w.e.b. . i'm not laughing. well i guess sometimes i am but i stand often when researchers have mistakes deep into the german culture looking at the stereotype cracks but if you think the future of the country that i don't. even see the pictures grandmother. to me it's all about. new i'm rachel join me for me the german sunday w. . post. hello and welcome to news from arts and culture i'm karen helms said and in this edition but nanna's as a symbol of freedom in poland we'll see why artists have staged an in in front of the national museum in warsaw and also coming up. the berlin philharmonic has just rolled out its plans for the season starting in august marking the beginning of a new era for the orchestra under chief conductor kidney tanker. the celebrations and events abound to commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the death of leonardo da vinci we look into the legacy of the tuscan master. artists in poland have taken to the street and to social media to protest the decision to remove a video install

dubois would crush him but it would always be about w.e.b dubois and i learned a lot. >> thank you we are out of time anytime you do a thing like this especially located in south central grieving the loss of nancy hustle perhaps one day we will see a biography in the meantime it'll be a mandate for the rest of us. please join me to thank our speakers. [applause] >> just so you know there is a signing area number one thank ou. [inaudible conversations]

often tell individuals, that his largest legacy, you can go back to early readings and writings of w.e.b. dubois. he wrote an article of building black durham, and he, in that article, he states that, without north carolina, or without james shepard's institution, durham would be a slum-filled migrant community, but because of this institution that was created here in durham, north carolina, you have a prominent black middle and black professional class, a class of individuals who go on to become teachers, doctors, lawyers, and black professionals. ironically, when shepard is out in 1947, he's out campaigning for funds to create a medical school because he didn't believe that there was enough representation of african-americans in the state of north carolina, medical doctors, and so he believed that his institution would transform black life in america. >> how is he viewed by his peers? and was he a national figure during this time? >> he was a national figure on a political level. he was a very heavy hitter. many individuals don't know about him in the sense of his college. a lot of ind

100 non-fiction books of the 20th century, along such works as rachel carson's "silent spring" and w.e.b. dubois's "the souls of black folk." and caro hasn't paused working since. for the past 45 years, robert caro, with much help from wife ina, has b been researching g te life a and times o of presidenet lyndndon b. johnhnson from h his chilildhood in h hill countrtrys to his t time in thehe white ho. fofour volumeses have beenen pud so farar -- "the p path to powo" "meansns of ascentnt," "masteref the e senate," a and "the papasf power." theyey total morore than 300000d robert caro is now writing the fifth volume looking at vietnam, the great society and johnson's decision not to seek re-election in 1968. robert caro has been described as "the greatest political biographer of our times" and america's biographer-in-chief. but to reduce caro's work as simply biographies of great men misses the point. caro uses both moses and johnson to show how political power works. caro writes that by focusing on robert moses, he was able to explore "the realities oururban political power,owower i citi

as you may know when there's been increasing enforcement of fara we've seen publicize abuses, w.e.b.du bois was prosecuted in the 1950s after fara. just last summer there was a congressional committee that investigated four prominent nonprofits of whether they were in violation of fara. we've seen this abroad report a deposit and expressly targeting nonprofits in the media. i'm curious of what kind of additional safeguard you'd like to see either in the act of what you're contemplating as you now ramping up enforcement to make sure these kinds of abuses that go to vegas and the broadest of the act? one last point, we do talk to nonprofits on a regular basis who are concerned about this and don't know how to comply because i says that pointed out, foreign principal story abroad, the hd definition very broad. it's just confusing. >> rob is a good lawyer, fara lawyer, if you guys need one. when it's going to take that? >> look, partisanship can never enter into any of the decision we do and that's not just through fara. that's to every single thing fÊted at the department and everything