james baldwin, hannah arendt.hat you learn when you got there, william faulkner, let me get it right, the past isn't past. you learned about a james baldwin. you would go back into the archives. now they are digitized. but the volume is for you would read a james baldwin from 1966 report from occupied territory harlem, where he talks about stop and frisk. then you think today, as i work with younger writers in this moment of turbulence around black lives matter, they are younger riders who are younger riders were going back into archives digitally, learning so much from an extraordinary writer like james baldwin, who was on our editorial board for many years and wrote his first piece, a review. there was a sense of great literature, a great turbulence. charlie: you mentioned christopher hitchens. christopher hitchens. mary ivan. martin luther king. katrina: he wrote an annual essay on the state of the civil rights movement from 1961-1966. he began stop economic justice. which is where he was. he was speaking to th

. >> the first to publish james baldwin.in a minute, we will be joined by katrina vanden heuvel but first this is a clip from "hot type: 150 years of the nation" in which she talks about the magazine's early history with contributing writer d.d. guttenplan. the piece ends with the reading of a story that appeared in "the nation" in 1932. katrina: this is the essay i was telling you about, about "the nation's" future. it is from 1955 -- it says the nation must change. within the last 50 years one-third of daily newspapers have ceased publication. this is 1955. we sit here and think what is "the nation" role in this media landscape. >> in 1955, they were worried about being strangled by the red scare, and mccarthyism. people were afraid to get "the nation, and if you got the nation, the fbi probably put you on a list. "the nation grew out of the civil war. it was started by republican abolitionists who were concerned about the state of the freedom. we like to gloss over the first 50 years. "the nation" was against workers righ

. >> in ok1963 moore invited the writer james baldwin to san francisco tolp chronicle the lives of thethea lange. as a young man moore was one of the san francisco renaissance poets, crafting poetry in his writing shed. friátj describe moore as a lifelong pacifist, a belief reflected in his poetry.ñr >> i have knelt in the four dusty corners of my life and have been shown the bloody hands of the keepers of theÑi promised land. >> moore published his first book of poems at 90. in a 2009 intu$@%ew he described what inspired his creative efforts. >> that the world is vanishing immediately upon our efforts to enunciate it clearly. >> well versed ine1 american music, moore said he borrowed the title of the james baldwin film "take this hammer" from a ot/ leadbellye1ehñsong. ♪ take this hammer ♪ >> take this hammer carry it to thee1 ?lcaptain tell him i'm gone. tell him i'm gone. if he asks you was i running, tell him i was flying. tell him i was flying.e1 ♪ if het( asks you ♪lp ♪ was i running ♪ ♪e1fác ♪qñrÑiÑir ♪ ♪ÑixdÑiñrñr captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: on this edition for

i will end with my friend, james baldwin. he said that it is easy to declare men free before god. it is always much harder to declare them free and equal before other men. thank you. >> tell us your name and where you are from. >> atlanta georgia. >> looks like you have been doing is living history events for a long time and john: i been doing living history within the park services as a volunteer since 1972. >> what makes this 150th appomattox so special to you? john: i've had the privilege of being in several of the parks in the southeast and i felt like i wanted to close it out, here at appomattox on the day and the times the surrender took place. >> went on you tell us about the unit you are with today, and the character you are playing over the next couple days? john: i'm representing a confederate artillery men. lee's artillery, the army of northern virginia, as you will see demonstrated in a few minutes, surrender their guns and parked them. that is what i'm doing. >> how do you prepare for these kinds of events? john: research. do your research, read about what to place, a

i will end with my friend, james baldwin. he said that it is easy to declare men free before god. it is always much harder to declare them free and equal before other men. thank you. [applause] host: you are watching "american history tv" on c-span3, where we are watching -- live from the appomattox historical park in appomattox, virginia. we just heard from yale historian david light, speaking to the audience here, and in a few minutes we will give you a chance to talk to him. we will open up the phone lines again. as we continue our coverage here from appomattox. all of that, coming up on c-span3. we wanted to show you some of our conversations over the last day or so with some of the historians here. >> tell us your name, where are you from? john: my name is john paul and i am from atlanta georgia. i have been doing living history as a volunteers and 1972. >> what makes this one so special to you? john: i have had the privilege of being in many of these events and i felt like i wanted to close it out by being here on the day and the times that the surrender took place. >> why n

i will end with my friend, james baldwin. he said that it is easy to declare men free before god. it is always much harder to declare them free and equal before other men. thank you. >> tell us your name, where are you from? john: my name is john paul and i am from atlanta georgia. i have been doing living history as a volunteers and 1972. >> what makes this one so special to you? john: i have had the privilege of being in many of these events and i felt like i wanted to close it out by being here on the day and the times that the surrender took place. >> why not tell us a bit about the unit you are with today and the character you are playing over these couple of days. >> i represent a confederate artilleryman. the army of northern virginia, as you will see in a few minutes, they surrender their guns and parked them, i am here representing that artillery. >> how do you prepare for these kinds of events? >> research. do your research, read about what took place, allow yourself to become comfortable. try to betray someone from the past as accurately as you can. as living historians

he was a post-christian, like the great james baldwin. where he went to church and the church went to but almost had to leave the church or to promote the gospel. it is the churches were just too narrow entity, to cowardly, too accommodating to the powers that be, the status quo simply. any sibling of history is something which is a kind history of the present. the past and present are always intertwined and the third dimension of the future always is the object of our vision mediated through our understanding of the past and our actions in, that's a great speech that martin gave. thank god he had the courage to give it. >> host: he closes his speech with the refrain about being dissatisfied. so the arc of the speech itself is to get to dubois what he called divine dissatisfaction. >> guest: that's brother barton on the great dubois. >> host: that's true. then of refrain, let us not be satisfied. his refrain is let us be dissatisfied until every man can have food and freedom and human dignity for his spirit. >> guest: you can see how that

and you'd read a james baldwin from 1966 in the special issue.eport from occupied territory harlem. he writes about stop and for example charlie. you think today as i work with youngerdof turbulence around black life matter and any racial justice movement, there are younger writers going back into those archives digitally now but learning so much from a an extraordinary writer like james ball win who by the was on our editorial board and wrote his first view. a review of maxine gore key. >> rose: you mentioned -- martin luther king jr. >> he wrote an essay on the civil rights movement in 1961 and 1966. in his issue we have his last report where he begins to talk about economic justice. he was some of the great editor. >> rose: which is where he was. >> when he was in memphis in 1968, he was speaking to the garbage collectors. it wasn't just in the pages in 1967, two monthsúcçy/ó before king gave his famous riverside church speech coming out against vietnam. at a nation event in los angeles in february 1967 first came out against the war. and i'll

the big story is as james baldwin said in his work that history is trapped inside of people and there's history here in baltimore and across this country of the most pernicious and destructive oppression, economic social cultural even psychological oppression and folks can only take so much and i think that is the real story here in baltimore. that's the real story in ferguson. we're able to see in these communities, the underpinnings of racist and oppressing systems that make life so difficult for many -- for many people particularly poor and working people particularly people of color, and the instance of both ferguson and baltimore, black people. >> what tangible changes? you have been in baltimore for a couple of days -- would you like to see some out of these specific protests. you talked about ferguson and we have seen tangible changes happen within government and politic. >> the big story here is not, you know looting and rioting. the big story here is freddy grey was for all intents and purposes grievously gravely and -- and unfortunately, destroyed. >> yeah. >> -- in that van r

earn it day in and day out, they're with me we are talking about here is a brother that's like james baldwin said i want to be an honest man. i want to be a person of integrity. your wife come your kids, all of them we see a brother with integrity that is also a part in the mind if we can't keep integrity, honesty, decency of life over by any means or the mendacity fighting and concealing then we end up the best kind of culture that produces. it's the sentimental folk to give good speeches but no fundamental commitment to action. the crocodile tears and orientation what you're doing now and the white poor, too. the ecological catastrophe, imperial catastrophe, military as -- militarism the economic catastrophe and the last six years as 90% of the income growth. we have had three since we got here come the first on his way to the auction. it too too much death too early too much poverty chronic. we have black folks that love themselves and respect themselves eliminated poverty and there are too many early deaths. some are inescapable that we could fight a sound. if we get all three we would h

we are talking about here is a brother who like james baldwin said i want to be an honest man. i want to be a decent man did i want to be a person of integrity. your wife, your kids and your great grandfather all of them looking and saying we see a brother with integrity and that's what martin has in mind. we can't keep integrity honesty and decency alive and allowed chicanery or mendacity hiding and concealing then we end up the best that kind of culture produces and this is the age of obama. it's sentimental folks giving good speeches but no fundamental commitment to action. sentimental crocodile tears sentimental orientation. what are you doing now and the white poor too. vis-À-vis wall street, these of the the military industrial complex. nuclear catastrophe, the imperial catastrophe militarism drones or israeli-palestinian struggle. the same is true in terms of the economic catastrophe. in the last six years the top 1% of the population has 97% of the income growth. we can't say it publicly unless somehow he were to critical. we have had three. first too much death too ear

i started last night with james baldwin and i will do it again. baldwin in his most famous publication, his most famous long essay said " to accept one's past, one's history, is not the same thing as drowning in it. it is learning how to use it. an inventive -- and invented past can never be used. it cracks, crumbles under the pressures of life like play in a season of drought. " when in doubt, you have to quote the poets. learning how to use it. but not drown in it. is that what we do with the past? is that how you view the past? that what it means to have a sense of history? whether that sense of the past and sense of history begins with family which it does for most people. somebody once said all politics is local. all memory is local. it begins at home. it begins and communities, it begins with place. is that what we do with the past? do we learn how to use it? baldwin goes on to say if we invent it it will crumble. that may or may not be true. think of the invented past which has a long life. and invented past has endured. invented past has w

understand baltimore and other urban communities, that's not the big story, the big story is as james baldwin said in his work that history is trapped inside of people. and there's a history here in baltimore and across the country of the most perinitialous and -- destructive oppression and even psychological. folks can only take so. that's the real story in baltimore, in ferguson. we are able to see the underpinnings of a racist and oppressive systems that make life difficult for many people. particularly poor and working people, people of colour and the instance of ferguson and baltimore, black people. >> when we see these times of unrest, we see pastors come out preaching peace, love and nonviolence. what do you believe is the church's role in addresses root causes of violence behind history, presence poverty, protection. >> absolutely. i think the church's role is complex. we need faith communities to be on the ground the tip of the sphere providing a sucker and support, food clothing. other kind of basic and primary needs. the larger work, the faith communally is to stand with those oppr

james baldwin, so many come and ralph ellison. i thought of that line in an invisible man who knows that on some level i speak for you so that idea that the role of the citizen or citizen or the responsibility is to notice things and to speak about them and that's the role since the publication of the book. there's been a change on one of the pages. the edition that i have on 133 i think it is coming yes it is 134 and 135 and as you know since most of you read the book on micro- aggression we have a gorgeous essay that moves forward and then we have these macro aggressions that almost are almost at a signage. there is now john crawford, michael brown. on that page can you talk about what you've done in the recent printings of the book? >> after i was thinking about darren wilson and you might remember it is as if the daemon is coming and i saw him and i saw paul kogan so i began to think what's going on inside of the head of his. i think it's important and so i was thinking about those statements and i wrote down because white men

james baldwin, so many voices in the book and ralph ellison. and i thought of the last line of "invisible man" which is "who knows, but on some level i speak for you." so that idea of the role of the citizen or the responsibility of the citizen is to notice things and to speak about them. and that's that's a role that you've been put in since the publication of the book. i don't know how many printings it's had now -- >> i think six. >> six? >> it might be up to six. >> phenomenal. and there's been a change orphan one of the page -- on one of the pages. i don't know how many of you have recent editions but in the edition i have, which is the first edition on 133 i think it is -- no it's -- yeah. it's 134 and 135. and as you know since most of you have read the book, the book moves from micro-aggression from from the second person anecdotes that are really powerful, each and every one, and moves by accretion. and we have a gorgeous lyric essay about serena williams and it moves forward and then we have these macro- aggressions that are sometimes

james cook are among exhibits in a any show in london. if also examines the current life and culture. jessica baldwin has a sneak peek.s shield was picked out beach by british explorer captain cook or one of his men when they landed on australia's east coast in 1770. the story goes, that two ab ring anies saw the white then and thought that you were ghosts and ran so fast they dropped their shield. it's never been back to australia, but that will change in november. when the exhibition travels to the national museum of australia. the british museum is stuffed with artifacts from around the world and there are demands for much it have to be returned. so should the 150 or so objects travel to go australia later this year remain there? >> certainly the fact that these objects would be linked to all a many will be a significant moment and understandably these issues will be raised and discussed. >> reporter: the exhibition is a swing introduction in to one of the world's oldest enduring cultures. it is familiar to many. but most of the works including spearheads are unknown outside of australia. this forms a water mark in

our country become more than it is today more than what james rolling calls "these yet to be united states. tavis: oh, your dear friend jimmy baldwin that is my maya angelou on the tape is smiley show. -- on the "tavis smiley show." tavis: i interviewed her over a dozen times, started as a kid trying to figure what my role is, she saw me blossom and saw my career unfold, and she was a guest on my program over a dozen times, and my skin tingle there is a must see myself in conversation with her because i adore her so much. your point, we disagreed on a number of things. she allowed me to interrogate her. she welcomes hearing my opinions and my point of view. she wanted to have a conversation of ideas so that both of us would be made better. she started out a strong supporter of hillary clinton in 2008 all briefly because she has arkansas roots. bill clinton, as we all know is obviously from a place called hope, so they are friends from their arkansas days. when brock obama -- when barack obama waged the nomination, she of course supported barack obama. people thought my questions were a bit top on the candidate, people thought you w

captain james cook are among the exhibits at a new show in london and explores the cultural history of the island and including indigenous art and examples the current life and culture and jessica baldwineek. >> reporter: this shield was picked up on the beach by british explorer captain cook or one of his men when they landed on australia east coast in 1770 the story goes that two saw the white men, thought they were ghosts and ran so fast they dropped their shield and it never has been back to australia but that will change in november when the exhibition travels to the national museum of australia. the british museum is stuffed with artifacts from around the world and there are demands for much of it to be returned. so should the 150 or so objects traveling to australia later this year remain there? >> certainly the fact these will be linked to australia many for the first time since then will be collected and will be a very significant moment and understandably these issues will be raised and discussed. >> reporter: exhibition is a sweeping introduction to one of the world east oldest cultures and the due is familiar to many but most of the works including spear heads are unknown o