julius garvey about the case.is a cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon who is leading the justice4garvey effort. great to have you with us, dr. garvey. welcome to democracy now! tell us what you're doing. >> basically, we have placed before the president a petition for the posthumous pardon of my father. it is well documented in terms of the legal aspect of it, because that is the foundation. political aspects. the legal aspect was prepared by a well-known law firm. they spent almost two years working on it and going to the case. there are thousands of pages, etc., as well as the appeal, which was also denied. it is a will prepare document that shows there was no evidence that there was -- there was a prejudiced judge, perjury. there is an empty envelope which was stamped with the black star line on it. nobody knew what was in it because the person who presented the envelope could not remember what was inside the envelope. and also, he was a perjured witness. he was told by the prosecuting attorney to lie about the

amy: that was ed garvey.78 to 1983, he was a researcher at exxon, where he helped start the company's greenhouse gas research program. plaster nermeen shaikh and i interviewed him along with sheila banerjee. -- neela banerjee, >> we started looking into early climate change research and became aware that oil companies -- at least initially, it was bp, but that was later, in the 1990's -- had their own scientists who were looking into this. we then found out from american scientists, government scientists, who had been involved in climate research in the that exxon was involved. 1980's and what ended up happening was that i got a transcript of a 1979 congressional hearing on climate change and tried to see if somebody from exxon was there, and i found a gentleman named henry shaw. henry was ed's boss and was the primary researcher with that tanker project. and through him and, you know, papers that he worked on, we found other names, we found documents in archives. and slowly we amassed this picture of a compa

julius garvey, 83. cardiac surgeon from new york is back in d.c. on a campaign to get president obama to clear the name of his father marcus garvey with a posthumous pardon. >> it's important. it shifts a stain on the legacy. >> his first created the association a century ago to uplift millions of blacks. the calls for the blacks mistreated in the u.s. to move back to africa and sell shares in the black star line shipping. that said the f.b.i. hoover was mail fraud. he didn't own the ship. he was imprisoned until president coolidge commuted the sentence and deported him to jamaica. >> hoover targeted him. bono saying he was set up. >> if they look at it closely and they focus on the petition you will see this is well warranted. >> he has been dead since 1940, we found he is relevant at howard university. amongst the students here. she laughed when we asked about the conviction. >> i'm was the last question on there. heroes. >> i am expecting that the president will understand there is injustice stands in office before him. >> at reagan national air

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. >> garvey says that's no longer being considered. and andy, the proposed regulations minot have too much of an impact on them, but they have on their fellow airbnb hosts. they hope new regulations strike a balance. allowing airbnb to operate freely while keeping neighbors happy. david culver, news 4. >> well, despite her igloo that you were wearing out there, you're still cold. you're still cold. >> you of all people not bring gloves in? >> they're in my car, which you know, as my parents would say, that's the place you need to leave them. i haven't warmed up from this morning. it's chilly out there. it's cold out there. and we're going to improve a little bit as we get into monday, but then we have another cold snap. if you thought today was cold, wait until you see my ten day at the neend of the next work week. really cold temperatures on there. still blustery tonight, and that's what people say. i can deal with the cold, but it's the wind that gets you. the windti miles per hour through the day today. it's just bad, but it's impro

. >> this one is from @ garvey 1977.ys i woke up with a bruised knee and flashbacks of performing the worm in front of all the company executives. this one is from @ ca girl in a d.c. world. ca girl in a d.c. world. she says i have never been to a sushi restaurant and eating he ha edamame and realizd i was eating the ones already chewed. >> instead of candy we filled it with mini bottles of gas booze and glass it blue everywhere. >> what not to do the edamame. that's really bad. that's it for "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. tucker is very careful with edamame. here he comes. ♪ ♪ >> oh good evening. and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and group think. students at american university, $62,000 per year college in northwest washington, d.c. are demanding that one of the school's trustees be dismissed from his post for taking a meeting with donald trump. his name is gary cohen. the president of goldman sachs in new york and reportedly he is bei

people jump to my defense, not necessarily the padres club, but padres player, first baseman steve garveyo left the clubhouse to make sure that i had quotes so i could do my job. and he reminded me as i started to falter that he would stay in that damp, small area in wrigley field while i pulled myself together, he would stay as long as i needed for him to stay. but he said, "but you have a job to do," and he-- that one phrase made me pull myself together and do my job. my peers came to my defense. and the commissioner, peter ueberroth, who was in his first week in office, the next day passed an edict, all properly credentialed reporters, no matter gender, race, religion-- whatever planet they came from-- get access in major league baseball. he couldn't believe that it really hadn't happened before. but on his watch, from that day forward, it was going to happen. >> woodruff: and you were not deterred, and you've kept on ever since then. has it been harder, though, as an african american? or are you just not looked back and tho about that since then? >> it was no contest. it was harder be

includes people , hubertialists randolph harrison, known as the father of black radicalism, marcus garvey and his pan african movement and the universal eager improvement association. these are people who are advocating a politics of anti-colonialism, anti-capitalism, and black nationalism, and they want their perspectives to have a broader audience. pressuring commercial black newspapers to begin to cover the news from their perspective. and so you start to see that newswriting becomes more progressive at the same time you are seeing in black america universities are becoming more progressive, the activist organizations, the national negro congress, the naacp, they are becoming more progressive, and that is becoming part of a that is in a sense very aspirational because it is saying america is racist and america is bankrupt in the 1930's, how to move ahead? and it really is the search for a true alternative to the american way, a true alternative to a two-party political system, to a political economy rooted in white supremacy. so we start to see that in the news coverage up to and inclu

dubois, but marcus garvey, the united negro improvement association, and in the longer paper i talk aboutthe african roots of the war. he had a really smart essay talking about the ways that competing imperialism generated the conflict. most notably he also called for and anng of ranks african-american attempt at a better citizenship project. so, a black internationalist cause is generated out of this moment as well. third, a principal moral or egalitarianism was developing, but really it was given a springboard from the world war i moment. and here i am thinking about how these causes were advanced by settlement house pioneer jane adams. if someone is deserving of the label of partial grand strategist, it has to be jane adams, right? they work through major transnational organizations. they were particularly blind to raise issues at the time. it was a really important interwar organization that sought to make the interwar years of postwar era. they come together and this does not work as meet leave for internationalism, but it internationalized isolationism in american political thought