how come, harriet? quite a sweet story. _ attack. how come, harriet?sweet story, i think, based on a - sweet story, i think, based on a study by the university in america. when elected married adults in the us had been in the hospital after having a heart attack and they monitor their health for the next year and found that those who were in the unhappiest marriages were 67% more likely to report chest pains and 50% more likely to be readmitted to hospital. they say and suggest that if you've got a good marriage and your outcome after a heart attack is much better and one line attack is much better and one line at quite interesting was the disparity between men and women happiness in marriage. they said that four in ten women reported severe marital stress which is pretty high and three in ten men and that's presumably being married to each other in three and ten men think they've got a not so stressful marriage and four in ten women who do stop listening people come to me, that's why have the life that i have. ,, ., that's why have the life that i hav

we wanted to give that sense of harriet tubman.some ways, that is a new thing. >> i don't know how often you have the inclination to look back at the work you've done. do you see a story you have been telling? >> if you add it up, maybe it is a quest for freedom in a lot of different ways. a lot of my films are about institutions that are trying to change the world and change life in the united states. one of the feelings that i feel and we feel at our company is that people should tell their own stories. in some ways, that is my story. i am african-american. as far back as i can trace, it is in my blood, my guts, my brain. i tried to tell stories from that point of view. >> do you feel it as a mission to tell that? >> we are on a mission at firelight to tell stories that have not been told, to talk about our past. african-american history is american history. we only benefit from telling our history and opening up our history. by making our history accessible to more and more people. that is one of the things that film does. you m

and it had pictures of harriet tubman shawl i had never seen. was so moved by it, and he began to pull things out, and he had harriet tubman's shawl that was given to her by queen victoria, and amazing collections, like a hymnal that had all those spirituals she would sing. but then i thought-- i got scared. i said, he's going to ask for money. i don't have any money, and i finally said to him, "what's it going to take for this to come to the smithsonian?" he said, "shake my hand," and that generosity of the american public is what led to the creation of this museum. david: and how many people have visited so far? lonnie: over 7.5 million people. david: and it's one of the few museums at the smithsonian up to now where you don't-- you can't just walk in because you need tickets because the demand is so great. and did you expect the demand to be that great? lonnie: i did. and i knew it would be popular. it's the smithsonian, but it really has become a pilgrimage site for many people: for african americans, for non-african americans, and we expect

as harriet says, this is the guardian's _ agenda back., this is the guardian's particular angle i is the guardian's particular angle in the story, but as the is said, this is significant news as well stop it is very encouraging news and the minister who is quoting. band the minister who is quoting. and when lula _ the minister who is quoting. and when lula was _ the minister who is quoting. and when lula was in _ the minister who is quoting. and when lula was in power before, tatking — when lula was in power before, talking about the ways in which they're — talking about the ways in which they're going to have a completely different _ they're going to have a completely different approach to the amazonian rain forest _ different approach to the amazonian rain forest to bolsonaro because we have to _ rain forest to bolsonaro because we have to remember that lula is a former— have to remember that lula is a former communist leader from the northern— former communist leader from the northern part of brazil. he is very much _ northern part of

i think of someone like harriet okay.that she said that a little bit of a protest because of the character she played. she said, i think, something like i would rather make, you know, $100,000 playing a made in make $10 being a made. in all of those film she was in, she always made sure to wear her elegant diamonds. they were always tucked in somewhere. the question about sexuality and representation. what do we think about that? we know why the film, gone with the wind, we understand that, but what do we think about that? [inaudible] [laughter] think about that? you know, it is different. knto be in charge of one characr literally. she is playing a role. what do we think? what do we really think about these age-old issues? thinking kind about representation. what do we teach our young people? watching them. watching them want to know the world through their bodies. it is reminiscent of your own history. i don't want to visit that on them. i want them to feel free. one daughter went to a party and i said don't put down yo

his half sister was harriet beecher stowe, author of "uncle tom's cabin." let's see. a similar scene was repeated on all the ball places as each was raid by yankee troops. the balls feared the worst, but in the end the soldiers just snatched a few hams. the single exception came at bucks hall plantation, formerly home to william ball's cousin. the bucks hall a mansion, work buildings and crop were burned to the ground by federal soldiers and freed ball slaves. despite the slaughter of the war, no one -- not even on buck hall -- was hurt. and so it was. it's possible to look into the telescope into the past and see how slavery came to an end on specific places and at specific times, and it's a fascinating story. and i told you stories just now from a diary kept by a woman who lived on this plantation. but elsewhere i spent a lot of time with a family named lucas in charleston whose predecessors' great grandparents had been on that very place, on that plantation on that very day and who handed down oral tradition and ask is stories describing that very day in terms that

here's harriet. here's david. and here's ricky. here they are, america's favorite family, the nelsons. >> yes, that's right, ozzie and harriet, the perfect example of post world war ii middle class family values. except it was kind of phoney. the real life version of tv's favorite family, the nelsons was far from rosy, and the types of 1950s white housewives represented by harriet, a lot of them were miserable. just asked betty. the 80s and 90s, and the concept of family values got weaponized as a catch all to opposition, all the dirty social progress from the civil rights movement and women's liberation, and used as a cudgel against democrats. look no further than ronald reagan at the 1992 republican convention. >> over and over they told us they are not the party they were. they kept telling us with straight face that they're for family values. they're for a strong america. they're for less intrusive government. and they call me an actor. >> yeah, except ronald reagan himself wasn't exactly some virtuous christian warrior. that's

there is a woman on the place named harriet.arriet has a son,d then james ball, the and mary james ball cells plantation, buys another place. and moves to it. the only person according to the paper record that goes with him, is harriet and her son. and they resettle there. and furthermore, james ball dies. and the record shows that he leaves $500 to harriet. and no other african american things like that which is circumstantial evidence. but persuasive. and in cases of other families there be photographs of james ball. and and the great-grandfather which was reported on the side of james pollen you compare these photographs. , and there was strong family resemblance so, there's a long answer to your question. it's very difficult to excavate the details. the details of this very painful history. black folks and white folks both black folks and white folks to come to terms with the real deal and the real story. of our history, by talking about these stories honestly. >> thank you, sir. >> sure sure. what was it like. i believe her

and furthermore he dies and the record shows that he leaves $500 to harriet. and to no other african american. things like that. that is circumstantial evidence but persuasive. in the case of a couple of families i would find photographs of james ball and a family in berkeley county that had a photograph of the great, great grandfather who was reported to be the son of james ball. they compared these as a long answer to your question, it was very difficult to excavate the details of this very painful history. in the end, i think it does help both black folks and white folks to come to terms with the real feel and the real story of the history by talking about the stories, honestly. >> thank you sir,. >> what was it like, i believe her name is kate wilson, what was it like to find out information about kate wilson and her connections to your family? >> it was the. yes, you remember tate well said. i think she was the matriarch of the hallstand family, if i am not mistaken. and. she was a case of, like the one i was just describing with james ball, her enslaver

we understand that but what do we think about a harriet daniels, hattie mcdaniels. >>.inaudible] what do wethink about that as a rejoinder ? do we really feel that way that that's a difference. being in charge of one's character literally. beyoncc is not the same person, she's just playing a role .ol what do we think, what do we really think about these age-old issues? britney, thinking about representation and what we help teach our young people, young black women, i have to in my house and watching them and watching them know the world through their bodies. and it's reminiscent of your own history and that on painful history and i don't want to visit that on them , but i can't help saying, my daughter went to a party. and i'm staying home. i've seen so many rules. i think i'll just go home. when i'm visiting all these things on her. i think you know where i'm going. >> where do we situate women like josephine baker inside of that same narrative? we have the padding mcdaniels, we have to beyoncc beyoncc often harkens back to a josephine baker. you have this idea, of a

thank you, harriet.e daily mail, who was at that speech. were rising globally and were a matter for in her speech, the prime minister stressed that interest rates were rising globally and were a matter for the independent bank of england. figures released today show that mortgage lenders have increased rates to their highest level for ia years. 0ur personal finance correspondent kevin peachey gave us more details. yeah. well, if we look back, then we would see a typical two—year fixed rate mortgage hasn't reached the 6% mark since november 2008. you remember that financial crisis. but now that's happened again, it's happened today. so we're at 6.07% for a typical two—year fixed rate deal. and people are looking at that, of course, and seeing it's got a lot higher than it was back in december. we've had a series of interest rate rises, and so it's gone up steadily since then. but of course since the mini budget just less than two weeks ago, there's been boosters put on it. really it's meant that lenders h

the papers is back again tomorrow evening with lucy beresford, broadcaster and psychotherapist, and harrietdent, daily mail. dojoin us then if you can. next, it's time for the travel show. but for now, goodnight. this week on the show... pulling down the past. i believe that the monuments would not give a tribute to the regime but they should preserve the history and the memory. it's a question of symbols and for our people it is a symbol of occupation, it is a symbol of soviet troops, and we want to turn the new page. for 300 years, on and off, estonia was part of russia. ruled first by the czarist empire, then the soviet union. links between the two are many and deep — in fact, around a third of the people here have russian as theirfirst language. but since the invasion of ukraine in february, the government has steered a course very firmly away from its powerful neighbour. there have been travel bans for russian tourists, and something even more dramatic. historic russian and soviet monuments are being removed from public view. and notjust here. the other baltic states, latvia and lithua

we would like to wish a 100th birthday to harriet holes cloud.eral awards for work for children who have genetic. greatest accomplishment 8 children, 15 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren and as ainsley would say -- ainsley, why don't you say it. >> ainsley: we're so glad you were born. >> carley: happy 100th birthday. >> ainsley: she looks fantastic. amazing. >> steve: got her story from her friend barb and her husband watch every morning. apparently harriet's mother lived to be 10 a 5. >> ainsley: great genes. what's she drinking? >> steve: i want to have whatever. >> ainsley: what did you do? well, i had a whiskey every day or i had cigarettes every day. it's like what? not any longer for cigarettes. but the whiskey. >> brian: read the warning label. >> steve: you never know take the edge off of the day. >> ainsley: want to know what you are doing. you look fantastic and we would all love to live that long. >> brian: intermittent fasting. a cleanse? >> ainsley: atkins diet? >> steve: glad you are here. >> brian: one of the stories up unt

it is the belief in going back several times that guides e harriet tubman and that their conduct tours along the underground railroad because they take their name fromi harriet tubman's heroic actions and -- that they believe something else was possible. they believed other worlds were possible and so hope for me is saying against all but the senate layout a lot of what this is and it's still not exhaustive. that might belief in us is stronger than thewise these systems tell us. [applause] and for me i think of myself already doing ancestry work. so it's not about necessary being ancestors and understanding that the ability to do that means we push forward in particular ways and might belief and love of black people of marginalized folks focus on the margins of the march into receive all of the and the harm in the violence that encases these worlds that we currently have provided. these worlds can be different and i have to believe that for me. i have to believe otherwise it's possible. if in the epilogue which is the love letter from a kia ryan like this is what we are up against. i d

harriet dart, heather watson and katie boulter have also been selected for the six day glasgow event.be a chilly start to tuesday morning for many in fact temperatures in rural spots, down close to freezing. it could allow a touch of light frost first thing. this little ridge of high pressure will keep things quiet and largely sunny. for much of england and wales. a few more isobars from the north and west and here we will see a scattering of light showers. but certainly more cloud for scotland, northern ireland, northern england and par tof north wales. temperatures are likely to peak between 11—17 celsius. through tuesday evening into the early hours of wednesday this weather front will start to push in from the west and certainly is going to drag a blanket of cloud with it. so not quite as cold a start to wednesday morning the exception in the east anglia and south—east england. cloudy overcast with outbreaks of rain for some on wednesday, more heavy persistent rain potentially for central and southern england on thursday. welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i'm moni

but let's remember when kanye started going outrageous, let me put it that way, he said harriet tubman he said slaves chose to be slaves against blacks. now he comes with anti-semitism. he says that george floyd overdosed and then he tried to take it back when the family said they were going to sue. then he called them greedy. but again, what's -- listen, i keep my eye on the prize. that is a song that they told me when i was a kid growing up in civil rights. where is his validator in chief? donald trump. he denounced and disordered things i said 30 years ago or that others have said. this is his current guy, kanye west. we haven't heard a word from him. but he will fabricate and distort things that happened 20, 30 years ago. where is kanye denouncing what happened on that billboard yesterday at the game? so clearly we're dealing with the normalizing of hate coming from cultural figure who's are iconic and i think that we've got to draw the line and stop it. it shouldn't have taken abuse and all of them to now to stop this with him. when he started with harriet tubman. >> i think he pu

more so than harriet tubman, probably. but so, sojourner truth ended up having a famous meeting with abraham lincoln. what's her reaction to getting to meet him in person? >> yes, so this is a really controversial one. in some cases, the most controversial part of the book. i think so junior truth's meeting of lincoln has been mischaracterized over the years. so she decides in 1864 she wants to meet lincoln, she is living in battle creek, michigan at the time. she travels out east, giving lectures along the way. she meets with harriet tubman during this trip, and asked tubman, if you want to compete with lincoln, tubman says no, which was a decision to later regrets. so truth ultimately meets lincoln at least once, maybe more times, the record is unclear, at least once on october 19th, 1864. this is in the lead up to the presidential election, about a week and a half before the election. truth gets there very early in the morning with another woman, named lucy coleman, a white abolitionist. and they wait for a couple of ho

me as i went on to produce books about suzy king taylor, harriet tubman. i think perspective of contributing to the civil war literature through the of women was a new pathway, one which oates launched without fanfare, but really with purpose and determination in his hotspur, the midst of a feminist revolution with within american history, noted. some scholars wanted book frame with the larger literature of women's biographies emerging such as the prize winning volume by catherine cassar on catherine beecher. but instead, i think he his own furrow and he was really a pioneer for some of the wonderful works which followed by male scholars thinking of tom brown's biography of dorothea dix and, matt goldman study of anna dickinson. i'm in no way privileging these volumes over fine biographies by women scholars, but i'm pointing out when stephen woodward decided to write about mary chesnut, he did win pulitzer. so it was a strategic turn to look at the women out showered barton with praise, but he also acknowledged her personal idiosyncrasies. a forthright ass

her partners included harriet redman, job opportunities for black women were very limited. so she worked as a janitor at the cities in u.s. district court but you also the president of portland's colored women's equal suffrage association the sophisticated third-generation western suffragists also mounted new kinds of splashy creed of campaigns that change american politicking for ever with marches, publicity stunts and the first button told maggie even electric signs. in seattle, doctor coarseness eaten, co-authored the washington women's cookbook, votes for women, good things to eat. she is also an accomplished mountaineer who had some wicked all of the state of washington's, i think there are six big peaks. she led a party of men and women, the women had to wear knickerbockers which are sort of canvas shorts that kind of buckle under the knee. she led this party on a three-week camping trip to carry a suffrage and to the summit of mount rainier. here she is in washington. the other washington. by 1914 suffragists had one in washington, california, oregon, arizona, kansas

along the underground railroad, because of the collective who takes their name from harriet tubman in liberating over 700 enslaved people in south carolina that they believeve something else ws possible. they a believed of the world's were possible. so hope for me is saying against all of this, and only at a lot of what this is and is still not exhaustive, that my belief in us is stronger than the lies the systems tell us. [applause] and for me i think of myself already doing ancestor work. so the things i do now or what other folks who come along if we don't kill this planet before then, that inherit, whatever we build and then get to imagine new things. so for me the discipline is not temporarily bound, right, so it's not about being my ancestors wildest dreams as much as understanding that they had dreams and that the ability to do that means we push forward in particular ways, and that my belief and love of black people, of marginalized folks, of folks on the margins of the margins supersedes all of the hate and the harm in the violence that in cases these worlds that we currently

and i would read harriet the spy and babysitters club and it was there that i felt an immediate connection to that. i felt like she was sitting next to me kind of just telling me where to go. and from then on it, just the all of the memie

female african-american activists in in the country more so than tubman than harriet tubman, probably i think of but so sojourner truth ended up having a famous meeting with abraham lincoln. what was her reaction to to meet him personally? yeah, so this is a really controversial one in some ways. i think it's the most controversial. chapter of the book because i think that sojourner truth's meeting with lincoln has been mischaracterized over the years so she decides in 1864 that she wants to meet lincoln. she's living in battle creek michigan at the time. she travels out east giving lectures along the way she meets with harriet tubman during this trip and asks tubman if you want to come meet with lincoln and tubman says no, which is a decision. she later regrets. and then sojourner truth ultimately meets lincoln at least once maybe more times. the record is a little unclear. but at least once on october 29th 1864. so this is in the lead up to the presidential election. it's about a week and a half before the election. and truth gets there very early in the morning with another woman n

also this morning and it's friday james i harriet it's a friday early on and going to go after all times at the wall over the wall that is right over here. and now we're going back this direction are you will be john harvey who's supposed to be at the wall is now in the weather center and it is 4.59 officially 5. now a look outside at the plates. our looks nice and clear. we do have some low cloud cover sitting up above what we will be seeing throughout the course of the day today is going to be increasingly clear skies amid are increasingly cool. temperatures. visibility is not the best up in our hillsides, but at the bay shore, you're doing ok, cloud cover sitting just above a sweat bridge level. you're good. once you head above the bay, though, that's where you're running into your issues this morning, current temperatures are mostly in the 40's to 50's with hayward and san jose at 55 degrees. nevado santa rosa cloverdale saint helene and the upper 40's. well, oakland sitting at 56. i'll have more on your forecast. stuck in all about what to exct

with me are harriet line, chief political correspondent at the daily mail, and the broadcaster and psychotherapistlucy beresford. first let's take a quick look at tomorrow's front pages: the metro leads with searing criticism of the manston processing centre for asylum seekers — from a report by hm inspectorate of prisons. the i has the home secretary fighting for her political survival, with cabinet ministers questioning whether she is up to the job. the guardian says suella braverman is ramping up the rhetoric on asylum seekers and denying that she is to blame for the crisis at the manston refugee centre. the mail, meanwhile, highlights the home secretary's claims that the asylum system is broken and illegal migration is out of control. large tax rises and spending cuts ahead — that's the warning in the telegraph, which says rishi sunak and jeremy hunt have agreed a plan to fill the government's fifty—billion fiscal black hole. while the ft carries news of the troubled uk battery manufacturer britishvolt, apparently on the brink of collapse. so, let's begin. let's start with the metro which is g

female african-american activists in in the country more so than tubman than harriet tubman, probably i think of but so sojourner truth ended up having a famous meeting with abraham lincoln. what was her reaction to to meet him personally? yeah, so this is a really controversial one in some ways. i think it's the most controversial. chapter of the book because i think that sojourner truth's meeting with lincoln has been mischaracterized over the years so she decides in 1864 that she wants to meet lincoln. she's living in battle creek michigan at the time. she travels out east giving lectures along the way she meets with harriet tubman during this trip and asks tubman if you want to come meet with lincoln and tubman says no, which is a decision. she later regrets. and then sojourner truth ultimately meets lincoln at least once maybe more times. the record is a little unclear. but at least once on october 29th 1864. so this is in the lead up to the presidential election. it's about a week and a half before the election. and truth gets there very early in the morning with another woman n

we are on a ga bridge that connects the harriet square to the green zone in baghdad. people for to, to hire square since this morning, to mark the 3rd anniversary of the october uprising that so many iraqis being killed in the streets for raising slogans against got option for calling for accountability and requesting the limitations for an intervention in the countries politics. today, after 3 years, and after several incidents have taking place in this country after parliamentary election that saw those young people, the movements that represent them. i'm winning several seats in the parliament. however, nothing has change in the country. still, that is a deadlock facing the political system still got option is overwhelming. oh, wow. oh, live in this country. confrontations between the grotesque does and security forces who are to go to courses are launching here guys or down the launching a few guys on the professors wipe with us is our stony today's movement. today's demonstration was meant to mark the anniversary, but it was clear that those youth movements do no

undecided what to do about technology designed to break their control of money, i've come to meet harriet baldwin, a british conservative m p, a former investment banker, and a member of the treasury select committee which examines government's economic policy. do you think the central bank should be scared of correct, that kind of states? i think they're all looking at it. i think it's gonna be important to coordinate the approach amongst the developed world central banks. i think, you know, there is also the risk that these currencies could end up being the, you know, the tulip bulbs of the 21st century 15. if i was, you mean it could be a bubble. people could be buying something for way above the value that someone else will pay in the future to take it off that hands and they could lose a lot of money in the process. and that was something that they discover. it's actually just lines of code and doesn't have intrinsic value because no one else will accept payments. does crypt, currency development poses threats to financial stability? it could be potentially, if it becomes a much more

. >> it is very interesting to think of the idea of freedom that can you connect harriet jacobs to someonencÉ? and one of the earlier comments bringing upin josephine baker that says baker had a freedom because some of the financial freedoms but the reality is baker also struggled throughout her life she was not as financially free as we often imagined as we look back. but one of the things i think about beyoncÉ but then to read about those as well or the boxer the case that beyoncÉ has in regards or do you not according to society standards? and inmish that moment of homecoming when she is filming and then a lot of people been now wanting it to be a safe spaces along with other things. and he recognizes that beyoncÉ he had to embody a third look. but then not free to just exist. and her body. that is another type of and ability and then to have that as well. but i agree with you that was brilliant one last question in thean chat before we wrap preferred for the day. so to be was flat - - black female gender sexuality? what about female love? >> and the love of self and i don't know what b

how do we include harriet into our conversations with contemporary work. >> i want -- a thread, somethingsaying earlier. to ask a question about freedom in general. talking about can we talk about -- has freedom changed? what i got from what you said earlier that will help me in my thinking to resist the idea of an unbroken line, that thing about representation from yesteryear can't apply now. i will think about that a lot. if those debates can't be talked about, what i am asking all of you is can we talk about freedom in an absolute way? and freedom to represent, freedom to behave, i was thinking an obvious thing for everybody here, i was thinking i wonder what she would say if she were really 3 and testing that. and incredible career, the responses she couldn't have. very different situation to keep it ever and everything was at stake as we saw for justice jackson. they can make beautiful art, they are shackled almost literarily, making art of their lives out of necessity so can we talk about this question? i want to hear what everyone has to say. can we enter this conversation that inc

the belief that we when it is the belief in going back several times that guides harriet tubman and, other conductors along the underground, it is because the combahee river collective who takes their name from harriet tubman to ro quick act of liberating over 700 enslaved people in south that they something else was possible they believed other worlds were possible and so hope for me is saying against all of this and i lay out a lot of what the this is and it's still not exhaustive that my belief in us is stronger than the lies these systems tell us. and for me i think of myself already doing ancestor work. so the things that i do now, what other folks who come along if we don't kill this planet before then. that inherit, we build and then get to new things. yeah. and for me, the discipline not temporally bound to right. and so it's not about necessarily being my ancestors while dream's as much as understanding they had dreams and that the ability to do that means we push forward in particular ways and that my belief and love of people, of marginalized folks, of folks on the margins

image light from the front and look at the shadow that my precise design shows up really shortly. harriet tubman, frank sinatra volota mirror, zalinski have all had their images captured by tin ski scalpels. but he says his latest piece is, is specially meaningful. it will adorn the judicial chambers of u. s. supreme court justice kit tanya brown, jackson, jackson, i work literally over a year since he grew up with jackson in miami, in the 1980s where he says she stood out as a brilliant student and role model. it was a time when the city was gripped by racial tensions triggered by police brutality toward black people. there were riots, we couldn't go out of our house. and could tanya brown was the class president in that white school last spring jackson's nomination by president joe biden. was celebrated by liberals, but derided by many conservatives. some right wing t. v. commentators deliberately mispronounced her african 1st name, prompting tin ski to cree posters with the message kit tangy is another word for justice. united states and the constitution will be great beneficiaries of

with me or harriet deputy editor of the daily mail and the broadcaster and psychotherapist, let's startr their political survival of cabinet ministers questioning whether she is “p ministers questioning whether she is up for thejob while ministers questioning whether she is up for the job while the male headlines

. >> the latest pool of a popularity of the royals and it has she and harriet at 9% and this is your right to soften the blow from that forthcoming netflix docuseries and that'll trash a few royals and soften the blow and capture her meghan moment. >> laura: harry is peeping behind her and he appears he's in her shadow literally in pictures. it's like the de-mere. she really is regal and had to leave deal or no deal and she felt object fioed. >> megabegan markle felt clips of the role. the royal road to pursue. >> never has more ink been spilled on someone worthy. what else. >> the tag jeffrey daumer cost tomb had 8 billion viewers. >> i put it -- >> laura: put it in the closet. she's not having it. these women are besides themselves. is >> happy to report all five of women charged with child abuse and perhaps their cell mate cans terrorize them the way they terrorized these little babies and i get children misbehave. you don't abuse them, you're an adult and it was sickening watching those poor babies. >> laura: hideous, how is that a foley? >> the foley is when you terrorize little

kate clifford larson is a distinguished scholar whose earlier books include a biography of harriet tubman and "the assassin's accomplice." today we will be talking about "walk with me," a biography of fannie lou hamer. i'm going to assume many of you are like me. maybe you have heard a little bit about fannie lou hamer. maybe you have not heard anything about constance modly. i'm hoping will introduce us to the subjects of these books. yours is, i think, unjustly less-known. will you tell us about constance motley and why you chose her? ms. brown-nagin: happy to. thanks to all of you for being here. i'm delighted to share about constance baker motley, who is a legendary civil rights lawyer who in her time was very well-known. i set out to write about her because it is the case that people today do not know her, to the extent that they should. legendary civil rights lawyer who litigated the cases that made it possible for all of us to be together today, regardless of race. made it possible for me to be a law professor, and kate to be a scholar. symbolically she was very important to profes

two years earlier, helen's daughter, harriet, wasjust eight days old when she died.were wrong, that ourjudgments about the failings that we had suffered were real failings. it felt very truthful in that way. absolutely. the blaming of mothers for what happened to their children, that is something that comes out very strongly in the report as something that is not terribly special or unusual, but is so hard to deal with. the report found that with basic maternity care the outcome could have been different for a5 babies who died. dozens more injuries to mothers and babies were also preventable. the errors were due to failures in team working, professionalism, compassion and listening. but despite this, there was a culture of denial at the trust and a resistance to change. there was a cover—up. what i don't think was it was a planned cover—up, it was just the way everybody found themselves behaving. they reinforced each other in that behaviour, sure, but i don't believe it was a conscious plot. but a cover—up very definitely, and people were denied truths they deserved,

she is currently working on a another book based on the english woman harriet -- 1834 to 1836 america. our moderator is my colleague, and mellon foundation perpetual award in history and public history at new york historical she is currently a doctoral candidates in the american studies program at harvard university. when asked about asian american visual culture, -- u.s. multi ethnic literature, and immigration policy. and his research was supported by the social finance research council, the -- foundation, and the charles warren center for american history. alongside her work for new york historical, she has also designed educational material and -- for the museum of chinese in america. welcome, nancy and -- >> thank, you ana, for that kind introduction and thank you so much, nancy, for having us here at the new york historical. before we dive in, i just want to share one quick story, because when i was applying for this fellowship, i had to take a public history project that was part of my application. so i decided i was going to take a project about afong moy and the time she spen