jack christian joins us from warnrn massachusetts, and christian is in raleigh, north carolina. jack and warren, welcome to democracy now! it is great to have you both with us. talk about why you have decided to speak out right now. let's begin with jack christian. think, it is a product of something we have been thinking about and feeling for a long while now, but was also very spurred by what we saw in charlottesville, particularly, in durham, pulling down their confederate monument. i toinspired warren and feel like this was the time to write this letter. , in warren christian baltimore, under cover of night two nights ago, the mayor had four confederate monuments pulled down. one of them was a monument of your great-great-grandfather stonewall jackson. your thoughts today and how you came together with jack to call for the removal of not only monuments to your great-great-grandfather, but all other confederate monuments? >> yes, like jack said, this is something that we felt for a long time. i think it is very clear if you look at the context in which the monuments were put up, they were ce

not many have more of a stake than the removal than warren and jack christian. they're said to be descendents of stonewall jackson. >> as a person he was very complicated. he did in his adult life own slaves as part of his religious calling he taught sunday school to enslaved people where he lived. >> i think jack and i along with our parents have mixed feelings, mixed emotions. >> reporter: the pair is calling for the removal of their great great grandfather's statue is richmond, virginia. they write we understand justice very differently from our grand fat's grandfather. we have wish to make it clear his statue doesn't represent us. >> it's clear if you look at the context in which the monuments were put up. they weren't celebrating war heros. they were clearly meant to be things that would intimidate black people and further white supremacy in the u.s. >> reporter: the christian brothers aren't the only confederate kin speaking out. >> we have to be able to have that conversation without the ha tread and violence. >> reporter: robert e. lee iv said the best p

warren gatland. who says cheats never prosper? —— justin gatlin. why is no one talking about the phablets run by the wales manager chris coleman. christianbility of capturing the sun's energy on the road to charge electric vehicles. they're ugly, huge and they ruin the landscape, but we do kind of need them to get from a to b. but sometimes a road can be more than just a road. and that's the idea behind a french government backed initiative using the massive space given over to the transport network to also capture the sun through solar roads. i mean, look at this road, what's it doing right now, it's looking straight up the sky. and its estimated that even busy roads can see the sky for 70—90% of the time. but it's not all plain... sunning. the problem with putting photovoltaic cells into roads is the slightest bit of pressure, the slightest bend, and... so the cells are stuck onto slabs and covered with crushed glass and a translucent resin. at the facility near versailles, in france, these seven millimetre thick panels are being tested for their strength and durability so they can withstand heavy traffic as well as ensuring that they

and earl warren ruled that segregation was inherently unequal and created an inferiority complex among children, african-american boys and girls. enter king, and the southern christian leadership conference. and they started to try to integrate society in the south. one of their first targets was bussing, right? they used a boycott, right, this is one of the themes i'm trying to establish for you, they used a boycott of the southern bussing -- excuse me, the bussing system in montgomery, alabama, right? you had large numbers of african-americans who rode the bus every day to go to work. what the acl did and king did is they encouraged those african-americans not to ride the bus. what did that do? it affected the bottom line of those bussing companies and they couldn't segregate anymore because they were losing money. that was a major victory for king and his organization. and from 1956 they went on to try to integrate other industries and places in the south. it culminated in 1964, '65, when the federal government is going to pass the first civil rights legislation that really had some teeth in 1964, and then the voting rights act in 1965. so as interesting and as f