amy: that is isabel wilkerson. you can go to why you decided to start with trayvon martin and as you said, actually you hear george zimmerman's voice. . when i was interviewing miss wilkerson about her process in writing the book, she shared that the verdict of the case against george zimmerman was a seminal moment in her curiosity and in her quest to put together the thesis and try to pursue this notion of caste and explaining it to folks. i wanted to begin where she began. in the film, you see it opens with a day in the life of a teenager named trayvon. you are walking with him as he is going about his business talking to a friend on the phone, going to buy a snack. those few minutes you see him before anything happens to him, before he is stopped and assaulted and killed, are moments to can -- constructed to humanize him and allow you to learn a little bit about him outside of the context of what was done to him. that was important to me in any rendering of challenge and trauma to make sure we're doing exactly w

because we are in this wild era where isabel wilkerson's work is being banned, where 1619 project ise passing laws to stop people from reading history and understanding particularly black history and lgbtq history. but it's intense. what do you want people to walk out of that theater with in this time? >> well, it's important for us, we made the film independently, in 37 days on three continents. we broke all of the rules in terms of the ways in which we're told to make this inside a studio system, don't say this, don't press too hard. we were able to freely express what we wanted to and accelerate the timeline of the movie so it's out before the elections this year. we want to contribute to a conversation that is an urgent matter for folks to raise their voices and talk about books being banned, history being rewritten or completely disregarded, ridiculous statements being made by candidates and politicians that are going unchallenged. underreporting of some of the asinine comments being made on the campaign trail. and so as an artist all i can do is make my heart. i'm a filmmaker,

zook: billy wilkerson, the original brains behind the flamingo -- he was an inveterate gambler.they might win a little, but ultimately, they'll lose more than they won. i had the time of my life. man: is this the first time you've gambled? that's right! this guy, i saw him lose $31,000. and he turned around, and he said, "can't beat 'em tonight. i guess i'll get a good night's sleep and try tomorrow." and i thought to myself, "this guy just lost $30,000, and he's gonna go to bed." you know [chuckles] i would go to the top of the hotel and jump off. schwartz: the other thing about vegas casinos then is if you were gambling, you were pretty much guaranteed a drink whenever you were thirsty. alcohol lowers inhibitions. so it's actually pretty smart to give people free alcohol if you need them to gamble more. ♪ announcer: las vegas, nevada -- the entertainment and fun capital of the world, where the clock never stops and the doors never close. ♪ vegas in the '50s was part of the post-war optimism and prosperity. ♪ we had come through world war ii, the middle class was booming, wages

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alright, let's cross life now to munich, where dw is chief international editor richard wilkerson timing vipers after security conference. richard, great to see you. so tell me, what are your main takeaways from the conference so far? or yeah, well i, i think probably is the take away that you, you really can't avoid is just the impact of the death of alexi and evaluation. just hit us here yesterday is people would be getting together for the security conference. and this is really a conversation that you feel just it was everybody here has had a buyer that about this big kind of confronted with, with the nature of the preaching regime. the reality of that once again, and also some speculation about the timing of, of that, whether that was a coincidence or whether this was somehow deliberately time to coincide with this gathering here. interestingly, one of the tapes that i got was for from a european leader who i will not name here but, but who said, well, if it was a deliberate timing, then it was extremely bad timing it backside because all it has done, it is kind of a strength and th

i haven't but a lot of history but a lot of historians have i know a lot of people like isabel wilkerson's on the warmth of suns i like it to but she already wrote that book. i felt i was writing on an earlier period. well, i'm eager to read this. you so much. thank you for coming and for your question. thank you. and i look forward to reading your book. i wonder if could address whether there was a big disparity between the deep south and the upper south in terms this kind of behavior, in terms of the violence like it's occurring over, the sort of larger history of emancipation and reconstruction and i think it's an important question, but i think what we have acknowledge is that confederate and, even those people who are in the border states who didn't see release black people from bondage reluctantly, they're not enthusiastic about it and so this violence is part a larger freedom denying enterprise and so it's happening everywhere. it's in tennessee, it's in kentucky which it didn't succeed. it's in texas. you see this sort of everyday that's deliberately targeting black and, taking the

and the fact that wilkerson seems to be on the curriculum, we need to make the case for democratic accountability of secret conservatives, people who agree with us but do not want to admit it. we'll debate the future direction of the tory party with a former advisor to liz truss, and former tory minister from the centre of the party. spina bifida, impaired hearing, autism, heart problems and reduced iq. those are some of the conditions children are living with, after their mums took an anti epilepsy drug called valproate. and many of these mums say they were not warned of the risks of taking the drug while trying to conceive or during their pregnancies — risks known as long ago as 1972. tonight the england's patient safety commissioner — who has been commissioned by the government to look into compensation — says the sodium valproate scandal is "bigger than thalidomide" — referring to the severe birth defects caused by a morning sickness drug, which was licenced in the 1950s in the uk. here's kate. tonight the patient safety commissioner has called for the government to urgently set up a fund for