mary stephen with the overage in our face for africa in brazzaville many times for a time. now basic education is very important so it becomes a challenge when many across the continent can not afford to be educated that is the case and i jerry where many children are unable to make it through primary or secondary school bought thanks to remarkable individuals there's always hope our correspondents flora's to go out takes us to lagos where one young woman is providing basic education for kids living in a slum. a quiet stay in. one of the most notorious slums in lagos gangs drugs and street fights i usually the order of the day at a very young age kids mostly learn how to make it through these tough streets going to school is a privilege that many cannot afford 20 year old teacher lose our museum was among the lucky ones with the help of a swan so she was able to make it through secondary school and university but it was a real shocker. so it was all for me i got to experience schoolchildren fights in one cor. it was hard for me get it's a fine piece for granted in verse aft

countries that have very limited resources but as mary stephen of the world health organization points out even some of the poorest regions in the world can sometimes tap into valuable experience like the recent outbreak in the democratic republic of congo for me i am optimistic that it is possible for the countries in sub-saharan africa to break the transmission it is possible to contain this. the region has less bonded to really be big major and there we have been able to contain this outbreak after battling with some of those are great or that occurred in complex situation like you. see where you have already an ongoing humanitarian crisis with ebola on top of that so it's like i'm right it's because they have responded to one form of imagine c. or the other doesn't they are kind of i think a bit much more alert in terms of responding to these imagines. of course every nation across the global south will be drawing on all the local experience they can find as they face up to this crisis these are decisive days that will determine how bad the outbreak gets. i'm skill that my work not

mary jane"? do you remember that? >> stephen: i'm afraid i don't. >> okay, anyway. no, it's very basic.ecriminalize. we need to legalize marijuana. it is-- it is-- the whole war on drugs was a complete failure, and we have criminalized whole populations of people. i mean, you want to talk about gateway? that approach is the gateway to america's problem of mass incarceration. ( cheers and applause ) that's the gateway-- that's, frankly, the gateway issue. so not only do i intend to legalize marijuana, but i will also tell you, stephen, that part of the big issue is we've got whole populations of, in particular, black and brown men and women who have been rcerat, whoe ne, ould now be coming out. we should be releasing them. we should be expunging their records. i will do all that-- >> stephen: restoring their voting rights. >> absolutely, restoring their rights. ( applause ) but, in addition, this has become one of the most-- the most profitable, newest industries in our country is basically selling weed. and so now all of these people who have been criminalized, right, should be first in

. >> stephen: news from this past weekend-- speaking of the olympics, actually. i understand you've been doing a little marie're looking to sell some things. >> i'm getting rid of all the crap trophies i ever won. >> stephen: they're not just crap trophies. you're selling your m.v.p.sps trophy and '96 olympic gold medal. >> and a bunch of other stuff. i'm from a small town in alabama called leads, and it's a really small town. we need some new housing. probably 30, to be exact. and i'm going to sell all my-- i'm going to keep the '92 for my daughter. >> stephen: the '92 gold medal. >> everything else-- i have a bunch of good stuff i'm going to sell. man, it's just clutter, you know. >> stephen: that's very enlightened of you. >> i tell people, when i'm 70 i can't be saying, "hey, guys, come over and look at my trophies." >> stephen: what else are you going to do? >> i'm not that, you know, crazy. >> stephen: what's something of yours-- is there anything beside the '92 med all wouldn't give away, you wouldn't sell? what's precious to you? a favorite pair of shoes. >> no, man, come on. > stephen: a lay z boy c

." >> stephen: clearly, parnas had a job to do: get rid of marie yovanovich. so this goon subcontracted an under-goon. enter republican congressional candidate and ten pounds of man in a five-pound suit, robert f. hyde. evidently, dr. jekyll was unavailable. now, to get hyde all riled up about this, parnas sent hyde tweets from conservative media personalities disparaging yovanovitch. in response, hyde texted, "can't believe trumo hasn't fired this bitch. i'll get right in that." okay, please, spell-check your hateful, misogynist threats. you sound dumber than trumo. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) now, 13 hours later, hyde started giving parnas updates that made it sound like he had people stalking yovanovich in ukraine: "she had visitors." "it's confirmed we have a person inside." "she's talked to three people. her phone is off. computer is off." yes, it's the political sequel to "you"... "ew." ( laughter ) then, things got even more sinister. hyde texted, "the guys over they asked me what i would like them to do and what's in it for them." "they are wi

mary in williamsburg, virginia. host of thes the popular history podcast, nearly 300 episodes, ben franklin's world. stephen freed's and award-winning journalist, "new york times" best-selling author and professor at the columbia university graduate school of journalism at the university of pennsylvania. his latest book is a biography of one of the signers of the declaration of independence, benjamin rush. it is called "rush: revolutionary, madness, and a visionary doctor who be came -- it became a founding father." nationalinner of the magazine award, freed has written for vanity fair, gq, washington post magazine, rolling stone, glamour, ladies home journal, raven philadelphia magazine sarah -- philadelphia magazine. --ah george jeannie is an editor at the massachusetts historical society. she is the author of "household gods: the religious lives of the adams family." to thea contributor society for u.s. intellectual for smithsonian and for cnn. natat the far end we have shively, first president and ceo formedlutionary spaces, after the merger of the bostonian society and the old south association. thepen

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