it's a weird town money, mississippi the town of money in 2011 was the beneficiary of a 206,000 mississippi civil rights historical sites grant the grant went not to bryant's grocery and meat market the only site in town with the civil rights history. rather it went to ben roy's service station. a long shuttered house and canopy style gulf station that sits precisely 67 feet south of the crumbling grocery because bryants was crumbling. and because ben roy's had a covered portico the grant application reasoned. the gas station had become a default lecture site from which tourists could gaze at the grocery and learn their civil rights history the application put its case for civil rights dollars like this, and i'm reading now. quote it is very likely that the events the transpired at bryant's grocery were discussed. underneath the front canopy. of the adjacent gas station and quote and with nothing more than that the mississippi department of archives and history gave $200,000 earmarked for civil rights to the restoration. of ben roy's the restoration was completed in 2014 and it is beautiful

the next story is about the town of money, mississippi. a this is where emmet till was and this is what the building looks like at the time of the murder in august of 1955. years have not been kind to bryant's grocery. i want to click through some images. this is the building in the 80s. of the 90s. the 2000s. it was hurricane katrina that g took the roof of bryant's grocery and a portion of its north wall. this is the fall of 2017, the winter of 2018 and this is one of my 01favorites from 2011. t if you remember that slide i z showed you at the beginning, the one that was scrubbed with acid, i told you that signed claims that this building is ground zero of the civil rights movement. isn't it a little bit odd that the building marked as ground zero of the civil rights movement would be allowed to fall into ruin? it didn't just happen that way. it was intentional. this is the story of how ground zero of the movement fell into ruin. although, you can't tell by looking in 2011 the town of money, the name of the town, it's a weird time, money

shad white is state auditor for the state of mississippi. mr. roberts knodell is the director of the missouri department of social services. ms. kristi putnam is a secretary of the arkansas department of human services and doctor aisha nyandoro is the ceo of supreme court opportunities in jackson, mississippi. welcome to you all. mr. carter i will never recognize you for five minutes to deliver your opening statement. >> chairman lahood, ranking member davis and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify a potential reforms to the tanf program specifically, and on a broader statement in general. my name is clarence carter and i currently serve as commissioner of the tennessee department of human services in the administration of governor building. tendency of my last stop in a 32 year career in the administration of public safety net programs and agencies at the federal, state and local levels of government. during that career i've had the blessing and good fortune of serving two presidents, four governors and the mayo

money, mississippi. this is where emmett till whistle. this is what the building looked like at the place of the murder in august of 1955. the years have not been kind, so before i tell you this story, let's click through some images. this is the building in the 1980s. the 1990s. the 2000's. it was hurricane katrina and hurricane rita that took the roof of the grocery off of the north wall. this is the fall of 2017, the winter of 2018. and this is one of my favorites from 2011. if you remember that sign, that i showed you in the meeting, the one that was scrubbed with acid, the signed claims that this building was ground zero of the civil rights movement. isn't it a little bit odd that the building marked as ground zero of the civil rights movement would be allowed to fall into ruin? it did not just happen that way. it was intentional. and this is the story. this is the story of how ground zero of the movement fell into ruins. you cannot tell by looking. in 2011, the town of money, that's the name of the

we found outside of mississippi. we found that tanf dollars had gone to pay celebrities and athletes in mississippi with little to no work required. we found that one profit in particular, a prophet run by nancy and zach, a mother and son duo, had received tens of millions of dollars of 10 if money tanf money. they had misspent most of that money. repaid a loan from his 401(k) program with tanf dollars. they paid for a house using government money, they paid for cars for themselves . they paid for technology like ipads. this list goes on and on. if you would like to see the full list of what we uncovered, i suggest that you read our single audit from 2020 or the two years after that. details some of those findings. but i would like to say mainly as tingly thank you to all of you for inviting all of us here and for looking into this. my hope is that the country can learn for mississippi's experience so that what we saw, the front that we saw in mississippi does not happen in other states. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >

so when there's not enough flow from the mississippi river, the mississippi river will go over it.on the top, and the saltwater will continue to climb along the bottom of the river. >> reporter: in july, the corps constructed an underwater sill, or levee, meant to block the flow of saltwater. but the sill was overtopped last week. engineers are working to increase its height by 25 feet. but that is not expected to hold back the saltwater for long. in new orleans, bottled water has turned into a hot commodity with some store shelves nearly empty. >> i've been out since early this morning. nothing on the store shelves. >> reporter: further south in plaquemines parish, there have been drinking water advisories in place since june. >> there is not one thing that's going to solve this challenge for us. it's going to be a combination of lots of different efforts. >> reporter: that could include transporting tens of millions of gallons of freshwater daily to nearby water treatment plants to dilute the salty water. >> how basic is water back in the kitchen? >> i would say it's important in

former mississippi third district congressman gregg harper. the mr. vice president, welcome to the promised land. thank. you so much, governor barbour, and has you here this way. credibility is. with us and this was so wonderful to do that and we're very excited have you here. would you please deliver. mr. president, we want to welcome you and karen here. and it's so glad to have you. we hope you'll come back when it's cooler. wouldn't take much, but welcome. welcome to the book festival. mr. vice president. well, thank you very. how about another of applause for congressman gregg harper, his special man. the. this is an enthusiastic group that they're glad to have you here. we've got a lot of a lot of media be on c-span eating popcorn and watching that plays when it plays back. but you've been through so much and the book, so help god. how did you come up with that name, mr. vice president, what made decide on that? well, first i wanted to get you a round of applause. there's no one. i served with it was more a man of integrity that lived his faith e

scott's also a member of the mississippi arts commission, the mississippi institute of arts and letters he's an ardent champion of arts. he's the co-owner of books and cat island coffee, house and pass christian and gulfport gulfport. thank you very much and welcome to our session this morning on nature and the environment for of my life, my entry to america in history was through the biographies of our founding fathers, washington, jefferson, franklin, and then through to lincoln, frederick douglass, theodore martin luther king, chisholm, henrietta lacks, james baldwin, eisenhower, among many others. but then two years ago, i was fortunate enough to read jack davis as the bald eagle. and then a whole new world opened to me and missed the little earth upon which our country was founded and without which there would be united states of america. our natural resources, land, water flora and fauna, and how we struggled to tame and profit from it. the stories and the lives that. jack davis patrick dean, ryan fertel and dean king bring us are indispensable to an understanding of our society o

bob: i was born in hickory, mississippi. hickory, mississippi is a really small town.ne-stop sign kind of town. david: what did your parents do? bob: my father all his life was a worker in mississippi, cutting down timber in mississippi and a bit of farming. my mother was a schoolteacher and a small school system in mississippi. when they migrated up north to a small town freeport about 100 miles northwest of chicago, they became factory workers. david: you went to college where? bob: university of illinois, champaign urbana. david: what did you study? bob: history. david: what did you want to be? bob: i wanted to be a diplomat, ambassador or diplomat. david: what year did you graduate? bob: 1968. david: and then you went to woodrow wilson school at princeton, that was to do further diplomatic knowledge? bob: i got a master's degree in international affairs and again the fascination was history and global affairs. david: so you get a degree from princeton and all of a sudden the u.s. government says we are ready for you to be a diplomat? bob: they ask you, did you want

jon parrish peede is a board member for the mississippi book festival. the visiting writer in residence at mississippi valley state university and the former chairman of the national endowment for the humanities, where he was awarded. where he awarded 500 million in grants to cultural universities. scholars for seven years. he directed the nea operation

and i love the mississippi river. [reel clicking] [water trickling] [bird tweets] [water burbling] [birds tweets] [wind whooshing] [birds chattering] [birds chirping] [insects chirping] [bird trills] [dog barking] [leaves rustling] - this was a dogwood my dad had in the backyard, and i just made the decision to cut it down. he would kill me if he knew that i had cut it down, but it was just time to sort of reorient the landscape for what i think i wanted back here. so it was just, i took out everything back here, in some ways that reminded me of him, with the exception of the dad tree, which is kind of too big to take down. this is the tree that i come and talk to when i needed to communicate with my dad in some ways. you know, you just sort of miss someone and you find an object that you feel like you can at least give your energy to. and it's the biggest, oldest tree in the yard. it's like one of the oldest, maybe the oldest on the street. lots of coverage, it kind of hovers over the house. and we have a very compli

he wasn't from mississippi or louisiana. he wasn't either white, black or latino. he was an indian man, flown in from india, calling from the mississippi gulf coast. and i thought, "what was an indian man doing coming here to clean up after hurricane katrina?" amy: we'll speak to longtime immigrant labor organizer saket soni about how immigrant workers have been lured to the united states and trapped in forced labor to rebuild communities after climate disasters. then we'll go to salvadoran poet and writer javier zamora, author of the best selling memoir "solito." as a nine-year-old boy, he traveled alone 4000 miles to reach the united states. >> from seven, eight, and nine, i knew that i wanted to be reunited with my parents. what kid doesn't want to be and wake up next to his parents? and so i didn't really understand how i was going to get here or how dangerous it was for me to travel the 4000 miles that i did. but what i did know is that i loved my parents and i really, really, really wanted to be with them. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democra

the history of black writing, which she established at the university mississippi in 1983. the history of black has led national and international initiatives to promote teaching and public engagement with black literary studies, with support from the national endowment for the humanities, ford and mellon. professor graham, the author of 12 books that have helped to redefine the field, especially the cambridge companion to the african-american novel. and with jerry ward, the cambridge history african american literature on the occasion of the history of black 40th anniversary and graham's retired from teaching to writing full time and answer just i'm sorry to interrupt generational panel of distinguished scholars gathered at the modern language association's january 2023 conference to celebrate ongoing significance and new ventures and archive programing and literary and its expanding community of digital scholars and practitioners graham lives in lawrence, kansas, is at work on two new books. her book today that we're looking at is entitled the house where my soul lives. t

army corps of engineers install a wedge up the mississippi river. but that task is a steep one >> what's been happening lately, we haven't had enough flow from the mississippi river coming downstream to prevent the saltwater from coming upstream >> reporter: prompting them to install a sill or levee 30 feet bolo below the water's surface. >> so all of this swork essen work is being done to protect water upriver. >> reporter: it's important to remember that while all this work going on behind me is important, it only buys us time. what we really need to solve the problem is prolonged rain upriver. >> without a major tropical system, without the situation changing in the basin, this may and more prolonged event >> reporter: meaning other mitigation measures are needed the corps's goal is to barge in 36 galmillion-gallons of freshwe every day. >> i can tell you, there's daily coordination meetings. we have been participating in the meetings, meetings with jefferson parish, all trying to f figure this out. >>> rain heads for the east coast this morning

i have the today of hosting the america war panel here at the mississippi book festival. and i would like to thank the festival's organizers especially ellen rogers, who we saw earlier. she's wearing this beautiful dress with butterflies on it. y'all thank her if you see her and course would like to thank the audience members here and in who are in person on c-span for joining us today. y'all are in a treat. we get y'all in for a treat. we get to talk about for that cover the entire span of u.s. military history, all the way from how the creeks were up as a nation, all the way up to operation iraqi freedom and beyond. and 2003. first, i'd like to introduce our panelists in order that they appear in your program, which also be the order in which i'll throw some airway first today to my far right is emily lufkin, who worked as a family physician on the navajo nation for many years, then taught science and math in rural colorado. she's the author of the poetry collection manifold poetry of mathematics. i don't understand poetry or mathematics. i would be impressed to read th

we turn to history being made in mississippi.primary runoff election was held in a state house district southwest of jackson. the winner 38-year-old fabian nelson who is set to become the state's first out gate legislator when he runs unopposed in november. the historic win means mississippi joined the 48 other states that have elected an adult algae -- with the lone holdout being louisiana. joining me now, mississippi state representative-elect, phabian nelson. representative nelson, thank you for coming to the saturday show. >> my pleasure, thank you for having me. i am excited to be here. >> what does it mean to you to make history? >> it feels really good. i can say i really didn't understand the gravity of the historical significance until the news broke out and i won the election going into this election, i was a guy that wanted to step up and advocate and help the community. >> throughout your campaign, you didn't run on making history. you talked about the water crisis in jackson, crime, broadband access and development.

>> this could be a record low on the mississippi. as long as we've been keeping records, we keep breaking these records, temperatures, low ice, all these sorts of things. this is another result of a planet out of balance, where our water cycles are either too much or not enough these days. and this is the way humans are adapting. you can see it happening in realtime with the army corps of engineers leading the way. >> bill weir, thank you. >> you bet. >> well, overnight, striking writers and the studios reaching a tentative deal after 146 days and countless picket lines. >>> but there is still no deal in washington, d.c. to keep the government open. republican congressman tony gonzalez thinks the outcome is inevitable. listen. >> i don't want to see a shutdown, but there is no doubt in my mind that the country is headed for a shutdown and everyone should prepare as such. >> representative gonzalez joins us next. >>> morning, everybody. top of the hour on a monday. glad you're with us. let's start with five things to know for this mon

what's being done about salt water flowing up the mississippi river? plus the souvenir from space. >> what a tiny spacecraft has just returned, brought back after a seven year mission. >> and it hasn't happened in nearly 60 years. an nfl team scoring 70 points. the dolphins beat down the broncos, even sparking a conga line. why not? what does denver do now? it's monday, september 25th. >> from abc news this is world news now. good morning, everyone. >> thank you so much for joining us. i have to say, fins up an amazing 70 points now. >> amazing. here's the great thing about that. they could have broken the record for most points. scored in a game which is what they had the opportunity. i think it was 73 or 72. but they could have gotten to 73, so they could have bought it. but gamesmanship, they just they knew they won the game. why score points? you already won. >> why rub it in? but but it's not looking good for the denver broncos, the defense especially. no, it's no, it's not. >> it's early. maybe they can turn it around. wow. the dolphins look like

. >> extremely dry conditions along the mississippi river have dropped freshwater levels and currents lows, threatening water treatment facilities along the river. >> norah: after a string of thefts, target announces it will close a number of stores. we'll tell you where. >> the u.s. federal trade commission in 17 states are filing an antitrust lawsuit against amazon. the suit alleges the company illegally inflates its prices and has "monopolistic control" over its competition. ♪ ♪ >> the new york city ballet is celebrating its 75th anniversary. how the role of women has changed in one of the most prestigious ballet companies in the world. >> i hope to find the balance so that everybody has found a way to belong to the world of ballet. ♪ ♪ >> norah: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night. we begin with the breaking news. a judge just ruling that donald trump, his sons, don jr. and eric, and the entire trump organization, committed extensive and persistent fraud over a decade. the ruling says the former president inflated the value o

the of pittsburgh mississippi he attended georgia washington university and tulane lawla school. he several years as assistant u.s. attorney right here in the district of columbia. he prosecuted homicides carjackings and gun violence. in one case he was the lead prosecutor securing conventions for several members in deadly street gangs have been indicted for multiple murders. since 2018 he has served as mr. -- the chief at the department of justice. he is a dedicated public servant with significant experience as a prosecutor. he is the first -- don't take it from me, take it from both mississippi senators both republicans who approved his nomination and yet he's being held up. senator mcgrath from the southern districthe of californa devoted a legal career to keeping america safe. mr. degraff attended boston college in the diversity -- his deputy staff judge advocate with my state summary court. she was honorably discharged after six years of service and record begin serving as a federal press in the southern district of california. or her time with the u.s. attorneys office she

the state of mississippi. now, many of these people are not because all types conniving methods are still being to keep -- becoming registered voters. and in fact, some are even killed. seeking to lead voter registry drives so that the democrat process is not operative in such a way. sounds like mississippi and alabama. so many of the other states, southern states where there is this determined effort to keep from becoming registered voters. well, let me say this, that if the right to vote, which is a basic civil right, is prescribed both by the constitution and by statute, i think there can be no one to impede that. but i'm confused over what you turn to be basic constitutional rights, which would give the federal government authority to direct private business under what section of the constitution would you say that could be done? well, i think it could be done under several sections, but i would like to see it on the 14th amendment, which says that no state has a right to deny an individ equal protection o

the state of mississippi. now, many of these people are not because all types conniving methods are still being to keep -- becoming registered voters. and in fact, some are even killed. seeking to lead voter registry drives so that the democrat process is not operative in such a way. sounds like mississippi and alabama. so many of the other states, southern states where there is this determined effort to keep from becoming registered voters. well, let me say this, that if the right to vote, which is a basic civil right, is prescribed both by the constitution and by statute, i think there can be no one to impede that. but i'm confused over what you turn to be basic constitutional rights, which would give the federal government authority to direct private business under what section of the constitution would you say that could be done? well, i think it could be done under several sections, but i would like to see it on the 14th amendment, which says that no state has a right to deny an individ equal protection o

. >> i love a roundabout >> reporter: mow matter what you call them in oxford, mississippi, you can'tcles in what she calls the roundabout capital of the south. i hear you have a nickname >> i do have a nickname roundabout robin >> reporter: in europe roundabouts are everywhere here in the u.s. they're not that common but they are on the rise this town in mississippi has built 21 traffic circles in six years. this is one of 34 roundabouts in the area, but the city of oxford is not the only city going all in on roundabouts. bend, oregon, has almost 50. lincoln, nebraska, has 75 and indiana has 140. studies show roundabouts drive down serious injury and fatal crash rates by 90%. drivers are forced to slow down, and there are fewer conflict points for vehicles, saving lives and maybe saving time. marvin king has a front row seat how much of a difference has it made in your daily life >> oh, right here this would have taken forever because it would have been a slow stop bye, have a great day. >> reporter: dropping off his kids at school, the oxford father lives where studies also show tho

jimmy buffett was born in mississippi and raised | born in mississippi and raised in alabama, along theunday morning how he got his start singing on the streets of new orleans. d0 start singing on the streets of new orleans.— start singing on the streets of new orleans. do you think there would be a _ new orleans. do you think there would be a jimmy _ new orleans. do you think there would be a jimmy buffett - new orleans. do you think there would be a jimmy buffett if- would be a jimmy buffett if there wasn't a new orleans? that's a very interesting question. i don't think there ever— question. i don't think there ever would have been. i question. i don't think there everwould have been. i mean, those _ everwould have been. i mean, those he — everwould have been. i mean, those he is _ everwould have been. i mean, those he is being here were really— those he is being here were really formative years for me. # wasting away again in margaritaville... # wasting away again in margaritaville. . .- margaritaville. . . buffett performed _ margaritaville. . . buffett performed on _ margaritavill

he wasn't from mississippi or louisiana. he wasn't either white, black or latino.e was an indian man, flown in from india, calling from the mississippi gulf coast. and i thought, "what was an indian man doing coming here to clean up after hurricane katrina?" amy: we'll speak to longtime immigrant labor organizer

the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi. mrs. hyde-smith: i ask unanimous consent to suspend the quorum call, please. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. hyde-smith: thank you so very much. mr. president, i rise today to pay tribute to the remarkable life of a legendary native of mississippi, whose music is synonymous with the spirit of summertime and enjoying life, jimmy buffet. born in pascagoola, mississippi, jimmy's journey began in the heart of the south. his music touches the heart of those well beyond mississippi or the south, but there's no denying jimmy's music embody's the very essence ever the south with warm hospitality, vibrant culture and distirchgive -- distinctive charm. his early years with were filled with the siects and sounds -- sights and sounds of mississippi, the sun setting over the gulf of mexico would later inspire some of his most beloved songs. it was his great appetite for adventure, which ultimately propeled him to worldwide fame. he embarked on a journey that would take him to the florida

it's so nice to be in jackson, mississippi. not too far from my hometown in new orleans, i see an lsu shirt here. go, tigers, go tigers. and i feel since we're the supreme court, i feel like these guys are under oath now. so be ready for a really interesting discussion with our. i have no recollection of that. we we're here to talk inside washington. the view from washington. we're approaching a big political year, of course, which is already consuming headlines across the country. and we'll even become more so. and we have great panel here today to talk about that and their books. i want to start just in introduction. joey garrison on the end is the white house correspondent for usa today. and he also covered that 2020 presidential race as a national correspondent based in boston. so thanks for being here, joey. thank. x next is ben terris, a writer for the washington post who has spent years covering politics via the people on the fringe and the players behind scenes, in the back rooms, on the hill and at crazy conferences, a

but they become a dynamic duo as they go down the mississippi. wyatt is -- why it is controversial today is because the n-word is using it quite bit, some people want it bad because of that, and they say that it cannot really be a classic because of that, and then twain was willing to do dialect. any time a white author starts dealing in dialect in any culture it gets tricky and sensitive, particularly now. ernest hemingway said all american literature emanates from the adventures of huckleberry finn. it continues to live on and to be discussed and debated, and mark twain is one of our great writers because of his body of work, but this was the one that has the -- lasted the test of time and is still red and talked about. but less so now because of that. hayden: what is interesting, and i'm skipping over to number eight, their eyes were watching god, by zora neale hurston, was also criticized for using dialect. and alice walker, the great water, basically resurrected hurt and her reputation and -- her and her reputation. brinkley: zora neale hurs

chance of holiday showers unfortunately in parts of the great basin, into the plains, the lower mississippi valley, taking moisture off the gulf. we're going see that into the gulf coast states as well. we'll talk more about that also talking about the heat in just a few minutes >> all right lots to still cover. thank you, michelle. >>> in ukraine, russian drones attack ports along the danube river. that infrastructure is critical to ukraine's grain exports at least two people were injured in the rare assault close to nato borders ukraine is a major supplier of grain to developing nations, and western leaders have accused vladimir putin of threatening global food security with his war in ukraine for the latest, we want to go live to meagan fitzgerald. good morning what do we know about this recent attack? >> good morning. good to be with you. what we know according to ukrainian officials is a barrage of these drones were launched a the southern part of the country. they have delegated about 25 of these drones these were iranian-style drones. they were able to shoot down 22. but as you menti