suzanne smith is an associate professor of history here at george mason university, and she has a new book out published by harvard, "to serve the living: funeral directors and the african-american way of death." dr. smith, what is the african-american way of death? >> guest: the african-american way of death is a way of thinking about death as not just death, but connected to freedom and connect today the struggle for civil rights. and in the book i tell a story about how the connection between death and freedom is so central to african-americans' understanding of funerals and deaths that it is, it hasn't been really considered in if quite the way i do in the book before, but it's essential to our understanding of the civil rights movement and also the history of african-american entrepreneurship. >> host: what is that story? >> guest: ing the story goes back to slavery, and in african-american culture they call a funeral a homegoing. and in the book i trace the story beginning there. and in the west african and transatlantic slave trade, african slaves often jumped ship on the middl

i don't know suzanne smith.ou know, i don't know someone who drives her kids into a lake and kills them in thear. but i come know -- but i do know that character of lynn. she's me and everyone else i know. and you say oh, i get it because hollywood, right, old story, run by men, and it's the mother and it's either a saint or somebody you can try to well, that's an abusive mother. sometimes you just can't do it. and i think motherhood is still sacrosanct in movies and shouldn't be. why? parents make mistakes. tavis: hi, mom. i still love you. >> hi, mom. i love you, too, mom. tavis: the project is called "another happy day." as i mentioned earlier in the program, 30 years ago she was in "diner" barry levinson's director debut and you know how that turned out and we're still talking about it 30 years later. you might want to catch his son's debut, sam levinson in "another happy day" starring ellen barkin. they don't give you enough time around here. i could have done this a few more hours. >> i'm honored to be her

suzanne. >> dan, i just talked to professor andy smith of new hampshire, and he said that they are not really have a lot of support there, and he is skipping off to south carolina. who is really popping there? who has that great ground game and what are new hampshire folks saying? >> well, you know, i think that, again, the ground game here, i think belongs to mitt romney for a couple of reasons. first of all, he ran here in 2008. so, he is a professional campaigner here, and people know who he is. they know him as well, because he is the former governor of neighboring state massachusetts. he also has a second home here, so he has spent a lot of time in the state. he has a very robust ground operation. but nonetheless, you know, you cannot discount momentum, and rick santorum comes to this state with a great deal of momentum. his supporters are energized, and they believe that he can make up some of the ground, and that he can get additional support both financial and also volunteers, because of what he has been able to do in iowa. as for the people of new hampshire, we have been pointing out