for successful urban planning efforts. in north americarowing cities are being transformed as more and more people choose to live and work far from the old urban centers. such is the case in chicago, illinois, in the midwestern section of the united states. t aselopment here expands withctive farming communities on the edges of this metropolitan area. in north american cities like chicago, automobiles, extensive highway systems and communication networks have accelerated suburban sprawl and made possible a new kind of urban area. "edge cities" are full-fledged employment "subcenters" far from the central city. but there may be a cost to such rapid land use change: farmland loss. productive farmland becomes a nonrenewable resource, lost forer, when it is used for housing, commercial or industrial development. and the pace at which america's most productive farmland is being lost has alarmed some geographers. we're standing on the new edge of chicago's suburban frontier. behind me is a farm that will be gone in five years-- literally wiped o

this week, an examination of urban america in the mid-20th century with a professor of maine. the course is called the wire, race, class, gender, which covers the social, economic, political and cultural u.s. cities after world war two. this lasts an hour and 20 minutes. >> so today is a lecture on the origins of the urban crisis. the term urban crisis is in the title of this class. all right? race, class, gender and the urban crisis. we use the hbo miniseries "the wire" as a text to study, or to think about the urban crisis. and also, again, we use "the wire" for the sociological presentation that gives us the post-war american cities and also to ask questions of it because it gives us the window into the post-war police procedural, through fighting crime, or through police and criminals, which allows us to see a great many things. but it also occludes and hides other elements of life in post-war cities as well. so we use "the wire" both for what it does and what it doesn't do. but today's lecture is more or less a historical overview of the origins of the urban crisis. and t

but for others, he's seen as a representative of urban immigrant cultural plural america. his advisers know what is going on and are like, al, drop the accent. he wears a brown derby which is an urban style. get rid of the hat, make yourself more bland, white bred, midwesternish. he thinks it would be a betrayal of his roots and community. it's something for which he's admired and something that makes certain any chance he has of winning the election goes away. he's defeated badly. democrats who usually carry the south failed to carry the old confederacy this time because there's the catholic immigrant representative on the ballot. so in the short run, kallen's vision, a vision of a plural society, doesn't prevail. row have immigration restriction, al smith fails, but in the long run, as many of the voters who get excited about al smith start to register and vote, you see an uptick in immigrant voting and the children of immigrants are voting now in the 1930s, they will flock to the new deal and the democrats, and they'll form the core of really the dominant voting bloc in

life in 2012, life in the big city, life in urban america. you know, the subtheme is greed.nd there's a little bit of big brother in it also. so i hope people think about their own values when they go home after watching the movie about our values as a society, and our individual values also, and how important it is to stick to your true self, to be able to live a satisfied life and be able to raise healthy kids. and to be able to move forward as a society in a healthy way. in a positive direction. instead of being just stuck in the mud, so to speak, and greed and money and all this that nowadays, it just -- it's overwhelming. >> philosophical. >> hey. >> we have a lot of folkth out there who, you know, they may produce their own private, independent film. what can you tell them to convince them to go the next step and go for something like this? it's not easy i would imagine. >> it's not easy but nothing in life is easy. if you're going to sit home waiting for things to come knock at your door and be easy, good luck to you because you're not going to do much. my suggestion

secretary, donald rumsfeld talks about the war on terror in south carolina and later, a look at urban america in the mid 20th century with brian parnell. he teaches a course on the social, dynamic and cultures of american cities after world war ii. american history tv, all week on cspan 3. >>> sunday -- >> i don't regard this as just a biography of lyndon johnson. i want each book to examine a kind of political power in america. saying this is a kind of political power seeing what a president can can do in a moment of great crisis. how he gathers around. what does he do to get legislation moving to take command in washington? that's the way of examining power in a time of crisis and i said, i want to do this in full. i suppose it takes 300 pages in there. so i couldn't, that's why i just said let's examine in. >> robert caro on the passage of power, volume 4 and the years of lyndon johnson, his biography of the 36th president. this sunday at 8:00 on q and a and look for our second hour of conversation sunday may 20th. >>> american history tv sits in on a college lecture every week. you can wa

at 11:30, urban america in the mid 1920s. a bowden college professor teaches a course on the social, economic, political and cultural dynamics of u.s. cities that's after world war ii. american history tv in primetime beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern all this week here on c-span3. the military academy at west point published 17 declassified documents from osama bin laden's compound. the documents total 1 5 pages. we have them available on our website, go to cspan.org. and right now a discussion on the one-year anniversary since the death of osama bin laden. this is from the potomac institute. it's about two hours. >> ladies and gentlemen, it's my privilege to welcome you to the potomac institute for policy studies today. we have for a long time here at the potomac institute been privileged to be the host for a series of seminars, studies and in fact publications on a variety of issues surrounding terrorism. the potomac institute for policy studies is not for profit think tank in the washington, d.c. area that focuses on the iss

and at 11:30, urban america in the 20th century. a course on the social, political and cultural die namics of u.s. cities after world war ii. american history tv in primetime starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern all this week on c-span3. >>> this weekend on book tv, and afterwards, seth jones documents the war against al qaeda since 9/11 in hunting in the shadows. he's interviewed by ap intelligence reporter kimberly dozier. also this weekend your questions and comments for tom brokaw in death penalty. book tv every weekend on c-span2. >>> spend a weekend in oklahoma city with book tv and american eastern check in on literary life with book tv on c-span2 including the governor's must read political books. oklahoma university president on his letter to america. also rare books from gal lie low, from the history of science collection at ou. sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, oklahoma history at american history tv on c-span3. tour the oklahoma city bombing memorial with the co-designer. plus a look into african-american life in 1920s oklahoma and na

and in two hours, a look at urban america in the mid 20th century with college professor brian purnell. he teaches a course on the political, social dynamics of u.s. cities after world war ii. american history tv all week on c-span 3. >>> each weekend you can see lectures in history from colleges around the country. they're here on c-span 3 on american history tv every saturday at 8:00 p.m. at midnight eastern, and sundays at 1:00 p.m. next former defense secretary donald rumsfeld on the bush doctrine. he spoke at the citadel in charleston, south carolina, for two hours. >> well, mallory, thank you so much for your kind words and thanks to the citadel for the invitation and the hospitality and the wonderful tour that i had today. it is an impressive institution. general, it is good to see you again, having served on the joint staff when i was there and with distinction. it is a fine service to have this class on the conservative intellectual tradition in america. i am delighted to participate in the program with so many friends and associates of mine over many decades. i turn 80 in a c

and at 11:30 eastern, urban america in the mid 20th century. boden college professor, brian purnell teach as course on the social, economic, cultural and political dynamics of the america in the 20th century after world war ii. >>> spend the weekend in oklahoma city, with book tv and american history tv. saturday at noon eastern check in on literary life with book tv on c-span 2. with oklahoma university president and former senator on his a letter to america. also rare books from galileo, copernicus and others. and sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, oklahoma history on c-span 3. tour the oklahoma city bombing memorial. plus a look into african-american life in 1920s oklahoma. once a month c-span's local content vehicles explore the history and literary life of city ace cross america. this weekend, from oklahoma city on c-span 2 and 3. >> this is c-span 3, with politics and public interest programming. telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at our websites. you can join in the conversation on social

if i'm going to be the president of all the people then i have to talk to urban america, too. of course, all roads lead back to african-americans and to an extent, latino voters. especially african-american voters. so i think it is part of the broadening our image of mitt romney. and then the second thing is, look where he chose and look what he chose. not only to speak but speak on. education. it was very smart in this sense. what he is thinking is school vouchers, chart he schools. that does touch a nerve among many african-americans. so why not essentially talk about issues that do in fact have some resonance with african-americans and talk about it in the venue where he is guaranteed to get maximum exposure. whether good, whether bad, it doesn't matter. at the end of the day he gets the exposure. >> many have noted when he spoke before the latino business leaders which by the way, the registered voters in this new "wall street journal" poll. 61%. obama, 27%. romney. he did not talk about immigration. he did not talk about the dream act or even those infamous remarks he mad

there is a similar divide between urban and rural america, where 70% of urban households have access at home, but only 57% of rural households are subscribing to broadband. seniors in people with disabilities also have far lower rates of adoption in the kent -- then the country as a whole. almost half of all households headed by someone with a disability did not have a computer. compare that to only 20% of households that do not have a computer if they were headed by someone without a disability. similarly, 43% of homes headed by someone with a disability subscribed to broadband compared to 72% of all homes, a 29-point difference. our data also shows that older americans, particularly those 65 and older, are less likely to live in a home with a computer or to have broadband internet access at home. and what is more, as we look further into this data, we found that when we looked at other socioeconomic factors, like in come or education, it did not fully explain it the gaps. even after accounting for a socio-economic and geographic factors, african-american and hispanic households sti

and philosophically speaking, is that its leaders get up and say, we're going to save the urban schools of america by putting teach for america teachers in every low-performing school in a big city and i'm unwilling to support that. and if that's what we're doing, in fact, and in fact, i think that when this was brought to us in 2008, we were told that we weren't going to do that this time either. so i'm not going to support this and i won't support it anymore unless we -- a lot of things have to change. >> so it sounds like, and i think mr. bushman, that we would normally hear this in the personnel committee and have a lot of discussion back and forth so would it be possible for you to provide us with a report that talks about, because this reminder of these questions seems like we need a reminder report of recent activity or a brief history with teach for america, how many teachers are still with us, sort of what are the subject areas they are teaching in now, you know, over time, maybe they've moved into areas that are not hard to fill. but either way, it seems like all us board members could u

[applause] now, since 1976 the national urban league has annual league presented the state of black america. this report began when a former president, vernon jordan, watched president ford present his state of the union in the mid 1970's. in that statement, address, president ford did not mention urban, did not mention black, did not mention poor people or their concerns, even once. vernon jordan at that time said if he will not do it, the national urban league will pyrrhic each year since then, we have presented this report which is called the state of black america, but, friends, and colleagues, when we talk about the state of black america, we are talking about the state of the nation, because as black america and urban communities go, so goes this nation. we're in the ostensibly -- in dispensibily wound together in the 21st century. we asked each year, what is the state of black america? in 2012 i must report the state of black americans is we are under attack. the quality of education is under attack. how is the quality of education under attack? when tens of thousands of schoolteache

[applause] as black america and urban communities go, so goes this nation. we are indispensable a and inextricably wound in bound together as a single nation here 21st century. each share we ask what is the stake of black america? i must report that the state of black america is that we are under attack. we are the quality of education. how is the quality of education under attack? when tens of thousands of schoolteachers are laid off in school district after school district, in cities across the nation, and the quality of education is under attack. when 10% of the people control 2/3rds of the net worth, when unemployment has skyrocketed to nearly 145%, 15%, economic equality is under attack. vote is the rigtght to under attack. democracy is under attack. why is democracy under attack? let us walk back to 1890. poll taxes, literacy ehensionnd comprh tests were launched in an effort to keep newly freed slaves from participating fully in the election process. the grandfather clause, when these were taken together, a state that in the 1880s had a black governor,

to urban america.m an agrarian society to an industrial society. and our work in the early 1900's was predicated on that, helping people connect to jobs and opportunities in the burgeoning automobile, glass, plastic and steel plants of many of our northern industrial city's. today, we are now exactly two years into our second century, 102 years old, and our work we believe is to help people transition from an industrial economy to and information and knowledge he based economy. from an urban economy to what might best be characterized as a global economy. so our work is the same, but the steps we take in the 21st century are indeed different. this important report contains some good news, but it also contains some not so good news. so what is the good news? the good news is that the gap between african-americans and whites when it comes to broadband adoption, is narrow. narrowing i think significantly and we are on a think a very important role. and we need to celebrate that as good news. it is okay to

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tonight, a look at the state of black america from the urban league. that gets underway at 9:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> i did not regard this as the biography of lyndon johnson. i want each book to examine a calling to political power in america. i'm saying this is a kind of political power. seeing what a president can do in a time of great crisis -- great crisis. how he gathers all around. what does he do to get legislation moving, to take command in washington? that's a way of examining power in a time of crisis. i said, "i want to do this in full." i suppose it takes 300 pages in there. so i couldn't -- i just said, "let's examine this." >> robert caro on "the passage of power," voume four in "the years of lyndon johnson," his multi-volume biography of the 36th president, this sunday at 8:00 on c-span's "q&a." and look for our second hour of conversation with robert caro sunday, may 20. >> four for more world leaders sat down for a conversation about the challenges for global peace and prosperity. this was part of the world summit of nobel p

[applause] as black america and urban communities go, so goes this nation. we are indispensable a and inextricably wound in bound together as a single nation here in the 21st century. each share we ask what is the stake of black america? -- each year we ask, what is teh state of black oamerica? i must report that the state of black america is that we are under attack. we are the quality of education. how is the quality of education under attack? when tens of thousands of schoolteachers are laid off in school district after school district, in cities across the nation, and the quality of education is under attack. when 10% of the people control 2/3rds of the net worth, when unemployment has skyrocketed to nearly 14%, 15%, economic equality is under attack. in 2012, the right to vote is under attack. democracy is under attack. why is democracy under attack? let us walk back to 1890. poll taxes, literacy tests, and comprehension tests were launched in an effort to keep newly freed slaves from participating fully in the election process. the grandfather clause, w

america. where's that's an urban center or whether that's, you know, kay june country in louisiana or a wheat farmer in south dakota you had to go there and physically understand it not on the typical politician listening tour which is really not listening but making so- called news. >> charlie: decide whether i should run for the senate. >> but trying to get the feel for what you were representing. >> charlie: i'll tell you what. it's been a while for me. i can remember or i can believe that i've heard someone, you know, in the public arena who is a candidate-- you certainly read it-- who has captured that from a narrative that he has stitched or she has stitched together and in a sense captures the soul of america, its yearning, its frustration. >> i always thought trying was important. i mean, the book "we can all do better" comes from a lincoln speech in 1862 where we're at war for a year. the time before the emancipation proclamation. lincoln made this amazing speech to the congress in which he says among other things, we can only succeed by concert which means working together. it's not

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so, providing the needs of urban populations around the world, including in north america, will be among the most difficult tasks facing policymakers and leaders in the decades ahead and that's already a problem. a massive problem. that's where the youth come, where they're exposed to polite political influences, some of which can be radical and extremist, and where crime thrives, and where the differences between the rich and the poor become magnified, leading to explosive upheavals. so, we had better attend to the needs of the billions of poor people living in cities. >> i'm john richardson. we have had oil for a little more than 100 years. obama talks about alternative energy, green energy and stuff. that's great research project and money should be spent on it but it's not real. you have not talk about gas. i understand we have lots of natural gas. we have this new shale gas. it's here. we don't need to import it. it's technically -- it works. you have buses that run on gas. trucks can run on gas. what's the problem? people say there's not enough distribution. you can build gas pumps

hear america there are institutions and believes that long ago lost their clout. take the urban machine is still believe in the legendary power that with few exceptions urban machines lost their grip on cities long ago. tammany hall, r.i. the. with the passing of liberalism in my lifetime i have seen liberalism dissolve. from the all-powerful camorra will those on the government and bureaucracy and educational establishment and corporate world, that have alternative influences, challenging practically every department. today's liberals are saudis holding out where they can with more troops of conservatives the marketeers and global list, challenging them every where. the cloak from the grave to spend more money tax the upper class retreat into the cocoon where no one of lourdes disagrees. and the alternative never a cyst. recall there a stub -- astonishment when obamacare was opposed by the majority of american people then questioned by the supreme court. the living dead is out there. as the saudis would they have diminished. true liberals like hubert humphrey, ed koch and pat m

with my colleagues recognizing the crisis that is being faced by the postal offices across america, both urbanand rural. we look forward to bringing a contingent of workers and postal persons from around the country to this congress to urge to move forward quickly in utilizing the senate proposal. at the same time, i'm deeply saddened by reconciliation budget proposal by my friend on the other side of the aisle that's going to cut the social services block grant. it's going to cut medicaid. it's going to cut meals on wheels. as a former chairperson of the interfaith ministries in houston, texas, what a sad day to cut meals on wheels. today and this week is teacher appreciation week and i salute them. they are great and grand as they teach our children that they can reach for the sky. that is why today the congressional children's caucus will host leaders, the producer and director of the movie bully. 18 million children have been bullied. like a 13-year-old girl scout who said that she had been bullied since age 5. i ask my colleagues to join me at 1:0 in 2237 for a press conference saying the

literally one in four students does not graduate from high school right now in america, and if you're in one of the top 50 urban country, that number is actually 50% that don't graduate. those mothers, those families, are going to want more options for their students, for their children so that they can go to the best schools. and whether those schools are charter schools, public schools, private schools, as allowed by state law, those are the options that governor romney wants to give parents, and women are going to look at that and say, yes, why isn't my child receiving the best possible education? and they're going to understand that sometimes teachers unions stand in the way. >> thank you so much, kerry healey. >>> up next, are the bain attacks back firing? this is "andrea mitchell reports." ard! how does this thing work? oh, i like it! [ garth ] sven's small business earns double miles on every purchase, every day! woo-hoo!!! so that's ten security gators, right? put them on my spark card! why settle for less? testing hot tar... great businesses deserve the most rewards! [ male announcer ] the spark busine

here in america there are institutions and belief systems that long ago lost their calling. take the urban machine. doubtless there are americans who still believe in the legendary power of the urban machine. yet with few exceptions urban machines lost their grip on the cities long ago. serve is with the passing of liberalism. i have seen liberalism dissolve. from an all powerful camaro with its hold unopposed on government, bureaucracy, educational establishment, even the corporate world it became a feeble thing with alternative influences, in every department. today's liberals are veritable zombies holding out where they can, with ever more fresh troops of conservatives, free marketeers and global lists challenging them everywhere. always there solutions to problems at hand are from the grave. spend more money, tax the upper class. retreat into the cocoon where no one ever disagrees with a liberal. an alternative never exists to their arguments. recall these zombies's astonishment when obamacare was opposed by a majority of the american people and was questioned by the supreme court. the

interested in is exploring how political power worked in america in the second half of the 20th-century. with robert moses, i tried to do urbanolitical power. how poor work not just in new york but all cities. i wanted to do johnson. book was 74 and johnson was 82. what was the title? >> "the path to power." >> did you name the titles of the books? >> sure. >> there was "means of [unintelligible] my first publisher, my current publisher did not want "the power broker" as the title but i said, that is the title. luckily it did not come to a showdown. my next publisher loved the title. each one i have had the title. the whole thing is called "the years of lyndon johnson." and now, "the passage of power." >> this book, 2012, what do you mean by the passage of power? >> it is -- i am glad you asked that. the title of this book came at the end when i decided not to go on to make this a book. i said this is a book. what form of political power and by examining here? the passage of power, from one president to another. because it is a passage at a time of great crisis, we learned a lot about the use of power in the past. >> i have r

re-air commons tonight at 8:00 eastern that letter tonight, a -- a look at the state of black america by the urbaneague at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> spam is the weekend in oklahoma city with book-tv and american history -- spends the weekend in oklahoma city with book-tv and american history. sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, oklahoma history of american history tv on c-span 3. tour the oklahoma city bombing memorial plus a look into african-american life in 1920's obama -- obama. once a month, the local content vehicle brings you the lives of cities across america in this weekend is oklahoma city on c- span 2 and cspan 3. >> more than three years after one of the worst financial crises in u.s. history, there has been criticism of the federal government for not criminally prosecuting more wall street bank executives involved in the subprime mortgage market. coming up, a new york university law school discussion with senior criminal justice officials including the head of the justice department's criminal division, a former new york state attorney general, and a former u.s. attorney. this is one h

urban farming programming exist? >> we know it is going to be important for us to start developing a food system that works. tonight, one out of every five or six kids in america goes to bed without food. unless you have communities where you how of accessibility, you're going to have these problems. many of our young people are obese. i read a statistic that by a 203042% of americans will be obese. these are real issues that have to be solved and we have not solved them by our industrial food system, by shipping food from far away. then there is the issue around how nutritious is the food we are eating in terms of once we take a been or something of a stark and it travels many miles something off a stock it travels many miles, we're starting to see the results of that. we haven't seen those results. tavis: the song title is growing healthy food, people, and communities. how do you do that simultaneously? it is a process in terms of engaging the community. these are community food systems we are developing. they are not industrial food assistance or people from outside or people coming in and telling the community how to develop their food system. the first th