claudine gay, harvard president crystallizes the larger. she is a mediocre academic who was elevated advancing progressive orthodoxy while checking the right intersectional boxes. she is the apotheosis of an anti-tnf electoral movement that values deep identity and activism over truth seeking merit and education. that movement is designed to prefer commissars over scholars, the gaze, resignation, and the departure of presidents elsewhere doesn't end the university's troubles, for that matter. dean traynor, georgetown, recently announced that he would be leaving the deanship at the end of the semester. i don't know whether that was in anticipate in my book, but the timing was interesting. the school harbored or georgetown law. any of these schools that i talk about in my book is still plagued by a toxic campus culture ideological corruption and bureaucratic bloat that stifle discourse. fire the foundation for individual rights and expression recently named harvard, the worst school in the country for free speech for the second straight year.

. >> reporter: he was the boy wonder, the harvard dropout, became a billionaire in his 30s by focusingbuilding computers, but selling the software that ran them. >> please welcome bill gates and the bill gates dancers! >> reporter: by the time he launched windows 95 he was on top of the world. he had every right to be dancing to the rolling stones and yucking it up with the likes of jay leno. >> windows 95 is so easy, even a talk show host can figure it out. >> reporter: but on this day as he drove us to his favorite drive-in, burgermaster, a seattle institution. >> how's it going? >> great. >> reporter: gates seemed less like one of the world's richest men. >> here or to go? >> what do you think? >> tray on the window. >> tray on the window. >> reporter: and more like the kid who just used to come here with his dad. decades before he would be calling sports mheroes, rock stars and dignitaries his friends. >> my social skills were slow to develop. except for a few boys similar to me, i didn't have that many friends. >> reporter: he is not saying that for sympathy. he is being analytica

we're so please post this event here at harvard bookstore tonight. please join me in welcoming morris and gary dr. huyck and everybody hear me in the back. good. leave a couple notes on summers. very generous introduction. michael kazin has a very close personal friend, also carries and publishes for julius rogers was a 19th century graduate of hamilton college george and daughter millennial daughter managed to deflate that that grand title by referring to me as the poo -- ridiculous professor of american history. so i'm very happy to be here place i a lot of time as a starving graduate student back in the 1970s along with gary we were both members an oddly named the boston chapter of an oddly named group, ma hoa, which for the mid atlantic radical historians organization. and i had never realized before that that massachusetts office was in the mid-atlantic region, but it didn't seem to matter my last book, which i didn't get to introduce here, but did some touring, particularly in places where you can go skiing like colorado was a history of. the u

ambassador to, great britain, president of harvard and u.s. secretary of state. but then in 1854, just years into his six year term as a united states senator from massachusetts, his career had come to an end. the crumbling whig party to which he belonged was very divided over slavery. and as an anti slave unionist, he had been under attack not only members of his own party, but also from proto southern democrats on one side and republican. abolish and as on the other who felt he did not go far enough in his anti-slavery stand. stung by his slurs on his character and lacking the temperament for the vitriolic pre-civil war washington. he had stepped down from his senate seat in may of 1854 and returned home to boston. however, in his return power meant he continued to be deeply concerned that the state of the nation and it paint him greatly to feel that had let down his country in its time of greatest need. fortunately, though, he was a gifted or chore considered second only to daniel webster in in a day when americans gladly paid good money to gather their local

what was it his make up that allowed him to build trust be very easy for a harvard trained black man having been in college in the fifties to be so aloof or different in attitude coming out new york to massachusetts, to not be able to work with people in the deep south. what made the difference? omo, with your father, how could he do that so effectively? yeah, my dad was, a listener and talked about getting that from his dad and his dad was a janitor. they grew up in the harlem river houses and he would talk about his dad, you know, would take him around with him. and have conversations and that how his dad would listen to other folks. and so i think that's part of what enabled him to build relationships with folks like andy moore and take you know leadership from folks like ramsey moore in the sixties and i think he applied that to the algebra project so it wasn't about his idea it was about how can bring people together, how can you help them have a conversation and how can you first facilitate that conversation and lead some kind of consensus to lead to some kind of action? and so

someone seeing his dad going to harvard, and amusingly, with a mother who is well-educated and with thellenges of being a black in america. i want you to talk about calling him baba, in tanzania. and the difference coming here. but just for a minute, go back to "the white peril," because people will see that and assume certain things about the title. talk about that title and your great grandfather's information for the title. you mentioned it was the book, but i think people will be surprised to understand the inspiration for the title that your grandfather wrote that book about. guest: absolutely. first i wanted to share how i stumbled upon the book. i wanted to raise up mr. frank figures, who was apparent in the algebra project and a member of the shady grove baptist church who participated in the national baptist convention. my great-grandfather was also a member of the national baptist convention and was one of the folks that helped put in money to create the publishing house of the national baptist convention. i just remember as clear as day, mr. figures upper to me in the hallway

imani perry, professor of african american studies at harvard university, author of the brand new bookthe story of my people. that does for me. thank you for watching. catch me back here every saturday and sunday morning from 10 a.m. to noon eastern. do me a solid. scan this qr code on your screen right now. i got it right. qr code, follow me on blue sky. you can find me at velshi blue sky dot social. but again, all you have to do is scan that qr code so easy with your phone, it'll take you right to my page. can't say i've done it myself. so you tell me if it doesn't work. you can also follow me on threads on linkedin on mastodon. i post there daily as well. stay right where you are inside with jen psaki begins right now. joe. >> come on. >> getting stronger and louder every day. >> i'm going to talk to senator cory booker. >> about what democrats and the courts are doing to fight back. plus, my exclusive interview with maryland governor wes moore, whose state is dealing with this assault in real time. and later, i'll talk to the former twitter executive who's giving out free advice to

to have gone to harvard, that she was basically a die admit to harvard. this is, i mean, just from a human perspective. that is. >> we all agree that's wrong. >> let me ask you a question. >> about this. >> all agree with that. but there's nothing i can say to you on this panel for any of you that's going to satisfy. >> no, no, no. may i ask you a question. >> about this? that's the problem. >> so you're saying americans felt alienated by the way democrats talked about some of these things? >> yes. >> okay. but do you think that this is the antidote? that i think that's the question here. i mean, it's you can be critical of terms that democrats have used, but it's not clear to me how this approach is better. in fact, it seems exponentially worse to be scapegoating, whether it's hyphenated americans or otherwise. any group of americans, for this tragedy to be purging government data from websites under the guise of dei and rooting out wokeness. i guess that's where i think there's a bit of a disconnect here. >> it's like, i agree with. >> you. okay. >> i a

the harvard crimson reported that harvard's medical school canceled a guest lecture by tufts professorlic health sector of war, along with a panel of panelists from gaza who are receiving care in boston. harvard medical school's reasoning some feared the panel would be too one sided and divisive, one sided, that doctors and hospitals in the boston area that are caring for these palestinian patients from gaza should be commended for their work, and it's a loss for medical students to lose out on learning from them. from this optional panel. and taken together, the threats to free speech, students rights and safety, and an expression of support or sympathy for the plight of palestinians will continue to be under threat. and it's not just in america. a recent report highlighted in time tracked the health of civic freedoms around the world and identified big crackdowns on palestinian solidarity protests in every kind of society, from democracies to more repressive regimes. but one person who cheered on trump's executive order targeting pro-palestinian protesters was israeli prime minister

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but when at harvard, studying a famous muckraking journalist named lincoln steffens comes to harvard and says that the president i'm going to conduct an experiment everybody in my newsroom the only way you can be a good journalist is you have to go out and cover, you know, fires and stuff like that. but i don't think that's true. i think you'd be a good journalist. you just get somebody smart and just send him out. start covering big stories. so i interviewed two people and. when he's done, he takes the one guy he picked, it takes it back to his magazine and the guy he's working with a little bit. and then he has a guy go write a magazine article and he turns it in with his own name like a stefan says his name on it. and of course the editors look at it like, oh, okay, that's fine. and this is about to go to the press. they change it, he says, as walter lippmann. that's how walter got it. he had worked at a small paper while in college. that's how i got to start. he was an elite. i mean, he was hanging around with santayana like said. and you're thinking like when he was at as a kid

. >> well, kia went on to graduate from harvard law. she became a civil rights attorney. she was working with a group called the civil rights corps on cases of police abuse and pretrial detention. and kia was going to be a professor at howard university this fall. i keep saying was, because kia is no longer with us. she was one of the 67 people killed when the american airlines regional jet she was on collided with a black hawk helicopter this week. any previous weekend, kia duggins could have been a great guest to speak with on this show about the work she was doing about fostering diversity and taking down inequities, about why that matters. i wish we had that chance. kia was 30 years old and debating the role of dei is fine. that's not what's happening right now. too many are taking those three letters using that initialism and then calling this these people dei hires. it's a placeholder for a slur. and government resources are being used to literally erase federal dei content online. >> it doesn't sound like a bad idea to me. dei is would have ruined our country and n

she graduated. >> from harvard. >> law school. the black law students association described duggins as. >> a force. >> of nature and a fearless civil rights advocate. >> i work at an organization called civil rights core. >> in a 2023 podcast, she advocated for bail reform. it was the kind of issue that drove her professional career. >> my family has been very personally affected by pretrial detention and by the harms of the criminal legal system, and i went to law school to help remedy some of those harms and make sure that other people don't experience it. >> the seeds for that passion were planted in wichita. she was the oldest daughter of a doctor and educator who friends say taught her to think of others and dream big. her journey would take her to an internship at the white house, working for michelle obama in the final months of the obama presidency. >> when i was a little girl, i really, really wanted to be a princess. >> eight years ago, kiah duggins gave a ted talk at wichita state university about a mentorship program s

. >> kushner at a harvard symposium. >> yasmin, let's. >> talk about the reaction. >> in. >> the region. >> how is it being received. >> in israel and. >> the wider. >> arab world? >> yeah, i tell you the way that we have been seeing it so far today, andrea is kind of like a nuclear bomb going off here in the middle east, from saudi to jordan to iran. hearing from mbs, the crown. the from to king abdullah of jordan to the egyptian foreign minister to iran, to islamic militants, including islamic jihad, hamas, all of them denouncing the plans proposed by president trump, standing alongside bibi netanyahu. we know al-sisi, the egyptian president, is going to be traveling to washington tomorrow. we know king abdullah will be going on february 11th, next week to washington as well, two major players in which the president has said he thinks he can convince to get on board with this plan. but so far from what we have seen, they have completely denounced any possibility of asking or making forcing gazans to leave gaza. i think it's important to understand what the homeland means to palestinia

charles blow and juanita tolliver, a harvard fellow. the thing oppression does not have to win. and it doesn't. it never wins in the end. i appreciate all the conversation about what politicians are doing, but this resistance to this has to come from the street. it has to come from people, individual people not in washington, economic and political. and at a certain point, people get their backbone. they'll get their bearings and they will resist. >> amen. amen. amen. all right. juanita. besides this amazing book which i need you to sign for me. who won the week? the spirit of shirley chisholm. besides that, who won the week? >> the metropolitan ame church in washington, d.c. won the week. and it's for a karmic reason you wouldn't expect. the church was awarded the rights and trademark to the extremist white supremacist group, the proud boys, and i think that's something that's karmic, considering that people like ida b wells and frederick douglass attended services at this church. >> i love this, and it makes me so happy. and we're goi

harvard did a study that shows you have a one in 11 million chance of dying in an airplane crash. the odds of it deadly car crash. that's about one in 5,000. so we spoke to a clinical psychologist about how to lower your stress, including deep breathing and changing your body temperature. >> first time you fly a plane, your anxiety is going to be a 10 after this crash. the second time the flights going to be a 9, the 3rd time flights going to 7 and so on and so forth. whatever we're talking about, quality anxiety we're talking about getting out of future and out of our worries and into the president. >> all right. good advice. as the doctor there says that if you're feeling anxious flying, might want to bring step to distract yourself. download may be a funny movie. bring an interesting book or listen to some soothing music. anything that will prevent you from having negative thoughts, distractions. all right. and stay with kron 4 as we learn more about that. >> tragedy in washington. you can scan the qr code on your screen for the latest updates. you'll find all the info at kron

history as the first openly trans male athlete to compete in ncaa division one sports, swimming for harvardskylar, what comfort do you give to those who are feeling like this is a real turnaround, a setback for trans rights and the trans community? >> i think this is something that's critical, and to validate those emotions while also reminding that we are we are absolutely capable of moving through this. >> bodies come in all shapes and sizes. there's no one single determinative factor in athletic performance. it's just too complicated to narrow down to one thing. >> so what trump is doing typically is sort of seizing the hottest issue and going at it with maximal force. >> it's the latest move following a flurry of anti-trans executive orders. >> we've gotten the woke lunacy out of our military. and now. importantly, getting it out of women's sports that's taking place very strongly. >> he signed an executive order saying that the united states government only recognizes two sexes, male and female, for all purposes. he also banned gender affirming care for people under the age of 19 and n

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. >> reporter: kiah duggins was a harvard law school graduate and a former miss kansas contestant.he was flying to d.c. to start as a law professor at howard university in the fall. elizabeth keys died on her 33rd birthday, heading home early from a business trip to celebrate with her longtime partner, david sideman. >> she was fearless in both her professional life and also her personal life, was always wanting to do the right thing, always wanting to take risks, always wanting to be the best version of yourself. >> reporter: the victims of flight 5342 touched many lives in different ways. >> are you posing? >> reporter: lizzie jacobson will never forget this moment from 2021. flight attendant ian epstein helping to calm her baby. when she saw his photo in the news, she recognized him immediately. >> we picked her up, and just kind of walked the aisles, talked to everybody, was cracking jokes. i thought it was such an amazing experience with the flight attendant who clearly loved his job and he loved making people smile. >> reporter: and david, the army has now identified two of t

that tha they began to frequent the old whaling church and they knew people charles ogletree from harvard school and henry louis gates, who were frequent visitors to the vineyard and, really it became part of their family fabric, if you will. and this is just a list of the the various times that obama visited the vineyard during his presidency in fact, the only year he didn't the vineyard was in 2012. the reelection year. he was too busy obviously that time. but this is to acknowledge carol mcmanus, the owner of expresso and the muffins. she out the note save for bill however there are other culinary links to the president's sharky's cantina. if you remember the mexican restaurant, they actually had a margarita that they called the obama rita and then made martha's ice cream developed a flavor barack my world. so the presidents have had an influence on the local in their we go with the muffin and here are the two presidents golfing again who had the lower score is top secret information that's unknown but they both enjoyed golfing here in measurably quite frankly. a very serious note, tho

turns out the guy was eduardo saverin, his roommate at harvard. eduardo, of course, one of the co-founders of facebook. they got in a fight. he ended up moving on a street corner in singapore. i randomly met the roommate. >> it's been for those of us who remember when the facebook.com came to our college campus, and what a big deal it was to see him take it from that. >> which you're bragging. >> well, since i'm so young, you know, to take it from what could have been the next, what was the failed media. >> social myspace. >> thank you. it could this that that platform should. >> have was hot in my day. kelly. >> yeah it should have been the next myspace to see him transform it into what it is today is a testament to the fact that he can continue to reinvent himself and this company, to stay with the times and even stay ahead. >> and saying, oh yeah, we did get censored during covid. and he goes on joe rogan and he's got the hair and he's got the videos of himself chugging a coors in a tuxedo while surfing off kauai, which i think he bought. or he

apparently originated with jerry cushion or his son in law almost a year ago at a speaker series at harvard university, which was reported at the time scene is outland extends. but unfortunately, very much in keeping with the way that donald trump sees pretty much everything as a money making opportunity. but having said that, we absolutely should not down player dismissed the gravity of what trump propose yesterday he has made the policy of the united states a crime against humanity. and that's how we need to understand this show of matthew says we shouldn't down play it. and in fact, what we're talking about here when donald trump says the us with own gaza, and when asked if american troops would be involved in the takeover, he said, we'll do what's necessary, legally speaking. what does he talking about here? an occupation? i think he's going to force the arms of bar for egypt and you'll do 1st of all to accept the influx. so, but if you choose from guys up into both the respected countries and secondly, has to force the but it stands themselves to these uh, they have to be jumped into t

comer, a product of wichita public schools and wichita state university, going on to graduate from harvard law school with her sights set on becoming a professor at howard. >> she is just so full of life and really embodied the way that the profession and this particular type of work where it needed to go. >> friends describing her as determined and kind. >> she was just so young and such a radiant person. >> friday, the army, releasing the names of two of its three service members on board the black hawk. 28 year old staff sergeant ryan o'hara was the crew chief. he leaves behind a wife and a one year old son. meanwhile, a sense of disbelief felt by communities across the country, including right here in california. >> in some ways, it's like i'm still processing her loss and also she's made such a tremendous impact in such a short amount of time. >> tara campbell, abc seven news. >> and as we learn more about the crash and the people involved, those who lost their lives will post updates on our website, abc seven news.com and the abc seven bay area app. >> president trump's tariffs take

so robin in harvard by default of top stories kind of the size of the loops of, of the plan to reinforces folder with the us as possible. deals pulls the new towers, the fries will last for at least 30 days mexico. we'll also see a 30 day reprieve from the tyrus sent by president trump dr. green, to send thousands of troops to this folder with the us. that would be valleys and cities across the us as part of a day without events move, but the campaign condemns. president trouble busty protection plans, immigration and customs enforcement tool. i says it's note has been conducting rates in major cities. it's the 2nd day. the way that protests is at los angeles have blocked the traffic. president, trump is waiting. the feature of the us agency for international development told us a id is 9. the agency that manages about $40000000000.00 of annual us assistance to bowl the $200.00 countries has been by and by layoff some site license transcripts had to office. and now its washington headquarters has been ordered to close 100 castro reports. with the headquarters of us id sealed, it staffers

so the humanities are dying. harvard, the universe, this is the percentage of students graduating with a degree in the humanities has in the past 50 years. how does that say about us? and what are the implications for our future sales on these boards this and this is the street the oh, i'm an english major. yeah. usually when i tell people that they're like, oh so you want to teach or oh, so you want to be a writer or just why is this has to be used for for one class? i mean here. yeah. what is it because concerns i hear and concerns i have for a long time, about majoring and english for english literature is how does that translate to a job after you graduate? the should be when they just going to you die pretty busy. not to be college graduates. i really don't know how it keeps up so much. last year, the total 1st year headcount across all segments of higher education in the us was down 5 percent. that happened for a number of reasons, including the financial burden of incurring massive debts in order to get a degree in and all sorts and worlds. but today we're going to focus on the

comer, a product of wichita public schools and wichita state university, going on to graduate from harvard school with her sights set on becoming a professor at howard. >> she is just so full of life and really embodied the way that the profession and this particular type of work where it needed to go. >> friends describing her as determined and kind. >> she was just so young and such a radiant person. >> friday, the army, releasing the names of two of its three service members on board the black hawk. 28 year old staff sergeant ryan o'hara was the crew chief. he leaves behind a wife and a one year old son. meanwhile, a sense of disbelief felt by communities across the country, including right here in california. >> in some ways, it's like i'm still processing her loss and also she's made such a tremendous impact in such a short amount of time. >> tara campbell, abc seven news. >> and as we learn more about the crash and the people involved, those who lost their lives will post updates on our website, abc seven news.com and the abc seven bay area app. >> president trump's tariffs take effe

i mean, i would see a black kid who gets killed, who's going to college on monday or who goes to harvard as this great example to show the world. see, it doesn't matter how perfect you are, they're going to kill you any way. there's a, there's a temptation to move away from the heart or cases, you know, the person who was shot with his hands, or even if he had a criminal record or she had a criminal record, you know, do you ever find yourself kind of compelled, by those those perfect victim there. oh, certainly all the time, every day, every day, i mean there were, there was a video of the victims of the perfect page or a talking loving on. and it was like a month as of the victims. and the 1st 2 i think were men and then the later victims were kids. and i was thinking in the back of my head, it would have been a better the toil decision to help the kids and, except for us and, but it's you recognize how? absolutely. i don't know, i don't know whether it's called a heartbreaking or ginger so scary that like it's been through these tendencies, have been drilled into to like create these h