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the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. maya angelou's death late this spring at 86 sent me back in time. we had first met in new york city 45 years ago, soon after she had published her phenomenal, best-selling memoir, "i know why the caged bird sings." she was already a presence -- civil rights activist, singer, dancer, songwriter. but that first night, we discovered that we had both grown up in small, segregated towns just so, we talked about my childhood in marshall, texas, and hers in stamps, arkansas. born marguerite johnson in st. louis, she was sent to stamps to live with her grandmother and hadn't returned for years. let's go back together, i said. she wouldn't have it. too many demons, she said. a dozen years later, for a series on "creativity," and searching for what it is in a person that touches the strings of that mysterious instrument, i ca

the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. once again, we are remembering the author and poet maya angelou, who died three months ago at the age of 86. at the time of her death, one of the cable news websites proclaimed that "a literary voice revered globally for her poetic command and her commitment to civil rights has fallen silent." well, not exactly. because we'll be hearing maya angelou's voice for a long time to come. she left seven autobiographies, three books of essays, volumes of poetry and many recorded appearances on stage, television, and at public readings of her work. here she is in 1993, reading her poem "on the pulse of morning," written for bill clinton's first inauguration as president. >> history, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. lift up your eyes upon this day breaking for y

the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman.and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. there are roughly 80 million evangelical christians in america, and for years a majority of their ranks have refused to take global warming seriously. many were swayed by the likes of rush limbaugh, who said, "if you believe in god, then yi6 ñ intellectually you cannot believe in manmade global warming. you must be either agnostic or atheistic to believe that man controls something he can't create." then there is the powerful republican james inhofe of the senate committee on the environment and public works, who said, "god's still up there, and the arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what he is doing in the climate is, to me, outrageous." so it is that while more americans believe global warming is real and caused by human beings, some two-thirds of white evangelical christian

the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman.nd by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. even if you're in denial, and i hope you're not -- you know about climate change. everyone can see the wildfires and drought in california. the fatal flash floods in arizona. the punch of a hurricane pounding mexico's baja coast, the strongest in nearly 50 years, battering locals and trapping tourists in their hotels. these disasters are made more powerful by global warming, and it's only going to get worse for us and for future generations. unless we act now. that's why more than 120 world leaders are coming to new york city next tuesday for the u.n.'s global summit on climate -- trying yet again to provoke governments to get on with it -- reduce those carbon emissions that are heating up the atmosphere, before it's too late. so here in new york, in the days leading up to the summit, there's a lot happening to keep t

the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. here we go again. >> as i -- as i report to you, air attacks are underway against military targets in iraq. president bill clinton on december 16, 1998 -- -- good evening. earlier today, i ordered america's armed forces to strike military and security targets in iraq. -- my fellow citizens, at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. -- to stop the advance on erbil, i've directed our military to take targeted strikes against isil terrorist convoys should they move toward the city. >> over 23 years, four consecutive presidents have ordered the bombing of iraq by u.s. forces. it's what one of my guests calls the nightmare of groundhog day - facing the same problem, over and again. just a year ago

the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> this week on "moyers & company." >> it's time for everybody across this country to ask of their senators, to ask of their congressman or congresswoman, whose fight are you on? are you there for the folks who are out there trying to work for a living or are you just there for the millionaires and billionaires? >> funding is provided by -- -- encouraging the renewal of democracy. carnegie organization of new york. democratic engagement and the advancement of international peace and security. at carnegie.org. the ford foundation. working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. the herb albert foundation. supporting organizations whose mission it is to promote

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the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> garrison keillor: seamus heaney grew up the eldest of nine children on a 50 acre farm in northern ireland, his father a cattle dealer, his mother's family worked in the linen mills. when he was 12, he won a scholarship to a catholic school, learned latin and gaelic. over the years, his poetry has become enormously popular, especially since he won the nobel prize in literature in 1995. >> blackberry picking. late august, given heavy rain and sun for a full week, the blackberries would ripen. at first, just one-- a glossy purple clot among others, red, green, hard as a knot. you ate that first one, and its flesh was sweet like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for picking. then red ones inked up and that hunger sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots where briars scratched a

the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. steves: pause at any street corner to enjoy a vivid slice of neapolitan life. and don't forget to look up. with no yards, families make full use of their tiny balconies. this is basso living. basso living. what does that mean? it can mean "low." so, literally, low? this is like a small apartment -- two, three bedrooms for five, six, seven, eight, nine people to a family. the traditional, sort of romantic life in the streets. life in the streets, yeah. many people might have money to go away from here, but they still stay here. steves: no taste of naples is complete without a pizza. antica pizzeria da michele is a favorite. baking in just the right combination of fresh dough, mozzarella, and tomatoes in traditional woodburning ovens, this restaurant is considered by many the birthplace of pizza. they brag it takes several years o

the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. garrison keillor: kwame dawes was born in ghana and grew up in jamaica. he has published 13 books of poetry, many books of fiction, nonfiction and drama, and he's the author of the first in-depth study of the lyrics of bob marley. he teaches at the university of south carolina. he says of his poetry, "often i am not writing to describe what i have seen, but trying to voice what the work is stirring in me." "tornado child." tornado child, tornado child. i, i'm a tornado child. i come like a swirl of black and darken up your day; i whip it all up into my womb, lift you and your things, carry you where you've never been, and maybe, if i feel good, i might bring you back, all warm and scared, heart humming wild like a bird after early sudden flight. 'cause i'm a tornado child. i tremble at the elements. when thunder rolls my mother

the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. here's something to make you really, really mad. our country's infrastructure is crumbling. potholes are becoming sinkholes, axle-killers, tire-busters. our cities struggle to pay for services. the powers-that-be in bankrupt detroit even cut off the water to some residents. schools and libraries are closing. public parks decay. and the war party in washington clamors for billions of dollars more for foreign interventions -- bombs, rockets, drones, even troops. 20 million americans who would like a full-time job still can't get one, yet corporations are sitting on more than $2 trillion in cash while revenue from corporate income taxes are down from 40% in 1943 to just below 10% in 2012. all this as some of the largest and richest corporations are now resorting to legal hanky-panky that allows them to "renounce their

the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. this is jotunheim, "home of the giants." it's a high plateau that feels like it's the top of the world. these are northern europe's highest peaks, and they're steeped in norse legends and folklore. this is the land of thor and odin, whose spirits still inhabit the misty peaks. for centuries, villagers trekked across this pass to reach the coast. it was an arduous journey, but today, crossing it is a pleasure. at 4,600 feet, the sognefjell road is norway's highest pass. at this latitude, even these modest altitudes take us high above the tree line, with snow through the summer. norway's lunar-like mountainscapes and deep fjords were shaped by glaciers that covered most of the continent 10,000 years ago. europe's largest surviving glacier, jostedal, is still hard at work. it covers 180 square miles, and, though shrinking, is still

the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. steves: the best look at ancient constantinople is at church-turned-mosque that's been considered among the greatest houses of worship in both the christian and muslim worlds -- hagia sophia, the great church of constantinople. built by the byzantine emperor justinian in the early 6th century on the grandest scale possible, it was later converted into a mosque by the conquering ottomans. today it's a museum. hagia sophia, which marks the high point of byzantine architecture, is the pinnacle of that society's 6th-century glory days. this church was completed in 537, just about when europe was entering its dark ages. for four centuries after that, christians in europe looked to constantinople as the leading city in christendom, dome-upon-dome constructionurchr was the biggest dome anywhere, until the cathedral of florence was fini