c-span: how old was monroe trotter and d.w. griffith and dixon back in 1915? fith were just a couple of years apart in their mid 30s. dixon was the elder statesman of the crew because he was well into his 40s at that point. and he had been an enormously successful novelist and playwright in the early 1900s writing -- and he was, you know, a virulent racist. and the klansmen, upon which the movie was based, was the third in a trilogy of books that explored those themes in the context of civil war and after. c-span: who at the time, took this movie on besides the black folksesome. >> guest: well, they had the support of a number of liberals and supporters of civil rights in the white community. the difficult thing the thing that got a little bit tricky there is because one of strategies of the protesters and trotter's goal in boston was to get the film censored which from our perspective in the 21st century, you you know, gave me a lot of discomfort as a newspaper and a first amendment guy like, you know, why is a newspaper editor going, using that kind of means?

nation despite attempts by african-american civil rights advocates and newspaper publisher william monroe trotter, who criticized the films producer for his betrayal of african-american in the post-civil war era. sumac conversations with new members of congress today featuring california democrat norma torres the highest elected official of watermelon dissent, sent to the u.s. at age five working part-time as a police dispatcher and serving in the california state assembly before her election to congress amah this interview is about 25 minutes. >> from california's 35th congressional district, is a freshman member of congress, what is the difference between serving here and the california family or your time in the state senate? >> quite a difference between the three chambers between this and the state senate. the biggest difference is, i think, the inability to work across the aisle in california we certainly did a better job with that. >> how do you fix that? >> i think that numbers just have to commit to working together, we have to commit personal time getting to know each other traveling an

nation despite attempts by african-american civil rights advocate and newspaper publisher will yan monroe trotter and others to stop it. mr. trotter took griffith to task for his portrayal in the film of african-americans in the post-civil wear era. you can watch that q&a interview today at 7 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >>> this sunday on q&a senior editor for "the weekly standard," and what voters are looking for in a candidate. >> they want somebody who looks like he's stood up for them. i'm amazed to which the degree of which primary voters on both sides are motivated by resentment and the sense of being put upon. you know those people really don't understand us. here's a guy who does understand us and he's going to stick it to them. and that happens on both sides. hillary clinton will give her own version of that kind of thing. and i don't think that was actually true 30 years ago. i mean resentment has always been part of politics obviously, but the degree to which it's almost exclusively the motivating factor in truly committed republicans and democrats. >> sunday night at 8 p.m. eastern and p