in sumner, mississippi. he has dedicated his career to ensuring that the tragic story of emmett till is not only remembered but also serves as catalyst for positive change in the state and beyond. he holds a master's degree from the center for the study southern culture at the university of mississippi and is a former monument lab fellow and w.k. kellogg fellow. so thank you, everyone thank you for being here tonight with. so how we'll proceed is this as moderator i will lead with some questions for our esteemed panelists and then we'll dive into some from our audience toward the end of our discussion. if you're watching online, you can submit questions in the live chat on on youtube. with that let's go ahead and get started. i'd like to remind our to turn your mikes on please and hold them close to your. i'd like to start by getting us all on footing, so to speak. so for each of you, could you talk about what exactly monuments and what do they mean in our society today. good evening. and thank you all for t

scott is also the mississippi arts commission, and the mississippi institute of arts and letters. is an artist, champion of the arts. he's a co-owner of half books and cat island coffeehouse in gulfport. >> thank you very much, and welcome to our session this morning on nature and the environment. for most of my life my entry to american history was to the biographies of our founding fathers, washington, jefferson, right-click, and then threw to lincoln, frederick douglass, theodore roosevelt, martin luther king, shirley chisholm, henrietta lacks, james baldwin, dwight eisenhower, among manyrs others. but within two years ago i was fortunate enough to read jack davis the bald eagle. and then whole new world open to me. i missed the little upon which our country was founded, and without which there would be no united states of america, our natural resources, land, water, flora and fauna. and how we struggle to gain and profit from it. the stories in the lies that jack davis, patrick dean, rien fertel and deanus king bring us are indispensable to an understanding of our society, our

you know with one foot on each side of mississippi river, a straight out of the mississippi. but grant says, well, there's no real other choice. so we're going to do it. you know, you're you're worries. duly noted. that's fine. but we're going to do it anyway. and but now the key to that i is that sherman is so by this point in grant's career that even though he didn't like it, he still says, i will do all i can. you know, he writes his subordinates, i don't like plan. i don't like this roundabout plan. but we've got to support grant and do our best and sherman, you know, to his credit later says, i didn't like but you're right that you know, we did it your way and it worked by the way, president lincoln also sends grant a message after the vicksburg campaign and says, i've been watching and when you turn northward on the west, east side of the big black river, i thought you were making a mistake. i thought you should have done this and so on. but lincoln stayed out of it. and at the bottom of the letter, he says, i want to make the public assertion or the public admission th

you know with one foot on each side of mississippi river, a straight out of the mississippi. but grant says, well, there's no real other choice. so we're going to do it. you know, you're you're worries. duly noted. that's fine. but we're going to do it anyway. and but now the key to that i is that sherman is so by this point in grant's career that even though he didn't like it, he still says, i will do all i can. you know, he writes his subordinates, i don't like plan. i don't like this roundabout plan. but we've got to support grant and do our best and sherman, you know, to his credit later says, i didn't like but you're right that you know, we did it your way and it worked by the way, president lincoln also sends grant a message after the vicksburg campaign and says, i've been watching and when you turn northward on the west, east side of the big black river, i thought you were making a mistake. i thought you should have done this and so on. but lincoln stayed out of it. and at the bottom of the letter, he says, i want to make the public assertion or the public admission th

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i want to say to people in mississippi, thank you for your support. ibl am incredibly proud of the record of the trump-pence administration. i think we duluth for america a stronger military, a growing economy, a security border, and we put three conservatives on the supreme court of the united states of america they gave us a new beginning for the right to life and i will always be proud of that record. [applause] anytime the present and i had given us an opinion i kept it to myself, until we were alone. i have a very -- maybe it's because i was a government and i had a lieutenant governor. i really believe thatt the relationship between the president and the vice president is unique in our system of government. and it was always very important that if i i had a different view than a shared with them in private. and that he would make a decision and we would walk out and i would support the decision. you don't have copresidents and america. you have one president. and i would say along the way i was clear with the present what i believe the constitut

our son our son got his wings at naval station meridian, mississippi. you're here. we all very proud of you. thank you for some. a son. actually, he surprised because these you know, these graduations ceremonies from flight school are, you know, not a large group of people. but we were sitting in that little member, the little chapel where they have it, and they just announced that my son had finished first in his class. wow. and i'm very proud of them. and we back to his apartment. and i said, did you know you did you know, you finished first? and he said, yeah, dad, i work my tail off. but i was really proud of him because if you read the book, you'll see my late father had just a couple of sayings that have always stuck with our family. one of them was climb your own mountain and you know my son said, dad, you know, with my last name, if i got the aircraft i was hoping for and i didn't finish, first of what do you think people would think so? i was really proud of them. but our daughter charlotte is a actually a terrific author. she's on her fourth book. she just

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

a senior fellow in southern mississippi. also study for foreign society. she's author of many books. i will make into mccue, saigon at work in south vietnam in a global 60s, and beyond combat, women and gender in the vietnam war era. today she is here to discuss her new book titled 21 days to baghdad, general buford blunt and the third infantry division in the iraq war. next up to my far left is peter cozzens who is the author or editor of 18 books on american civil war and indian wars of the american west and he's also a member of the advisory council for the lincoln prize pick in 2002 he was awarded american foreign service association hi sans, the william r risk an award given annually to one of the the one foreign service officer for their exemplary moral coleridge, integrity. today peter said to discuss his newest book titled a brutal reckoning and jackson the creek indians at the door for the american south. our final posted a right to my immediate left is chris wimmer who is the creator compost and lead writer of lege

with the exception of a of a slice of mississippi around the natchez area. that was an american hands and the creeks and the creek indians at the turn of the century. if you could imagine, as they controlled not only all of modern alabama, but also the western half of georgia, i mean, they controlled the best, best land. the the what is came to be known as the black belt because of the richness of the soil, the best land of the deep south was in the hand of the creeks. the creeks were today more commonly by the name they call themselves the muskogee numbered about, oh,. 20 to 25000 people. again, with this fast area of land, they were a sedentaryn a sense. they had permanent villages. but they also depended on the so they had a combination hunting and agricultural economy. they were really a fasci confederacy. they were they were not a nation like the cherokee. the noreal closely knit. the creeks owed their loyal first and foremost to the village to which they belonged. the villages were called cowboys and tower was independent for all intents purposes, they

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's also an mississippi.hey marked relatives in mississippi as early as the beginning of the 19th century. eventually settled in the area. general did not grow from up inmississippi because his far was a career military. should pesek life herself after world war ii and the cold war. and so i was interested in general blunt himself. as we talked him especially about the invasion of iraq and the drive to baghdad invasion from crossing from kuwait all into getting into baghdad. one is said to make the decision early on to split the division to take two routes from baghdad. the highway on the other is the vehicles from the western desert. his thought was of got 10,000 more than 300 kilometers. we could do that all on one paved road that's what it takes a long time. or, we can split off in the track vehicles can handle he sant going on the desert sand. baghde the invasion. the reason why he came up with that is because he spent several years serving with the u.s. army in saudi arabia. he was, the advisor to the mo

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

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

marissa parra, nbc news, oxford, mississippi. >>> still to come here on "early today," the jets tried to play anti-hero with travis kelce and the chiefs in to. wn >>> and the wnba finals are set. we'll break down how the new york liberty got there just one aleve. 12 hours of uninterrupted pain relief. aleve. who do you take it for? and for fast topical pain relief, try alevex. hey guys, check it out: it's mrs. stevens. they say she can make things appear out of thin air. hey! you guys want to come in? my mom made dinner. make your table legendary, with country crock. ♪ vicks vapostick provides soothing, non-medicated vicks vapors. [exhales] easy to apply for the whole family. vicks vapostick and try vaposhower for steamy vicks vapors. not flossing well? then add the whoa! of listerine to your routine. new science shows listerine is 5x more effective than floss at reducing plaque above the gumline. for a cleaner, healthier mouth. ahhhhh. listerine. feel the whoa! every parent knows when it's time to go into protect mode. adding lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99.9% of illness-causing bac

becoming as are a jackson was published byr the university of mississippi in 2023. her riding has appeared in highlights cricket the writer and sbc to the eye bulletin and other publications. each of her children has been approved spouse and their 10 grall and children six poison for girls. she often can be found hanging out at the grumman children's literature collection for writing her called reading, writing -- in her book becoming ezra jackson like the others they will be signing for you. so we are going to open with our first question. on the puppy is scheduled for the book festival the panel is designed to give -- give the audience into this room and we are glad you joined us. biographers delve into the lives of notable authors who work resonate with themes of resilience, cultural tension in universal human experiences. deeply influencinglu literature and landscape. focusing on the latter part of this talk a bit about how walker, keith and lee and their bodies of work deeply influenced literature's landscape, deeply influenced literature landscape. merriam.in

drinking water. >> i don't want them to get sick or if anything happens. >> reporter: from the mississippi delta, sam brock, nbc news. >>> and climate change and severe weather are contributing to a growing food challenge in china, which so much of the world depends on janis mackey frayer reports tonight on how china is responding. >> reporter: from record rainfall to scorching heat, dramatic swings testing china's ability to cope with a changing climate this summer, the heaviest rain in 140 years caused wide-scale flooding here that destroyed fields and tons of crops. "the corn is soaked. the fields, the furniture, it's all garbage," he says. last year, intense heatwaves triggered the worst drought in decades. he is saying this is what it looks like when rice doesn't grow it's all dry climate change is feeding a quest to shore up china's food supply food security now a national priority for china's president xi jinping. to produce more and import less at a time when geopolitical tension is rising, too. the challenge in china, feeding one-fifth of the world's population, with only 10% of t

water from the mississippi river. and of course the mississippi river is fresh water. and the mississippi river is long, wide, and mighty. the mississippi river source is the northern part of our state. it drains a thumb of other rivers. this is the southern portion of the mississippi river, and new or leans -- new orleans meanders around and into the gulf of mexico, which, of course, is saltwater. you probably never thought about this, mr. president, or perhaps you have, most people haven't. why doesn't saltwater, the mississippi river runs into the gulf, which is saltwater, and the gulf's a big area, why doesn't saltwater from the -- from the gulf of mexico flow up the mississippi river? and that would be a good question. the reason is pretty simple. as i said, the mississippi river is long, big, wide, and mighty, and it drains a good portion of the united states. and when the mississippi river is at thunderstormal levels -- normal levels, it flows very, very quickly and fast. and it keeps the saltwater down here in

now to the state of mississippi. in the state of mississippi, we have now invested and i'm going to go through a few projects in the state of mississippi, again, very recent ones, again, the n.s.f. engines development award. the first of those to jackson state university. focused on advancing food security and client resilience. sen. wicker: we have a new senator who is an alum of jackson state. mr. panchanathan: and then the next one is to mississippi state university in starksville where we were together. this is an advancing autonomous technologies for advanced manufacturing. the research is there. in addition to that, we have invested almost $1 million in mississippi golf course community college on two projects, to broaden participation in emerging technology programs, as well as increasing the supply and diversity of the i.t. work force in the mississippi gulf coast region. these are real projects making a real difference in terms of unearthing the talent and ideas in mississippi. and if you recall, in your off

he also has deep roots in mississippi.elatives in mississippi as early as the beginning of the 19th century eventually settled in the area. he lived in germany, went to high school in london. he just had. a fascinating life himself as the son of a career military officer, his dad was in the air force after world war ii and cold war. and so i was interested in general blunt himself and then as i got to talk to him especially about the invasion of iraq and t the drive to baghdadt became very clear to me how central he was to what went on on the ground in the invasion from crossing from kuwait to iraq all the way to baghdad and i will give 3 examples of that. one, he made the decision early onto split the division -- take two routes for baghdad, paved road, the highway, the going through the western desert. we do that in a paved road and will take us a long time or split off -- the tracked vehicles can handle going on the desert sand and meet up just outside of baghdad before the invasion. the reason he came up with that idea

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

let us take the state of mississippi for example. you have about 20,000 negroes registered to vote in the state of mississippi. many of these people are not registered because all types of conniving methods are still being used to keep negroes from becoming registered voters. in fact, some might even kill those seeking to lead registration drives so that the democratic process is not operative in situations like mississippi and alabama. many of the other southern states where there is this determined effort to keep negroes from becoming registered voters. >> let me say this. if the right to vote which is a basic civil right described by the constitution, i think there could be no one to impede that. but i'm confused over what you term to be constitutional rights which would give the federal government authority to direct private business, under what section of the constitution is that? >> it could be done under several sections but i would like to see under the 14th amendment which says no state has a right to deny an individual equa

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

so that the democratic process is not operative in situations like mississippi and alabama. in so many of the other southern states where there is this determined effort to keep negroes from becoming registered voters. >> let me say this. if the right to vote, which is a basic civil right as prescribed by the constitution and by statute, i think there can be no one to impede that but i continue to say those rights which would give the government the authority to conduct one private business and under what part of the constitution would that be done? >> it would be done under several sections but i would like to see it under the 14th amendment which says no state has a right to deny an individual equal protection of the law and every state has the responsibility and authority to give these businesses licenses to operate this is done by the state means that these businesses at that moment forfeit the right to deal with individuals any way they please. they must be under the scrutiny and other direction of federal authority on the basis of the fort teen the amendment of the con

she grew up in north mississippi, usually lost in a book. she married alan butler, pianist, she and her they children accompanied him for 23 years as heil pursued military career. she taught kindergarten in san antonio, texas, second grade in west germany and fort pope, louisiana and language arts in louisiana. this last assignment helped l hr figure out just what she wanted to be when she grew up, a writer. [laughter] >> attracted by thete literature collection and francis center for gifted studies at the university of southern mississippi, usm, she retire in 2001. involvement with usm, the children'sll literature collectn led to t becoming the researcher for the 50th anniversary edition of the snowy day where she found a biography that needed to be written was published in 2023. her writing has appeared in highlights, crickets and other publications. each of her children has an approved spouse she says and there are ten grandchildren, six boys and four girls. she can also be found hanging out at the children's literature collection or writ

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