sponsored by princeton's griz wald center. we're happy to have many members of chairman powell's classmates on the princeton class of 1975 on the zoom. just one quick logistical note, if you have a question, you're welcome to submit it any time you want using the q&a feature of zoom which you'll find at the bottom of your zoom window. it tez q&a. you may also upload questions that you'd like to see answered and we'll take as many of these as we can. a full recording of the talk will be posted on the griz wald center's website and the talk is live streamed right now. i'm pretty sure that's working. yes, we're live. okay. let me introduce a man that needs no introduction. we're happy to welcome here today. jay powell graduated from princeton which is relevant today. 45 years ago. ten years after that, he married his lovely wife alyssa and this weekend the two of them are celebrating the graduation of their daughter suzy as a member of princeton's class of 2020 which is sure to be a memorable year. so congratulations to you. afte

>> they're at princeton. >> what's their princeton connection? what happened in their lives that brought them to princeton? >> so princeton was the actual place that grover and francis retired to and i never will forget the story, it's a great story, susan, but i've been told this many, many times, grover did not like woodrow wilson and at the time woodrow wilson was the president at that time and he did not allow his children or woodrow wilson's children to play together because there was a little bit of a rift. they did not play together. but that's the connection. he actually retired to princeton. >> we're talking about the clevelands' children, they also had a daughter that became very famous who unfortunately also passed away in her youth, baby ruth. we have a candy bar named after baby ruth. >> that's right. >> tell us what you know about the family stories about baby ruth. >> so the actual candy company contacted the cleveland family to actually put the images of the baby and also francis on that. we have actually -- i have tons of politic

after princeton, jay powell attended law school at georgetown. he did not stick with law, instead opting for successful career in best investment banking, private equity, and a stick at the u.s. treasury among others. in 2012, president obama appointed him to the federal reserve board. in 2018, president trump elevated him to the chairmanship of the board. trump, as you know, has since complete many times this was a terrible choice trade almost everyone else on the planet sees it as a fabulous choice. , havingeeply grateful him running the fed now. and for spending time with us this morning. thank you very much for being here. start with the most obvious question. are you sleeping well? you, ellen.: thank and first, thank you for having me here today. it's a great pleasure to be here. myould like to say hello to hello classmates from 1975. if you'll permit me i want to start this by noting, that this is a difficult time for many americans. people have lost loved ones. many millions of people have lost their jobs. there's a great deal of uncertain

alan reiner, director of public affairs at princeton university. thank you for joining us on the special princeton reunion event for federal reserve chair jerome powell, i might add we are happy to have many members of chairman powell's classmates from the princeton class of 1975 on the zoom. on a logistical note if you have a question you are welcome to submit it using the q and a future zoom which you will find on the bottom of your resume window that says q and a. you may upload questions you would like to see answered and take as many of these, a full recording will be posted on the griswold center website. it is live streamed right now it is working. we are live. let me introduce a man who needs no introduction but we are happy to do that today. jay powell graduated princeton which is relevant 45 years ago. 10 years after that, they are celebrating the graduation of their daughter susie is a member of princeton's class of 2020 which is sure to be a memorable year. congratulations to you chairman powell. after princeton, jay powell attended law

princeton scrubbing woodrow wilson's name from a campus building.the ivy league university confronting racial inequality or erasing history. a princeton student sounds off on the message they say it sends to the next generation. todd: everybody is talking about this, i checked, every person is talking about this, a new home for cam newton in new england. can he really fill tom brady's shoes. the new deal that has everyone talking, literally, i counted, jillian, on social media. ♪ as you get older, are you worried about staying sharp and alert? forebrain, from the harvard-educated experts at force factor, contains key ingredients to help boost memory, learning, clarity, focus, and more! rush to walmart and find forebrain, our #1 brain booster, in the vitamin aisle. jillian: good morning. welcome back. congressman devin nunes slamming social media companies claiming they're silencing conservatives and manipulating the american people. >> they're getting funneled garbage and fact news. i'm encouraging others to to bring lawsuits against these tech comp

it is a lot of information. >> where are the bulk of his papers. >> in princeton. >> what is the princeton connection? >> princeton was the place that grover and france this retired to. on never forget the story. it's a great story. i've been told this many many times. grover did not like will joe wilson. at the time, woodrow wilson was the president at that time. he did not allow his children or woodrow's children to play together. there was a rift. they did not play together. he actually retired to princeton. >> we are talking about the cleveland's children. they had a daughter that became very famous. she unfortunately also passed away in her youth. baby ruth. we have a candy bar named after baby ruth. tell us what you know about the family stories about baby ruth. the actual candy company contacted cleveland to actually put the images of the baby and also francis on that. we have actual -- i have tons of political memorabilia. tons of souvenirs that have been given away. they actually contacted the family to allow both images on the candy bar. sadly, like you said, ruth passed away, an

>> you saw some of the pictures of her leaving princeton and even being in princeton she'd first developedany trouble in 1889 when her third child was born. and the wilson cited at that time to have no more children, the used birth control so she probably had been suffering from kidney disease for quite some time before she had gotten to the white house. >> diagnose is something called brides disease. that's an archaic term that means the new disease. i don't think they had a sophisticated test as we do now, although i was impressed that they were able to diagnose it as early as 1889. peter roosevelt's first wife also died of rights disease, kidney disease. they died quite early in which one ellen had been married for quite some time. >> dana mccarthy wants to know, did what you're goals and became consumed with illness and did it affect his performance as president? >> not until the very end, consumed not until the very end, but it was kept secret from her. yes, so that was ellen's wish to. >> i think everybody was in denial. i don't think ellen knew how sick she was, i think she was hopi

he says, can anyone believe that princeton just dropped the name of woodrow wilson. now the do nothing democrats want to take off the name john wayne from an airport. incredible stupidity. the president weighing in there. i'm curious what you make of this because wilson's record on race, as i say, has come under the microscope in recent years. it doesn't hold up well with the passage of time. but for better or worse, he is a part of princeton's history, of new jersey's history, and of america's history. how do you weigh those two things? >> well, again, to be clear, princeton isn't the only public institution to be having these conversations. we've seen similar conversations at yale university over calhoun college. even out in california, in the city of berkeley, you have the university of california-berkeley thinking about their law school, boalt hall, which was named for someone who it's later learned was an unrepentant racist. so these are conversations we're having all over the place. but to name a school after a particular person regardless of his later history

of that also including the renaming of the woodrow wilson building and school at his alma mater princeton university now america's 28th president a democrat had served as the university's president prior to his political rise but now students are demanding the name change after transcripts of his calls for the resegregation of civil service federal jobs and it doesn't stop there out in orange county california calls for john wayne airport to be renamed after old t.v. interviews of the duke's therapist where he alluded to white supremacy ideology so joining us to discuss these very hot topics host politicking our friend larry king larry over in mississippi the state has just passed the motion to remove that confederate symbol from their flag i mean what they'll replace it with i'm not sure but this is probably a pretty popular move right now isn't it. you have the last state to have anything to do with racism in their flag and it's good to see it the woodrow wilson being renamed the princeton ahman favor that woodrow wilson well a lot of virtues as a president was a bowed segregationist i

i have supported the princeton president's position all along.d about it an awful lot. >> exactly. >> in 2015, i supported it much more strongly than i did after, let's say, charlottesville. but i thought it was interesting. i kept revisiting wilson and princeton in my mind over the past month and then when i saw this op-ed by the president of princeton, i said, my god, that's going around. all of these -- because you and i have talked about this a lot. how do you balance the good that he did, the progressiveness that he did with the fact that he resegregated the federal government. and in 2020, and after charlottesville and after everything else, and for george floyd, that balancing act becomes far more difficult and you have to balance on the side, obviously, in this case, of removing wilson's names from institutions in princeton. talk about that process over the past five years. and once again how 2020 has changed the way we look at everything. >> joe, between the mississippi flag changing and princeton removing wilson's name, i think hell is

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let's bring in cornell west, and professor jurisprudence at princeton robert george, they both happen to be good friends and we are glad to have you both. >> great to be on the show especially with brother cornell. >> thank you so much for having us. appreciate it. shannon: something from the american think cancel culture, what happens when everything gets canceled, it is leading us to an orwellian dystonic society, when the left wants to cancel everything that is part of the american culture and way of life there will be nothing left and perhaps that is the goal, they can remake history as they choose like writing a novel but history is important, even the bad parts. how do we decide what stays and goes and who gets to decide? >> one thing we try to exemplify in showing love without politics and audiology a strong defense of rights and the become a lifting of a voice, we have to be sure that people have a right to express themselves whether we agree or disagree. the cancellation culture allows certain power games to be played. there has to be a defense the matter how much we disagree

he happens to be madison's princeton buddy. he introduces her to james madison. within several months of meeting, they are engaged. so aaron burr is an important person in madison's life. he also eventually knocks off alexander hamilton, thus removing a strong political enemy. so this is dolley's wedding ring that marion dupont scott acquired and now belongs to us. they marry at the home of one of dolley's sisters. her sister had married george steptoe washington, a nephew of george washington. this is still in the family home in west virginia. they go back and live in philadelphia. it is a lovely set of charcoal portraits by james sharples. dolley is still in her quaker bonnet. where they live on spruce street in philadelphia also

princeton university has decided to remove the name of the former us president woodrow wilson from as because of his racist beliefs and policies. wilson, who was once head of princeton university, led america during the first world war and founded the league of nations. but he also supported segregation, banned black students from princeton, and approved of the ku klux klan. protesters have surrounded the police department building in aurora, colorado, demanding justice, they say, for a young black man who died in police custody. elijah mcclain was put in a chokehold and injected with the sedative ketamine in denver last year. the authorities are to re—examine his death after a petition was signed by more than two million people. malawi's newly elected president lazarus chakwera has said his victory is a win for democracy and justice. the election result is being seen as a democratic first in sub—saharan africa — a flawed election was overturned and the opposition has gone on to win power. reged ahmed reports. counting and tallying the votes earlier this week, this election was a rer

princeton saying it will remove wilson from its public policy school. board of trustees said that the president's segregationist policies make him an inappropriate namesake. let's bring in cornel west and professor of jurisprudence at princeton, robert george. they happen to be good friends and we are glad to have you bo both. >> thank you, shannon. great to be on the show, especially with my brother, cornel. >> thank you so much for having us. >> shannon: i want to start out with something from the american thinker. cancel culture. what happens when everything gets canceled? leading us to an orwellian society. from the left wants to cancel everything part of the american culture and way of life, there will be nothing left and perhaps that's the goal. they can remake histories that you choose like writing a novel but history is important even the bad parts. professor west, how do we decide what stays and what goes and who gets to decide? >> i think one of the things that we try to exemplify in terms of showing our love and brotherhood is a strong defens

princeton university reunion event with federal chair drum powell. just federal chair drum powell. we are especially happy to have many members of term impels class from the princeton class of 1975 on the zoom.

they got very active in princeton university. i mentioned earlier, frances got involved with the growing number of women who had graduated college. she was involved with trying to get a college for women started. they adopted young men who were princeton students who didn't have family close by or have money and opened their home to them, provided support to them. cleveland worked with the equitable life assurance association. that was sort of his job. he wrote articles, worked on his letters. >> and had more children. >> and they had more children. they had when they left the white house in 1897, frances was pregnant with richard, who was their first son and fourth child. and then in july of 1903, she gave birth to their last child, another son, francis grover cleveland. >> and how long after that did the president die? >> he died in june of 1908. >> how did he die? >> he probably had cancer. it sounds like he probably had stomach cancer. and it was a slow, drawn-out, painful death. and he died in the house there at princeton. >

are you a fan of decision princeton made. or will you seek out institutions that have different way of life, looking at different way of history. ultimately people power rests in your hands and ultimately paying that tuition and making the decision what type of fours years your filed will have. griff: the problem, where is the tolerance in these institutions of higher learning? you expect, you send your kid to broaden their horse -- horizons, get a different array of perspectives. when they become intolerant naming of a school after one of our presidents it send as hypocritical message pete? pete: this is what higher education is today. little-known fact, i once was a student at the woodrow wilson school for a week before i dropped out because i didn't want to be there anymore. just saying. maybe i was ahead of my time. i knew i didn't want to be associated with such a patriarchal racist institution. but, yeah, we'll continue to see this with more schools under pressure from students. really students are pushing administratio

on sunday, nicholas johnson became the first black valedictorian in princeton's 274-year history.addressed the class of 2020 in a virtual graduation ceremony. and his commencement speech focused on building a brighter future. nicholas johnson joins us now. congratulations, nicholas. >> thank you very much. it is a pleasure to be here today. >> what an accomplishment for you. and so tell us what this does mean to you to become the first black valedictorian for princeton. >> it means an incredible amount to me. i think particularly given the university's troubled beginnings with respect to its role in perpetuating slavery. i think it goes to show how much progress has been made for that -- for there to now be a black valedictorian at princeton. the fact it has taken so long goes to show how much work still remains to be done. i hope that this achievement can be a source of inspiration for a younger black students who, you know, are seeing this event and might have similar aspirations. and beyond that, i also hope to be a source of inspiration for all individuals, regardless of race,

emeritus atrofessor princeton university. he joins us from princeton.nk you for being with usus. >> thank you very much. professor west, a week or so ago, george floyd died under the knee of a police officer in minneapolis. we have seen a wave of protests across the u.s., even beyond. we have seen that story before. do you think it is different this time around? >> there is no doubt. we have reached thehe turning point. the greatest text ever written d democracy made e two fundamamental points. power andns must have countervailing power against state power. that last come along chapter of volume one ofr of the class of democracy. longyou talk about these -- the long history of exploitation, abuse, oppression of people of color, especially black folk in the name of american democracy, you can push over a threshold and the anger and the rage flows and the system cannot contain it. a system that is unable to reform itself and speak to the root origins and needs of an oppressed people results in explosion. this is rebellion. it is not revolution. there will

joining me now, omar wasso, assistant professor at princeton university's department of politics. i know you say history shows peaceful protest are enormously effective at bringing about change. what about a peaceful police approach? isn't it a two-way street? >> i think that's a really important question, and i think it's helpful to begin a discussion about protesting with sort of why are people protesting, and there's this anger and mourning and grief at an incident like the police killing of george floyd. and for some people, that anger kind of justifies that sort of what you might caught an eye for an eye morality, that we want to reciprocate the state violence gechs us. when i look at the protests of 1960 and 1972, i found that nonviolent protests, particularly those that were met with state violence, where protesters make themselves the targets of state violence, those were very -- they created very powerful images that helped change public understanding. one of your earlier guests talked about lifting the veil of ignorance. if one can capture those images of a brutal police

berg, you alluded briefly to the answer to this regarding president wilson at princeton buried thesethree presidents, what was there relationship to status in class. we get a sense that in with the common man but not of the common man. he was a harvard man, takeo man. a. scott berg: and we know he was friends and running down to the lower east side where my great-grandparents sets up a hundred years ago. in a specific outcome of the immigrant lower cap classes, to 1920, the really parts of the america of these three presidents. what was the class. speech of that is a great question. i think what happened for theodore roosevelt was that when he first went to harvard, he kind of was it just be dealing with the people of his class. but underlying that kind of attitude, he came from a wealthy family obviously in new york. but his father had always been interested in social justice. not join the real estate business to make your mother pretty and he became at the left for the post. that instinct was intended. but in the real place where he began to shift away from that harvard glassman me

my son, our oldest son is an alum of princeton university, graduated there from 2016. he thought about it. he's spoken to a number of his friends who are minority alums of princeton who are overjoyed this morning. and you know what, he said to me, and he's right, that if in fact that's the way they feel about it, he's happy for them and he's happy for the university he calls his alma mater. i think it's the right move. i'll tell you this on the confederate statues, these men were traitors, they were traitors that tried to divide this country in order to keep slavery in place. i never understood confederate statues. i'm glad confederate statues are going down. i'm glad the republican governor of mississippi is helping to lead the way to change their flag. it's long overdue. and i think that is an uplifting moment coming out of the tragedy of the george floyd killing. this is the right thing for america to be doing and princeton did the right thing this week. >> i'm afraid that's all the time we have for today. that's all for us. thank you for sharing part of your sunday

what is your take on that instance particularly at princeton.uest: i thought the president made a great decision. he said that the history of the country is a history of disregarding the reality of racism and its effect on our fellow citizens, on people like me and my dad and my family. princeton's celebration of woodrow wilson is an uncritical reflection of woodrow wilson. the first chapter of "begin again" is a chapter entitled "the lie," that we have told ourselves a lie about what we have done to black people come and we tell ourselves lives in order to in some ways hold off the reality of what we have done. so the monument are in effect monuments to a lie. most of them were built in the 1990's -- in the 1890's and early 1920's as civil war veterans were dying, as racial jim crow with -- was taking root. some were built in the 1960's as response to the black freedom struggles. so the monuments around the country are monuments to a myth, an ideology of white supremacy. so i think what we're doing in this moment, which we have to do, is to con

wilson was president of princeton before he became president of the united states. he was also racist. he once called racial segregation a benefit. he said slaves were happy and well cared for. >>> mississippi lawmakers officially lost an effort to redesigned the state flag. this is the last one in the country to feature the confederate battle flag. today, the senate and house both passed a resolution that would create a commission to recommend new designs. it would be up to voters to choose the winning look in november. >>> the coronavirus is changing how automakers unveil new cards. in this case, the public got a look at tesla's take on the pickup truck. they also kept their distance. people lined up outside of the peterson automotive museum before opening. this is the shape shifting, fully electric, cyber truck. museum was booked at half capacity to make sure everyone kept their distance. the entrance was allowed with advanced ticket sales only. this is a new way to unveil new and revolutionary designs. >> it was a different way to get this out into the eyes of t

university and he joins us from princeton thank you very much for being with us. ththank you very m much. profesr west- weaker so go george floyd died under the knee of a police officer in minneapolis since then we've seen a wave of protests across the u. s. even beyond- we've seen that story before- but do you think it is different. this time around there's no doubt we have reached a turnrning point. you know the greatest texts ever written on american democracy is written by the great frenchman and to let elect guitar. to pointhe said ththere mightt be cecenters h how at the countervailing get state power in that if there's ever a revolutionary transformatation n america it will be off to the races legacy of white suppressed. last long chapter. well you more of his class the in america. i think it precisely the pope will with pointing. mainly that when you talk about the long history. up next location is double breasted. the color specially black hole in the making of american democracy. you can push over a thrash metal and the anger and the rage hello and the s

omar wasow is an assistant professor in the department of politics at princeton university and studies the history and political effects of protests. omar, you've been looking at the 60s as a period of social unrest, but also how that influenced opinion, and you just recently published some of this. what have you learned? >> i looked at both nonviolent and violent protests in the 1960s. and, to be clear, this is looking at thousands of protests over aut a dozen years. and what i found was that protests are enormously powerful at generating press. and, in addition, what the news covers predicts what changes in public opinion. so, when there was a massive wave in the early part of the 1960s of nonviolent protests, that drove headlines about civil rights. in a later period in the 1960s, as we start to see morviolent protest, we see more coverage of riots and public opinion shifts. and the most important problem, people say, is issues of crime and riots. >> sreenivasan: hmm. so, is it about the framing or is it about the actual actions? meaning if it's nonviolent protest that influence opi

hejoins us from he joins us from princeton, hejoins us from princeton, new jersey.isinformation and hate speech is spread online? great question. fundamentally, what our research does, is we look at the spread of viral codewords, memes and in—group signalling among extremists and violent actors. the funny thing is that these ideas tend to spread a loss like a disease. they need to be tracked carefully so we can understand how they are influencing us, not just with the how they are influencing us, notjust with the in—group communities but between them, and in the real world. communities but between them, and in the realworld. but communities but between them, and in the real world. but of course a lot of the problems with tracking and intercepting out that much of it is done in closed groups, i think, and also that it has an inbuilt deniability. it can easily be passed off as a joke, even if it isn't. well, that is one of the most difficult issues with combating hate, which is that so combating hate, which is that so many of these groups have adopted a kind ofjokey,

princeton university has decided to remove the name of the former us president, woodrow wilson, frompus because of his racist beliefs and policies. wilson led america during the first world war and then founded the league of nations. but he also supported segregation, banned black students from princeton, and also approved of the ku klux klan. protesters have surrounded the police department building in aurora, colorado, demanding justice, they say, for a young black man who died in police custody. elijah mcclain was put in a chokehold and injected with the sedative ketamine in denver last year. the authorities are to re—examine his death after a petition was signed by more than 2 million people. his case is among several to receive renewed attention following the death of george floyd last month. thousands of people have gathered across england to mark the first anniversary of the death of a 12—year—old refugee girl who drowned in a river in greater manchester. shukri abdi came to the uk in 2017. her family don't believe her death in the river irwell last june was an accident. the b

building over his segregationist views woodrow wilson was president around a century ago but now princeton's having a change of heart at its public policy school all the historical monuments high sold name classic t.v. series to their getting reassessed even the us national anthem is being targeted more and not from the hawkins. 2020 is a year of change and i'm not talking about coronavirus popular t.v. shows axed statues torn down even food brands updated to meet 21st century criteria of inclusive u.-t. equality justice and tolerance but is it enough can more be done well in the united states protests during the national anthem have been a bone of contention for quite a few years but what about the national anthem itself well now some people are saying enough is enough. i. i well that's that's you that just came off the plinth was francis scott key the man behind the lyrics that the star-spangled banner and former slave owner and anti abolitionist so what's the deal with the anthem itself. andrew sure warms these walls. what you can sing the 3rd verse all right of course the rarely performe

princeton university is looking at apparent hotspots in asia, africa and oceania and studying possiblechange. staying extreme, let's look at our planet was much bigger storms. the ist ofjune marked the official start of the atla ntic marked the official start of the atlantic hurricane season and it's the sixth year in a row there have been preseason storms but this is the first time we've seen three. in contrast, after the earliest of tropical depression, one ye showing its self in the pacific basin in april, it has been a slow start with just two systems so far. —— one—e. and the us weather as wondering why this —— if this is tied to climate change. what we do know about the storms, hurricanes and cyclones as they draw their energy from warmer ocean waters. so, with warming waters globally, we've seen about a degree or so rise since the beginning of industrialisation. it's more likely for these powerful storms to form. and certainly that ties in with what we have been observing in the north on indian ocean in the last few weeks. super cyclonic storm amphan in may was one of the strong

in psychology and princeton. he has done brain scans of people who are listening to stories and telling stories. what he finds is, he calls it brain to brain coupling pretty funny to somebody a story, that person's brain waves on to your brain waves veterans basically, are you up on wavelength, this would mean . only way is to tell a story that is narrative especially when the characters in the miscarriage or ministries you. something happening. people are being blocked off. arthur: the listener, they start to anticipate what the ruckus and that is how they learn. just somebody to absorb the big ideas, you need to use stories. there's simply no other way. sen. ben sesse: what american does not share enough pre- political ideas that are common to make this fixable. not writing about politics narrowly. your writing about the public square much more broadly. but we know there are all of these things about human dignity that you believe. as you hope most americans believe that when we get into the identity politics,

what do you think about princeton's decision in the president's comment? more broadly, as the nation is in this moment of reckoning when it comes to race, we are seeing the removal of statues and also the removal of names from institutions and schools. do you think this is the right approach to come to terms with our nations history and its leaders? what do you think when you see the removal of some of the statues? >> i think there are sort of three categories on that. one, any institution that chose a name and wants to now jettison that name, that the decision for them to make for whatever reason they make it. i'm assuming the board of trustees at princeton university made the judgment about the woodrow wilson school. i don't know, but it was made within the context of an institution that chose that name and now no longer wants to be associated with that name. i think a president -- well, secondly, there is a distincti distinction, as the former nair dominic mayor of new orleans said, there's a difference between reminders and remembrances of history and

joining me for insight and analysis are eddie glaude jr., princeton university. nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt and hugh hewitt, host on the salem radio network. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press". >> from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. throughout his presidency there have been countless this is it moments that opponents of president trump felt sure would puncture his standing with voters. charlottesville, immigrant children in cages, impeachment, just to name three. but nothing seemed to move mr. trump's approval ratings one way or the other. now, he's facing a crisis he's been unable to tweak, bluster, or bluff his way out of. covid-19 and the economic dislocation that comes with it is there for all to see. every american is aware of it. every american is affected by it. every american has an opinion about it. the past week felt more like april with states and then the whole country setting records for new cases. cities shutting down

and princeton university has announced his removing the name of former us president woodrow wilson for from his school of public policy because of his history of racism listen said 2 times as president helping to found the league of nations a forerunner to the united nations but he also supported segregation and bond black students from princeton sending as university president the board of trustees concluded that wilson's racist views and policies were significant even by the standards of his own time as a spence is a professor of political science and africana studies at johns hopkins university he says a black lives matter movement has created momentum for more political change when i talk about victims of police violence like george floyd george floyd was positive of. tested positive for kobe was a bouncer and a truck driver. arbor a who was killed not by police but by police action but by police like action he was he wanted to be an electrician but he couldn't graduate who didn't have intuition the next has to be linking the this protest up with labor dynamic there's a reason why

princeton university is to remove the name of former us president woodrow wilson from a school of public policy because of his racist beliefs and policies winston's board of trustees concluded that wilson's racism was significant even by the standards of his own time wilson supported segregation and barred black students from princeton or serving as university president black lives matter movements now influence in the entertainment world following weeks of global protests after the death of george floyd creators of the cartoon show the simpsons and say they won't use white actors to voice characters of color anymore the show had already faced years of criticisms for its portrayal of the indian convenience store clock i talked to hank azaria stepped down from the bull alley of this year. and change is also coming on another major american cartoon family guy act m i can reset as he won't voice the character of cleveland brown anymore saying persons of color should play characters of color he also had voiced a latino made character kevin powell as a human rights activist and wrote the book

and i'm proud son of princeton. and because of the backgrounds, kristin has gone through agonies try to figure out exactly how to depict woodrow posen whose name is so closely associated with college. now there are statutes. develops to civil war leaders that are coming down. to the consternation of many who live in the south. when you think that finding revision history notes are those things proper. david: start renaming everything. because someone did something is no longer acceptable as being virtuous. like owning slaves. there's no end to how much you will have to rename including couple of our country. have to take washington monument and so forth. i would much rather see a start to race statutes or rename monuments to those who didn't own slaves. and it did so contrary to the moment. most importantly john adams. the only founding father president never owned a slave. in principle. this next president never undersigned, was son john quincy. there no great building same for either of them. the race statutes for

princeton university is removing pres.oodrow wilson's name from its school of public policy and residential college. the universities board made the decision in the past week. wilson was president of princeton before becoming president of the united states but he was also a racist. you once called racial segregation a benefit and said slaves were happy and well cared for. >> mississippi lawmakers have officially launched an effort to redesign the state flag. it is the last one in the country to feature the confederate battle flag. on saturday the senate and house both passed a resolution that would create a commission to recommend new designs. it would be up to voters to choose the winning look in november. >> when music concerts finally resume there is one group you will not be able to see by the old name. the dixie chicks have dropped the dixie. as of last thursday they are just called the chicks. social media the country trio said that they wanted to meet the moment. they also released a new video. >> in addition to tac

one of my colleagues at princeton has a really great new research piece out. but what we see is that the party that gets violent, the group that gets violent weather police or military or protesters or rioters, those people lose public opinion. americans do get scared. it also applies to rioters and people might get scared and they might turn to a president with law and order in their message like they did with nixon in 1968. that also goes for police and military officials. when we see confrontation coming from police especially against peaceful protesters, people will react poorly to that. that will have a backlash effect. i do not think president trump will be looked upon kindly if he pushes this message continually of force without also balancing it by supporting the rights of protesters and looking for a solution going forward. >> so with that being said, the presumptive democratic nominee, joe biden, we saw him over the weekend and today meeting with members of the african-american community. he had a call with mayors across the country. he seemed to be

. >>> new this morning a graduating senior from princeton university is speaking out about what it means school's first black valedictorian. >> i think the fact it has taken so long goes to show how much work needs to be done. i hope the achievement can be a source of inspiration for younger black students who are seeing the event and may have similar aspirations. beyond that i hope to be a source of aspiration for all individuals. >> that's nicholas johnson making princeton history. he spent part of the senior year in the bay area as a software engineer at google. he plans to get his phd in operations research. >>> we are following two significant fires burning in the bay area. we will go live coming up after the break. >>> overnight curfews all over thhave expired for good. we will have a live report from san francisco. >>> and a reminder, kpix 5 has a new app, and it gives you easy 24/7 access to cbsn bay area and kpix newscasts and real time news updates. you need to delete the old app and do >>> right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a curfew now lifted, possibly for go

in 2015 from a princeton's black students chanted, we are sick and tired of being sick and tired. this phrase was first used by hammer, a civil rights activist who was beaten in the 1950s for trying to vote. zooming through hammerhead crowds of plenty for being sick and tired of being sick and tired. any princeton student, i don't care if he's green, purple or orange who thinks of himself as oppressed is in the grip of a terrible delusion that will encumber him for the rest of his life. or perhaps you are thinking, at least the adults on campus are trying to give students a firmer grip on reality. to the contrary. the adults actively encourage the hysteria. a massive diversity bureaucracy is devoted to cultivating and students evermore arcane species of self-involvement and evermore preposterous forms of self-pity. you want to know if the reason astronomical tuition? look no further than this bureaucratic book. students regularly act out psychodrama's of oppression before an appreciative audience of diversity, equity diversity and inclusion who use the occasion to expand their dom

growing across the country from universities to airports, princeton university announcing that it will public policy school residential college university boards of trustees citing racist thinking policies as reason lee carter princeton voted four years ago to keep wilson's name on buildings now a full reversal. your take. >> a fascinating time when you look at the support for these kinds of changes whether changes in names whether taking down a statue all of the things we have been looking at last month or so, since tragic murder of george floyd we are seeing only 53% of democrats support -- the statue i mean 5%, of republicans, support those kinds of things now to changing the name of a school to changing the name of airport -- so it really is something that is not that popular although feels like it is the moment i am not sure people feel like this is enough, but we do want is equality this isn't the way to do it what i am worried about though that is republicans rather con coming up with with equality measures talking equality right stance are going to start demonizing attacking th

, professor emeritus at princeton.e's the author of 20 books and in the spare time is co-host of the new podcast appropriately called "tightrope." we are as always happy to have him on our broadcast. dr. west, i had the great privilege in life starting at the age of 8 to know the late, great peter gomes, who at the time of his death was chaplain at harvard university. he was my brother's college roommate and was always in our house, and we kind of knew back then this was a wise and learned man. and one of the quotes he has left us with is "who of us would not love to have the courage to act upon our convictions as opposed to acting upon our fears?" and i'm curious is it because you see the convictions of all the people in the street that you're so convinced this is a moment of reckoning, to use your words? >> well, peter gomes was my teacher, and he was my very, very dear brother. >> i didn't know that. >> peter gomes meant the world to me, and i think he would be fired up at this moment because he and i were fundament

wilson was president of princeton before he became president of the u.s.king racist remarks. tech once he called racial segregation, a quote benefit and said that slaves were happy and well cared for. >>authorities in bloomington minnesota have asked the fbi to investigate in a noose that was found in a black firefighters locker there and the minneapolis the police there say that the rope was tied into what appears to be a crude news and it was discover at the bloomington fire station on june 15th. >>i have never seen anything this disgusting or and disheartening or in person for the city of this kind of cowardly act that not seen this type of fame. certainly not within. city all are among the employees, i've not seen this in the past and frankly will never see it again in the future. >>the fbi has not commented on the investigation. >>well minneapolis is one step closer to dismantling its police force the city council voted unanimously to amend the charter that protects the police department meaning. >>the dismantling can soon go to a vote. council member

and i attended princeton and for many years i was there, 2009 to 2014, pursuing a ph.d in history andbrating somebody like woodrow history. and i studied and i knew how racist he was and the role in the u.s. occupation of haiti and the list goes on and on when you look at this administration and people were talking about the problem back then about having his name on the building, on several buildings actually. but again the climate. people had hit the streets and people are pointing out that black lives matter and people are saying enough is enough and we need to take a stand. we could argue this is symbolic but it is an important step in the right direction. i hope that princeton will follow up and also make some changes in the hiring practices and admitting practices and the list goes on. but certainly this is a vital step. >> and a real vital step back to rashard's point, the biggest hip-hop group has z have a statue in atlanta -- >> it is a start. >> it is 30 feet tall. check it out. it is in black and white. tribute to outcast. keisha blaine and rashard richie. >> we need more f

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