just ask kenneth byrd and his wife, mary margaret. >> she would say don't forget to pay your bills on wall. wall. >> reporter: on your facebook walls. >> she would be like, pay your bills. >> reporter: and that shows up on your wall. nd my friends were liking it, "ha-ha, your mom is so cool." >> reporter: the bottom line is as old as time-- we just want to feel a part of our kids' lives. ur there's a fantasy that the new world of communication has put our children right there with us. >> reporter: sherry turkle is a professor of science technology and society at m.i.t. >> parents are grappling and hustling for how to connect, but they're really not having the conversations they want very often. >> reporter: so your kids grew up here. >> they did. ow reporter: and no one knows that story better than bettie byrd, a reformed facebook over- sharer from the town of ozark, in south alabama. >> i had no idea how to use facebook. >> reporter: mom to kenny and older son, rob, bettie started out with almost daily posts on their walls. >> you know, i would just say, "hi, rob, it's mom, i love yo

just ask kenneth bird and his wife mary margaret. >> she would get on him when he was in college.t forget to pay your bills. >> on his wall. >> she couldn't see me or be with me. it was like pay your bills. >> shows up own your wall. >> all my friend are liking it. ha-ha, your mom its so cool. yeah, so cool. >> reporter: the bottom line it is as old as time. we just want to feel a part of our kids' lives. >> there is a fantasy that our new world of communication has the put our children kind of right there with us. >> reporter: sheary turkel, professor of science technology and society at mit. >> parents are grappling. and hustling for how to connect. but they're really not having the conversations they want very often. >> so your kids grew up here. >> reporter: and no one knows that story better than betty bird, a reformed facebook oversharer from the small town of ozark in south alabama. >> i had no idea how to use facebook. >> reporter: mom to kenny and older son rob, betty started out with almost daily posts on their walls. >> you know, i would say, hi, rob it's mom, i love yo

just ask kenneth wife mary margaret. >> she would say don't forget to pay your bills on his wall. >>h me. it was, like, pay your bills. >> that shows up on your wall. >> it's on my wall. all my friends are liking it. mom is so cool. so cool. >> the bottom line is as old as time. we just want to feel a part of our kids' lives. >> there's a fantasy that our communication put our children right there with us. >> a professor at science technology and society at m.i.t. >> parents are grappling and hustling for how to connect but they're not having the conversations they want very often. >> so your kids grew up here. no one knows that story better than betti byrd a reformed facebook oversharer from south alabama. >> i had no idea how to use facebook. >> they started out with almost >> i would say hi, it's mom. i love you. >> finally rob asked her to reign it in. >> i felt like i had been spanked. i did. >> today her posts are about her gardening, funny videos and there is the occasional proud mom post. >> there's kenny when he was a baby. >> here's the thing. now the kids don't mind her po

by 1920, mary margaret washington along with many of these women had founded the international council of women of the darker races. these early beginnings flourished into robust activity among women who combined their concern with racial discrimination with the well-being of women. these women were undoubtedly elite and well educated, deeply committed to action on behalf of the darker races. it was time for action come a time for women. to shape, mold and direct the thoughts of their age. a time to organize female resistance. the members solve the problem as one shared by -- if they worked for the poor, they worked for black women. if they worked for black women, they worked for the race. many of these women expanded their work to the international stage, becoming part of a colored cosmopolitan world. it was increasingly defined and redefined by women. i want to first make this point. black internationalism was not something that was created simply by the writings of intellectuals. there is a missing piece. black internationalism was grounded in a consciousness of european global expa

in the revolutionary war, margaret corbin manned a cannon during an attack on manhattan. in the civil war, dr. maryalker served in the union army, was held as a p.o.w. by the confederacy, and received the medal of honor. and xena was a warrior who still managed to be a princess. [ light laughter ] you can have it all. and then there's congresswoman tammy duckworth. >> congresswoman tammy duckworth >> women have been serving in combat in afghanistan and in iraq? >> well, i didn't lose my legs in a bar fight. >> seth: you think women aren't tough enough to serve in combat? that woman lost both her legs and is laughing about it. [ laughter ] she makes rambo look like beetle bailey. [ light laughter ] women have been serving in essential roles in the military all along, but the ban on women serving in combat created the illusion that they were less valuable to the military than men. including women in draft is controversial, but it's an important step in dismantling that narrative. or as congresswoman niki tsongas puts it -- >> this is really about changing an institution that narrowed and limited the

mary, thank you for joining us as well. >> i would like to thank my crackerjack team, margaret, our head of events and membership, alyssa abraham, fantastic interns, freda masterson and ben struble and volunteers, kerry lucas who used to be an intern, and photographer zach miller, appreciate your help and effort. thank you again, dana, thank you for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> you are watching booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. here is a look at what is on prime time. we kick off the evening at 7:00 pm eastern with david kessler who talks about the history of mental suffering. he talked about the a roosevelt's citizenship in a republic address. that happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> i started with the idea that i wanted to write a book about mohammed ali. it was cowritten with john smith. i want to give him full credit for co-writing the book because quite frankly mohammed ali was my champion. if you like boxing, if you follow boxing, people that lived through the 1930s and early 1940s, joe lewis was there champion. in the 1950s, rocky marciano was there champi