so who was william munro trotter? why he was he alone, unapologetically persistently and radically against racial conservatism and white apathy in the face of radical reconstruction betrayal at the turn of the last century. most importantly how do his life and times demand reconceptualization of black radical politics, black political independence and possibilities of black community activism during the period that historians referred to as the long nadir at the turn of the last century. william munro trotter was born in 1872, the year that the role republicans broke from their radical colleagues who opposed federal reinforcement of reconstruction. he died exactly 62 years later as democratic president franklin d roosevelt presided an administration that changed the relationship to federal policy and the american economy brooks ended as he was between the failed promise of reconstruction and racial limitations of new deal o liberalism, trotter's life represents the radical possibilities of northern black politics root

. >> coming up on c-span2, university professor kerri greenidge recounts the life of william munro trotter a civil rights activist. he used the boston guardian to promote racial equality area that followed by journalist lawrence weschler on the late neurologist and officer oliver sacks and eugenia chang, author of beyond infinity explores the limits of logic . >> tonight on the communicators, mark randolph, cofounder of netflix and author of the book that will never work shares his experiences starting the online streaming service . >> april 14, 1998 i our cto hit a few keys and we were live and it didn't take long and we got that first thing. how we cheered and again opening bottles of champagne and then two or three minutes later, ding ding, three more orders and we were so excited and then we got two more orders and in all the excitement we kind of lost track of things until someone noticed that it's been a while since the bell has rung . and we were unplugged, is there a problem? it turned out in the first 15 minutes of being online we had crashed all of our servers. >> mark randolph t