later tom discusses his book dodge city and timothy tyson recalls the life and death of emmett till. a 14 -year-old african-american with flinched in mississippi in 1955. book tv all this week in prime time in c-span two. >> now on c-span to a conversation on immigration and refugees. we'll hear from the syrian activist who was imprisoned during the spring. a muslim advisor to the trump campaign and the american civil liberties union rights director. from the new york public library, this is an hour good afternoon everybody. >> welcome here at the new york public library. my name is simon long staff and i'm the executive director of the ethics center who along with the carnegie hall on the international affairs and the globalization of the international fears program. we welcome you to the session. we've had an incredibly interesting conversation just before about the state of the nation and were now moving into some very challenging territory. before we do that, let me mention something about the choice of the day. today being april 1 when we announce this there were of few tackles.

later, thousand laughen on his book "dodge city" and then timothy tyson talks bet the life and death of emma tell in 1955 mississippi. >> this week on "the communicators," a discussion of economic policy and federal communications commission. our guest is halsinger, an economist and season fellow the george washington university institute of public policy. dr. singer in a recent paper you cao authored, the curious absence of economic analysis the federal communications commission, an agency in search of a mission is the title. you write that the fcc is often an economics free zone. what do you mean by that? >> guest: i mean that they are not taking economics into consideration when making policy decisions. they are instead relying on noneconomic evidence, the popular whims and fancies of the die reach decisions that have tremendous economic import. >> host: has it always been that way? >> guest: it's not always been that we. we chart the ebb and flow of economic influence. this is not the first time that economics has been relegated to something well below the eighth floor. but we ha

for those of you who don't know timothy thyssen, also known as, tim tyson, tim is a senior research scholar attack many strategies that do, visiting professor of christianity and culture at th divinity school ad

later, thousand laughen on his book "dodge city" and then timothy tyson talks bet the life and death of emma tell in 1955 mississippi.

for those of you who don't know timothy thyssen, also known as, tim tyson, tim is a senior research scholar attack many strategies that do, visiting professor of christianity and culture at th divinity school ad adjunct professor of american studies at unc chapel hill. so you can tell tim is a very inclusive guy, he has an appointment at duke and at unc. we will not talk basketball tonight. he is the author of a finalist for the national book award. and a book called brady a free dixie. tim also serves on the executive board of the north carolina naacp. tim can tell you more about this book than i can. i just want to say that he does a marvelous job of put it and it kills murder and lynching into a context of american history. tim's earlier book, blood done sign my name is about a similar incident that happened 15 years later in oxford, north carolina about 25 miles from here. i learned just a few years ago about another similar incident that happened three blocks from here, at the intersection by ninth street where black during the war 1944 a black such in soldier in uniform would not move

later tom discusses his book dodge city and timothy tyson recalls the life and death of emmett till. a 14 -year-old african-american with flinched in mississippi in 1955. book tv all this week in prime time in c-span two. >> now on c-span to a conversation on immigration and refugees. we'll hear from the syrian activist who was imprisoned during the spring. a muslim advisor to the trump campaign and the american civil liberties union rights director. from the new york public library, this is an hour good afternoon everybody. >> welcome here at the new york public library. my name is simon long staff and i'm the executive director of the ethics center who along with the

for those of you who don't know timothy thyssen, also known as, tim tyson, tim is a senior research scholar attack many strategiesha