that is very much what james baldwin did. thinking about malcolm x and his mother, she was a radical activist, a nationalist long before her children were even a thought in her mind. she was writing for the world newspaper, putting her name in writing, saying i will stand up for myself and my people. this. this is also what we celebrate and love him for. we should have known longer for my book that they were following in their mother's footsteps. >> let's turn to your book, which also celebrates three mothers from a very personal point of view. this is your own three mothers. your birth mother, your aunt and your grandmother. tell us about their influence in your life and how they shaped you. >> i realize they are so regular, ordinary and just people you meet at the grocery store or at church. but it really instills strong values. we weren't better than people, but no one was better than us. they were very clear that was worth fighting for. every time i got kicked out of class, or thought someone was treating unfairly, they w

and he was influenced by james baldwin's essay in the new yorker in november of 1962 that ended up providing the basis for the fire next time. kennedy spoke in this very room in the spring of 1963 when he came to, south carolina. and focusing talking to southerners white southerners. he focusing on the consequences of racial discrimination. he emphasized the north as well as the south right usc wasn't the surrogated yet. so he's telling people we've got to move, you know, these things have to happen boating rights, but that this problem is not just southern it's national and then he said time is running out fast for this country. okay. so here's a sense again of that this it's so deep so wide and that white america is so really ignorant of our history and of the need to really move forward on all fronts. now in the aftermath of watts kennedy pushed back on the call for law and order which was the dominant response across the political spectrum from democrats republicans. he said there is no point in telling -- to obey the law. to many -- the law is the enemy. in harlem bedford stuyvesant, it

applause] during the recent new orleans book festival, offers talked about the legacies of author james baldwinand the civil rights leader grant congressman john lewis. here's a portion of the program. >> some of the reasons is because i was suffering from a kind of debilitating despair. here we were we had come out of ferguson and all these young people were risking their lives. some of them are ending up dead, committing suicide. and the country responded to their efforts with the election of donald trump as the country responded to teens murdered with of the election of richard nixon twice. and you feel the task having to push the boulder up the hill again and again and again. he tries to commit suicide at least three times. no name in the street published in 1972 he's coming off of one of those attempts trying to make sense of the moment to tell a story that will offer resources for us to imagine how. so i think the way in which i came out of it is that it's not the end to which. the value is in the actual pushing to invoke the beautiful struggle itself and that is where meaning is found. b

how do we teach humanity from orwell to james baldwin to harper lee?spell. how do we ensure kids learn what they need not only third and fourth grade but ensure ready to go seventh, eighth, tenth, 11th and college for that matter? that is where the focus needs to be. this is not about lacking compassion or anyone sexual orientation. but when you teach kids to be kind, guess what they are kind to everyone. when you teach kids compassion they show compassion to everyone appear those are the values that should be taught in our schools, not a certain race, not a sexual orientation or sexual preference, but teach kids the basics and let parents at home reinforce even against the other conversations that happen as kids get older. that is what i would love to hear them talk about. >> judge jeanine: jessie, with your daughters, what sense are you getting what's going on in schools? >> jesse: they are in catholic school, judge. they don't play that. [laughter] about the whole changing the word moms to birthing people. that is crazy. you don't change the english

>> laura: i will quote james baldwin saying i love america more than any other country in the world.at in this case restricts the rights of more than half the population. i know mark doesn't have a uterus so he is not impacted, but i do know -- >> harris: in defining women? i'm so glad. >> laura: when you restricted a woman's rights -- i'll just finish my point which is that this is a restriction on the hands of politicians women's right to bodily autonomy. i think that is a huge problem for the vast majority of women including 54% of republican women that are now not excited to go to the polls. you can't just take rights away without consequences. you can't hide behind state rights because women know better. >> harris: ethical was, correct me mark, as a senator marsha blackburn who asked the incoming supreme court justice ketanji brown jackson as her hearing, can you define the word woman to make getting that right? i think laura just did it. >> mark: i believe that's right. you have a liberal elite right now who can't even define a woman and one woman is and how they are championin

but also how they affect the present or in the words of james baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. the research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasn't adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. dr. mcginnis is a renowned scholar and cultural cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial and antebellum south particularly the politics of slavery. she's an award-winning author co-author and editor of six books including two books on this topic slaves waiting for sale abolitionist art and the american slave trade and educated in tyranny slavery at thomas jefferson's university. which for which she won? the she was awarded the chelsea eldridge book prize from the smithsonian american art museum? dr. mcginnis received her ba at the university of virginia, and she attended yale university where she earned a phd in art history. she is both an academic a

have no way of knowing more and more i was coming to feel latency was not an option in the post james baldwin. is there a time in which we will work out our salvation, the challenges in the moment, the time is always now. there are people in san francisco who said who are you? to run for district attorney? why did you feel it was maybe necessary for you to jump in and run for district attorney? >> in 2003, i decided to run for district attorney and challenged and a comment from an old political family in san francisco, then in office for two terms. his nickname is kale because he was known as being a boxer who could not pick up people out. when i i decided to run, i thout i could do the job better. people said to me, nobody like you has done this before, they are not going to be ready for that, you are to him. or it's not your turn, people would say it's going to be difficult as though we run away from hard work. i didn't listen and i was excited and then sitting in a room waiting for my first poll numbers and they were handed to me and i started at a healthy six points in the pool. [laughter

offers that he and john talked about the legacies of over james baldwin in civil rights leader and congressman john lewis. here's a portion of the program. >> one reason i wrote it is because i was suffering from debilitating despair. here we were, we had come out of ferguson, they had risked their lives in some renting of dead your cars, committing suicide. the country is fond of to the roofs, organize efforts with the election of donald trump. this is the country responded to the murder of the election of richard nixon twice. having to push the boulder up the hill again and again and again. baldwin tried to commit suicide at least three times. no name in the street publishing 1972 coming off an attempt, time to make sense of this because he's trying in some ways to tell a story to offer resources to imagine how to keep from starving. the way in which i came out of it is not the end to which we tried to push the boulder. the value is in the actual pushing, to a invoke, the beautiful struggle itself and that is where meaning is found because we think we have to see the end as a precondition fo

james baldwin and malcolm x. as inspiring her to make her own mark as a witness to history. the early works of this series relate her own personal experiences with racial discrimination. the working like , for example, for members only recalls a traumatic memory from her childhood in which a group of white men accosted her sunday school group and tibbetts brook park in yonkers. so for people who don't know her work, her quilts are iconic, explain the significance of this medium to her and what people will see. absolutely as you say her quilts are iconic and they were barrier. breaking our history is a field that's very slow to change and in the past topics like painting and sculpture have been given more weight and more precedents. faith ringgold was able to break down the door, and it was her investment in black power and the feminist movement that intersected with these craft based techniques, which were traditionally considered women's work, which is why they were included in museums. you've been in contact with miss ring gold's daughter, miss ringgold in her nineties. no

i was coming to feel that wait and see wasn't an option and then you quote james baldwin. there's never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. the challenge is in the moment. the time is always now there were people in san francisco. who said well who are you to run for district attorney? why did you feel it was maybe necessary for you to jump in there and run for attorney? i'm sorry for district attorney in san francisco. so i in 2003 decided to run for district attorney of san francisco and challenge and incumbent who comes from an old political family in san francisco. he had been in office for two terms. his nickname is kale because he was known as being a boxer who knocked people out. and when i decided to run because i thought that i could do the job better. people said to me well you know nobody like you has ever done this before they're not gonna to be ready for that. or oh, you're too young. why don't you wait sometime or oh, it's not your turn. people would say. oh it's going to be so difficult as though we run away from hard work. and and

right now i'm reading, again, one of james baldwin's great books, the devil's fine work, which takes him back to the 1930's and looking at -- now here we are and we still judge people by their looks, how beautiful or ugly they are, and yet we still have this other thing going. host: we are going to leave it there and see if professor anderson has anything she would like to add. prof. anderson: part of what voter suppression and oppression is designed to do is to make you think that there is no hope, that it is always going to be this, it has always been this and it is never going to get any better, why bother to beat your head against the wall? the thing is -- the reason why we are still in this struggle is because we are still fighting. we are still fighting an oppressive force and because we refuse to give up. we refuse to accept our subjugation. that is so important. we refused to seed our power, because it is in that fight, it is in that struggle, where we continue to move forward, where we continue to be able to create the knowledge, where we continue to be able to protect our c

>> i think the great james arthur baldwin says, i love america more than any other country in the worldat reason, i insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. if we are going to improve this country, we have to start with issues, and criticizing, and putting those criticism into action about driving us toward a more perfect union. but, without the right to criticize, we might see that reflected in that patriotism numbers. we never make positive change. i think the first part is missed, i love america. i love, is why we must continue to criticize. >> how about you, susan? >> i'm just hoping that looking forward this is just a time of healing. because, we were so divided under the previous president. we were a nation that could not come together to k fight covid, a disease that was non partisan. was it that, i think that broke a lot of peoples hearts, frankly, and i think we are looking forward to something to get us all rallied to gather. i don't think it will be our political, process, but hopefully it will be something else. >> yeah, just think of the humanitarian aspect of our

apart by blowing apart these neighborhood centers, and it's only made worse by urban renewal which james baldwin called -- removal because the same thing was done by taking away people's property and in many cases not even compensating that as the constitution requires. and so we go on to look at the effect of the great society. we agree with many conservatives who see the terrible disincentives in the way that our welfare system is arranged the perverse incentives against work in marriage. we agree with that critique, but we also sort of challenge our conservative friends to be just as hard on other forms of welfare. corporate welfare, which will also cause all sorts of malinvestment. and dysfunction in the economy and we go on to look at other social factors and then by the end of the book we're coming up to the present day and we're looking at the rise of the drug war. we're looking at mass incarceration at this point. we're looking at things in america that are actually not specifically black issues because they're affecting all americans, but we're gonna hear from black people about the mor