with the princeton impromata and the connections of people who had -- who were former princeton woodrowilson graduates including a good friend of ours, jim johnson. so i started making the rounds. people referred me to this person. i went to senator mondale's office, senator kennedy's office, and federally somebody, after i went to one of the offices, referred me to cpb, the corporation for public broadcasting. got a job at the corporation for public broadcasting for a while, changed jobs from there and went and worked for the local urban league in washington, d.c. and from there became a lobbyist for the cable television trade association and that's where i met all the guys in the cable industry -- ted turner, but most importantly, john malone. david: john malone was your principal backer when he wanted to start black and attainment television? bob: absolutely. i was a lobbyist and we were trying to deregulate cable, cable was heavily regulated to protect broadcast television. if we didn't protect free television, that everybody would have to pay. so my job was to go to capitol hill an

so, you get a graduate degree from princeton, and the u.s.ernment says we are ready for you to be a diplomat or what happened? bob: well, all of a sudden, they ask you if you want to go to the foreign service. you have to take a test, and the test requires you to be literate in things that a kid from hickory, mississippi through freeport, illinois did not know about, so they had a question -- i will never forget this, they asked me a question, what is a wedgwood? and they said, a dresser. i thought it was, wedgwood was a dresser. david: so, you are not familiar with wedgwood. bob: [laughter] it's plates. david: you ultimately came to washington, and what did you do? bob: i came to washington, d.c., with princeton and the connections who were former former graduates, including a good friend of ours, jim johnson, so i started making the rounds, people referred me to this person. i went to senator mondale's office, senator kennedy's office. this princeton mafia, so to speak, and finally somebody, after i went to one of the offices, referred me t

i invited her to princeton _ to that? i invited her to princeton and - to that?e to that? i invited her to - princeton and she spoke to my class, so we had i think a very fruitful discussion that helps the class to see both sides of that argument, and that is the way i teach. we should have those discussions. yes. but of course the same would have happened if her mother had terminated the pregnancy in utero, again, and every person with down's syndrome could say that to any woman who terminate the pregnancy because the foetus has down's syndrome. but about 85% of women who are told that there foetus does have down's syndrome will terminate the pregnancy. it down's syndrome will terminate the pregnancy-— the pregnancy. it 'ust seems to some that _ the pregnancy. it 'ust seems to some that you _ the pregnancy. itjust seems to some that you have _ the pregnancy. itjust seems to some that you have such - the pregnancy. itjust seems to some that you have such a - some that you have such a complete commitment to the rights of animals, but you don't have quite such a co

you started thinking about him when you are a student at princeton? and this book took a long time to write, so i wanted to begin the conversation by asking you why. dunbar what got interest, got you interested in him and whether there was one particular thing that's, you know, struck you when you came across poetry or his life that, made you decide this is the person i to spend a good chunk of my life. yes, that's right. i did spend upward of 14 and 15 years with paul laurence dunbar as a scholar. and that was the full course. my serious research and and writing. but as you i became familiar with dunbar when i was a student at princeton, an undergraduate student in the last century. at that time, it was a while ago at that time i was embarking on my life as an english major, and i had to write a junior paper and i focused on a genre of african-american writing that did not focus directly on african-americans experiences. it was a way in which african-american writers at various moments in history were to understand universal human experiences. paul l

gene jarrett came to princeton to become dean of the faculty professor in english about a year ago. and so i'm so glad to know that this book brings you to

i was working with christine stanzel at princeton at the time and. it's a story that at first i thought i understood. it seemed like a really vivid and well-documented, harrowing case of acquaintance rape or date rape. this was right around the time that. ms.. magazine first coined the term date to distinguish stranger and acquaintance assaults. and for a long time, that's really how saw the case. and i didn't really think i had anything much to add to it. and then about 15 years ago, 12 years ago, a graduate student i was working with came across a piece of evidence in a new york newspaper that kind of threw me a loop. it challenges my assumptions about the case made me curious to know more. and i began researching and poking and pulling it threads. and the more i learned, the more surprising the story became. it turned out that the story on for years after this rape trial. in ways the more harrowing the story became, and in some ways, it seemed to me, the more relevant to the present it became well off that i think knowing how long ago you began th

simpson came to their home one night in princeton, new jersey, and he met erik and lyle menendez whens. >> jose menendez was very successful but it came out that he had a bit of a dark side. >> everybody who encountered him said one of two things about him. he could charm anyone and at the same time could be the most brutal boss that anybody had ever worked for. >> at work, he was a holy terror. i mean, he would yell, scream, degrade, insult, and the employees were terrified of him. it began to raise questions about what kind of person he was behind closed doors. >> 47-year-old kitty menendez was a former small town beauty queen who met her future husband at a college debating class. >> when jose met her, you know, he was a brash, handsome guy, wavy dark hair, 6'1", and he swept her right off her feet. >> according to lyle, her son, kitty menendez was miserable in her marriage, and she wasn't trying to hated that. >> she would just explain all the things that she could have been, the things that she could have had and it would come out in a rage. >> dad was having an affair for months

i was working with christine stanzel at princeton at the time and. it's a story that at first i thought i understood. it seemed like a really vivid and well-documented, harrowing case of acquaintance rape or date rape. this was right around the time that. ms.. magazine first coined the term date to distinguish stranger and acquaintance assaults. and for a long time, that's really how saw the case. and i didn't really think i had anything much to add to it. and then about 15 years ago, 12 years ago, a graduate student i was working with came across a piece of evidence in a new york newspaper that kind of threw me a loop. it challenges my assumptions about the case made me curious to know more. and i began researching and poking and pulling it threads. and the more i learned, the more surprising the story became. it turned out that the story on for years after this rape trial. in ways the more harrowing the story became, and in some ways, it seemed to me, the more relevant to the present it became well off that i think knowing how long ago you began th

if you are a wealthy parent and it's march and your princess is going to go to princeton, although princetonhasn't accepted her yet. how are you going to feel when your princess has just been expelled for smoking pot? you're going to be happy, are you? so you're not a happy parent. what are you going to do. you're going to sue. you're going to make phone calls. you're going to be angry. going to be loud. and that's precisely happened over the weekend. there were lots of angry phone calls. there were lots of threatening. all of monday was people yelling at jean harris. and there's one other problem. on thursday or friday of before that weekend, jane harris ran out of her own drugs. so she's coming off of the methamphetamine ten years and she's taken a weekend off, not the weekend. you want to stop taking methamphetamine? it's not that you want to start taking. i want to be clear about that. and it's ugly. and that leads us to monday. it's not a good monday. everybody yells at her all day and she starts. but she's written weak letters all weekend. was a very literate woman. she lit a literary,

carrie, it's wonderful to be here with my friends, colleagues and there was that lunch in princeton. actually, it was it was a lot of fun. and as i remember it, we were talking about phillip's place and world literature actually. and i came back to hawthorne and i kept thinking about hawthorne or i think about his relationship with, hawthorne and melville and not just, you know, call me smitty is a wonderful first line for any novel. but but but in a new order sense of historical, which both of them had and, of course he did, too, in a somewhat different way. and that's we just sort of took it there. right. and we're ending up here. so what is the way to start off? what i thought we do i'm going to read this off of my phone, but here's the book anyway, because i have to give a plug. right? we have to give the plug. it's run the plot against america. okay. and you'll remember in the book, those of you who've read it, those are you haven't probably heard about it anyway, the book is predicated the idea that charles lindbergh actually won the presidential election in 1940, thereby bring

park a new survey of princeton university students, three quarters of the students surveyed said itrs from speakers who hold reports with which they disagree, and 1 to use violence against objectionable speech. >> and is what we are seeing. >> right, so this what we are seeing account and also now hig schools. and this is what parents -- mak because they have to stop trusting the system -- had to get involved and know what thei children are facing. >> douglas: universities were first set up in the west for a single pursuit, and that was th pursuit of truth. that is so far away from what american universities are tryin to pursue today. let me do a quick little exercise in truth. this girl, the speaker, is a fake, she's a phony, she's a fraud she said to the person in refugee policy is it's. it turns out her grandparents may have been palestinian refugees but only palestinians, all peoples in the world could you have multigenerational refugee status. overruling the country for whatever reason and the ernie sims of members of the country. only palestinians still say 70 years after the

i graduated from princeton university like michelle obama. i came from a background similar, maybe a certain metrics even worse. all of my biological parents are deceased. much of that connected to the prison system. i was first and my family to go to college. i know when i sat in the classroom and princeton sometimes i was the only black person in the classroom. it benefited not me but the folks around me. i know i brought a unique perspective. i also, of course, learn from those in the classroom as well. but it matters. and we don't need another data report or another data set, i should say, or report to demonstrate the critical importance of diversity for our children in the classroom, for our economy, for innovation, for invention. you name it. so this decision really does rollback so much is based in this fearmongering space that i want folks not to get untangled with, to maintain hope. it means we have to mobilize. we have to be more intentional, protecting the rights of folks have fought for four generations. >> on that point, attorney

i will note as well selfishly the professor was my thesis advisor as a senior at princeton i wrote aaverage thesis. >> [laughter] pete: but not because i didn't have a great advisor. he's one of the good guys in academia. when you look at this and we'll get to your book in a moment, but when you look at the studies does it make sense to you? >> yeah it makes perfect sense. the word narcissism means extreme self-love and comes from an ancient story from greece which princeton classics department wants to get rid of, which is a story of a man who sees his own reflection in a pool and falls in love with himself and no longer can fall in love with anything outside of himself, and so you could say one of the underlying features of a progressive ideology is the inability to sort of love and appreciate the things outside of us. the things of the world. what we inherit. our tradition. our history, our nation. who we are. the literature, right, that we inherit. even the fact that we are man and woman. that becomes objectionable so this narcissistic trait at its most extreme is going to manife

joining us now professor at princeton university my dear friend eddie glaud jr. so much for being with us this morning. congressman biggs is far from alone. he may be the most extreme but he's far from alone. and he and rhetoric from the right incensed last week. what is your level of concern for violence? maybe it's this afternoon, maybe it's in the days ahead, but what is your level of concern right now about where we are? >> you know, john, it's great to see you this morning, but we're at an inflection point as a country, as a nation, the kind of cultural rift, the political -- the political intensity of the moment has us at each other's throats. and trump is at the central of it all, so i'm deeply concerned. not so much about organized violence. i'm concerned about lone wolves. i'm concerned about florida being an open carry state, a kind of convergence of a number of factors that makes violence a possibility in this moment. i think we need to understand it for what it is, right? this is an inflection point, that the conflicts in the nation are coming to a he

. >> of princeton wrote the biography of lift every voice. >> yes she did. it is it's kind of a biography of a song. it is a wonderful book. he will be a very nice guide for me when i get to that part of writing about johnson's life. johnson lives in epic life that most americans know next to nothing about and died tragically in a horrific auto accident. >> and david come at history professor and advisory board member of that yale university press of black lives series. thanks for being with us on book tv. >> thank you, very glad to be here. and to let people know about the new series with the yale press. thank you. >> he spent as your unfiltered view of government. funded by these television companies and more including charter communication. >> charter is proud to be recognized as one of the best internet providers. we are just getting started. building 100,000 miles of new infrastructure to reach those who need it most. >> charter communication support c-span as a public service. along with these other television providers. getting a front row seat to dem

. >> host: a monte parry of princeton wrote the biography of lift every voice. >> guest: yes she did. it is a kind of biography of a song the. ....it's a it's a it's a it's a wonderful and it'll be a very nice guide for me when i get to that part of writing about johnson's, johnson lived an epic life that most americans know next to nothing about and don't tragically, and in a horrific auto accident. well, david, yale university history professor and advisory board member of the yale university press black lives series, thanks for being with us on booktv. thank thanks for being with us on booktv. >> thank you. ay glad to be here and to let people know about the new series with yale press. thank you. >> and you've been watching booktv, every sunday on c-span2 watch nonfiction authors discuss their books, television for serious readers. and watch them all online any time@booktv.org. you can also find us on twitter, facebook and youtube at booktv. >> congress returns later today for legislative business and votes. this is the last week of work before the fourth o july holiday. the house

he's taught at harvard, at yale, and at princeton university. he made cameos in two matrix films, but also put out a hip hop album. d and he was frequently a gueston on this very sho thiw. having done all that, he's nowa making a run for the white housrue. enter in the quest for truth. i the quest for justice and thee presidency is just one vehicle to pursue that truth. >> and just as what i've been trying to do all of my life. >> joining me now, dr. cornel west, 2020 for presidential pre candidate for the green party, professosider west, it's great u to see you tonight. it's really great to have you backthe show on the show.ou the last time you were here. i think it was as a 2020 bernie sanders surrogate. so things have changed a little bit. so whychan do you think so manyg the i mean, i was laughing about that like sanders is. >> he indeed seems like my dearo . but but first, i want to thank you for having me on, sister laura. veryr hame o so. got but no, bernie got shut down by the corporate wing ofor atthe democratic partywall and democratic

when i was in graduate school at princeton in one of my classes, our professor made us right for our final a review of your book reforming on reform rubble. -- when i learned i was coming to this session, i dug through six years of archives to find that essay [laughter] i printed a copy for you and i'm good to give it to you to honor you and thank you for your example. [applause] i've had the chance to learn about how to change nigeria from a nigerian at a place like princeton would be something i would cherish for my life. now for my question. [laughter] i recently got engaged to my partner and i know that i have a future in nigeria's public service. my question is how do you hold together? how do you be distinctive in the president's cabinet and be a distinctive partner at home and parent? i need those lessons. i'm thinking about marriage and public service in my future. i need tactics [laughter] to make sure i succeed in the federal government and i succeed in my family. host: great question. [applause] hand us the paper and we will go over here and take this question. thank you t

and of course, imani perry of princeton wrote, the biography of lift every voice. yes, she did. that's that's kind. yeah, it is. is that kind of a biography of a song over time? it's a it's a it's a it's a wonderful and it'll be a very nice guide for me when i get to that part of writing about johnson's, johnson lived an epic life that most americans know next to nothing about and don't tragically, and in a horrific auto accident. well, david, yale university history professor and advisory board member of the yale university press black lives series, thanks for being with us on booktv. thank you. very glad to be here and to people know about th

oakland and an oakland police detective that they say manufactured a witness and paid her off from princeton. kerman reports. >> 2 men were fright. criminally prosecuted. by using perjured and trumped-up testimony paid for testimony. and this local police officer. >> orchestrated all of attorney adante pointer has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of oakland and oakland. police officer fong tran alleging the officer manufactured a witness and paid her off and that resulted in his 2 clients gio ponti douglas and cardi a hunter spending almost 10 years behind bars for a 2011 murder. they didn't commit. he paid this witness. >> thousands of dollars testimony. the murder convictions were overturned last year in the men were set free. but attorneys argue these are years they will never get back. >> it wasn't until they have been been transferred to several presidents away from their family. kids born that they weren't able to hug and kiss and hold. did they find out after they hired an appellate attorney? the truth of what this officer in terms of disgracing their badge perver

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we are going to speak to lauren right, lecturer in politics at princeton university, former white houseics lawyer richard panpainter, too. thank you both for coming on the program. >> hey. lewis: just so you guys know, we are going to keep the live pictures rolling beside you, because this is an extraordinary moment, whatever way you look at it. this is a moment of u.s. history. >> absolutely. it is the first time we have ever seen anything like this, and that is the case with many things trump does. it is not even his first indictment. i studied the politics of this and presidential history. one thing that continues to fascinate me about trump is the steadiness of the base and their support for him. however, i don't think it is responsible to say this will somehow help him. i don't think we have any evidence of that. he might keep -- lewis: lauren, you have just fren. i don't know whether you can hear us. interestingly, we will continue that point, because the established received wisdom, as it were, is these kinds of appearances will be used by donald trump to fire up his base, increa

west taught philosophy at princeton, yale and harvard with a focus on gender, race, and class in americaday he pledged to fight to end poverty and mass incarceration and to support health care, education and living wages. he will run for the people's party, founded by a former bernie sanders staffer in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. >>> and robert f. kennedy jr.'s bid for president just gained a major boost from the silicon valley elite. kennedy is the son of robert f. kennedy and nephew of the late john f. kennedy. he is well known as an antivaccine activity. today he joined twitter elon musk. he discussed plans to one day seal the mexican border permanently. he also called on the government to consider the war in ukraine from the perspective of russians. he also claimed that pharmaceuticals are responsible for the rise in mass shootings in america. yesterday the former ceo jack dorsey also endorsed kennedy. >>> we're back in 60 seconds. ahead of the mystery in marin county, what an autopsy revealed about an elderly man had a died while hiking on a trail. >>> and we have fo

constitution of reputation, i recently read a very good article by one of the professors, it seems from princetonfrom the university about the fact that a huge problem now in democracy in the whole world is the weakening and disappearance of the local press, small independent newspapers, in particular , informational radio stations at the level of small towns, for example, in the united states , a huge problem is large wall street companies journal new york times they have become media giants they are no longer published in the printed version, but they exist, they are powerful, they survived, but small publications could not survive this moment when people stopped reading print media or listening to local radio advertising, the market began to lack what is it led to the fact that there are no professional mediators who have reputations , journalists can be caught by the hand, you can say that you said it was ordered, a person loses his reputation, but they were mediators who did two very important things for the first time provided pressure and, well, in principle, control over the local authori

princeton university's eviction lab says that in some cities, the average weekly filings are more thanthan they were before the pandemic. one reason is the rising rents and a shortage of affordable housing for those with the lowest incomes. the national low income housing coalition says that to afford a modest two bedroom apartment, someone working a 40 hour week needs to earn between $16 and $42 an hour. that's much higher than the minimum wage in most states. diane yentel is the ceo and president of the nional low income housing coalition, ich is an advocacy group. diane, is this rebound or surge in evictions -- was this inevitable once these protections went away or is there something else going on, other factors going on? diane: you know, before the pandemic, we had about 10 million of the lowest income renters who were paying at least half of their very limited incomes towards rent just to keep a roof over their heads. and of course, when you have such limited income to begin with, you're always one unexpected bill or financial shock away from missing rent, facing eviction, and th

esta es la conclusiÓn de expertos de la universidad de princeton.de terminar los beneficios por la pandemia en la mayorÍa de las ciudades. cuando muchas familias de bajos recursos no encuentran una vivienda accesible, y sus salarios son golpeados por la inflaciÓn. >> a partir del 12 de julio en la ciudad de nueva york, los trabajadores que entregan alimentos ganarÁn un mÍnimo de 17. 96 dÓlares por hora, la nueva cifra triplica los ingresos promedio de estas personas que ahora reciben poco mÁs de 7 dÓlares, sin embargo, como nos explica karla, la medida no tiene a todos contentos. >> bajo la lluvia, pedaleando en sus bicicletas en el intenso calor del verano y abriÉndose camino entre la nieve, mÁs de 60 mil repartidores llevan la comida a la mesa en la gran manzana, la mayorÍa latinos. uno es enrique que tiene mÁs de diez aÑos trabajando como repartidor, jornada de 12 horas en que utiliza las aplicaciones mÁs populares pero dice el pago no alcanza. >> somos trabajadores independientes, entonces necesitamos arreglar nuestras bicicletas, comida, ropa.

luckily, i got into princeton.h accumulated disadvantage over accumulated advantage? you have to tell the truth if you are going to level the playing field. >> what do you think the bigger conversation -- come back to where the president went with this, about what this court is, how it's pushing against equality and progress. >> america is more than an idea. it's an argument, it's a fight. are you on the side of the abolitionist or the need women as equals to everyone or are you on the side of folk having rights or are you the side of the ideals of the nation or those who want power and privilege? it's a fight. >> claire, i'm sorry you have to go after eddie. the president seemed to articulate an understanding of that. this is not about adding more seats and making it more political. it's about winning that fight. >> it's winning that fight. it is. it sucks to go after eddie. >> sorry. >> he is so good. he is so good. frankly, both the other panel members today, i need to probably be quiet and listen to them, becau

program at the comedy in diamond for international peace is also a physical research scholar at princeton university science and the global security program. welcome to dw, so the us says more needs to be done to keep the lines of communication open and we heard the chinese foreign ministry spokesman that say the phones are working just fine. so who should we believe? as i think of both sides, technically right. the hardware, all the hot lines, he's right video available at the leadership novel us on china had established leadership hotline as early as 1998 and between the 2 countries, top ministry and pretty shows the set of defense, telephone d as early as 2008, so the hardware is tap into the available the. the issue is whether a china would pick up the phone at a time of a crisis. how much china wants to make his use of the hardware and why they're trying to inquire, say, so would refuse to pick up the phone as a means to impose course a leverage on the united states. but also besides the shop hotline, there's a bigger issue of whether senior dieters from the tooth size can meet and h

of the economy and the environment for international peace is also a physical research scholar at princeton university science and a global security program. welcome to the w. so the us says more needs to be done to keep the lines of communication open and we heard the chinese foreign ministry spokesman that say the phones are working just fine. so who should we believe as i think of both sides? uh, technically right. uh, the hardware, all the hotline sees right, did he have available um, at the dealership novel, you guys on china had established a leadership hotline as early as 1998. and between the 2 countries, top i mean entry on free shows the set of defense telephone ink as early as 2008. so the hardware is tap into the available the. the issue is whether a china would pick up the phone at a time of a crisis, how much china wants to make his use of the hardware and why they're trying to inquire, say, so would refuse to pick up the phone as a means to impose course a leverage on the united states, but also besides the shop hotline, there's a bigger issue of whether senior dieters from t

i invited her to princeton and she spoke to my class, so we had, i think, a very fruitful discussion have those discussions, yes. but, of course, the same would have happened if she — if her mother had terminated the pregnancy in utero, again, and every person with down's syndrome could say that to any woman who terminates the pregnancy because the foetus has down's syndrome. but about 85% of women who are told that their foetus does have down's syndrome will terminate the pregnancy. itjust seems to some that you have such a complete commitment to the rights of animals but you don't have quite such a commitment to the rights of all human beings. i don't think that's true. i think i have at least as greater commitment to the rights of human beings. what i'm trying to do is to reduce the suffering and unnecessary pain and distress of sentient beings everywhere, and i give weight to the interests of animals, i give weight to the interests of humans. but forgive me for being personal, and correct me if i'm wrong, but i think perhaps you had to reflect very carefully on this when your own

he is now the green party presidential candidate, author and activist and professor emeritus at princeton university running for president. professor, why did you decide to enter the race? guest: first, i just want to thank you. i entered the race because i think we are at such a low point in the history of america. we have got to reintroduce each other to the best of ourselves, the best of our tradition. [indiscernible] we are at a point now where there is so much hatred and not enough talk about love and justice, not enough talk about something bigger than ourselves. what is bigger? truth. i am in it because i'm engaged in the quest for truth and justice. for me, it is a matter of raising my voice and making sure that we acknowledge the ways in which the two-party system is an impediment for dealing with the problems of working people here and around the world. both parties have big money, wall street [indiscernible] u.s. troops in 150 countries, $.57 for every dollar going to the military. we need jobs with a living wage. we need decent housing, quality education, the basic social need

we mean the beach or something in the farm and this is based on the doctrine but po mackenzie was princeton. that's the wild. he's coming to a name of the month of august 2023. so he was going to be the last bus one tonight . so the children would die us in front of him by women, and little by man them, then he will be the last person. so that's why we have found more children and women in, in the se, exemption process because we found the name of the time. i'm sure if been, if we had done this exercise, but around, i'm just leaving out on a given moment, man actually have options. so that's the don't convince you a spitting it's based on the best montgomery's book assessment could be as uh, chipped a tool, box string ti. i've seen many of the bible and the phone there will be lighting that. but why don't you think teams joined? what, why did they join the majority to the victims lives their own homes, comfort, comfortable, live and left to join the forest because the will be leaving the water is coming to a man. uh my duty to winds during the coffee. uh, 19, uh, theater. uh because the wat