. ♪ >> i'm the provost at the university of tennessee at martin and tiff pleasure of hosting this sessionshared history, >> good afternoon iam the provost lawn - - provost at university tennessee program the pleasure to host this session. southern festival of books is completely free thanks to strong community support. if you like to donate to support the festival you can do so on site at festival headquarters or online via the humanities tennessee website. you can purchase copies of the books we would be discussing in the book sales area and after the session both authors will be sign copies of their books in the signing tent. today it will focus on two books on the book the forgotten story of north america and the american founders of people of african descent establish freedom in the new world. we will hear from both of the authors then after that we'll have time for questions. growing up in the united states graduating from the university of georgia before moving to london england 20 years ago. she worked as a journalist for the guardian and for more than a decade before returning to

the plight coming down of this and all these mental health things going up like this at the university of tennessee researchers are taking pelisse is work a step further they're looking into the connection between play and the ability to deal with life's hard knocks. these are syrian hamsters there are about a month away and about a month old is their peak time social life and their social play is rough and tumble mock aggression where they will roll around pen each other and rustle. oh look at them. one way to initiate play is when another animal 1st as a rolls over on his back and their role into a play fight or now there's a push. you can see that one animal initially and then it ran away and he came back and he attacked the other and they switched roles. really as play fighting. play it has several functions but one is to allow for development of the prefrontal cortex and so we were interested in is their ability to cope with stress and it all have because we know the brain cortex is important for stress. one normal adult has been placed into the home of another adult don't play at fighting the

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it was published just this june by the university of tennessee press in knoxville and since publicationas been one of the highest selling books out there we can't wait to hear more about it. david lives with his wife cindy and rocky face georgia. david, please tell us what led you to write this book? >> and grew up in the headquarters of a church called the church of god union assembly. i didn't know a whole lot about it even hethough the church was across the street from where i lived. i didn't even know there were 54 other churches. i thought there was just that one church and it happened to be the headquarters. a guy by the name of zach norwood would come in after i'd written the other books and said by the way that's debbie norvell's father and he said i've got a book free to write i thought it was to be about the culprit meals and bolted. he said, i want you to write about the church of god union of sin. he said what to write about dthat he said you will find out i'm going to give you your first interview and i went to four years of interviewing former members and we have former me

legendary pat summitt, a friend of mine, she came to my father's funeral, who coached the university of tennessee lady vols basketball team for 38 seasons lived with and brought aware tons alzheimer's disease before passing away in 2016. i'm especially thankful for the caregivers who assist those living with a memory disorder. mr. burchett: friends, family members and trained professionals care for these patients and make sacrifices to ensure their comfort. these efforts must not be overlooked, mr. speaker. individuals diagnosed with alzheimer's need to know they are not alone in their battle against this difficult illness. and while i remain optimistic about new treatments and ongoing research to find a cure, this november i encourage my constituents and colleagues to take a moment to think about those americans living with alzheimer's disease and say a prayer for them and their family and to show support for the caregivers who look after and advocate for them. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from flo

met him 20 years ago is his work, not just as secretary of education, but his work at the university of tennessee. and he knows what for-profit colleges do for -- do to far too many students. it removes a number of protections meant to ensure programs eligible for this funding are actually high quality ones that education students. these are just a couple of the ways that this micropackage is different from the original bipartisan bills. we know the micropackage cannot pass the house. chairman scott, speaker pelosi have been clear they won't comprehensive reform, a comprehensive reauthorization can pass. that's not what this is. i hope we can come to a bipartisan agreement but as we work together, we can't hold hostage historically black colleges, universities, most of them in the south, most of them in states of my colleagues from the south, most of them in republican states with republican senators. my state has historically black colleges and delaware state as senators carper an coons mentioned and we sprom nent institutions -- prominent institutions that matter to our state. for two years sin

. >> i also just want to say i went to the university of tennessee so i would appreciate the presidentead of alabama. you know, it's so interesting, too, because bloomberg has previously said he's willing to spend $100 million if he runs. that's a lot of money. stuart: a hundred million? >> a hundred million. particularly if he will get people like joe biden who has only $8.9 million cash on hand. if you are joe biden or elizabeth warren and you have a guy entering the race willing to spend a hundred million, you could potentially be on the receiving end of some of those attacks. the challenge for bloomberg and we will see if this is real, probably next week because the new hampshire filing deadline is next friday, so we will see if he files in new hampshire, if he starts building a campaign apparatus and is actually serious about his intent to run. stuart: i don't think that was a trial balloon. i don't think it was. i think the man is serious. >> he's been flirting with this for awhile. we have seen it in interviews and if you are looking at the field, you are looking at someone like

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your porch and nashville became the center of the political universe of the united states for several weeks in the summer of 1920 because tennessee might be the last and deciding state to ratify the 19th amendment and if the tennessee legislature did, then women across the country, in every state, in every election for the first time, all women, would have the right to vote. and it was all coming down to tennessee and it got really wild. >> how many women were in america at that point, voting age? >> about 27 million women were of voting age. now, of course, not all would vote and as we know for african-american women and for asian women and for native american women, they would not be allowed to vote under the 19th-- the 19th amendment did give the vote to all women, but jim crow laws in the south and other state laws denied the vote to quite a few women. quite a sizable minority, but 27 million women were eligible to vote and no one knew how they were going to vote and the politicians were worried about it. it was a presidential election, and so the presidential candidates were very worried about it. the governor is very worrie

nashville became the center of the political universe in the united states for several weeks in the summer ratify the amendment. tennessee legislature, then women across the country in every state, and every election, election, for the first time. all women would have the right to vote weird it was all coming down to tennessee, and it got really wild. >> how many women were in america at that point, voting age. >> 27 million women were voting age. of course, not all would vote. as we know, for african-american women, and for asian women and native american women, they were not allowed to vote under the 19th amendment. they gave the vote to all women. jim crow laws in the south and other state laws denied the vote. to quite a few women. a minority. 27 million women women were eligible to vote. no one knew how they were going to vote. the politicians were worried about it. it was a presidential election. the presidential candidates very worried about it. the governor very worried about it. up for reelection. the political free-for-all from the white house to congress to the legislature in nashville. >> before we get into s

tennessee. now music for seniors is teaming with researchers at vanderbilt university tif the effects of the programan be measured. studies show exposure to live music can improve seniors' brfun tion and mobility. >> geriatric specialist is designing the research. palmer says it could b particularly useful for dementia patients. >> one thing we have to think about, are there ways to quality of life. paents who were able to isalize, there seems to be a reduction in thefor dementia. >> mcconnell's experience withwh her late mothe had alzheimer's is at the root. would go to her adult daycided i services program. i would go and bring my guitar and we would sing together. >> she said thsessions struck a chord. >> they would light up and they were a differents group as i wa n leaving than i was wi was coming. >> if hped them, why would it not help others? >> a lightbulb went off that they should be an organized effort to connect the musicians in nashville witdethe isolated adult. >> this musicianth helped design program. >> we aim to make a joyful noise. he led this drum circle, the same program where mcc

university of houston the late democratic congress member. and her support for feminism. also been published this week glenn jacobs explains how he went from a professional wrestler to the mayor of knox county tennessee and mayor kane. and impeached, removing the president trump from office is the best way to protect democracy. and in revolutionary brothers tom chase been explorers of friendship between thomas jefferson and mark eight day lafayette. you can look for these authors on book tv. television for serious readers all weekend, every weekend. join us again next saturday at 8:00 a.m. eastern for the best in nonfiction books. .. .. >> for 40 years c-span has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy bands from washington, d.c. and around the country so you could make up your own mind. created by cable in 1

tennessee. i welcome our first panel of witnesses. is witness cliff johnson director of the justice center and a member of the faculty of the university mississippi school of law. is a pastor ofs saint ends catholic church in mississippi. father oh dale turned his parish into a legal counsel. owner is the founder and president of the board of legal education and community empowerment foundation. also a judge, a graduate hashis college, who also the first distinction of being the first african-american female to graduate from the university of mississippi law school. should our last witness is miss lorena lewis. a lead organizer for the mississippi immigrant coalition and working together mississippi, instrumental in providing support and aid to families affected by the .ississippi ice raids i asked each witness to summarize their statement beginning with mr. johnson. >> members of the committee, i want to thank you for this opportunity to talk about these unprecedented rates that occur .n august 2 i represented thousands of clients. nothing i have ever done has impacted me like the work i have been involved in on behalf of the more th

universities. many of them fill this out. i'm told by the former governor of tennessee this -- filling out this complicated form is the single biggest impediment to low-income students having an opportunity to go to college because their families think it's too complicated. well, we know what for do about this. senator bennet, democrat of colorado and i began work on this five years ago. senator murray, democrat from washington and i recommended to the senate that it pass legislation getting rid of 22 questions that were double reporting. you have to tell the i.r.s. some facts and you have to tell the department of education the same facts. and then they come in the middle of a semester and try to catch you having one answer here and another answer there and so 70% of the student body has their -- has their pell grant verified and some of them lose their federal funding while they check to see if the information you had to give to two federal agencies is different. we've passed the senate with that. senator murray and i did that last year. so why should we wait on this? i don't think we should wait on permanent funding for h

of the y.s. ronald mulholland future scholarship a tends west virginia university where she is a junior now studying chem century. she completed an internship in tennessee. it is a wonderful organization that works to provide shelter for children and youth across america. organizations like the youth services system and the children's home society deserve recognition for their incredible work, because without them success stories like hana's and so many others wouldn't even exist. which is why we must raise awareness of this issue so that we can support the wonderful work being done across the united states every day. i'm so proud to be here today to advocate for those 1 moi 3 million -- 1.3 million children and youth across our nation who need our help and deserve our help. we must do better for them. and i believe strongly that this resolution is the beginning to work towards solving this major crisis our nation has. with broad bipartisan support, and if there's one thing that brings us together, it is the children. it is not democrat our republican problem. it is all of our problem. it is an american problem, and we have to face it. the support of 23