. >> guest: there was a woman called rosa. instead of speaking at out -- >> host: you quoted her. it's 277. >> guest: this is a book without quotations but this was an exceptional because i owed rosa the certitude that another world as possible. and she mainly she was of the great tragedy of the 20th century because the great tragedy of 20th century wallace the war between justice and freedom. half of the world sacrificed justice in the name of three of them and the other half the world sacrificed freedom in the name of justice. and rosa wanted them integrating both. >> host: and so it's called space socialism. >> guest: yes. but not in the way that some people speak about space socialism as making up capitalism -- [inaudible] >> host: with makeup, right. when i asked the question of which marxist you admired, i had in mind rosa luxembourg because that is the person that you quote and i had my place marker here. my question was to the latin americans looking now back at that era of revolution in latin america which is pretty much over at least in our generation but do you think we

i want to congrat late tullah rosa high school for receiving a bronze medal in "u.s. news and world reports" annual report of the best high schools in america. this award shows that tullah rosa high school is serving all its students well regardless of their backgrounds. also this means that the school is performing well on a broad range of indicators not just one or two. and that the students learning there are getting the training that they need to do well in college. tullah rosa high school not only performed well against its peers in new mexico but competed with schools across the united states. schools like them achieve such great distinctions because of the hard work and dedication of the teachers, staff, and administration. their students also deserve to be commended for fully taking advantage of all the students provided to them at tullah rosa high school. it takes a team of hardworking folks to make this type of progress. i'm honored to have schools like them in my district. i commend their achievement and wish them luck in replicating it again. i yield back

we can remove the mantle from the soldiers of sojourners truth and command of the end anderson and rosas and on and on and later we send them 80 other letters so they could take a look. we knew we were onto something when we could not stop crying. every time we got a letter it was an emotional experience whether personal writing about their mother or father or men or women writing about their children or women advising obama's they had prayed for her. we never doubted we could do it. but one thing that was so power fall it is that black women have these incredible network all of these reports that say we don't use the internet is not true. not only that we use it but black women has established this base around the world because black women were sending us letters from africa and it says i just got to ethiopia we've found black women whether the buenos aires, italy, ethiopia all over the world and they were writing to say is this the real deal? are we actually going to see these letters in a song form? is a possible peace could go to the white house? is it a hoax? no it wasn't it is an

rosa parks said at that moment she was thinking of emmett till. three days before that, she had attended howard's speech where the topic was emmett till so take it for you what you will. but in any case we have very much a neglected figure that deserves more recognition. so please by the book. thank you. [applause] >> i now get the opportunity to ask the first questions of our panelists. and i have a number of things on my mind that i hope we can explore and i would like to start with professor washington and the issue of sojourner truth and her image or her persona. one of the things you bring out in the book is the difficulty sojourner truth had in controlling her own persona. other people spoke of her, wrote about her, mischaracterized her in a way that was not really recognizable to you as a scholar who explores her life. harriet beecher stowe did much to contribute to a false portrait of sojourner truth when she wrote i believe in 1863 an atlantic monthly article that really reduced her and rendered something of a caricature. could you talk a

doing, going to do to try to implement president obama's initiative and partner with congresswoman rosa delauro and i to reduce the need for abortion? >> well, congressman, i think an enormous challenge that we face and one that something i've been working on in my home state of kansas for a number of years and one that i think brings together people who have varying views on abortion services are now some common ground and the notion that if we can work providing a host of services to reduce unintended pregnancies we therefore reduce by anybody's count the number of abortions that are performed in this country which is i think a ball will allf us could support. so we have a range of services in the hhs i think can help toward that end and it's everything from comprehensive sex education which has already been discussed, affordable available health care is an important piece of that puzzle. there are adoption incentives, which worked along the way. early childhood education support for women, a range of programs for women and girls that provide an environment where they have options and

rosa delauro has been tireless and to know that she brings passion and intellect to what she does and so some of the ideas from her legislation our embedded in this. i look forward to our conversation. i hope that what we are asking the fda that you are up to it, i thank you have lived on fees for a long time and i still have questions i like to know directly from you whether he really think you're going to have the resources that are necessary to do this. because if you don't, then and the printing of the legislation or law will be wonderful to revive some constitutions around the world that are absolutely magnificent but they're not worth the paper they're written on. we have fallen off the edge of a cliff in terms of what's coming into the country and what's happened to the american people. we have to get this right this time. some think that there should be a stand-alone for inspection agency. can the fda actually do all of this? do you have the resources for it? i mean, if there is pizza that has pepperoni on a curse is pizza that doesn't have any meat on it should there be a spl

to mobilize and protest using modern methods like civil disobedience she led the strike long before rosa parks and also with the immigration and it cetera, etc.. so so she had to fold task which she does with great meticulous and great courage. >> you have written across various john rose and styles, what about our your experiences in that regard? >> all of my books are about people characters but i feel that i was stalked by wall commitment for a long period of time. i was forced to read my captain o capt. and other bad poems. then when i was in college i stumbled into a class where we were reading a lot of speed 13 and again we read a lot of poems of the indiana nebraska school. [laughter] and i had a feeling that what is all of the excitement about this guy? not until some years later that i realized we were reading poems exclusively out of the deathbed addition. as many of you know, , walt whitman was eight poet who wrote the same book over and over again and could not get it right. he was editing his poetry as he went so the deathbed edition of the signed off on on his deathbed was

when i asked you that question of which marxist you admired i had in mind rosa because that's the person you quote and i had me placemaker here. my question was to the latin americans, looking now back at that era of revolution in latin america, which is pretty much over, at least in our generation, what do you think we came out of it with? with the -- >> guest: with the certain certitude, i told you before, that history doesn't end. when history say goodbye, he saying, see you tomorrow. so in latin america, growing, new forces, energies, that are changing reality. so bolivia, and venezuela, and nicaragua, common sense, the president says we are not going to pay foreign debt unless it's proved that the foreign debt is real. because most of the foreign debt that have imprisoned our latin american countries are false debts, that never existed, or are the result of the generosity of the international financial institutions like international monetary fund and world bank and so on, and the great big bankers that were so generous with the military dictatorships to finance, and the question co

she creates a railway strike long before rosa parks. and other means and also immigration, et cetera, et cetera. so she has a two-task -- a twofold task of which she does with great drama, with great meticulousness and intellectual acuity and with great courage. >> robert, you've written across various genres, various styles. what about telling history through biography? what are -- what are your experiences in that regard? >> well, all of my books are about people, characters but i feel like i was in some ways i've been stalked by walt whitman for a long period of time. it began when i was in high school and forced to read o captain my captain. other bad poems of whitman's. [laughter] >> then when i was in college, i stumbled into a class where we were reading a lot of whitman and again, we read a lot of the poems of the o indiana, o nebraska school. and when was the excitement about this guy? and it wasn't until some years later that i realized that we were reading poems exclusively out of the death bed edition. many of you know whitm

his opponent in that game, jorg, della rosa. 40 strikeouts in 40 road stri innings.ally, i know, paul mulholland with the pirates has struggledod lately, but he's at home against the royals. h when pitching in pittsburgh this year, a 1.84 e.r.a., and faces the royals. no team in baseball has scoredal less runs on the road than the kansas city royals. presence of surratts and in advance of having a tax on private industry and and there is a lot of skepticism about how that might work and when senator rockefeller wrote he was hoping to get an engagement to help us outline how we can make it work in the real world. so i'm excited to send us their comments as we try to refine that legislation before we try to market up. >> , asked about the steps history something i asked about if you have any thoughts on that and also what to think about some of the most important things that the military could be doing as far as its role in moving toward? >> so let me talk about my thoughts as department of defense personnel so we have three cyber goals and a prominent defense and i do

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as i said rosa parks was in the audience. the king papers don't have much at all really before the montgomery bus boycott. there's very little in there. i know they were friends. i know that king would often tell people well, how's -- well, how is dr. howard doing? and dr. howard was certainly supportive of king. but i don't think it was -- there wasn't a close political relationship that i can see really, you know, 56, 57, 58. i mean, howard was more involved in local activities in chicago by that point. >> and shortly, the work he did in chicago, coming to chicago, most of it had to do with the medical center even though he dabbled a little bit in politics. he went back to his first love and that was healing the sick. and so his center was a beautiful center. he would help people like angela davis and some of the others on the walls so people came in they felt better because they would see people that they read about. and then he proceeded to help them. so most of his work in chicago had to do with the south side and medici

we're also friends with rosa i do not think of very many issues that the two of us are the three of us including my husband, the four of us agree but yet we are friends and i want to the viewers to understand the presence of the faction or the absence of a political debate is not evidence of moral ambiguity on our part or what some would call everybody in washington is somehow tainted by having these kind of french ships. i do want to start their. when i started this, you started this, there was not, i do not want to have a trite conversation about polarization but we're in a post partisan era where they want why can't we just get along? why can't we get along? people with opposite parties to get along or have associations. what happened? why is that? >> guest: i am constantly asked the question. what do they really talk about? to the talk about their kids, travel, values. [laughter] it is not just james and me, i really don't want to get into this because i do want to talk more about the book, but when you or james do anything, you do a lot of things and opposition to my interest, and

and then people that recently passed away like rosa parks that gave us these defining moments of ending segregation. or in my state, like sheryl brown henderson of the brown family of the brown v. education, the landmark desegregating case inquir whered that even if a school is equal, segregation is inherently wrong. and that they've stood for it and stood tall to bring us to a better point in time. you know, it hasn't been all that long ago -- i started out in a professional career in broadcasting and one of the guys next to me was a sports broadcaster. and he would tell the story about -- and this is even in the big-8 where senator harkin and i share some territory -- they talk about people, african-americans coming on the basketball court being cheered wildly by everybody at the school but then not able to eat at the lunch counter in the community. well, everybody is cheering for them on the basketball court but they can't eat at the lunch counter. and the sportscaster was talking to me about that. or my old friend jack kemp who recently passed away, who was a strong advocate for afr

i strongly support congresswoman rosa delauro's bill, senator tom harkin's bill. we need to get that because it will change how we respond to the stimulus. we need a range of tools. i was giving a talk at google and went into the cafeteria and it was striking. there is either a red, yellow or green sign right in your face and i will tell you it has a real affect. red means eat small amount for taste, yellow, each a moderate amount common dream as much as you want. i was in charge of regulating food and i tell you it had a major affect on me. we have to change how we proceed stimulus and we have to have greater disclosure. we have to change -- we don't stop with just manual labor. what is served in the schools, with the vending machines -- parents, it's so hard you try as hard as you can and the kids are being stimulated with fat, sugar and salt. they have to change how we regulate advertising manual labor is a key step changing how we perceive the product. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. a quick question despite your comments on rules we c

i was in primarily caucasian upper-middle-class and black history to me was martin luther king and rosa parks. >> host: that was the beginning and the end. >> guest: that was pretty much it and i had found a new frontier in african-american history and was very excited about it and took every class i could and got a minor and african-american history -- >> host: and that leads to civil rights law? >> guest: yes. i was interested in pursuing a degree in civil rights law, and went back to that mentor of mine, dr. williams and told him as of this graduating getting ready to take the test and preparing to go to law school and choose a school and he said why are you doing this? why do you want to be a civil rights lawyer and i told him about discrimination and what bothers me deeply and i wanted to go out and make that my life's work and he said okay well obviously you don't care about money because you are never going to make any money, you know this, right? i said that isn't my motivation. i want to get back and do something important for my country, and he was the one that said why don't

and i was in a predominantly upper-class schools and black history to me was martin luther king and rosaparks and that was it. >> host: that was the beginning in the end. >> guest: that was it, and i had found a new frontier in african-american history and was very excited about it and to get free class i could and got a minor and african-american history -- >> host: and that leads to the civil rights law i take it? >> guest: i was interested in pursuing a degree in civil rights law, and went back to the mentor of mine, dr. williams, and told him as i was graduating getting ready to take the test preparing to go to law school and choose a school and he said why are you doing this? why do you want to be a civil rights lawyer and i told him about discrimination and intolerance and how it bothered me deeply and i wanted to make that my life's work and he said okay, all right, obviously you don't care about money because you're never going to make money, you know this right? i said that isn't my motivation. i want my life to have meaning and give back and do something for my country. and he

allyson predominantly caucasian upper-middle-class schools and black history was born luther king and rosa parks. >> host: that was the end of its. >> guest: and that was it so i found a new frontier in african-american history and i was very excited about an answer to every class i took, got a minor in african-american history. >> host: that leads to civil rights law? >> guest: yes, i was very interested in pursuing a degree in civil rights law. i went back to that the mentor, dr. williams, and told him i was graduating getting ready to take the tests and choose a school. he said it why are you doing this, why do you want to be a civil rights lawyer? i told him about discrimination and intolerance and how it bothered me deeply and i wanted to go out and make that my life's work. he said, obviously you don't care about money because you are never going to make money coming in of this. i said that is not my motivation, i want my life to have meaning in the deuce of the important for my country. he was the one who said what to think about teaching? nothing wrong with being in the air but the