has died at wexler the age of 93. we will speak to pamela yates director of "rebel citizen," a new documentary about the life and work of haskell wexler. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a police shooting in chicago has killed two unarmed african-americans, sparking new calls for change at a police department already under heavy scrutiny. early saturday morning, the father of a 19-year old college student, quintonio legrier, called police to report his son was behaving oddly and carrying a metal bat. the father also called the downstairs tenant, 55-year old bettie jones, to alert her that police would need to enter through her door. when police arrived, quintonio legrier allegedly confronted them in the foyer. both legrier and bettie jones were killed when police opened fire. on sunday, legrier's mother, janet cooksey, spoke as family and friends gathered outside the home. >> no mother should have to bury her child. and especially und

haskell wexler died yesterday. hhe was 93 years old.y was one of america's leading 20th century abstract artists, becoming known for his geometric shapes and simple color schemes inspired by the world around him. stephanie baron is senior curator at the los angeles county museum of art. >> the humanity comes from his uncanny ability to distill the visual and the physical that he sees and whether it's a leaf or an awning or a rock, things that we might just walk right by, he would pick up and he would ponder and he would find the essence in them and distill it into a very simple form. >> brown: during world war ii, kelly painted camouflage patterns on military tank cutouts to fool german forces. after the war, he moved to paris to study art on the g.i. bill. he returned to the u.s. in the 1950s, his bold geometric paintings left some viewers wondering just where the art was, while others found themselves drawn in. >> i'm always stunned at how much it seems to affect people, and there is a strange ability that these works have to communic

do you like stories wexler by toby the stories are true. what kids don't like stories? in washington your privilege. you have the capitol building here and you go down the coast and you have jamestown. their privilege. all you have to do is go on a field trip around the block. if you could tell the stories and these kids get interested you let them reenacted then i think they're going to care. the thing that makes me feel the best is what i get from a parent who says they gave it to my son or daughter and is the first book i didn't push them to read and they read it on their own. we want to get these teenagers who are writing me letters and i feel like we did our job. if we only sold to what we tell the story of every day americans is not just about washington and jefferson, think i did my job. i couldn't wait to spread the word about this and i'm so glad c-span is here with cameras because of "fox news" we have a wide audience. book signings around the country with an opportunity to interact with you and continue to tell the story but that is a story about the pirates.