stephen smith was killed july 8, 2015.> in the roadway. >> stephen smith's body was found in the middle of this road. a pathology said it appeared to be a hit and run. but the highway patrol's incident report noted they didn't find any vehicle debris, skid marks, or injuries on stephen's body consistent with someone being struck by a vehicle. according to the case notes, stephen died from blunt force trauma to the head. there were no visible injuries on him other than a gaping head wound. sandy has never accepted her son was the victim of a hit and run. >> what do you believe happened to your son? >> i believe he was beaten to death. >> and then dropped in the road? >> and then layed in that road hoping somebody was going to run over him. >> reporter: for sandy, much doesn't add up. she says her son would have been too afraid to walk alone in the middle of the night. if he had car trouble, sandy says he would have used his cell phone, which was found on his body to call for help. >> he was literally left on the side of the

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. >> we hope the owners see this as an opportunity coming together as stephen a. smith was talking about. opportunity here to do the right thing. we've put this on a silver plate for them to say you know what? we can do better. we will do better. we're going to start hiring more black coaches at all different levels. we're going to make sure we do the right thing. unfortunately, they've taken the initial stance of denying things, even though they haven't done investigations. we hope as the outpouring of support comes for coach flores, that things are going to change. >> do we jump in? >> the amount of people, and we've been traveling together today and since this broke. and obviously listening to the conversations of people calling coach and talking about how grateful they are and how thankful they are and how they feel like they can come forward just off of his courage. and obviously, lending himself and sacrificing it all for the greater good, for a cause. you know, the intended effect of promoting change and stepping out is -- it's working. it's working. >> i want to

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smith. i had stephen a. on last night and he said look, i'm glad lovie's there, i'm glad he said it, but he could have even -- you said roger goodell's words weren't strong. he believed that lovie could have even been stronger. they're in a tough position, no? >> they are in a tough position. but here's the thing. part of the reason why the nfl so easily blackballed colin kaepernick is because the other players didn't stand with him. you had a couple players who did. i should say the other players didn't kneel with him. see, they can't blackball everybody. and at some point it becomes so egregious and so in their face that they're forced to confront certain things. so i think that all the black coaches should join brian flores's lawsuit because they're not going to be able to stop all of you. now, if it's just one man standing alone, they could stop one man. they can't stop lovie smith. they can't stop jim caldwell if all of you guys are together. byron leftwich. they need to all band together and really emb

she's interviewed by smith college middle of the studies chair stephen heideman. "after words" is a weekly interview program with relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. >> welcome, h barbara walter. it's a pleasure to have the chance to talk with you today. your book has generated an astonishing national debate about where we are as a con today during a moment of quite extraordinary polarization and division. and in the book you advance this quite controversial claim, that the u.s. is closer to civil war than many of us would like to think or believe. what i thought would make sense to do is as we get launched is to give your chance to simply layout which argument isrm in broad terms, and then we can dig into bits and pieces of it as we go along. >> guest: yeah, so my argument comes from studying civil wars for the last 30 years. i have looked at all reasons, all countries that have experienced civil war since the end of world war ii and are bent over 200 of them. one of the things we've learned is that they tend to break

stephen wick. swing time by zadie smith and the price of the ticket by james baldwin. mr. baldwin's name came up three times on your list. why is that? sheryll: nobody beats james baldwin as a 20th-century writer for me for the power of his language, for the truth telling, and his own emotion and passion just jump off the page. i've worked very, very hard to be a writer and to be a good writer. i have literary ambitions and i find myself going back to baldwin. he was a writer who was engaged with the civil rights movement, the civil rights struggles of his time. i try to be. he inspires me on so may levels. but i am a nonfiction writer and he is, for me, among the best nonfiction writers commenting on what i am parentally -- perennially commenting on, the circumstances of race, the african-american experience, trying to gain full personhood. i never get enough of him. host: i have been rereading baldwin myself and he is one that you've got to turn off the tv. you can't be distracted by other things because of the language and other things, you want to absorb it a little. s

she's interviewed by smith college middle of the studies chair stephen heideman."after words" is a weekly interview program with relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. >> welcome, h barbara walter. it's a pleasure to have the chance to talk with you today. your book has gener

this is edited by stephen wick swing times by zadie smith and the price of the ticket by james baldwin mr. baldwin's name came up three times. on your list cheryl cash and why is that? well, nobody beats james baldwin is a you know 20th century writer for for me. for the power of his language for the truth-telling it would and and his own emotion and passionate would just jump off off the page, you know. i've worked very very hard fifth book. to be a writer and to be a good writer who's i have literary ambitions and you know, i find myself going back to baldwin and he he was also a writer who was engaged with the civil rights movement engaged with the civil rights of his time. i i try to be so he's inspires me on so many levels, but i'm a nonfiction writer and he's for me among the best of nonfiction writers who were commenting on what i'm often coming what i permanently commenting on was the circumstances of race racial the african-american experience of trying to gain full personhood, right? so i never get enough of him, right? yeah. i've been i've been rereading baldwin myself, and

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