james meredith is enrolled at the university of mississippi. the school is technically integrated at the cost of two lives, almost 200 injuries, and the reputation of a state. now the questions are, was it worth it? [music playing] ross barnett: i could not pass this platform without first reaffirming fully my absolute and unshakable for segregation of the races at all levels. [film reel] curtis wilkie: when he ran again in '67, i think, at the outset, people thought that he would be a hard figure to beat. [music playing - "let's roll again with ross"] all the reds in washington will say they hope ross will fall along the way. but we won't give our state to little bobby k. roll with ross, roll with ross, roll again with ross. who is the best man yet? ross barnett, ross barnett. curtis wilkie: barnett had a reputation of just kind of a blundering blunderbuss. and we all thought he was a complete buffoon, something of a fool. he was constantly doing goofy things. so he was a laughable figure of mythic proportions here in mississippi history. geral

after high school i went to mississippi where i played volleyball in university of southern mississippi. what got me going after college was i was applying to place related to fire and police i loved my experience but my family is home. i grew up here and could not be far from my family anymore i came back. >> i have been a firefighter for 4 years the transition to the fire department has been seam tells is the same. team work and coming together. transitioning to the job med me comfortable that i made the right decision to come become and work for a fire department that is big in diversity and equality and becoming a fell. i got to be a member at a few different fire stations. each station has their own culture. i worked in places that are xroem and with a young crew and had the most seniority have 3 or 2 years in whatever it may be. learning stuff when people have been in the job for 20 plus years and learning from people got in it grew me to adopt and work with everybody. >> a lot of people will come up to mow and say, thank you for your service noise to see a woman in the fire depar

after high school i went to mississippi where i played volleyball in university of southern mississippi me going after college was i was applying to place related to fire and police i loved my experience but my family is home. i grew up here and could not be far from my family anymore i came back. >> i have been a firefighter for 4 years the transition to the fire department has been seam tells is the same. team work and coming together. transitioning to the job med me comfortable that i made the right decision to come become and work for a fire department that is big in diversity and equality and becoming a fell. i got to be a member at a few different fire stations. each station has their own culture. i worked in places that are xroem and with a young crew and had the most seniority have 3 or 2 years in whatever it may be. learning stuff when people have been in the job for 20 plus years and learning from people got in it grew me to adopt and work with everybody. >> a lot of people will come up to mow and say, thank you for your service noise to see a woman in the fire department. you

stanly godbold is professor emeritus of history, mississippi state university. he's the author now of two volumes of history, jimmy and rosalynn carter. the first the georgia years. 1924 through 1974. and now jimmy and rosalynn carter power and human rights. as i say, he was professor of emeritus at mississippi state. he's the author of three other books. alan gas, glasgow and the woman within and christopher gadsden and the american revolution and confederate colonel and cherokee chief. the life of william holland thomas. but it's biographies of jimmy and rosalynn that brings us here tonight. and, you know, i think there is probably better person to be in congress with stan lee than steve. steve has been to president carter since 81. he helped research and edit carter's book, keeping faith, and has really had a hand in every book too. carter has written or projects or classes at emory university, so sit back, enjoy its time to learn a lot about president and mrs. carter. steve stanley. thank you, tony. thank you, tony and it is really quite an honor for me to be

of mississippi. for a long time. now there's a return migration. and there's that whole period in the late '60s, early '70s where kids are buggin' out of brown universitynow, you know, you see people kinda doing the same thing with food, like there's a whole generation that wants to come down here and sit at the foot of an ancient catfish cook. >> anthony: state senator willie simmons has been an elected official of the mississippi delta for 20 years. and he's been running this place, senator's place, for 11. now what's the difference between soul food and southern, traditional southern food? >> willie simmons: it depends upon the culture. and what neighborhood you was in. if you were in the black neighborhood, then it became soul. we probably put a little bit more of the throwaway in our cooking -- the pig feet, the pigtail, the neck bones, and all that's fatty. >> anthony: now you're making me hungry. now you are definitely making me -- >> willie simmons: we got some neck bones over there, okay. >> anthony: oh, excellent. so greens -- >> willie simmons: turnip greens. >> anthony: i'll have some of that for sure. is that fried okra there? i'll have a

stanly godbold is professor emeritus of history, mississippi state university. 's the author now of two volumes of history, jimmy and rosalynn carter. the first the georgia years. 1924 through 1974. and now jimmy and rosalynn carter power and human rights. as i say, he was professor of emeritus at mississippi state. he's the author of three other books. alan

blossomed into a lifetime of amassing an impressive collection of honor which he and his wife, virginia, donated to mississippi state university in 2017. the msu ue is also the home of the ulysses as gifts. and if you want to know why grant went to mississippi, you can talk to frank later on. a very good reason. msu was also the home of ulysses s grant association, for which served as president for over years. or actually, i should say, why lincoln went to mississippi. but grant went to mississippi as. well, so you can talk to him about that too. so he served as the president of the ulysses s grant associate for 30 years. frank is author of many books and articles on abraham lincoln and has made countless in-person and television appearances on topics to lincoln in his life. frank, who is known to as the chief, also followed example by making his career in the law. frank served as chief justice of the rhode island supreme court from 2001 to 2009. and as chief judge of the u.s. court of military commissions and remains active in arbitration and like lincoln frank dogs, most especially. so you can talk to him about that too roge

is donald, and he is the lifetime at harvard university's hutchins center for african and african american research. the author and of 11 books, mississippi and of the acp image award for the african americans. many rivers to cross in 2014 and the w.e.b. dubois from harvard university in 2013. how about teaching white supremacy? this is a powerful exploration of the past and present arc of america's white supremacy from the country's inception and revolution every year to its 19th century flash point of civil war, to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and today's black lives matter, i'm just going to turn it over at this point to donald to read a little and talk to us about his his new book. thank you very much for being here, donald and everyone everyone. thank, thank you. thank you all for coming this evening. i really appreciate it. the past matters, especially now that wisconsin born frederick jackson turner, who happened to spend many unhappy years teaching at harvard, observed in 1891 that, quote today is so much a product of yesterday that yesterday can be understood as as it is explained by today, for the present is simply the

university. brian frazier was one of the students killed. five others were injured and police are still trying to determine a motive. and rural mississippireeling after a gunman killed six yesterday. and the united states and kan have called off searches after failing to find any remnants of the three objects shot down last week over alaska, the uconn and huron. the objects were most likely harmless research or recreation question vices officials said. meanwhile, in munich, secretary of state blinken met with his counterpart for the first time since a chinese balloon entered american air space. still to come, loved ones who shall suffer from then that ask their caretakers. >> this is pbs news weekend from weta studios in washington, home of the pbs newshour weeknights on pbs. john: childhood trauma can have lasting psychology effects and now barone lopez reports that a new study has found that early childhood stress from things like poverty and trauma can actually change the structure of children's developing brains. >> for this study, researchers at harvard analyzed thousands of m.r.i. brain scans of children ages 9 and 10. they identif

in areas of mississippi and this early this evening in areas of alabama and slice there, southern tennessee. we still had significant snow, 4 to 6 inches around des moines. lincoln, university of nebraska, 12 inches of snow. this is all a good snowstorm in southern wisconsin. the worst areas traveling in the country from chicago northward up to milwaukee during that rush hour. it is spring outside in the northeast. enjoy this. not going to last. >> all right, meteorologist bill karins, thank you. >>> coming up, more breaking news, our own peter alexander just spoke with president biden just spoke with president biden following his speech on the ubrelvy helps u fight migraine attacks. u rise to the challenge. u won't clock out. so u bring ubrelvy. it can quickly stop migraine in its tracks within 2 hours... ...without worrying if it's too late or where you are. unlike older medicines, ubrelvy is a pill that directly blocks a protein believed to be a cause of migraine. do not take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. most common side effects were nausea and tiredness. migraine pain relief starts with u. learn how abbvie could help you save. ask about ubrelvy, the anytime, anywhere

university, the one i mentioned in mississippi. these tragedies do not stop. are your colleagues on the other side ofmoved at all to come together and get something done on behalf of the american people? >> you know what, no one is safe, alex, from the threat of gun violence in this country. i hope my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are persuaded that we must do more. when you have more mass shootings than days in the year, something is terribly wrong. we heard the students at michigan state pleading for us to take greater action. i want to reflect on one thing we did do. june of last year, we passed and the president signed the sacred communities act. that had some bipartisan support, not enough. i can't wait until we see the implementation of these resources to intervene in violence in communities, to intervene in straw purchases, to check back checks of those under 21 in a greater way. i can't wait to see the numbers go in the correct direction. but that's not enough. it's the first time in 30 years congress has done something. but everyone, to a person, gun owners and non gun owners, i

of mississippi that we have been following a shooting rampage. it left 60 pulled dead. then, a very difficult day for michigan state university community. memorial services for all three students killed in this shooting. all of that, plus in our next hour, senator john fetterman and when he needs help for clinical depression. i'm going to look at his prognosis and the reaction to his hospitalization. that is coming up on -- as well. we want to start with that breaking news. secretary of state tony blinken, just a short time, ago calling for the global community to step up sanctions on north korea after a provocative new missile launch. for the first time since new years day, the isolated regime test launched a missile overnight. it landed in the sea of japan, but we now know this one have the capability of hitting anywhere in the u.s.. nbc's monica alba is on this for us and at the white house. monika, good to talk to you. give us the reaction, if you will, from the administration. i understand also, this launch comes just days before joint military drills between the u.s. and south korea. >> exactly, yasmin. these are annual and routin

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university in mississippi the leading scorer on the 76 olympic team. and you thinking about that, where she came from in, mississippi, the poorest part of poorest state in the country, the same area of mississippi, where emmett till had been murdered, the same part of the state where robert f kennedy visited in the 1960s when he was studying poverty in the south. and to think that she came from those circumstances and, you know, starred on the international stage at the first olympics, it's really remarkable stories of remarkable women who really haven't gotten their due. and so i hope will take that away from the book as well. it's extremely. but i think just being able to interview one of the amazing women that we're talking about today is a great opportunity just to kind of reach some things. hello, everyone. my name rachel becker and we're having a really good evening. i'm the editor in chief of the mule skinner here at university of central missouri. i would like to talk to millie about being such a significant part of mr. barnes story or sorry, mr. maraniss, this story. so what inspired your interest playing sports in the first place? that's hard

historically black universities that say, we're not gonna fly this flag because it's a symbol of slavery? do you think about their point of view? >> it is a state flag of mississippis us pain. what do you say to that? >> i don't say the pain in the symbol. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> new orleans is just the latest city to start taking down historical, but controversial monuments. many say that celebrates slavery and confederacy. [crowd chanting] >> all right. >> we here to celebrate the taking down of the jefferson davis statue here in new orleans tonight. these were all jim crow era statues, meant to emphasize that white people are in control. >> there is no value in keeping those statues. there is value in remembering for what these statues were put up for. >> what do you say to people across this state, marching with confederate flags? >> i don't say nothing to them. they are not on my radar. they are unruly unbelievable, as far as i know. >> we pray, oh lord, for those who are attacking our heritage me for their since. we pray our lord the truth of history would triumph. >> i feel like the country never really were unified after the war, in a way that included all of its citizen

stanly godbold is professor emeritus of history, mississippi state university. he's the author now of two volumes of history, jimmy and rosalynn carter. the first the georgia