i particularly think about coming to talk about angelina cooper and ida b. wells in the book and with all you talk about the blackbody and that was ida b. wells life, the blackbody. and particularly black man's body in the anti-lynching campaign that she is the mother of the revolutionary, and she doesn't get her dues. those are statements, but i'm wondering how do you push your peers, black male public intellectuals and scholars like dude, where we at here? you should know this, i shouldn't have to be the one to continuously say -- >> yeah, no, thank you for the question. i agree with you. look, it makes me so mad that black men are like the only people want to talk about our w.e.b. du bois, james baldwin and in okay, like they have triumph for it and act like every year we got of another book about those dudes. meanwhile, in the academic enterprise, you write one book about angelina cooper and folks alike this book doesn't say anything new because we already know who she is, and it's like what new thing are they saying about the boys? cooper lived to be 105. w.e

at the same time you had ida b -- at the same time, you had ida b. wells working very much , outside the system to effect change. the two go hand-in-hand. i think that is true throughout the history of black protests, and it is still very much true today. >> i think that might be the right place to leave us. >> thanks, all. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> i approached abandoned huts. soldier cameamese out of the ground. my the i saw him. it was too late. he threw a hand grenade at me. it hit one of the poles of the huts. it hit a beam and a bounced off. it went off. my jacket. it ripped my shovel. cut the handle off of it. it drew me to the ground. a piece of federal hit my leg. >> watch our five piece series .ith vietnam war veterans this weekend, "american ourory tv" is joining spectrum cable partners to showcase the history of selma, alabama. we learned more about the city's -- to

on monday april 16th, when she arrived at ida b. wells, the school was like a ship turned on its side in turbulent waters at sea. educator austin urned it the school around. she implemented the 3as, which the school uses today, first is for attendance. second is for attitude. third is for achievement. she coined the terms i rise for the exemplary saturday school program held at dr. martin luther king middle school in partnership with the sfusd and the san francisco alliance of black school educators. ann austin passed away on march 13th, 2018, and the board of education, the superintendent of schools extend our deepest sympathy to her husband of 52 years, dr. therman austin. she now takes her rest. however, she will never be forgotten by her students, colleagues, parents, and family who make up the sfusd. thank you to virginia and emily for providing us this beautiful tribute to educator ann austin. thank you. [ applause ] >> so at this time, we would like to take any public comment for those who have submitted speaker cards for closed se

i think they get i will say it in print and i challenge them about the way they like to take on ida b wells because she talked about blackman but they don't think about her as a feminist and unpublished you can google it. i won't call that brother same tonight is not trying to be messy. [laughter] i was willing to have the fights with them but i'm also saying they are drawn to those brothers for the same reason i'm drawn to the women because they see in them in intellectual legacy and a set of possibilities. about that. i think they're engaged in sexism and i think they should see the intellectual traditions but there is only so much fighting that i will do. not to fight them to do it but i'm going to do it and show them how it's done and participate with other black women scholars who are doing the work of recovery in putting forth black women. they also think were talking about something more broad than the estimate conversation in the academic conversation i have is beyond respectively. in this book talk about what is solidarity between black women in blackman and what it looks like. som

colored friedman in boston, orators sojourner truth and frederick douglass, anti-lynching activist ida b. wells, and the experiences of african american soldiers during world war i. is about 90 minutes. >> hi there. good evening, and welcome to you all. thank you so much for being here. as catherine said, i am claire austin and am a trustee here at the massachusetts historical society. it is my distinct honor to introduce our panelists tonight. from the black lives matter protests that began in ferguson, missouri, to the women's march that struck the world on january

stanton, harriet tubman come to the younger generation who really shook things up like lucy burns, ida b. wells, mary church terrel, these women protested, demanded change, publish newspapers, they gave speeches, organize, started clubs and they began marching. in new york alone they organized paget's down broadway. they marched for 13 days in the snow and rain from new york city to albany just to get the right to vote. nationally organize the first women's march in washington, d.c. in 1913 and then spent months and months getting outside the white house with signs protesting. history teaches us each new generation builds on the last. there are lessons are one of perseverance, a determination, and a willingness to never ever give up. even when it's hard work especially when it's hard. and their fight reinforces what should drive our democracy today, the fight for the apartment of others, the fight for those who are most at risk, the least among us, those who are not being heard. a year and half after our generations own women's march the grassroots energy is growing. it is not fading. women are

about ida b wells.any pages in your book do you have about her and her founding of the naacp and if she was forced out? adamscond one was john writing the massachusetts constitution. isn't he really sort of the architect instead of madison? wasn't madison just a note taker? host: thanks for the call. >> thanks for buying the book. john wrote the massachusetts constitution which was a of ourl forerunner constitution but he wasn't about involved in the u.s. constitution because he was abroad in europe and he wasn't actually at the convention. ida b wells i have about 20 .ages on her this is a black woman born a slave in mississippi in 1861 and she fought for years against lynching and for women's rights. she tells the story as dramatically as any american how ordinary americans, nonlawyers can interpret the constitution and make arguments about the constitution and persuade their fellow americans of those arguments in ways that eventually get written into our constitutional interpretations. host: how did

instead, it was black journalists, mostly notably ida b. wellso exposed the horrors of lynching to the world. and paid a heavy price for that. as we wrap up in this last 30 seconds, bryan stevenson, can you talk about the significance of your paper doing this? >> i am daring courage to buy that. that is precisely the kind of reaction i hope we see across this country. white media, white newspapers were complicit. they were eight or zen abettors and much of this violence. they sometimes advertise where the lynchings would take place. so too it knowledge that, to repent for that, to commit to not do that again is the very heart what i think our nation needs to do in response to this. i am encouraged by this and help other newspapers across the region to the same thing. amy: we will do part two and post it as a web exclusive at democracynow.org. our guest bryan stevenson, founder and executive director of the equal justice initiative. the country's first-ever memorial to the victims of lynching in the united states. he is the author of "just mercy:

chicago you had, you know, the erection of these huge housing projects and there were name like ida b wells and cabrini green and robert taylor homes. there were actually a plan put in place that was aimed at these buildings that would go straight up into the sky rather than spreading across land. that was also linked to -- there's a great book about the targeting of black banks and with the black banks were created. but in the city i think that there are tremendous amount of white people that are so unbelievably ignorant of what they are doing when they come into certain neighborhoods that it causes this tension that you can cut with a knife in the air. i think part of it is on the way that our local elected officials handle these issues, but again part of it has to be if you going to move into a neighborhood you have to ask what am i bringing to this neighborhood, and it doesn't mean lik what d i think i should bring to the neighborhood, but are you going to be a part of that community or are you there as a subtler, whose planting a flag and that's a much deeper conversation that we shoul