it would be interesting to try a

number five columbia university and yale and third is princeton.mona college is clairmont, california, is next outside of los angeles. number one is stanford university. these are out in the latest issue of "forbes" as well. we are joined by their executive editor michael nor. pomona college, where? what? how? >> pomona is an outstanding school outside of los angeles. it's part of the clairmont college system. i think there are five schools in that system. two top schools on our list this year on the west coast. stanford is number one and that's never happened before. the first ivy is in third place. ivy tend not to do as well as on our list as u.s. news and world report. >> how is pomona get there at number two because a lot of people don't know what it is. >> it's a small college and they tend to do well on our list. we look at educational outcomes. we don't look at the number of students accept are high scoring. we look at what the school does for them. do they go on to get good jobs. do they rank their professors good? do they graduate in four

joining me now, dorian warren, associate professor of political science and public affairs at columbia university. cory lazar-white, executive director and co-founder of the brotherhood sisterhood soul. and msnbc contributor goldie taylor. gold goldie, i want to come right to you and get your emotionally honest response to rush. >> my emotionally honest response? he's a carnival barker. you know, rush limbaugh is not the first in history to take advantage of waves of populism. this happens to be a more extended wave, something i think brought on by the election of an african-american president. but the real answer here, rish limbaugh is pimping his audience. he is taking advantage, fanning the flames of fear for his own personal gain. and that's really the story here. he really does need a history lesson. the civil war was not fought over the question of slavery. it was follow the over nullification and states' rights. lincoln said famously, "if i could keep the union together and not free a single slave, i would do it." so i think rush limbaugh not only needs a history lesson, he needs a gut che

rick mishkin is currently an economics professor at columbia university. we have joe lavorgna, deutsche bank chief economist and cnbc contributor. he's joining me on the set. no, steve reshuto is joining me on the set, senior economist at mizuho security. and my pal cnbc senior economic reporter steve liesman right here on the set. what say you to my theory there's no tapering coming? >> i believe it partway, larry. if the economy remains this week i don't believe they're going to taper. i just don't think the economy is this weak. and i'm moved by what's on your board there. there's a dissonance there, an important dissonance between job growth and gdp growth. and the investors out there have to make a choice. is the green stuff right or is the red stuff right? and i tend to think the green stuff is right, in part because i like the data a little more. gdp is far more sunt subject to revisions, and thanks to mike darda, our friend here who writes a very good commentator, he said when income and production are at odds income wins. and i think this may be a

this sunday, wall street traders and strategists and analysts are all gathering at columbia universityrms are going head to head to raise money for memorial sloan-kettering cancer center, and to be crowned wall street's best analyst. so who will it be? back with us to tell us more about it is vito from rbc, and also with us is peter from pimco and greg from lord abbett, and they're both competing. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> tell us what this is about. how does it work? >> sure. this is to raise funds for pediatric cancer research, memorial sloan-kettering cancer center. rbc became title sponsor last year, raised $1.3 million last year. we're just over $1.1 million this year. hopefully, we'll get donations. it's about 165 athletes from around wall street competing. ten events. there's some running events, 400 meters, 800 meters, 40-yard dash, which we'll have twoth of the athletes running shortly. football toss. bench press. similar events. >> well, let's check in with the athletes then. >> okay. >> let's see. so they're just going to -- just run? >> we're going to -- we're

he has received numerous honors including the columbia university award. peabody award, the presidential award, a unity award for media and a 1982 emmy. when he was awarded the 2010 medal freedom, congressman lewis said it is important for people to know the story and the full story of americans for generations yet unborn. it is important to leave history to inspire, inform, and educate. i can't think of a better place than to give this conversation that at the national archives. lee's welcomes scott simon and john lewis. -- please welcome scott simon and congressman john lewis. [applause] >> i am going to open in a way that might be redundant. i am fortunate enough to have two young children so i am learning history all over again. and one of the things we learned is that we all stand on the shoulders of great men and women who have gone before us and i think no pair of shoulders in the history of america are stronger than those on this man here, john lewis. [applause] i am sure he is going to be great. he is going to be enlightening, funny, warm, moving,

. >> guest: researchers from the columbia university law school funding case in texas -- found a case in texas that is almost certainly a case of mistaken execution. proponents are often challenged, find is a real case to find is a truly innocent person was executed. this is probably the case in texas is probably it. it's a case of a eyewitness testimony gone wrong but it's a case of people being in the wrong place at the wrong time. but when you look at the man who was executed and the man who is now presumed to be guilty of the crime side by side in photographs, you have a hard time telling the difference. our book doesn't take an advocacy position. this is not a book for or against capital punishment. the goal of this book is to show you the questions. we do come to some conclusions about how the system doesn't work but we're not here to tell you whether or not capital punishment is right or wrong. >> guest: the list of executing the innocent passed on some string reaction from some of the justices. say look, it would be good if, might help your cause if you could point to one. wel

you he is not only in author 46 he's an associate professor in psychology and psychiatry at columbia university and a member of the national advisory council on drug abuse and a board member of the college on the problems of drug dependency and has done 22 years of research and d nero psycho pharmacology. carl hart come it has been a pleasure to learn about you. this is a biography as well as a book about drugs, society and race. congratulations on your book. >> that was "after words," book tv signature program and which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed by journalists, public policy makers, legislators and others familiar with their material. "after words" airs every weekend on book tv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 p.m. and 9 p.m. on sunday at 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch "after words" on line. go to booktv.org and click on "after words" in the book tv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. >> now on book tv, richard beaman examines the landscape of the united states between the meeting of the continental congress on september 5th, 1774 and the c

because he had been allowed to discover what happened at columbia university in new york where the proportion of jews had crept beyond 40%, shouldn't happen at harvard, and national controversy debated at harvard everywhere. what is remarkable to me is when you look at oppenheimer's correspondence be summer before harvard, not to mention the controversy, is as if he didn't want to identify himself as having anything to do with it. he went to harvard and always got a split in oppenheimer between how he sees himself and how he is seen by the world's. by this moment in time he is seen as a german jew. he is quite emphatic in almost everything he wrote. he didn't see himself as chairman or jewish, as far as he was concerned he was american. and in the german jewish family couldn't join the best clubs, no matter how wealthy he was, he couldn't move into the most fashionable student halls and so despite his best intentions his circle of friends at harvard was very small and restricted to people like him. he went to harvard to study chemistry. one of his friends was william boyd. and eminent chemist

>> gretchen: according to a columbia university english professor, that's because the witness doesn'tnglish. >> she was very articulate. i think people did understand her. she's speaking black english. a lot of people think black english is just bad grammar. that's like saying a cocker spaniel is a bad kind of saint bernard. there are different kinds of english. >> gretchen: so is that right or is it possibly offensive? joining us for a fair and balanced debate, democratic strategist jehmu green and brian benjamin. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> gretchen: we invited john mcwhorter he declined to come on the show. thank you both for helping us analyze this. let me start with you, brian. what do you make of -- there is so much to discuss. what do you make of all the talk about the fact that the way she spoke was sort of its own news story and then john mcwhorter saying there is such a thing as black english. is that true? >> i don't think there is such a thing as black english burks i think she's speaking the language she's used to. she grew up where she grew up and co

research studies taking place in your community, including those here in harlem taking place by columbia university. >> after i do a body of research, there is something better bring to my own personal life, usually. you know, just a higher understanding of how i'm going to enter after the world. did any of you come to some personal, i don't know, ipu're going to interact with health care system, with the medical system, or with any of those, with the scientific system from your research? i'll give you one example, and this is from research i've done in the past on conflict of interest in the drug industry, which is probably familiar to harriet, that if i go to a physician and this position is going to offer me a drug, not going to take it right away. i'm going, the first thing i'm going to say is, as i his been approved for this use by the food and drug administration, icfj? doctors have the power to give you a drug that's not been approved for that use. they have that kind of power. and if that's one thing i've learned from my research, it's how to talk to a doctor about the drugs that they're pl

. >> tom went to private school and then columbia university.o have it all with charm to spare. >> she called me on some corner of manhattan. i have to say thank you. we're having so much fun. >> tom was smitten too from day one. >> he said she's an amazing gal. >> they started seeing each other regularly. beth at 44 was eager for marriage and a family. very soon there was talk of rings. although beth's brother says it was mainly tom doing the talking. >> it's my understanding that first day he said i'm going to marry you and she was like, yeah right. >> beth may have hesitated as she learned more about her new man. he told her he had had drinking problems. tom's drinking hardly seemed like a deal breaker. >> i knew he had a drinking problem. i know a million people with drinking problems. >> other friends had misgivinmi. she said i met somebody. i said, that's great. but she smokes and drinks. that doesn't sound good for you. well, he's crazy. i'm a little crazy too. >> she said she felt good in his arms. she was so protective. >> besides, beth