we got to see her father jackie robinson. until recently, when he was coming down for a picnic in my brother and i we were raised by our grandparents. i just found out about the story. right before she died. >> were going to have to get you there sorry. sharon:ha when he didn't get to tell us how story so i don't really know how to answer that. >> sharon robinson is the author of this book, and memoir of 1963 she has been ouror guest year on the tv. thank you for your time. >> interesting comments and questions. >> tonight in primetime, fox news will talk about her latest book medicals resistance and revenge. then studies david mccloskey and diplomat dennis ross, remember israel's founding fathers. journalist caitlin moscatello, examines the rise of women ran for office. in the 2018 midterm elections. it was tough reports on the chinese lapse that are producing but now, and supreme court associate justice neil courses, reflects on his 30 year career. the sterile airing tonight on c-span twos book tv. check your program guide

the civil rights movement, her childhood during that time and of course she is the daughter of jackie robinson. if you live in eastern central time zone and would like to participate, 202 748 8201. to those of you in the mountain and pacific time zone. sharon robinson, until the end you get tired of hearing that? >> no, i don't get tired of it. >> .. it essential essentially helps understand barriers are part of life, give my dad storynd and values i associate with his success on and off the field. they tell their story international essay contest, to barriers they've had to overcome and talk about that process, including which values they use. i go out and select national winners who give between 11,000-15,000 sec's year. kids all over the united states. i quite and visit with the winners in their classrooms, bring o them to local major or minor league parks if we can, and then the grand prize winners are honored that is the all-star game or the world series. it's been an incredible program and i've been working with kids on thert importance of finding their voice and i tell them to me, voice

we've continued that since my dad's passing so many years ago through the jackie robinson foundationobiography, your father rights the following "there i was, the black grandson of a slave, the son of a black sharecropp sharecropper, a symbolic hero to my people, the air was sparkling, the sunlight was warm, the band struck up the national anthem, the flag billowed in the wind. it should have been a glorious moment for me as the stirring words of the national anthem poured from the stands. as i write this 20 years later, i cannot stand and sing the anthem. i cannot salute the flag. i know that i am a black man in a white world. your father was speaking about his first world series game there. that was 70 years ago. and now here we are today, players are kneeling, they still don't feel like this country represents or necessarily respects them or treats them equally. how do you think your father would feel about where race relations are today compared to 70 years ago? >> well, he prepared us that it was going an ongoing struggle. it's more complex. we're no longer just changing laws. h

. >> were you aware that you were jackie robinson's daughter? >> i was, we had a trophy room in our house. our friends were very enamored of all the trophies and plaques. and remember, whenever we went in public there was a different experience. we were a public family, we could go up to weekends and you can walk into the dining room and everyone would turn and look so we were very much aware that we had a public side we had a side that was at thome. so it balanced. >> yearbook child of the dream you write this is something somebody told you, maybe your older brother, not easy being a robinson. but there was such high expectations and not enough credit. >> what does that mean -mark. >> it wasn't even so much from our family, it comesfrom everyone else . people for example my brother who was played little league baseball and babe ruth baseball, he gave some to my father, that's what the heckling was about. you can't do it as well as jackie. so you're constantly told you're not doing it as well. that was jackie's experience. and they set him up fo

[laughter] jackie robinson, eleanor roosevelt.ars before robert ragnar, who is known to be a cautious new york mayor, he passed fluoridation. while there are some issues that produce these horrible deadlocks and almost every issue produces them in washington now, if we get engaged, we can change that. and only if we get engaged will that change. the fruits of modern medicine are worth our struggling for them. at an affordable rate. >> there is often unanticipated good consequences of letting the science move forward. in the case of embryonic stem cell that led to the use of what people sometimes call skin cells. they have been made potent in the laboratory, quite similar to embryonic stem cells. that helped to calm the debate. in the case of water fluoridation people you realize how important healthy gums are to help. that's been proven over the years. with some of the technological advances ai and everything else happening, what are the big issues that you see to each of you and then i would love to bring in the audience for ques

of all of my -- i had jackie robinson's autograph. >> mine said to ricky from cassius clay and it wasom the candy store and my mom disposed of it. >> i grew upon in new york at the same time you did. malcolm x was killed in 1965. it was very ominous event, and it was part of a very turbulent time. what are your recollections of that era and how that era shaped you growing up in new york? >> it was an interesting time. i grew up -- and i was born in 1951 and i grew up in the placid '50s and then boy, the '60s just take off with the assassination of president kennedy in november 1963, malcolm, '65 and obviously what happened in '68 and i go to college in 1969 and it was a turbulent time. >> in many ways you're a straight-laced guy and then the part of you that took over the rotc building and renamed it briefly for malcolm x. >> it still exists in columbia and still called the malcolm x lounge. >> still there? >> my mother was shocked, mad, upset that i was part of that takeover. i didn't send you to school for that, but i saw, you know, i was part of a generation that was against what i