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In this week's episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts U-Arkansas Prof. Albert Cheng and Alisha Searcy interview Benjamin Moynihan, Executive Director, and, William Crombie, Director of Professional Development, for the Algebra Project, Inc. Mr. Moynihan and Mr. Crombie reflect on the life and legacy of Civil Rights era icon, and math educator, Bob Moses. They trace Moses's journey from a Harlem upbringing and elite liberal arts education to his transformative grassroots activism in 1960s Mississippi, organizing Black voter registration and co-directing the Freedom Summer Project 1964. They discuss his collaboration with Mississippi sharecropper and Civil Rights era legend Fannie Lou Hamer, and his principled departure from the U.S. to raise a family and teach math in Tanzania, where his educational vision deepened. Bob Moses later founded the Algebra Project to confront math illiteracy as a modern civil rights issue, empowering students of color through community-based Algebra instruction. Moynihan and Crombie explore the Algebra Project's enduring mission; its pioneering role advocating for Algebra I as the gateway course to all higher-level math; and the importance of local buy-in for K-12 education reform. They reflect on Bob Moses's profound, often quiet leadership; Pulitzer-winning Civil Rights Movement historian Taylor Branch's high praise of his courageous voter registration work in Jim Crow Mississippi; and how the Algebra Project's grassroots model of organizing promotes access to high-level math instruction for all American schoolchildren.
1963 was a transformational year in American history—JFK's assassination, Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech, the Birmingham Campaign, the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, and escalating Cold War tensions. It was a year that changed the soul of America.In this episode, Dr. Peniel Joseph, author and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, joins Ryan to discuss how 1963 ignited a decade of transformation. They discuss the pivotal events of the year, the contrasting strategies of Malcolm X and MLK Jr., and how this single year reshaped the course of future generations.Dr. Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and distinguished service leadership professor and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author and editor of eight award-winning books on African American history, including The Third Reconstruction and The Sword and the Shield.
Welcome to The Georgia Politics Podcast! On today's special episode, we are once again joined by two delegates from Georgia to the most famous party convention in American history. Parker Hudson and Taylor Branch, both graduates of Westminster Schools, were delegates from Georgia to the 1968 DNC supporting Sen. Eugene McCarthy because of his anti-Vietnam War position. The convention, held in Chicago, was a turning point in U.S. political history, marked by violent protests, police brutality, and deep divisions within the Democratic Party. The backdrop of the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy fueled a highly charged atmosphere. Inside the convention, the Democratic Party was divided between establishment figures supporting Vice President Hubert Humphrey and more progressive, anti-war factions backing Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern. Georgia played a distinct role in the convention as it represented the conservative, pro-segregation wing of the party. Governor Lester Maddox, a vocal segregationist, led the Georgia delegation. Maddox was known for his staunch opposition to the Civil Rights Movement and had famously closed his restaurant rather than comply with integration laws. He and other Southern Democrats, sometimes referred to as Dixiecrats, resisted the party's growing embrace of civil rights and its increasingly liberal stance on social issues. At the convention, the Georgia delegation stood with the conservative elements of the party, opposing the anti-war platform and pushing back against the civil rights advancements. Maddox and other Southern leaders were aligned with George Wallace's independent campaign, which sought to appeal to disaffected white voters in the South, capitalizing on fears of racial integration and opposition to federal intervention in state matters. This ideological split within the Democratic Party, exemplified by the clash between conservative Southern Democrats like Maddox and the more progressive northern and western factions, highlighted the fractures that would soon lead to a realignment in American politics. Georgia's role in the 1968 DNC represented the old guard of Southern Democrats, clinging to segregationist values in the face of a rapidly changing political landscape. You can connect with Parker Hudson online, here. You can buy We Asked, “Why Not?” online, here. You can connect with Taylor Branch online, here. You can buy the Pulitzer Prize winning Parting the Waters, here. Connect with The Georgia Politics Podcast on Twitter @gapoliticspod Preston Thompson on Twitter @pston3 Hans Appen on Twitter @hansappen Craig Kidd on Twitter @CraigKidd1 Proud member of the Appen Podcast Network. #gapol
World famous gambling and entertainment hub Las Vegas, Nevada is also home to one of the "the most politically potent" unions in the United States, representing hotel casino workers there: Culinary Union Local 226 -- Harold Meyerson traveled to Las Vegas to find out what this powerful union is doing to help "push Kamala over the top".Also: Latino and Black voters in swing states, we are told by the New York Times, are “drifting away from the Democrats.” But how good is the evidence here? Steve Phillips has our analysis.Plus: From the Archives: The final years of Martin Luther King Jr. -- Taylor Branch discusses his book At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (originally recorded in March 2006).
Welcome to The Georgia Politics Podcast! On today's special episode, we are joined by two delegates from Georgia to the most famous party convention in American history. Parker Hudson and Taylor Branch, both graduates of Westminster Schools, were delegates from Georgia to the 1968 DNC supporting Sen. Eugene McCarthy because of his anti-Vietnam War position. The convention, held in Chicago, was a turning point in U.S. political history, marked by violent protests, police brutality, and deep divisions within the Democratic Party. The backdrop of the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy fueled a highly charged atmosphere. Inside the convention, the Democratic Party was divided between establishment figures supporting Vice President Hubert Humphrey and more progressive, anti-war factions backing Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern. Georgia played a distinct role in the convention as it represented the conservative, pro-segregation wing of the party. Governor Lester Maddox, a vocal segregationist, led the Georgia delegation. Maddox was known for his staunch opposition to the Civil Rights Movement and had famously closed his restaurant rather than comply with integration laws. He and other Southern Democrats, sometimes referred to as Dixiecrats, resisted the party's growing embrace of civil rights and its increasingly liberal stance on social issues. At the convention, the Georgia delegation stood with the conservative elements of the party, opposing the anti-war platform and pushing back against the civil rights advancements. Maddox and other Southern leaders were aligned with George Wallace's independent campaign, which sought to appeal to disaffected white voters in the South, capitalizing on fears of racial integration and opposition to federal intervention in state matters. This ideological split within the Democratic Party, exemplified by the clash between conservative Southern Democrats like Maddox and the more progressive northern and western factions, highlighted the fractures that would soon lead to a realignment in American politics. Georgia's role in the 1968 DNC represented the old guard of Southern Democrats, clinging to segregationist values in the face of a rapidly changing political landscape. You can connect with Parker Hudson online, here. You can buy We Asked, “Why Not?” online, here. You can connect with Taylor Branch online, here. You can buy the Pulitzer Prize winning Parting the Waters, here. Connect with The Georgia Politics Podcast on Twitter @gapoliticspod Preston Thompson on Twitter @pston3 Hans Appen on Twitter @hansappen Craig Kidd on Twitter @CraigKidd1 Proud member of the Appen Podcast Network. #gapol
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1057, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Astronomical Rhyme Time 1: Any song about Earth's natural satellite. a Moon tune. 2: Red planet pubs. Mars bars. 3: Space telescope problem. Hubble trouble. 4: Comet discoverer Edmond's narrow lanes. Halley's alleys. 5: One who determines the age of meteorite impact holes. a crater dater (crater rater accepted). Round 2. Category: Fill In The (Mel) Blanc 1: This 3-word query might have been Mel Blanc's first words. What's up, Doc?. 2: Blanc joined Hanna-Barbera to voice this character, Fred's neighbor and Betty's husband. (Barney) Rubble. 3: It was Mel Blanc's catchphrase when voicing a crested bird of the southwest U.S.. Beep, beep. 4: For "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", Blanc revived 5 characters including Tweety and this other bird. Daffy Duck. 5: As a railroad announcer on Jack Benny's radio and TV shows, Blanc called out the stations "Anaheim, Azusa and" this. Cucamonga. Round 3. Category: Monarchs Of England 1: The one with the second-longest reign. Elizabeth II. 2: Harold II had been king less than 10 months when he was defeated by William the Conqueror in this year. 1066. 3: He was king not only during the American war of independence but during the War of 1812 as well. George III. 4: This king, brother of Richard the Lionheart has a bad reputation; even his title, Count of Mortain, sounds evil. John. 5: This restored king ruled during the great plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of London the following year. Charles II. Round 4. Category: Literary Couples 1: Her book title "Sonnets from the Portuguese" refers to her husband's nickname for her. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 2: Dashiell Hammett modeled this lady sleuth after his lover, Lillian Hellman. Nora Charles. 3: She wrote a book subtitled "The Modern Prometheus"; he wrote the drama "Prometheus Unbound". Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley. 4: 2 of her novels contain barely fictionalized portraits of her lover, Jean-Paul Sartre. Simone de Beauvoir. 5: At least 2 of her books are dedicated to Quintana, her daughter by John Gregory Dunne. Joan Didion. Round 5. Category: Biography 1: Born an Air Force brat in Germany in 1959, he won his first Wimbledon in 1981 and married Tatum O'Neal in 1986. John McEnroe. 2: "Parting the Waters" is volume 1 in Taylor Branch's trilogy about this man's life and the civil rights movement. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.. 3: She's the political wife profiled here. Ethel Kennedy. 4: She was one of the last stars in the studio system"The tobacco farmer's daughter from North Carolina was awed and intimidated by the luxury of the MGM system.". Ava Gardner. 5: Born into Philadelphia's "High Society" in 1929, became a princess in 1956, lived happily ever after until 1982. Princess Grace/Grace Kelly. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used
Philosophy: The reality of war: News: The, mostly, untold story: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israeli-bombs-killed-ahmed-abu-artemas-son/The truth is the Republicans have no desire to govern and the Democrats do not have a fucking clue:Christian Love: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/american-charged-religious-terror-attack-australia-wieambilla-rcna128282Closing: Past due Celebration: https://thegrio.com/2023/12/07/fisk-university-makes-history-again-gymnastics-team-meet-all-black-coaches/
This series is sponsored by Ari and Danielle Schwartz in memory of Danielle's grandfather, Mr. Baruch Mappa, Baruch Ben Asher Zelig HaLevi.In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to three different advocates for affordable Jewish education about the state of the tuition crisis.While it is a sensitive subject to discuss, the cost of Jewish education remains one of the most vital issues at play in Jewish life today, as passing on a Torah education to the next generation is of the utmost importance.Why is Jewish education so expensive?How exactly does the process of providing financial aid work?What large-scale measures can be taken to attack the tuition crisis?Tune in to hear a conversation about how we can be more effective in our effort to provide a Torah education for all Jewish children. Interview begins at 7:20.Richard Hagler has been a longtime executive director of the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach schools. Chavie Kahn is the director of school strategy and policy at UJA-Federation of New York. Maury Litwack is the managing director of the Orthodox Union and founder of Teach Coalition.References:Teach Coalition18Forty Podcast: “Michael A. Helfand: Church, State, and Jewish Education”America in the King Years trilogy by Taylor Branch
Don Noble interviews author Taylor Branch about his 20 year history project on Civil Rights to an end with his third and final volume of the King years with "At Canaan's Edge"
Heartland POD on Twitter - @TheHeartlandPOD Co-HostsAdam Sommer @Adam_Sommer85Rachel Parker @RaichetPhttps://heartlandpod.com/“Change The Conversation” TRUE OR FALSECompetent state leadership is NOW a luxury itemGov. Parson recent media love fest toward teachers will result in something realhttps://twitter.com/BigElad/status/1582717235486785536?s=20&t=iXXjg7vynQpeRr7xogemrwhttps://missouriindependent.com/2022/10/18/commission-recommends-salary-increases-to-address-missouri-teacher-shortage/https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1582170175624728576 You don't F***ing saySteven Bannon is going to prison & You don't get to have privilege with your lawyer when your lawyer is helping you do crimesBannon https://www.npr.org/2022/10/21/1130327514/steve-bannon-sentencing-jan-6-committeeTrump and Lawyer: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/invoking-attorney-client-privilege-fails-donald-trump-john-eastman-n1300095Trump singed the law suit knowing it was falsehttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-says-trump-knew-voter-fraud-numbers-false-orders-ex-lawyer-give-rcna53047Girl…this, too: https://news.yahoo.com/judge-expects-steve-bannon-wall-154713375.htmlBuy or Sell The real silver lining of the Dobbs case is the way it has changed the conversation around women's health in generalhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/pregnancy-weeks-abortion-tissue?CMP=Share_iOSApp_OtherRE: images of fetal tissue that measure less than an inch: “I have been in the training field, and medical students and clinicians who see it are also shocked. That is how pervasive this misinformation is,” Fleischman says.https://myanetwork.org/the-issue-of-tissue/ BOLD PREDICTIONS!Biggest surprise WIN for dems in midterms (for rachel) Leaving my notes here, for both a and b:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/23/michael-moore-democratic-party-win-midterm-interview“Reached by telephone last week, Moore, 68, told the Guardian that his purpose, in effect, is to puncture herd-thinking. He points to three recent examples where political norms were wrongly interpreted.“If I said to you six months ago, ‘you know Kansas, right? It's a huge pro-abortion state and this summer by a margin of 60% they're going to keep abortion legal' you'd think I had made a crazy statement,” he says.”Biggest surprise LOSS for dems in midtermsWhat is the thing that no one sees today that will be crystal clear on November 9th? (For rachel: people will start giving all the fucks about governor's races even more than they are right now in preparation for 2024; to wit, check out the date I wrote this, and look how far we've come since then: https://www.imadeyoulook.net/look/governorscheckandbalance)It seemed revolutionary to me anyway to write articles like this in 2019, and now I'm on a reasonably popular podcast about this very type of thing. If these states were up in 2020, they'll be up in 2024. And we will give way more fucks than we did in 2020.LAST CALLThe Media Trump Darling ComplexKari Lake https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/10/kari-lake-arizona-governor-trump-2022-election/671679/“Trump has been laying the groundwork”...is a drinking game now?Tulsi is backThe great Taylor Branch gets it: https://twitter.com/taylorbranch/status/1583807655067324418
Heartland POD on Twitter - @TheHeartlandPOD Co-HostsAdam Sommer @Adam_Sommer85Rachel Parker @RaichetPhttps://heartlandpod.com/“Change The Conversation” TRUE OR FALSECompetent state leadership is NOW a luxury itemGov. Parson recent media love fest toward teachers will result in something realhttps://twitter.com/BigElad/status/1582717235486785536?s=20&t=iXXjg7vynQpeRr7xogemrwhttps://missouriindependent.com/2022/10/18/commission-recommends-salary-increases-to-address-missouri-teacher-shortage/https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1582170175624728576 You don't F***ing saySteven Bannon is going to prison & You don't get to have privilege with your lawyer when your lawyer is helping you do crimesBannon https://www.npr.org/2022/10/21/1130327514/steve-bannon-sentencing-jan-6-committeeTrump and Lawyer: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/invoking-attorney-client-privilege-fails-donald-trump-john-eastman-n1300095Trump singed the law suit knowing it was falsehttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-says-trump-knew-voter-fraud-numbers-false-orders-ex-lawyer-give-rcna53047Girl…this, too: https://news.yahoo.com/judge-expects-steve-bannon-wall-154713375.htmlBuy or Sell The real silver lining of the Dobbs case is the way it has changed the conversation around women's health in generalhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/pregnancy-weeks-abortion-tissue?CMP=Share_iOSApp_OtherRE: images of fetal tissue that measure less than an inch: “I have been in the training field, and medical students and clinicians who see it are also shocked. That is how pervasive this misinformation is,” Fleischman says.https://myanetwork.org/the-issue-of-tissue/ BOLD PREDICTIONS!Biggest surprise WIN for dems in midterms (for rachel) Leaving my notes here, for both a and b:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/23/michael-moore-democratic-party-win-midterm-interview“Reached by telephone last week, Moore, 68, told the Guardian that his purpose, in effect, is to puncture herd-thinking. He points to three recent examples where political norms were wrongly interpreted.“If I said to you six months ago, ‘you know Kansas, right? It's a huge pro-abortion state and this summer by a margin of 60% they're going to keep abortion legal' you'd think I had made a crazy statement,” he says.”Biggest surprise LOSS for dems in midtermsWhat is the thing that no one sees today that will be crystal clear on November 9th? (For rachel: people will start giving all the fucks about governor's races even more than they are right now in preparation for 2024; to wit, check out the date I wrote this, and look how far we've come since then: https://www.imadeyoulook.net/look/governorscheckandbalance)It seemed revolutionary to me anyway to write articles like this in 2019, and now I'm on a reasonably popular podcast about this very type of thing. If these states were up in 2020, they'll be up in 2024. And we will give way more fucks than we did in 2020.LAST CALLThe Media Trump Darling ComplexKari Lake https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/10/kari-lake-arizona-governor-trump-2022-election/671679/“Trump has been laying the groundwork”...is a drinking game now?Tulsi is backThe great Taylor Branch gets it: https://twitter.com/taylorbranch/status/1583807655067324418
Guillermo Mash with Imagining Community presenting the concluding episode in our Imagining Community three part series on the life and times of Bill Russell (1934 - 2022). The episode centers around Bill Russell's upbringing and how his family shaped who he was as a person, forming the springboard for a conversation with Cory Himp Hunt, Chico local musician, poet and KZFR 90.1FM Peace and Social Justice host, as we dig deep into my upbringing and the deeply personal missteps, travails and misgivings with racism and bigotry. The voice of Bill Russell is from the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It is an excerpt from a 3-hour interview in 2013 with Bill Russell and Taylor Branch. Bill Russell is an NBA Legend, Presidential Medal of Freedom reciepient and a civil rights Icon. Taylor Branch is an American author and historian who wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and much of the history of the American civil rights movement. All of our audio clips featuring Bill Russell were from this archive. We end the episode landing on what people of all races, Caucasians in particular, can do to change the atmosphere of racism by telling personal stories of racism transgressions and how their views changed, for the better, because of it. We close with an audio clip by Toni Morrison who lays bare the bereft nature of Racism and what "white people" need to do about it. Morrison was one of the most celebrated authors in the world. In addition to writing plays, and children's books, her novels have earned her countless prestigious awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. Morrison was a leading voice in the civil rights movement. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imagining-community/message
The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 3rd study session on the late Bill Russell's 1979 publication, Second Wind: The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man. Russell passed away on July 31st of this year at the age of 88. The NBA titan won eleven championships and an Olympic gold medal and was elected to the basketball Hall of Fame. However, he is most known for his counter-racist efforts - which includes lots of writing. Importantly, Russell's memoir is co-authored by award-winning White historian Taylor Branch, so any omission of relevant information or minimizing of White Terrorism should be thought of as deliberate Racism by Branch. Last week, Russell described a pivotal moment of his childhood. Oakland Public Library was Russell's sanctuary and the Bay Area transplant devoured books. While flipping through a history book, Russell read a passage that insisted slavery was the best thing to ever happened to ignorant, primitive black people. This paragraph gnawed at him for weeks and lit a simmering anger in Russell about the mistreatment of black people. Tragically, Russell sounds just like 21st century non-white children when he describes "bitter" White teachers forced to labor at Oakland's McClymonds High School. He also details how his grandfather, "The Old Man," was dumbfounded upon attending his first NBA game years later. Seeing his black grandson coach a team where White men had to follow Russell's commands, scrambled his brain computer. However, entering the locker room where White and black males showered together, left the elder Russell in total discombobulation about White Supremacy/Racism. #CounterViolence #BayArea #DelectableNegro #TheCOWS13 INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943#
The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 2nd study session on the late Bill Russell's 1979 publication, Second Wind: The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man. Russell passed away on July 31st of this year at the age of 88. The NBA titan won eleven championships and was elected to the basketball Hall of Fame. However, he is most known for his counter-racist efforts - which includes lots of writing. We previously discussed the abridged version of Russell's Louisiana childhood in Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns. Gus noted that Wilkerson omits key counter-violence elements to the narrative. Low and behold, the memoir - co-authored by White historian Taylor Branch, also omits significant episodes of counter-violence by Mr. Russell's father and grandfather. Our debut session on the book mentions a lynching in Ruston, Louisiana. Gus investigated, and the only lynching reported in Ruston, Louisiana during the 1930's is that of RC or WC Williams. This 19-year-old black male was killed after being accused of killing a White man and clubbing a White Woman. Pulitzer Prize winning historian Taylor Branch does not add one morsel of detail about this incident - not even Williams' name. A November 1938 report on this murder indicates that black residents of Ruston "agreed" not to discuss this lynching because too many "better-class Whites" participated in the murder. Stunningly, Russell said that his parents did not generally discuss White people or Racism. His mother worked to minimize Russell's contact with White people. Sounding like Neely Fuller, Jr., the NBA legend branded White people a mystery. #CounterViolence #RCWilliams #Louisiana #DelectableNegro INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943# #CounterViolence #FollowLogic INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943#
The Katherine Massey Book Club @ The C.O.W.S. hosts the 1st study session on the late Bill Russell's 1979 publication, Second Wind: The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man. Russell passed away on July 31st of this year at the age of 88. The NBA titan won eleven championships and was elected to the basketball Hall of Fame. However, he is most known for his counter-racist efforts - which includes lots of writing. We previously discussed the abridged version of Russell's Louisiana childhood in Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns. Gus noted that Wilkerson omits key counter-violence elements to the narrative We'll hear about his formative Louisiana years and the black parents and grandparents who produced Mr. William Felton Russell. Lots of counter-violence and black self respect in this work! And another White co-author, historian Taylor Branch. #RCWilliams #Katrina17 #Louisiana #TheCOWS13 INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE: 564943#
During their lifetimes, the late C.T. and Octavia Vivian collected more than 6,000 books on African American literature, history, poetry and more. The C.T. and Octavia Vivian Museum and Archives will honor their life and their legacy. DeAna Jo Vivian, their daughter-in-law heads the archive and recently honored authors including Natasha Trethewey, Taylor Branch, Tayari Jones, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ernie Suggs with Kaleidoscope Awards for Literary Excellence. It is the first of many efforts to bring the Vivian Museum and Archives to life.
In which Carla learns that the most important Supreme Court case of the civil rights movement was brought about by a sixteen-year-old in her state...and an entire county in her state shut down public school rather than integrate.Marked explicit for racism and racist violence.Theme song and stinger: “Comadreamers I” by Haunted Me, off their Pleasure album, used with permissionMy history teacher, Mr. Curtis: https://www.theremightbecupcakes.com/goodbye-my-friend-for-now/Referenced episodes: 9: Family Trees: https://www.theremightbecupcakes.com/episode-9-family-trees/Sources and recommended reading:Something Needs to Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, A Virginia Town, and a Civil Rights Battle by Kristin Green https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780062268686Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch https://bookshop.org/a/6560/978067168742714th Amendment: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv, https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fourteenth-amendment5th Amendment: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/fifth_amendmentPlessy v. Ferguson: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Plessy_v._FergusonR. R. Moton HS/Museum: https://www.nps.gov/places/virginia-robert-russa-moton-high-school.htmhttps://motonmuseum.orgReverend Vernon Johns and Reverend Martin Luther King: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/johns-vernonBarbara Rose Johns: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Rose_JohnsDavis v. County Board of Education of Prince Edward County: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_v._County_School_Board_of_Prince_Edward_CountyBrown v. Board of Education: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_EducationSavage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780770435684The Stanley Plan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_PlanThe Brown Scholarship—how to apply: http://brownscholarship.virginia.govHow to Support Cupcakes:Substack: http://theremightbecupcakes.substack.com, 75% paid subscription discount for Patreon subscribersAudible: https://www.audible.com/ep/creator?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004RCare/Of Vitamins: https://takecareof.com/invites/chr4bw and enter code CUPCAKES at checkoutPatreon: https://patreon.com/theremightbecupcakesand please visit my lovely sponsors that share their ads on my episodes.Where to Find Cupcakes:Substack: http://theremightbecupcakes.substack.comPatreon: http://patreon.com/theremightbecupcakesFacebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theremightbecupcakesFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theremightbecupcakesTwitter: @mightbecupcakesInstagram: @theremightbecupcakes and @carlahauntedReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/theremightbecupcakes r/theremightbecupcakesGoodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/804047-there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast-groupContact: carla@theremightbecupcakes.comComplete list of ways to listen to the podcast on the sidebar at http://theremightbecupcakes.com
CLICK HERE to listen to episode audio (5:35).Sections below are the following: Transcript of Audio Audio Notes and Acknowledgments Image Sources Related Water Radio Episodes For Virginia Teachers (Relevant SOLs, etc.). Unless otherwise noted, all Web addresses mentioned were functional as of 2-11-22.TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is Virginia Water Radio for the week of February 14, 2022. This week's episode –the third in a series of episodes on water in U.S. civil rights history—explores water access and use in African-American civil rights history. The episode particularly focuses on a May 2018 essay, “The Role of Water in African American History,” written by Tyler Parry, of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, for the blog Black Perspectives, published by the African American Intellectual History Society. We set the stage with three water sounds related to different aspects of African American and civil rights history. Have a listen for about 30 seconds and see what connections you think these sounds have to that history. SOUNDS – ~32 sec. You heard Chesapeake Bay waves, children swimming at a public pool, and water coming out of a fire hose. These represent three broad themes in African Americans' relationships with water: 1) uses of natural water bodies for livelihoods, recreation, transportation, repression, and resistance; 2) access, or lack thereof, to officially segregated water facilities, as occurred with swimming pools, water fountains, river ferries, and other facilities prior to the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964; and 3) water used as a weapon against citizens demonstrating for civil rights, as in the use of fire hoses on demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama; Danville, Virginia; and other places. In his essay on water in African American history, Tyler Parry notes these and several other ways that, quote, “water was often present at key moment in the Black experience. Here are some other examples from Dr. Parry's essay: the location of African societies near water; the Atlantic transport of enslaved Africans to American colonies and then the United States; use of American waterways—including the James and other Virginia rivers—in the movement of enslaved people; rivers and other waters providing routes of escape from slavery; segregation of African Americans into areas susceptible to flooding; and the importance of water in culture and spiritual practices. Viewing these examples collectively, Dr. Parry's essay states, quote, “One finds that water holds a dual role in the history of Black culture and intellectual thought. In one sense, water is an arena for resistance that liberates, nourishes, and sanctifies a people, but it can also be weaponized by hegemonic forces seeking to degrade, poison, or eliminate rebellious populations,” unquote. Thanks to Tyler Parry for his scholarship on this topic and for assisting Virginia Water Radio with this episode. We close with some music for the role of water in African American history. Here's a 50-second arrangement of “Wade in the Water,” an African American spiritual dating back to the time of slavery in the United States and connected to the history of the Underground Railroad and the modern Civil Rights Movement. This arrangement was composed by and is performed here by Torrin Hallett, a graduate student at the Yale School of Music. MUSIC - ~ 50 sec – instrumental. SHIP'S BELL Virginia Water Radio is produced by the Virginia Water Resources Research Center, part of Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment. For more Virginia water sounds, music, or information, visit us online at virginiawaterradio.org, or call the Water Center at (540) 231-5624. Thanks to Stewart Scales for his banjo version of Cripple Creek to open and close this episode. In Blacksburg, I'm Alan Raflo, thanking you for listening, and wishing you health, wisdom, and good water. AUDIO NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Virginia Water Radio thanks Dr. Tyler Parry, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, for his help with this episode. The sounds heard in this episode were as follows:Chesapeake Bay waves on Kent Island, Md., recorded by Virginia Water Radio on June 22, 2010;swimmers at Blacksburg Aquatic Center in Blacksburg, Va., recorded by Virginia Water Radio in July 2019;fire hose sound recorded by user bigroomsound, made available for use by purchase on Pond5, online at https://www.pond5.com/sound-effects/item/5499472-watersprayfireman-hosevarious. The arrangement of “Wade in the Water” (a traditional hymn) heard in this episode is copyright 2021 by Torrin Hallett, used with permission. Torrin is a 2018 graduate of Oberlin College and Conservatory in Oberlin, Ohio; a 2020 graduate in Horn Performance from Manhattan School of Music in New York; and a 2021 graduate of the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver. He is currently a graduate student at the Yale School of Music. More information about Torrin is available online at https://www.facebook.com/torrin.hallett. Thanks very much to Torrin for composing this arrangement especially for Virginia Water Radio. This music was used previously by Virginia Water Radio in Episode 566, 3-1-21, the introduction to Virginia Water Radio's series on water in U.S. civil rights history. Click here if you'd like to hear the full version (1 min./11 sec.) of the “Cripple Creek” arrangement/performance by Stewart Scales that opens and closes this episode. More information about Mr. Scales and the group New Standard, with which Mr. Scales plays, is available online at http://newstandardbluegrass.com. IMAGE Sculpture in Birmingham, Alabama's, Kelly Ingram Park, recalling fire hoses being used on civil rights protestors in the 1960s. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, March 3, 2010. Accessed from the Library of Congress, online at https://www.loc.gov/item/2010636978/, 2/15/22. SOURCES Used for AudioJeff Adelson, “New Orleans segregation, racial disparity likely worsened by post-Katrina policies, report says,” Nola.com (New Orleans Times-Picayune and New Orleans Advocate), April 5, 2018. Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1998. Waldo E. Martin, Jr., and Patricia Sullivan, Civil Rights in the United States, Vol. One, Macmillian Reference USA, New York, 2000. Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project, Transport on James River: “African Presence in Virginia,” undated, online at https://www.middlepassageproject.org/2020/04/29/african-presence-in-virginia/. National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, Tenn.), “Jim Crow Water Dippers,” online at https://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/from-the-vault/posts/water-dippers. Tyler Parry, “The Role of Water in African American History,” Black Perspectives, African American Intellectual History Society, May 4, 2018, online at https://www.aaihs.org/the-role-of-water-in-african-american-history/. James Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, and New York, N.Y., 1996. Donald M. Sweig, “The Importation of African Slaves to the Potomac River, 1732-1772,” The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 4 (October 1985), pages 507-524; online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/1919032?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents. Virginia Commission to Examine Racial Inequity in Virginia Law, “Identifying and addressing the vestiges of inequity and inequality in Virginia's laws,” November 15, 2020, online at https://www.governor.virginia.gov/racial-inequity-commission/reports/, as of August 2021. As of February 2022, this report is no longer available at this URL. A description of the project is available in a February 10, 2021, news release from then Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, online at https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/all-releases/2021/february/headline-892615-en.html. Victoria W. Wolcott, “The forgotten history of segregated swimming pools and amusement parks,” UB NOW, University of Buffalo, July 11, 2019. Ed Worley, “Water fountains symbolize 1960s civil rights movement,” U.S. Army blog (unnamed), February 22, 2018, online at https://www.army.mil/article/200456/water_fountains_symbolize_1960s_civil_rights_movement. Water Citizen LLC, “Until Justice Rolls Down Like Waters—Water & the Civil Rights Movement,” Water Citizen News, January 16, 2014, online at http://watercitizennews.com/until-justice-rolls-down-like-water-water-the-civil-rights-movement/. Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, HarperCollins, New York, N.Y., 2003. For More Information about Civil Rights in the United States British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), “The Civil Rights Movement in America,” online at https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zcpcwmn/revision/1. Georgetown Law Library, “A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States,” online at https://guides.ll.georgetown.edu/civilrights. Howard University Law Library, “A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States,” online at https://library.law.howard.edu/civilrightshistory/intro. University of Maryland School of Law/Thurgood Marshall Law Library, “Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights,” online at https://law.umaryland.libguides.com/commission_civil_rights. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, online at https://www.usccr.gov/. U.S. House of Representatives, “Constitutional Amendments and Major Civil Rights Acts of Congress Referenced in Black Americans in Congress,” online at https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Historical-Data/Constitutional-Amendments-and-Legislation/. U.S. National Archives, “The Constitution of the United States,” online at https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution. RELATED VIRGINIA WATER RADIO EPISODES All Water Radio episodes are listed by category at the Index link above (http://www.virginiawaterradio.org/p/index.html). See particularly the “History” subject category. This episode is part of the series, Exploring Water in U.S. Civil Rights History. As of February 14, 2022, other episodes in the series are as follows: Episode 566, 3-1-21 – series overview.Episode 591, 8-23-21 – water symbolism in African American civil rights history. Following are links to some other previous episodes on the history of African Americans in Virginia. Episode 459, 2-11-19 – on Abraham Lincoln's arrival in Richmond at the end of the Civil War.Episode 128, 9-17-12 – on Chesapeake Bay Menhaden fishing crews and music.Episode 458, 2-4-19 – on Nonesuch and Rocketts Landing in Richmond. FOR VIRGINIA TEACHERS – RELATED STANDARDS OF LEARNING (SOLs) AND OTHER INFORMATIONFollowing are some Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs) that may be supported by this episode's audio/transcript, sources, or other information included in this post. 2020 Music SOLs SOLs at various grade levels that call for “examining the relationship of music to the other fine arts and other fields of knowledge.” 2015 Social Studies SOLs Grades K-3 History Theme1.2 – Virginia history and life in present-day Virginia.Grades K-3 Civics Theme3.12 – Importance of government in community, Virginia, and the United States, including government protecting rights and property of individuals.3.13 – People of America's diversity of ethnic origins, customs, and traditions, under a republican form of government with respect for individual rights and freedoms.Virginia Studies CourseVS.7 – Civil War issues and events, including the role of Virginia and the role of various ethnic groups.VS.8 – Reconstruction era in Virginia, including “Jim Crow” issues and industrialization.VS.9 – How national events affected Virginia and its citizens. United States History to 1865 CourseUSI.5 – Factors that shaped colonial America and conditions in the colonies, including how people interacted with the environment to produce goods and service.USI.9 – Causes, events, and effects of the Civil War. United States History: 1865-to-Present CourseUSII.3 – Effects of Reconstruction on American life.USII.4 – Developments and changes in the period 1877 to early 1900s.USII.6 – Social, economic, and technological changes from the 1890s to 1945.USII.8 – Economic, social, and political transformation of the United States and the world after World War II.USII.9 – Domestic and international issues during the second half of the 20th Century and the early 21st Century. Civics and Economics Course CE.2 – Foundations, purposes, and components of the U.S. Constitution. CE.3 – Citizenship rights, duties, and responsibilities. CE.6 – Government at the national level.CE.7 – Government at the state level.CE.8 – Government at the local level.CE.10 – Public policy at local, state, and national levels. World Geography CourseWG.2 – How selected physical and ecological processes shape the Earth's surface, including climate, weather, and how humans influence their environment and are influenced by it.WG.3 – How regional landscapes reflect the physical environment and the cultural characteristics of their inhabitants.Virginia and United States History CourseVUS.6 – Major events in Virginia and the United States in the first half of the 19th Century.VUS.7 – Knowledge of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.VUS.13 – Changes in the United States in the second half of the 20th Century.VUS.14 – Political and social conditions in the 21st Century.Government CourseGOVT.4 – Purposes, principles, and structure of the U.S. Constitution.GOVT.5 – Federal system of government in the United States.GOVT.7 – National government organization and powers.GOVT.8 – State and local government organization and powers.GOVT.9 – Public policy process at local, state, and national levels.GOVT.11 – Civil liberties and civil rights. Virginia's SOLs are available from the Virginia Department of Education, online at http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/.Following are links to Water Radio episodes (various topics) designed especially for certain K-12 grade levels. Episode 250, 1-26-15 – on boiling, for kindergarten through 3rd grade.Episode 255, 3-2-15 – on density, for 5th and 6th grade.Episode 282, 9-21-15 – on living vs. non-living, for kindergarten.Episode 309, 3-28-16 – on temperature regulation in animals, for kindergarten through 12th grade.Episode 333, 9-12-16 – on dissolved gases, especially dissolved oxygen in aquatic habitats, for 5th grade.Episode 403, 1-15-18 – on freezing and ice, for kindergarten through 3rd grade.Episode 404, 1-22-18 – on ice on ponds and lakes, for 4th through 8th grade.Episode 406, 2-5-18 – on ice on rivers, for middle school.Episode 407, 2-12-18 – on snow chemistry and physics, for high school.Episode 483, 7-29-19 – on buoyancy and drag, for middle school and high school.Episode 524, 5-11-20 – on sounds by water-related animals, for elementary school through high school.Episode 531, 6-29-20 – on various ways that animals get water, for 3rd and 4th grade.Episode 539, 8-24-20 – on basic numbers and facts about Virginia's water resources, for 4th and 6th grade.
Michael's conversation with Taylor Branch, author of "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President." Original air date 6 October 2009. The book was published on 29 September 2009.
It's another edition of Midday at the Movies, our monthly look at films and filmmaking. Tom is joined once again by two of our favorite film aficianadoes: Ann Hornaday, the movie critic for The Washington Post and author the best-selling filmgoers' guide, Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies; and Jed Dietz, the founder and former director of the Maryland Film Festival. Today, Ann and Jed remember the extraordinary, groundbreaking contributions of Sidney Poitier, the first Black actor to win an Academy Award, who died January 6 at the age of 94. Then they size up the Golden Globe Awards, which have lost some of their luster in recent years. And they review some of the best films of 2021 and the best new theatrical and streaming releases of 2022. Among the movies they discuss today are The Power of the Dog,Licorice Pizza, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Don't Look Up, The Lost Daughterand Red Rocket. ________________________________________________________________ And this note about an event this weekend honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On Sunday afternoon at 1:00, Jews United for Justice and a consortium of synagogues and other Jewish organizations are presenting on online program called The Enduring Relevance of “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” with the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Taylor Branch, the activist Tara Huffman, Tre' Murphy of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and students from the Baltimore School for the Arts. For more information on this event, click here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode 001 Reading Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch. A dive into the Civil Rights movement. Paul and Gabe discuss chapters one and two. A pre history to the civil rights movement. Find out what character throws themselves out of the window twice, who get's criticized for selling vegetables in church, along with fish, what historical Black intellectual will be named Old Sourpuss, who we love and agree with...and an explanation on why some people have letters as first names, that and much much more.
CLICK HERE to listen to episode audio (5:32).Sections below are the following: Transcript of Audio Audio Notes and Acknowledgments Images Sources Related Water Radio Episodes For Virginia Teachers (Relevant SOLs, etc.). Unless otherwise noted, all Web addresses mentioned were functional as of 8-23-21. TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is Virginia Water Radio for the week of August 23, 2021. This episode, the second in a series of episodes on water in U.S. civil rights history, explores water as symbolism in African American civil rights history. [The first episode in the series--the series overview--is Episode 566, 3-1-21.] We start with about 50 seconds of music. MUSIC – ~53 sec – Lyrics: “Well the river ends between two hills; follow the drinkin' gourd. There's another river on the other side; follow the drinkin' gourd. Follow the drinkin' gourd; follow the drinkin' gourd. For the ol' man is a'waiting for the carry you to freedom; follow the drinkin' gourd.” You've been listening to part of “Follow the Drinking Gourd,” recorded by Eric Bibb in 2013. The song is believed to have been used prior to the Civil War as a code to help enslaved people escape on the Underground Railroad. In that interpretation, the verses gave information about the route, and the drinking gourd referred to the Big Dipper, setting the direction to go by pointing towards the North Star. Another water-related spiritual song, “Wade in the Water,” is also believed to have been used as Underground Railroad code. Both songs became popular hymns within African American churches and, by the mid-1900s, were closely associated with the modern Civil Rights Movement. In a 2018 post entitled “The Role of Water in African American History,” Tyler Parry stated that, “water's culturally symbolic importance resonated across generations….” Following are four other examples of water symbolism connected to the African American movement for civil rights. Number 1: “Parting the waters.” This phrase refers to the account in the Bible Book of Exodus, in which God parted the waters of the Red Sea so that the Israelites could escape from Egyptian slavery. It's been used as a metaphor for the enormous challenges that African Americans have faced in acquiring and asserting their civil rights. For instance, it's the title of the first volume in Taylor Branch's trilogy on the modern civil rights era, America in the King Years. That trilogy is the source for the next two examples. Number 2. “Until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Martin Luther King, Jr., frequently used this phrase, taken from the Bible Book of Amos, to describe how long the U.S. civil rights movement would need to continue. Number 3: “Springs of racial poison.” At the signing of the federal Civil Rights Act in July 1964, President Lyndon Johnson said, “We must not fail. Let us close the springs of racial poison.” And number 4. “A fire no water could put out.” Dr. King used this phrase in his final public sermon in Memphis. Recalling demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, when Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety “Bull” Connor ordered fire hoses turned on demonstrators, Dr. King said that Connor didn't realize “that there was a certain kind of fire that no water could put out.” These examples are only a small piece of a much larger story. I invite listeners to offer Virginia Water Radio other examples of water metaphors and symbolism in U.S. civil rights history. Thanks to Eric Bibb, his manager Heather Taylor, and Riddle Films for permission to use this week's music, and we close with about 25 more seconds of Mr. Bibb performing “Follow the Drinking Gourd.” MUSIC – ~ 24 sec – Lyrics: “For the ol' man is a'waitin' for to carry you to freedom; follow the drinkin' gourd.” SHIP'S BELL Virginia Water Radio is produced by the Virginia Water Resources Research Center, part of Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment. For more Virginia water sounds, music, or information, visit us online at virginiawaterradio.org, or call the Water Center at (540) 231-5624. Thanks to Ben Cosgrove for his version of “Shenandoah” to open and close the show. In Blacksburg, I'm Alan Raflo, thanking you for listening, and wishing you health, wisdom, and good water. AUDIO NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Eric Bibb performance of “Follow the Drinking Gourd” heard in this Virginia Water Radio episode was taken from a video recording dated March 19, 2013, and posted by Riddle Films online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjBZEMkmwYA. Audio for this recording is used with permission of Eric Bibb, via his manager Heather Taylor; and of Liam Romalis at Riddle Films. More information about Eric Bibb is available online at https://www.ericbibb.com/. More information about Riddle Films is available online at http://riddlefilms.com/.An excellent version of “Wade in the Water” (the other song mentioned in this week's audio), performed by Deeper Dimension, is available online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NQvOFTioJg. Click here if you'd like to hear the full version (2 min./22 sec.) of the “Shenandoah” arrangement/performance by Ben Cosgrove that opens and closes this episode. More information about Mr. Cosgrove is available online at http://www.bencosgrove.com. IMAGES Image of the relation of the constellation known as the Big Dipper and as the Drinking Gourd to the North Star. Image from the National Park Service, “North Star to Freedom,” accessed online at https://www.nps.gov/articles/drinkinggourd.htm, 8/23/21.Map of escape routes for enslaved people prior to the U.S. Civil War. Map by National Park Service, “What is the Underground Railroad?” Image accessed online at https://www.nps.gov/subjects/undergroundrailroad/what-is-the-underground-railroad.htm, 8/23/21.Sculpture in Birmingham, Alabama's, Kelly Ingram Park, recalling fire hoses being used on civil rights protestors in the 1960s. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, March 3, 2010. Accessed from the Library of Congress, online at https://www.loc.gov/item/2010636978/, 8/23/21.SOURCES Used for Audio Kenyatta D. Berry, “Singing in Slavery: Songs of Survival, Songs of Freedom,” PBS “Mercy Street Revealed Blog,” 1/23/17, online at http://www.pbs.org/mercy-street/blogs/mercy-street-revealed/songs-of-survival-and-songs-of-freedom-during-slavery/. Taylor Branch:At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2007;Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1988; Personal Communication, March 16, 2021;Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1998. Joel Bressler, “Follow the Drinking Gourd: A Cultural History,” online at http://www.followthedrinkinggourd.org/. Encyclopedia Britannica, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers – Poem by Langston Hughes,” online at https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Negro-Speaks-of-Rivers. C. Michael Hawn, “History of Hymns: ‘Wade in the Water,'” 2/1/16, Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church, online at https://www.mississippi-umc.org/newsdetail/2576866. High Museum of Art (Atlanta, Ga.), “'A Fire That No Water Could Put Out': Civil Rights Photography” (exhibit November 4, 2017—April 29, 2018), online at https://high.org/exhibition/a-fire-that-no-water-could-put-out-civil-rights-photography/. Martin Luther King, Jr.:August 28, 1963, speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (“I have a dream” speech), as published by American Rhetoric, online at https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm;April 3, 1968, speech in Memphis, Tenn. (“I've been to the mountaintop” speech), as published by American Rhetoric, online at https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm. LearntheBible.org, “Parting of the Waters,” online at http://www.learnthebible.org/parting-of-the-waters.html.Bruce McClure, “Here's How To Find The Big Dipper and Little Dipper,” EarthSky, March 7, 2021, online at https://earthsky.org/favorite-star-patterns/big-and-little-dippers-highlight-northern-sky/. Merriam-Webster Dictionary, “Symbolism,” online at https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/symbolism. National Center for Civil and Human Rights (Atlanta, Ga.), “Rolls Down Like Water: U.S. Civil Rights Movement” (exhibit), online at https://www.civilandhumanrights.org/exhibition/us-civil-rights/. National Park Service:“Kelly Ingram Park” [Birmingham, Ala.], online at https://www.nps.gov/places/kelly-ingram-park.htm;“North Star to Freedom,” online at https://www.nps.gov/articles/drinkinggourd.htm;“Theophilus Eugene ‘Bull' Connor (1897-1973),” online at https://www.nps.gov/people/bull-connor.htm;“Underground Railroad,” online at https://www.nps.gov/subjects/undergroundrailroad/index.htm. NPR (National Public Radio) and Smithsonian Institution, “Wade in the Water” (26-part series produced in 1994 on the history of American gospel music), online at https://www.npr.org/series/726103231/wade-in-the-water.Tyler Parry, “The Role of Water in African American History,” Black Perspectives blog (African American Intellectual History Society), May 4, 2018, online at https://www.aaihs.org/the-role-of-water-in-african-american-history/.PBS (Public Broadcasting System) “American Experience/Soundtrack for a Revolution,” online at https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/soundtrack/. Walter Rhett, “Decoding ‘Wade in the Water,'” Black History 360*, February 18, 2011, online at https://blackhistory360.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/decoding-wade-in-the-water/. Selma [Alabama] Times-Journal, The drinking gourd and the Underground Railroad, January 26, 2004. Smithsonian Folkways, “Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966,” online at https://folkways.si.edu/voices-of-the-civil-rights-movement-black-american-freedom-songs-1960-1966/african-american-music-documentary-struggle-protest/album/smithsonian. Tellers Untold, “How Harriet Tubman used ‘Wade in the Water' to help slaves escape,” February 15, 2021, online at https://www.tellersuntold.com/2021/02/15/how-harriet-tubman-used-the-song-wade-in-the-water-to-help-slaves-escape-to-the-north/. For More Information about Civil Rights in the United States British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), “The Civil Rights Movement in America,” online at https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zcpcwmn/revision/1. Georgetown Law Library, “A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States,” online at https://guides.ll.georgetown.edu/civilrights. Howard University Law Library, “A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States,” online at https://library.law.howard.edu/civilrightshistory/intro. University of Maryland School of Law/Thurgood Marshall Law Library, “Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights,” online at https://law.umaryland.libguides.com/commission_civil_rights. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, online at https://www.usccr.gov/. U.S. House of Representatives, “Constitutional Amendments and Major Civil Rights Acts of Congress Referenced in Black Americans in Congress,” online at https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Historical-Data/Constitutional-Amendments-and-Legislation/. U.S. National Archives, “The Constitution of the United States,” online at https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution. RELATED VIRGINIA WATER RADIO EPISODES All Water Radio episodes are listed by category at the Index link above (http://www.virginiawaterradio.org/p/index.html). See particularly the “History” subject category. This episode is part of the series Exploring Water in U.S. Civil Rights History. As of August 23, 2021, other episodes is the series are as follows:Episode 566, 3-1-21 – series overview. Following are links to some previous episodes on the history of African Americans in Virginia. Episode 459, 2-11-19 – on Abraham Lincoln's arrival in Richmond at the end of the Civil War.Episode 128, 9-17-12 – on Chesapeake Bay Menhaden fishing crews and music.Episode 458, 2-4-19 – on Nonesuch and Rocketts Landing in Richmond. FOR VIRGINIA TEACHERS – RELATED STANDARDS OF LEARNING (SOLs) AND OTHER INFORMATION Following are some Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs) that may be supported by this episode's audio/transcript, sourc
The A Nazi on Wall Street Podcast is a discussion about current events, their historical context, and building the world in which the A Nazi on Wall Street story takes place. Even though the Civil Rights Movement primarily takes shape after the 1940s, the Elusive Films team made a conscious choice to include this topic in our series after the historic Black Lives Matter marches inspired in part by the death of George Floyd in 2020. We could not reflect on recent current events without talking about these historic forces. They are essential to understanding where we are and how we got here.To our great fortune, Pulitzer Prize winning civil rights author Taylor Branch joins Jay and EJ to discuss this important topic and reflect on the differences and similarities between Black Lives Matter and the movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, SNCC and others in the 1950s and 1960s. We hope you'll tune in to this timely and salient topic with us.
In June, the Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling on college sports: Student athletes will now be able to receive educational benefits such as free laptops and paid internships. The decision may have seemed relatively small, but in this episode of the Experiment podcast, the Atlantic staff writer Adam Harris explains how it could change the way we think about college athletes. College sports rake in billions of dollars a year for schools. But athletes themselves have historically been barred from making money by the NCAA in order to preserve their amateur status. “Amateurism” has long been a central idea of college athletics: Student athletes play for the love of the game and an education, never for compensation. The myth (and marketing) of the “student athlete” have grown over the past century, but starting in 2010, a scandal gradually shifted how the country saw college sports. This week on The Experiment: The Atlantic staff writer and former college-basketball player Adam Harris explains how the myth of the amateur athlete was created, and why it may finally be on its way out. This episode's guests include Adam Harris, a staff writer at The Atlantic; Andy Thomason, an assistant managing editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education and the author of Discredited; Ramogi Huma, a former UCLA football player and the executive director of the National College Players Association; Mary Willingham, a former student-athlete academic adviser and whistleblower at the University of North Carolina. Further reading: “The Shame of College Sports,” by Taylor Branch A transcript of this episode will soon be made available. Please check back. Be part of The Experiment. Use the hashtag #TheExperimentPodcast, or write to us at theexperiment@theatlantic.com. This episode was produced by Kevin Townsend and Julia Longoria. Editing by Katherine Wells. Reporting by Adam Harris. Fact-check by William Brennan. Sound design by David Herman. Music by Laurie Bird (“Jussa Trip”), Parish Council (“Durdle Door” and “Walled Garden 1”), Keyboard (“Freedom of Movement,” “Mu,” and “World View”), R McCarthy (“Cold” and “Big Game”), and Column (“Sensuela”), provided by Tasty Morsels. Additional music by David Robidoux (“Rivals (B)”), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (“Milan String Quartet No. 4 in E-flat Major”), and Claude Debussy (“String Quartet in G Minor”). Additional audio from MSNBC (clip 1 and clip 2); Fox News; CNN; Kennedy; CNN (clip 1, clip 2, and clip 3); NBC, via AirTexas; NCAA (clip 1, clip 2, clip 3, and clip 4); ESPN (via vslice02 and JD71andOnly); March Madness; WRAL; ACC Digital Network; Fox8; NPR; and Oyez.
Mahesh Ram is a serial founder and entrepreneur and he's currently the founding CEO of Solvvy, a leading SaaS provider of conversational self-service and automation solutions to leading global companies with over 550 million end users. Prior to Solvvy, he was the CEO of GlobalEnglish which pioneered online business English education for learners in over 120 countries. GlobalEnglish was later acquired by the Pearson PLC. He previously held CTO roles at Thomson Reuters. Questions Could you just tell us a little bit about your journey? How it is that you ended up in this world of customer experience automation? Can you tell us a little bit about Solvvy? So a big part of artificial intelligence is natural language processing, could you just break down what that really is to our listeners so that they can understand and maybe even get a better connection with maybe how this could work in their business? A business is really looking to try and find a way to have more automation in their business. What's maybe one or two things that you think they could start off doing if they're at ground zero, they have no automation. Where can they start to try to get their business on level one of trying to get automated and have their customers come on board? Could you share with us what is the one online resource, tool, website or app that you absolutely can't live without in your business? Could you also share with us maybe one or two books that have had really great impact on you, it could be a book that you read recently, or even one that you read a very long time ago, but it still has a great impact on you. Could you share also share with us what's one thing that's going on in your life right now that you're really excited about? It could be something that you're working on to develop yourself or your people. Where can listeners find you online? Do you have a quote or a saying that during times of adversity or challenge, you'll tend to revert to this quote, because it kind of helps to get you back on track, or just get you going if you get derailed for any reason? Do you have one of those? Highlights Mahesh's Journey Mahesh shared that he thinks the whole area of customer experience is one that always fascinated him, his entire career has been about automating complexity. And by taking very complex things and turning them into easier, better, more frictionless experiences and that's been true for whether that's online education or legal and tax compliance. But when he thinks about customer experience, it's the thing that impacts every single one of us, all of us have great experiences we can talk about with brands and we have those very poor experiences we talk about with brands and we make decisions based on those things. And he's no different than everybody else, than their customers. And so, when he saw the potential for the technology to truly deliver a better experience at scale, he was hooked. When he saw that the incredibly powerful PhD work that his co-founders had done that enabled the ability to deliver this incredible customer experience at scale, he just couldn't resist because as a CEO, he has often seen that they're just not good enough at this. So that's what motivated him and that's what excites him about what they're doing. What is Solvvy About? Me: All right. So can you tell us a little bit about Solvvy? I know you mentioned in your bio that you are currently at Solvvy and Solvvy is about CX automated platforms and basically powering customer experiences. Just in in real word terms so our listeners that are listening, whether they are managers, or business owners of small or medium businesses, they can get a better understanding of what you do could possibly influence what they do to enhance frictionless experiences for their customers. Mahesh shared that there's a famous book called The Effortless Experience that he thinks described very nicely what they're trying to do, but at Solvvy, they built a powerful SaaS platform, it's a solution that takes machine learning and natural language processing, natural language understanding at its core, but delivers an end user or consumer experience that allows every one of us as consumers to interact with the brand in a way to get self-service automation sometimes, other times get the right journey, be able to get to the right agent at the right time. But the way they like to think about it is allowing any brand in the world at scale to deliver what they think of is like concierge level journey. Imagine if the system understood you, it knows what you want, you just talked to it and it tells you where you need to go. Sometimes it provides you an immediate answer, other times it has to ask you some follow up questions because it needs a little more information from you in order to pinpoint either the right answer or get you to the right agent. And you can imagine how this can be scaled across a global footprint, across the world. Their customers are B2B and B2C companies that have hundreds and millions of end users. But they're serving two customers, if you will, they're serving the companies that buy and implement them but ultimately, their end customer is their consumer, their end user and can they (Solvvy) deliver an intelligent solution like sometimes it's in the form of a chatbot, other times it's in the form of taking them on a journey and taking them to the right agent. But that's what they do. They made it really simple to implement something that's very complex under the hood, but it's very simple for companies to implement and it delivers an immediate ROI to the business and better experience for the user. Me: Does your company primarily work with a particular type of industry like retail? Or is it more service based kind of organizations? Could you give an example of maybe one of your clients that has seen success as a result of this approach? Mahesh shared that first of all they work across a wide number of verticals, both B2B and B2C. But he would say some of their strongest verticals are things like ecommerce, not so much pure physical retail, but oftentimes the ecommerce arm of a retail business, FinTech. So consumer FinTech and banking, a good example would be a consumer finance banking application stash, which many people have used, millions of users use them. They work with brands like Ring - the home doorbell, home alarm, home security company, which is now part of Amazon. These are some of the companies. So it's a wide spectrum of companies but typically it's a situation where he as an end user of a product or service, have adopted that product or service, but have questions about how to get the most out of it. And sometimes that can be simple, that can be he's an ecommerce customer and he has ordered something and he wants to cancel something or he wants to see where it is, he's wondering why there's a delay. Other times, it might be something like he bought a device and he doesn't know how to make it work with his iPhone, we've all had that experience. And in both those situations, Solvvy can understand the issue as expressed by the user in everyday natural language, and then be able to connect the user to the right solution that could be a stepwise guide an answer, it could be in some cases, collecting more information and giving it to the agent who can then help you 3 to 10 times faster than they could. So that those are some examples of companies they work with, that it's a pretty broad spectrum. They even work in healthcare, they work with Calm, which is one of the leading meditation apps, many of your users, entrepreneurs may be using that to do meditation and peace of mind. Wonderful application, they support their end users. So it ranges across a wide range of industries. What is Natural Language Processing? Me: So a big part of artificial intelligence is natural language processing. And I know for the average person, that may sound like really high level, could you just break down what that really is to our listeners so that they can understand and maybe even get a better connection with maybe how this could work in their business? Mahesh shared that the way to simplify the complex, obviously, natural language processing is a deep science and there's 10s of 1000s of research papers and PhD thesis on this, but he'll simplify it because he thinks at the end of the day, as consumers, it boils down to one thing is the ability to understand, in the customer experience space, it's the ability to understand when a user expresses an issue or what we think of as an intent. So, you might say, “I bought the jeans last week, they don't fit me, please help.” And if you have enough data about prior examples of that, you can quickly learn, the machine learning can actually learn that the natural language expression in that case is likely a call to say, “Hey, can I return or exchange this?” Nowhere is the word return or exchange used. So he thinks natural language understanding in context of customer experience is about understanding how people in that business or in that problem area express issues, they often don't use the words that the companies use, they may not use the word return or exchange, they say, “I want to give this back.” So NLU (Natural Language Understanding) is the technology that allows you to move away from that kind of keyword dependency and understand the core intent of what the user is doing. And the way you do that is you actually train on the prior data, because chances are most businesses have had 1000s, if not hundreds of 1000s of people asking similar questions before. And the machine learning can actually learn how real users express real issues and start to get better at detecting that as soon as they finish typing something in or speaking something. And we're all familiar with Alexa, and it has a specific set of natural language understanding where you can ask what's the weather and it's been trained to understand those words, is it going to rain today? And it knows to answer you with an answer and tell you to take an umbrella. So that's an example of NLU that most people would understand but in the context of customer experience, it's very much about understanding that businesses specific natural language. Tips for Implementing Automation in Your Business Me: So let's say we have some listeners who their business, let me give you an example. Let's say for example, it is a pastry business and she or he may have an outlet where customers can come and pick up little pastries like cupcakes or a slice of bread pudding or whatever the case is. And they're really looking to try and find a way to have more automation in their business. What's maybe one or two things that you think they could start off doing if they're at ground zero, they have no automation. Where can they start to try to get their business on level one of trying to get automated and have their customers come on board? Mahesh stated that he thinks the first thing he thinks if you think about foundational principles, it's first of all, let's make sure that we collect all that information in a place where you make sure that you answer it, that you keep track of it, that you have some history of what's happened with that user. And so typically, you would use some sort of a simple support CRM business. They partner with companies like Zendesk, Freshdesk, and others. And those are pretty simple to implement, they don't really require a lot of deep technology to implement a simple implementation. And that allows you to then say, “Okay, Yanique called me on Tuesday asking about the status of her pastry order. And I need to get back to her.” It keeps track of it and if you come back a week later, he might know that you asked about this last week. And so, he might start his conversation with you by saying, “Is this about the pastry order you placed last week?”, So he has some context. So he thinks first thing is to put a simple system in place, there's lightweight systems, there's inexpensive systems, they don't cost a lot of money. And typically, you can scale up or down depending on how many resources you have. So that, he thinks is first things first. Second thing is, he thinks a lot of businesses would just benefit from writing some simple content, and other things on their websites to be able to answer the most frequently asked questions. So pay attention, once you're starting to track what people are asking, you should then be able to go back and say, let me write an article about how do I customize a cake. Or if I order a bulk order of pastries, do I get a discount? These might be common questions that you see in the data that you see, after you see this is coming up over and over. So that would be like a starting point, you'd start with some sort of a knowledge base so people can find the answer for themselves because most people don't want to wait for your team, especially if you have a small team, it might take 24 hours for you to answer that question about a bulk order, well, you might have lost the order by that time. So you're better off letting the customer get the help they need. And that goes to the third thing, which is then the third thing is they work with OpenTable. You're familiar with OpenTable, people make reservations at any restaurant, hundreds of 1000s of restaurants around the world. And they serve two audiences, as a consumer if you want to book a table at a fancy restaurant, perhaps in San Francisco, but also the restaurant owner who has to then control some of those back end tools. And they provide a whole range of tools. But imagine an experience where that restaurant owner can interact with technology to be able to change their hours or modify frequently asked questions. So, that's where they often come in is that they end up giving brands a way to automate even more complex things. So if you say, “Hey, I want to customize my cake.” the Natural Language Understanding can actually understand that or maybe you don't say customized, “I want to order a special cake for my niece. And I want it to say something very unique.” Something like that and nowhere would he use the word customized. I could come up to you and say, “Great, looks like you want to customize the cake. We have these options for you, which one do you want.” And take you down the path and actually collect all that information and say, “I've got everything I need, somebody will get back to you within an hour with an ETA on when this cake will be ready for you. Does that make sense?” And imagine that experience in 35-40 seconds, he might have actually gotten your order right. And he'll still handed off to a human being because somebody still has to bake the cake. But at that point, he's such a delighted consumer that maybe he'll order a little extra. Maybe at that point, you present him with an offer and say, “If you want to order a dozen cookies for the other guests, there's a special offer 10% off right now.” So he thinks if you think about automation, it's not about putting a blocker in front of the user, it's about automating things that otherwise they'd have to wait too long for. App, Website or Tool that Mahesh Absolutely Can't Live Without in His Business When asked about an online resource that he cannot live without in his business, Mahesh stated that that's a great question. He thinks for them, because they've gone completely virtual right due to the pandemic, so everybody's virtual. So he thinks it would be tempting to say an online meeting tool like Zoom. But he actually thinks that the most indispensable tool is probably something like Slack because it's a communication vehicle for everyone to share information and ideas. And what they've done which is nice with Slack is they've used some of the third party bots and applications inside Slack to do things like give praise to someone. It makes it easy to give praise and it shows up in Slack, everyone can read it, it also then writes it automatically to the performance management system. So it's a great way to motivate your employees or help people motivate one another for great work, “Hey, Yanique did a great job today on this, she made it possible for me to help this customer.” It makes it easy to just go into Slack and give her praise. That's one example. You can share documents; you can even do video calls in Slack. So, it's a pretty powerful tool, he's sure other people use other things like it. But that's one that he would say it's been very, very crucial for them. Books That Have Had the Greatest Impact on Mahesh When asked about books that had a great impact, Mahesh shared that one book is very personal. His grandfather lived in India, grew up in India, he had spent most of his career in the public service. But he's very interested in music and after the age of about 60, he decided to become a music and dance critic. And he started writing and then actually became a well-known critic and musicologist in one of the major newspapers of India. And at the age of 88, his grandfather decided to write a book. He wrote a book on music and musicians and just his recollections and opinions. And it turned out to be a really, really well received book and got a lot of critical praise at the age of 88. He thinks that to him, it was less about the book and more about the fact that his lifelong passion for learning had never stopped. And so, it's as much the book as the writing of the book as the book itself, it's both. So that was one. The second one, which he thinks has become more and more relevant as a book he has probably read three times. It's a three volume, very heavy, long trilogy called Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63, written by a man named Taylor Branch, and it's kind of the entire lifespan of Martin Luther King and it's probably about 2000 pages total. So it's not light reading. But it talks about all of the ups and downs of the civil rights movement, the great triumphs, and then of course, later in his life some of his regrets and so on, and so on. And he thinks it really comes home when you think about the events of the last couple of years and what's going on in the world, you realize that these struggles, the great struggles don't have easy answers and solutions don't just emerge and everything is great. Things have a way of taking far longer and being much more difficult than you ever imagined when you started. Ideals are what carry you through but even, there's a lot of frustration you have to overcome whether that through in business or in social life. So those are two. And then for fun, he thinks one that he always like reading, it's light reading is Calvin and Hobbes a cartoon strip, because he just thinks it reminds him that at the end of the day, we all take ourselves way too seriously. Me: That's so true. And life is so short, we really have to enjoy laughter. What Mahesh is Really Excited About Now! Mahesh shared that they're working on so many incredibly exciting things in the business. He'll choose one or two that he thinks excites him the most. The first thing is what he calls the Omni-Channel experience. Take the example of the pastry shop, he thinks they're just now entering in the United States, the notion of a truly omni-channel experience where businesses have to meet consumers where they live. It's no longer reasonable to expect customers to come to your website. They live in Instagram, they live in Snapchat, they live in WhatsApp and this has already happened in other markets like in China, you have WeChat and India WhatsApp is very, very strong. And if he wants to order a pizza from Domino's in India, he's just as likely to use WhatsApp as I am to go to www.dominos.com. But in North America, that's just now happening, it's just happening where brands have to be creating really strong presence but the problem is there isn't one thing. It isn't like he can just build for WhatsApp, on a Monday, he might choose to interact with the pastry shop mentioned on Facebook Messenger. On Tuesday, he might want to go into WhatsApp and place an order for a cake. On Wednesday, he might go to the store brand to the website and try to order it. And it could change if two users might have two different things. So brands have to be in all these places. But he can't have different things going on in those sites. If he asked you what's the price to customize the cake, and you give him three different answers on three different channels, that's a real problem, consumers get really annoyed. So he thinks what they're doing at Solvvy, which is really exciting, is they're making it possible for businesses to build the intelligent layer once in the platform, and then deliver on any of these channels they choose with the same consistency. So if you come in on a Monday and say, “I want to return the shoes that I bought on Facebook Messenger.” They'll take you through that entire experience and get to get it returned and connect you to an agent. But on Wednesday, you come back and ask “Where's my order on the company's website?” They'll be able to answer that question just as accurately on that thing. So the consistency across platforms. So it's consistent and personalized so it knows enough to ask Yanique for her email address and look it up and tell you exactly where your order is, that kind of personalization automated is critical. And then he thinks that goes to the second piece, which is what excites him more than anything is the ability to deliver a truly personalized experience. Think about yourself or anybody in the audience, when you buy a product or service, the experience you have in the first week, maybe the first 10 days, maybe the first 30 days, if it's a piece of software is so crucial. How well you use it, how well you get acclimated to it, determines how happy you are with it. So they think at Solvvy, how do they enable brands to be able to deliver that kind of support and on boarding and guidance to say a first 30-day user, it's different than for a user who has been with the brand for 6 to 12 months and do that at scale, do that for millions of people. So a good example would be they work with a very large meal kit delivery service, they deliver meals to your home. And he can deliver a different experience for someone who's ordering their very first meal, that's a little bit more hand holding, a little bit more like, “Hey, did everything come as you expected?” Because they're not used to some of the things about unpacking the ice and doing these things. But if somebody who ordered 12 meals in the last 2 months, he probably don't want to waste their time asking them if they know how to unpack the ice, he wants to ask them if they're looking for new recipes. So the ability to do that at a massive scale, because you can't do that one by one, but technology allows you to say, I'm going to do that for everybody who's a first 30-day user is going to get this experience. So those are the kinds of things, so personalization and omni-channel are the two things that he thinks really, really excites him about the business. Me: Two things came to mind when you were speaking just now. So the first thing you mentioned was omni-channel and I personally as a customer, I'm trying to wonder if there's no technology out there that let's say, for example, utilities is something we all have to pay every month, let's say our electricity bills, and you may talk to your electricity company, you may not talk to them very often, but there are times when you do have to interface with them. So let's say for example, you reach out to them on Twitter messenger because there was a power outage in your area and they communicated and said, okay, they've sent their engineers to sort it out and we should get service restored within X amount of time. And then four months later, you may need to contact them because you're trying to pay a bill, you're trying to use their platform to pay the bill, but you're having some challenges and when you call them on the phone, you can't get them, it would be good to know that they're able to connect those experiences. So they would say to you, “Oh, hi, Miss Grant, we haven't heard from you in four months, how have things been?” Because then it shows that they're paying attention to the last time someone was in contact with you, even if it wasn't the same agent that you dealt with four months ago. Is that possible? Mahesh shared that it's not only possible, they're doing that all the time. There's kind of a divide in the middle, which is whether I know who you are, I don't right. Oftentimes, if you're going to an ecommerce site, you go to www.nike.com, you're probably not identifying yourself, and you may not want to identify yourself, you may not want them to know that it's Yanique. But if you have an existing relationship with the brand, you still might come to the website of the utility company and not identify yourself but based on the type of question you're asking, they might say, “In order to help you, you'll have to identify yourself.” But he doesn't want to give that to you until he realizes you need that. So, then he might say, “Can you please tell me the email address or can you log in?” And then based on the login, now he can come back and say, “Looks like you came in last week and asked this question. Are you asking about the same thing?” And if you say no, then he can pop up and give you the more generic menus and say, “Hey, would you like to be able to do it?” So not only is it possible, they're doing it all the time with brands where they're personalizing the experience, this goes back to his notion of personalization is that sure it can understand prior interaction data and ask you if that's the case. Sometimes that can be intrusive, you may not care about something four months ago, it's not that. But if you've called three times in the last week, chances are it's about the same issue. And so at that point, what he needs to do is two things. One is he needs to make sure that every single thing that you told him on the first call or the first technology interaction with Solvvy, for example, it's been recorded properly to the agent, so that the next agent picks who it up, your second call a week later has everything in front of them and that's the key. The key is not to make you repeat yourself, not make you repeat yourself and that's what technology enables. He'll give you one example. In the example with the meal kit is if you come in and say “Hey, help my mind steak is spoiled. I'm really angry.” Well, first of all, you're probably pretty upset because your dinner just got ruined, that's not a good experience, you might stop using the brand. But if he immediately pop-up and say, “I'm sorry to hear you have a missing or spoiled ingredient, can you just give me the information, this and it pops up your meal and it says which of the ingredients is missing or spoil, tell me what's wrong with it.” And immediately, he'd say he could shoot a credit back to your account. And then you can still talk to the agent if you want and complain more. That's a really good experience. Unfortunately, it doesn't feed you your meal that night, but it does make you feel like the brand is there for you and really cares about doing something right, they can make an offer and give you two free meals or whatever it might be. But again, even if he passed you to an agent in that case, the agent knows that you called because your steak was spoiled, the ice had melted, that you were expecting to get it with two side dishes and you only got one and they start the conversation with you knowing all this, they're not asking you to repeat any of this. That's what they do. Me: Brilliant. It's funny you mentioned the meal delivery service for home because I started using one recently and I find the young lady service to be so poor. When you call her she doesn't return your phone calls, when you send her a message on WhatsApp she takes forever to respond. She sends out her menus the week before like on a Friday and then you indicate to her how many days per week you wanted meals and which items you were interested in. And I think for last week I told her I was interested in the meal for Thursday. The meal wasn't delivered, I tried to call her on Thursday afternoon to ask her, “Weren't you supposed to deliver the meal today?” She hasn't responded to my WhatsApp. I called her twice, she hasn't responded to my call, frankly, I don't think I'm going to order from her again because either she's taken on more than she can chew or she's clearly not ready for this level of business because if you're dealing with people, and you're delivering meals to them and they've indicated to you what they want and when they want it, if you can't manage the communication portion, then maybe you need to outsource that for the business. Mahesh stated that he thinks that's a brilliant point. He thinks that oftentimes people take on more than they can handle but they lose sight of the customer. He thinks it goes back to the customer like how often does she talk to you and ascertain how well you like the service, did she check in with you? Does she have a survey? Because if she loses you, the thing she probably doesn't grasp yet and he thinks some small business owners don't always grasp this is how expensive it is to acquire a customer, to get Yanique to try it for the first time is a really hard thing. And so losing you is much worse than acquiring two new people, because they already gone through the effort of convincing you and you've already done it. So this does speak to something that he thinks a lot of entrepreneurs can do better, which is to survey and get feedback from customers, because you may well be sympathetic to her if she was talking to you. If she told you honestly, “Hey, look, I'm really struggling with this but I'm really trying to make it work. I'm an entrepreneur and I want to make this work. I'm so sorry about your meal. Let me see what I can do.” You were probably willing to give her the sun, the moon and the stars to get it right. But if you don't hear from her, you just assume that she doesn't care. Me: I'm actually thinking of deleting her number out of my phone because I don't think I want to do business with her anymore. Her communication is extremely poor and her food, it's not amazing but it's good and it's healthy and it's a better choice than me having to go and have fast food for sure. But the challenge, as I said, is she needs to work out that aspect of it or she's going to lose more than one customer. Mahesh agreed and stated that he thinks the other thing that he would say that technology allows us to do with a lot of the brands is to be predictive. So, if for example, Yanique is coming in frequently with questions about certain kinds of issue, they do something that they call category analytics for businesses, where they look at every single question that has ever been asked for that brand and they grouped them into big categories and so they can tell the brand, the food kit company that you're missing ingredient issues have spiked 23% in the last two weeks, something's up, they don't know what it is because they're not in their factory watching. But they can drill in and they can tap into that, they can double click on it and they can see all the actual expressions by the user and they can do keyword searches, they can say show me everything with the word ice in it. So if the ice is melting, maybe they go back to the warehouse people and say, you need to package the ice better. So those are the kinds of insights that businesses often lack and it's very difficult to do because technology allows you to do it without having to have a human being looked at every single issue, it automatically categorizes all the questions. Where Can We Find Mahesh Online Website – www.solvvy.com LinkedIn – Mahesh Ram Twitter - @solvvyinc Twitter - @rammahesh Quote or Saying that During Times of Adversity Mahesh Uses When asked about a quote that he tends to revert to, Mahesh shared that he actually has a bunch of them. But the one that recently came up as he was reading the book by the very, very famous Roman Emperor, Philosopher, Marcus Aurelius, he had written a book 2000 years ago, so it's a long time. But everything in there so timeless because he's really does a lot of reflection on his life. The quote that he said, which he thoughts was really great was, “Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.” And he thought that was just such a nice sort of simple way of saying, we're all given something and it's up to us to make the most of it, we keep looking around for something better, chances are you're never going to find it and the people too. So he thought that was a really nice quote. 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In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil discuss the Supreme Court decision to allow education-related payments to student-athletes. Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week's show: The Supreme Court ruled against the NCAA's restrictions on providing “education-related perks” to college athletes. Natalia referred to historian Taylor Branch's 2011 piece in The Atlantic, “The Shame of College Sports.” Neil referred to this CNN piece on the ruling, and the relevant data point on the high salaries of college football coaches. In our regular closing feature, What's Making History: Natalia discussed Britney Spears' testimony about her experience under her conservatorship. We discussed the “Free Britney” movement on Episode 268. Neil recommended Zachary M. Schrag's book, The Fires of Philadelphia: Citizen-Soldiers, Nativists, and the 1844 Riots Over the Soul of a Nation. Niki talked about Dan Boyce's NPR segment, “A Would-Be Trans and Queer Haven In Rural Colorado Just Wants to be Left Alone.”
This episode discusses the process of identifying an issue, developing a campaign to address that issue, and the kinds of public action a successful campaign involves. How organizing develops and conducts campaigns is different to how many other kinds of campaign are run, whether that be an election campaign or an advertising campaign. To discuss with me the distinctive approach to campaigns and how they constitute a form of public action that not only wins change, but also builds up a community better able to act for itself rather than simply be acted upon is Jonathan Lange and Janice Fine. The conversation with Jonathan and Janice focuses on the initiation, development, and then subsequent spread of the Living Wage Campaign, a campaign in which Jonathan played a key role and that Janice researched and wrote on extensively. The focus on the Living Wage Campaign, which originated in Baltimore, serves as a case study through which to stage a wider discussion of what campaigns are, how they develop creative policy proposals, and their broader role in organizing.GuestsJonathan Lange comes from what he describes an old fashioned Jewish socialist family. His grandfather and father were active union members. It was in the labor movement that he got his start, organizing with the Clothing and Textile Workers Union in the 1980s. He then became a community organizer with the IAF and has since organized in both work based and place based forms of organizing for over 40 years. As we shall hear, he was the lead organizer of the first ever Living Wage Campaign. A key aspect of his work has been training other organizers and leaders around the world, particularly in the United Kingdom and Germany which is where I met him over 15 years ago now.Janice Fine is Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. She is also the co-founder and Director of Research and Strategy at the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization (CIWO). Fine teaches and writes about forms of collective action among low-wage workers in the U.S including innovative union and community organizing strategies. She also studies historical and contemporary debates within labor movements regarding such issues as immigration policy, labor standards, privatization, and government oversight. Much of this is addressed in her book Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream. Prior to becoming an academic she worked as a community and labor organizer for over twenty years.Resources for Going DeeperCampaigns:Mike Gecan, “Part II: The Habit of Action,” Going Public: An Organizers Guide to Citizen Action (New York: Anchor Books, 2002), 49-126; Joan Minieri and Paul Getsos, “Part Three: Developing and Running Campaigns,” Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community (San Francisco: John Wiley & Son, 2007), 35-124; Luke Bretherton, Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship and the Politics of a Common Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), Chapters 4 & 5; Taylor Branch, “The Montgomery Bus Boycott,” Parting the Water: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988), Chapter 5; Saul Alinsky, “They sit to conquer,” John L. Lewis: An Unauthorized Biography (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1949), Chapter 6.The Living Wage Campaign:Janice Fine, “Community Unions and the Revival of the American Labor Movement,” Politics & Society, Vol. 33 No. 1 (2005), 153-199; Dennis Deslippe, “BUILD, Baltimore's Working Poor, and Economic Citizenship in the 1990s,” Journal of Civil and Human Rights 6.1 (2020), 31-60.
Tom's next guests are featured in a new documentary about an extraordinary Jewish theologian and activist. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was a mentor, friend and colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and one of the most influential religious scholars and public intellectuals of the 20th century. The new documentary, by filmmaker Martin Doblmeier, will air on PBS May 5. Tomorrow afternoon, the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies here in Baltimore will host a virtual symposium to talk about Heschel’s influence and legacy.To talk about that legacy now, Tom welcomes back to Midday the two speakers at that symposium, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch and Benjamin Sax, the Jewish Scholar at the ICJS. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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“Taylor Branch’s incredible series on Martin Luther King Jr and the Civil Rights Movement spans three volumes. It’s almost 3000 pages with hundreds of footnotes. It won awards like the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. More importantly, it’s really, really good—a must-read for anyone trying to understand social change or American history.”Ryan describes how your kids are a part of the journey that you are on, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.comFollow Daily Dad:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailydademailInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailydad/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailydademailYouTube: https://geni.us/DailyDad
In collaboration with the North Carolina A&T Atlanta Alumni Chapter, Entrepreneurial Appetite Presents a conversation with Jelani Favors, PhD, author of the award winning Shelter in a Time of Storm: How HBCUs Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism.About the author:Jelani M. Favors, Ph.D., is an associate professor of history at Clayton State University. Favorshas received major fellowships in support of his research that includes an appointment as aHumanities Writ Large Fellow at Duke University in 2013, and he was an inaugural recipient of the Mellon HBCU Fellowship at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke in 2009. In 2014, Favors was invited to co-teach the course, “Citizenship and Freedom: The Civil Rights Era,” alongside Pulitzer Prize winning historian Taylor Branch at the University of Baltimore. Favors’ essay, “Race Women: New Negro Politics and the Flowering of Radicalism at Bennett College, 1900-1945,” won the R.D.W. Connor Award as the best article published in the North Carolina Historical Review for 2018. The following year, his first book, “Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism,” was published by the University of North Carolina Press.To support the North Carolina A&T Atlanta Alumni Chapter go to: https://atlanta.ncatsualumni.org/
In this episode of History Talk, host Leticia Wiggins interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Taylor Branch on the contentious yet interlinked history of the American university system and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. In addition to completing the monumental King Era Trilogy, Branch has published The Cartel: Inside the Rise and Imminent Fall of the NCAA. He has also been featured in The Atlantic, MSNBC, and NPR to list but a few places. Posted: September 2014 Connect with us! Email: Origins@osu.edu Twitter: @OriginsOSU Instagram: @OriginsOSU Facebook: @OriginsOSU Find transcripts, background reading, and more at origins.osu.edu
This week on “The Learning Curve,” Cara and Gerard are joined by Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of a landmark trilogy on the Civil Rights era, America in the King Years. They discuss the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, whose birthday the nation observed on Monday. They review Dr. King's powerful, moving oratory, drawing on spiritual and civic ideals to promote... Source
SAVING KING by Edison McDaniels, MD Creative nonfiction At 6:01 pm on On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King was shot. He was pronounced dead at 7:05 pm at St. Joseph's Hospital in Memphis, TN after a failed attempt at open cardiac massage. He was 39 years old. King was standing on the balcony outside room 306 on the second floor of the Lorraine Motel when, in the words of biographer Taylor Branch, time on the balcony turned lethal and King's sojourn on earth went blank. But did it? Did it do so immediately? Was King doomed the moment that bullet crashed through him? Is there any action that might have saved his life as he lay supine on that balcony, bleeding profusely from a wound to his right jaw and neck? He wasn't pronounced dead for 64 minutes. Was he, in fact, alive during that time? Was there ever a chance he could have been saved by the relatively crude trauma care of 1968? And how about today? If King was shot in 2021, might he survive? This is a work of creative nonfiction that purports to show what happened in the 64 minutes after King was shot—an intense, dramatic recreation of the struggle to save his life back in 1968—and what might transpire if the same injury occurred today with our modern trauma system. What, if anything, went wrong in 1968? Find out right here. Listen now. //////////////////// THE SURGICAL FICTION PODCAST is narrated by Edison McDaniels. Edison McDaniels is a physician, surgeon, wordsmith, author, and audiobook narrator. More here: https://SurgicalFiction.com. SUBSCRIBE and check back regularly for another episode of The Surgical Fiction Podcast. In the meantime, please REVIEW THIS PODCAST here: http://surgfict.biz/reviewSFP and scroll to the bottom of the page to rate and review. If you need more information, read or listen to my short episode “How to Review a Podcast” at https://apple.co/2N8oObh. Catch up with Edison McDaniels on Audible here: http://surgfict.biz/EPMonAudible Edison McDaniels is also an author. His many novels and other stories are available on Kindle. http://amzn.to/2cv2iFs Thanks for listening. Please wear a mask to protect yourself and others until we can safely gather together again! 005
Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize winner, author and historian best known for his trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King Jr., joined Bob Sirott to talk about some historic moments in the Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King Jr.’s time in Chicago.
This is the fourth and final episode of my interview series with Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian. Listen along as we discuss his book writing process and his favorite books of all time. Also, if you missed the first three parts of this series, you can listen to them here: Part 1: The President Clinton Recordings Part 2: America in the King Years Part 3: An Encounter with Bobby Kennedy Don't forget to subscribe! To Follow Taylor: https://taylorbranch.com/ About me: Sign up for my weekly email newsletter! CEO: Dragon Army Author: The 5-Day Turnaround + The Crisis Turnaround Co-founder and Board Chair: Ripples of Hope + 48in48 Blog: www.jeffhilimire.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jeffhilimire Twitter: twitter.com/jeffhilimire --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jeff-hilimire/message
This is the third episode of my interview series with Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian. Listen along as we discuss his encounter with Bobby Kennedy (one of my personal heroes), and what he thinks the outcome would have been if Bobby hadn't been assassinated during his presidential run in 1968. Also, if you missed the first and second part of this series, you can listen to them here: Part 1: https://anchor.fm/jeff-hilimire/episodes/The-Taylor-Branch-Interview-Part-1-the-President-Clinton-recordings-elvdke Part 2: https://anchor.fm/jeff-hilimire/episodes/The-Taylor-Branch-Interview-Part-2-America-in-the-King-Years-emi56g Don't forget to subscribe! To Follow Taylor: https://taylorbranch.com/ About me: Sign up for my weekly email newsletter! CEO: Dragon Army Author: The 5-Day Turnaround + The Crisis Turnaround Co-founder and Board Chair: Ripples of Hope + 48in48 Blog: www.jeffhilimire.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jeffhilimire Twitter: twitter.com/jeffhilimire --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jeff-hilimire/message
Tim Murphy and Steve Peters of Hello Texas bring you their take on Texas Music, Texas Photography, and Texas Fun Hello Texas podcast is back after a long Covid-induced hiatus. This week, we talked to Gatesville, Texas, artist Taylor Branch of Taylor Branch and the Lone Star Ramblers. We talk about his background, influences, upcoming album, and the Kickstarter campaign to get it off the ground. #taylorbranch #taylorbranchandthelonestarramblers #hellotexas #hellotexasusa #HelloTexasUSA.NET #CrackersandCucumbers #StevenPetersPhotography --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This is the second episode of my interview series with Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian. Listen along as we discuss Taylor's time spent writing about the Civil Rights era of the 1950's and 1960's, Martin Luther King Jr., and some of the other lesser known leaders/heroes of the cause. Also, if you missed the first part of this series, you can listen to it here: https://anchor.fm/jeff-hilimire/episodes/The-Taylor-Branch-Interview-Part-1-the-President-Clinton-recordings-elvdke Don't forget to subscribe! To Follow Taylor: https://taylorbranch.com/ About me: Sign up for my weekly email newsletter! CEO: Dragon Army Author: The 5-Day Turnaround + The Crisis Turnaround Co-founder and Board Chair: Ripples of Hope + 48in48 Blog: www.jeffhilimire.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jeffhilimire Twitter: twitter.com/jeffhilimire --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jeff-hilimire/message
In this episode, I interview Taylor Branch: Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian. Listen along to Part 1 of our conversation where I talk to Taylor about his time spent with President Clinton and his book, The Clinton Tapes. Don't forget to subscribe! To Follow Taylor: https://taylorbranch.com/ About me: Sign up for my weekly email newsletter! CEO: Dragon Army Author: The 5-Day Turnaround + The Crisis Turnaround Co-founder and Board Chair: Ripples of Hope + 48in48 Blog: www.jeffhilimire.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jeffhilimire Twitter: twitter.com/jeffhilimire --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jeff-hilimire/message
In this episode of Life and Books and Everything, Kevin, Justin, and Collin are back together to discuss some of the more pressing issues facing the church today: sexual misconduct and allegations, this time concerning the late Ravi Zacharius, friendless pastors, the curse of fame, dangers facing the church from “the Right” and “the Left,” and helpful books for forming one’s political philosophy. This episode of Life and Books and Everything is brought to you by Crossway. The Crossway titles we want to highlight in this episode are the ESV Scripture Journals (Illuminated Scripture Journals and the Greek Scripture Journal ). Bible readers can take extended notes or record insights and prayers directly beside corresponding passages of Scripture These thin, portable, long-lasting notebooks are great for personal Bible reading and reflection, small-group study, or taking notes through a sermon series. Timestamps: Our attempts at journaling [0:00 - 10:34] The sexual misconduct and allegations of Ravi Zacharius [10:34 - 37:10] Agreeing and disagreeing on the dangers facing Reformed(ish) Evangelicalism [37:10 - 1:01:14] Books to help inform a political philosophy [1:01:14 - 1:18:33] Booklists: Justin: The Contested Public Square: The Crisis of Christianity and Politics by Greg Forster Political Visions & Illusions: A Survey & Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies by David T. Koyzis A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell Kevin: The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left by Yuval Levin Christ and the Kingdoms of Men: Foundations of Political Life by David C. Innes The Federalist Papers Collin: Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal by Ben Sasse To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World by James Davidson Hunter The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt Resources mentioned: Article: Why The Young Hate The Torries by Ed West Article: Unequally Woked by Samuel James Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. America in the King Years (3 book series) by Taylor Branch
A rebroadcast of our conversation with legendary civil rights activist Bob Moses and historian Taylor Branch on the history that’s being made in 2020.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s beliefs and methods were open to question from the very beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. So argues Taylor Branch, revered historian and author of the monumental trilogy "America in the King Years." In this review Brett draws out themes from Branch's trilogy which revolve around the tragic events of the Mississippi Freedom Summer campaign. Brett argues that if Branch's account is correct, today's moment requires Americans either to revive or reject as irrelevant MLK's views on nonviolent, democratic participation. Resources mentioned in this podcat: -John Lewis' original and revised speech compared: https://billmoyers.com/content/two-ve... -"Mississippi Goddamn" by Nina Simone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-... -James Chaney (murdered civil rights activist) Eulogy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jKNH... Additional Resources: -Taylor Branch and Bob Moses talk about America after George Floyd's death: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/07/... -Video about the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp7s...
In 1964, Bob Moses recruited young people from across the U.S. for Mississippi’s Freedom Summer. More than 50 years later, what does he make of activism in American streets? Meghna Chakrabarti talks with Bob Moses and Taylor Branch about this moment in American history.
Martin Luther King - Uma Pequena Biografia *Apoia-se: https://apoia.se/canaldosocran Texto Baseado na Obra - Alma Sobrevivente - de Philip Yancey - Editora MC - Cap 2. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. PARA INICIANTES Como introdução à vida de King, Philip Yancey recomenda The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., um audiolivro produzido pela Time Warner. Montado a partir de textos de King e lido por LeVar Burton, a biografia é incompleta e subjetiva, mas as fitas trazem também sermões e discursos feitos pelo próprio King em seu empolgante e inimitável estilo, com trechos de legítima música gospel americana. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speechcs of Martin Luther King, Jr. reúne todos os famosos discursos, com excertos da maioria dos escritos de King. Bearing the Cross, de David Garrow, é a melhor biografia de King em um único volume. O completo Parting the Waters, além de Pillar of Fire, ambos de Taylor Branch, expandem a cobertura para incluir outros eventos paralelos do movimento pelos direitos civis. Estes livros podem ser adquiridos pela internet.
Eric Rosenblum is a Managing Partner at Tsingyuan Ventures, an early stage US fund with over $100m under management. They believe in the opportunity of cross-border and cross-discipline investments and focus primarily on US-based science startups founded by the Chinese tech diaspora. Prior to co-founding Tsingyuan Ventures, Eric graduated from Harvard, worked at BCG then got an MBA at MIT and worked as a management consultant and serial entrepreneur in China for 14 years. Eric was one of the rare foreign co-founders of multiple tech startups during China’s early Internet wave, and his ventures led to 2 exits (M&As for ChinaNOW and SmartPay). Coming back to the states, he then worked at Google and Palantir before co-founding Tsingyuan Ventures with former members of the TEEC Angel Fund. TEEC started as a network of Tsinghua University alumni (Tsinghua Entrepreneur & Executive Club (Tsinghua is like the MIT + Harvard of China) and wrote the first checks in 5 unicorns: Ginkgo Bioworks, Carta, Quanergy, Plus.ai, Zoom, and about 160 tech startups. While it is a US fund, the Tsingyuan name reflects its focus and strategy by combining part of the Tsinghua (清) name and ‘source/origin’ (源). Some context This episode is particularly timely following the recent ‘Proclamation on the Suspension of Entry as Nonimmigrants of Certain Students and Researchers from the People’s Republic of China’ by the White House. According to the Department of Homeland Security, in the 2018–19 academic year, there were enrolled at U.S. universities: 272,470 undergraduate and graduate students from China. 84,480 were in a graduate-level STEM program. These restrictions are focused on students coming from mainland universities associated with the army, but might impact the ‘intellectual balance of trade’ that had been so favorable to the US so far. Episode Overview In this episode, we discuss: The early days of China’s tech scene and the waves of Chinese PhDs in the US, to highlight the upcoming surge in opportunities, particularly with the many applications of AI at scale. The intellectual balance of trade, and the value of this asset for the US. The role of non-state actors like Google, Baidu or Alibaba as talent factories. The 10-year lag between the moment a foreign student comes for a few years and starts a company, and why he believes we’re still just seeing the upswing of the wave. China’s advances with regulation, local support and public acceptance of technology for the new wave of data-driven startups. Analogies with basketball and pingpong to compare the impact and legacy of drafting outstanding talent into a system, and the risks of making the talent trade balance less favorable to America. How cross-border talent will be key to create more truly global champions from the US. References Mentioned Eric mentions successful companies founded by the Chinese diaspora (including Guitar Hero, Nvidia, Zoom, etc.) More here. In addition to cross-border, Eric makes the case for cross-disciplinary investments here. Last, here are Eric's all-time favorites, that also happen to be very timely: Taylor Branch’s series on MLK Jr. Starting with “Parting the Waters”. Robert Caro’s series on Lyndon Johnson. Starting with “The Path to Power”. (his most recent read): The Fire is Upon Us (about the epic debate between William F Buckley Jr and James Baldwin). Also in video. Previous Episodes Overview of Deep Tech Investment, Based on the Report by Different Sota Nagano (Abies Ventures) on Japan’s Deep Tech Scene Seth Bannon (Fifty Years) on Solving Global Problems Kelly Chen (DCVC) on Investing in Old School Industries Manish Singhal (pi Ventures) on India’s Deep Tech Scene John Ho (Anzu Partners) on Breakthrough Industrial Tech Matt Clifford (EF / Entrepreneur First) on Investing in Talent and Pre-Product Subscribe Podcast: Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, etc. Twitter: @LabToMarket
Dr. Jelani M. Favors is an associate professor of history at Clayton State University. He has received major fellowships in support of his research that includes an appointment as a Humanities Writ Large Fellow at Duke University in 2013 and he was the inaugural recipient of the HBCU Fellowship at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke in 2009. In 2014, he was invited to co-teach a course entitled, “Citizenship and Freedom: The Civil Rights Era,” alongside Pulitzer Prize winning historian Taylor Branch at the University of Baltimore. His published work on student activism has appeared in the North Carolina Historical Review, The Review of Black Political Economy, Ted Ownby’s, The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi (University Press of Mississippi, 2013), and Robert Cohen and David Snyder’s, Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013). In 2018, his essay entitled “Race Women: New Negro Politics and the Flowering of Radicalism at Bennett College, 1900-1945,” won the R.D.W. Connor Award as the best article published in the North Carolina Historical Review for that year. In 2019, Dr. Favors released his first book entitled, Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism which was published by the University of North Carolina Press. The book has received high praise from reviewers and has reset the narrative on the legacy of Black colleges as incubators of student activism. In May of 2020, Shelter in a Time of Storm was the recipient of the Lillian Smith Book Award, given yearly by the Southern Regional Council and the University of Georgia Libraries to the book that possesses “literary merit, moral vision, and honest representation of the South, its peoples, problems and promises." In February of 2020, Shelter in a Time of Storm was among five books selected as a finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize by the African American Intellectual History Society, which is awarded annually to the top book in Black intellectual history. Dr. Favors’s work and research has appeared in several media outlets, including C-SPAN, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Conversation. He earned his Ph.D. in History from The Ohio State University where he also earned a M.A. in African American Studies. He is a graduate of North Carolina A&T Sate University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history with honors. Dr. Favors is a native of Winston-Salem, NC and currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. As always you can: Subscribe to be a Patreon member You can check me out on my website at ljeffreymoore.com Twitter: @ljeffreymoore Instagram: @Lj_presents_podcast Music Featured on the Show: Intro I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Ft: J Lang, Morusque Outro The Vendetta by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/58628 Ft: Apoxode --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/l-jeffrey-moore/support
In this episode, Sarah asks David about his routine as a writer. Using his book on the 1960 summer Olympics, Rome 1960, they go through each step of David’s process from getting an idea for a book, proposing it to his editor, through research, writing, and editing. David explains his meticulous process for organizing notes, transcribing interviews and what he learned about organization from the great biographers Taylor Branch and Robert Caro. Sarah and David discuss his routine for each day, his tricks for how to jump-start writing sessions and why his Pulitzer-prize winning colleague, Anne Hull, brought him a tuna fish sandwich days after 9/11. David discusses his wife Linda’s role in his routine, his late parents’ dualing editorial roles as early readers of his manuscripts and how he almost lost his only copy of an early manuscript for When Pride Still Mattered.
Imagine an event that brings hundreds of Members of Congress—from both chambers and parties— together for an evening to learn about and revel in American history. Not only is it true, it’s happened more than 38 times over the past six years. In 2013, David Rubenstein, philanthropist and co-founder of The Carlyle Group, approached the Librarian of Congress with an idea for an event series in which Members of Congress could put politics aside and immerse themselves in the history of the nation. Thereafter began the Congressional Dialogue series: a dinner event held several times a year during which historic artifacts are exhibited and Rubenstein interviews bestselling and award-winning authors and historians for a Congressional audience. Now, in Rubenstein’s The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians (available October 29, 2019), these compelling conversations with the biggest names in American history are presented for all to learn and enjoy. In this lively collection of dialogues, esteemed historians explore the subjects they intimately know and understand. There’s Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton, Walter Isaacson on Benjamin Franklin, Doris Kearns Goodwin on Abraham Lincoln, Taylor Branch on Martin Luther King Jr, Chief Justice John A. Roberts Jr. on the Supreme Court, and more. With encyclopedic knowledge on their respective subjects, these experts answer questions like: How close did the world come to its first nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis? Why has John Adams long been given so much less public praise and attention than the other Founding Fathers? How did Ronald Reagan, a former B-movie actor who failed twice to get his party’s presidential nomination, become one of the most consequential presidents of the latter half of the twentieth century? Rubenstein, a lifelong history enthusiast, has become an insightful and revealing interviewer through his role as President of the Economic Club of Washington, DC and as host of Bloomberg’s The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations. He coined the phrase “patriotic philanthropy” and tirelessly advocates for causes that elevate history’s importance and accessibility in our nation. Rubenstein has purchased rare copies of historic documents like the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation, and Magna Carta to ensure they’re put on public display at places like the Smithsonian and the National Archives. He’s helped finance the restorations of historical landmarks like Washington Monument, Monticello, and the Lincoln Memorial so people may visit and be inspired to learn more about American history. In this vein, Rubenstein will donate all royalty revenues from sales of The American Story to the Library of Congress’s Literacy Awards. About the author: David M. Rubenstein is a Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful investment firms. Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Rubenstein is an original signer of The Giving Pledge, and a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, and the MoMA’s David Rockefeller Award, among other philanthropic awards. Mr. Rubenstein is the host of The David Rubenstein Show on Bloomberg TV and PBS. He lives in Maryland. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steve-richards/support
It's been a big week in American politics: Monday: the long awaited Iowa Democratic caucuses failed to give results; Tuesday: Trump gave his State of the Union address; Wednesday: the Senate Republican majority voted NOT to convict Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors or to remove him from office; and today Trump gave a 63-minute victory speech -- Harold Meyerson comments. Next up: February is Black History month -- we talk with Taylor Branch about Martin Luther King Jr. from 1965 and the Selma campaign to 1968 and the Memphis sanitation strike.
It's been a big week in American politics: Monday: the long awaited Iowa Democratic caucuses failed to give results; Tuesday: Trump gave his State of the Union address; Wednesday: the Senate Republican majority voted NOT to convict Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors or to remove him from office; and today Trump gave a 63-minute victory speech -- Harold Meyerson comments. Next up: February is Black History month -- we talk with Taylor Branch about Martin Luther King Jr. from 1965 and the Selma campaign to 1968 and the Memphis sanitation strike.
We are back! Recorded live from the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall, Robin and Josie are joined by actor Wendell Pierce (The Wire, Treme) who is currently winning acclaim for his lead turn in Death of a Salesman at The Young Vic. They chat about Arthur Miller and the potency of the Loman family being portrayed by an African American cast, bad accents in The Wire, Taylor Branch, Kate Grenville and more. Support Book Shambles and the Cosmic Shambles Network by pledging as little as $1 a month at http://patreon.com/bookshambles to get extended episodes, free tickets to events and much more! Tickets for the West End transfer of Death of a Salesman can be found at http://salesmanwestend.com
You're about to hear the second half of a recorded visit with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Taylor Branch. Last week we published a moderated Q&A with him, and now you're about to hear an audience Q&A. This conversation was recorded live during a recent visit Taylor made to the Foundation, when he was in Chapel Hill to be inducted into the NC Media and Journalism Hall of Fame. A member of the Morehead-Cain class of 1968, Taylor is best known for his trilogy of books chronicling the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and much of the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. The first of those books—Parting the Waters—is what won him the Pulitzer Prize. Taylor grew up in Atlanta in the 50s and early 60s. After graduating from Carolina, he earned an M.P.A. from Princeton University. Taylor has worked as an editor and columnist for a number of national magazines. Over the years, he developed a friendship with Bill Clinton—a relationship that continued into Clinton's time in the White House. Taylor later wrote a book about that relationship, which he titled The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President. Taylor's many awards include a MacArthur Fellowship (also known as a "genius grant"), the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Lifetime Achievement Award, and the BIO Award from Biographers International Organization. Taylor now lives in Baltimore with his wife, Christy.
Catalyze Season Three continues with a bonus episode featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author Taylor Branch ’68. This interview was recorded in front of an audience during a recent visit Taylor made to the Foundation, when he was in Chapel Hill to be inducted into the NC Media and Journalism Hall of Fame. A member of the Morehead-Cain class of 1968, Taylor is best known for his trilogy of books chronicling the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and much of the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. The first of those books—Parting the Waters—is what won him the Pulitzer Prize. Taylor grew up in Atlanta in the 50s and early 60s. After graduating from Carolina in 1968, he earned an M.P.A. from Princeton University. Taylor has worked as an editor and columnist for a number of national magazines. Over the years, he developed a friendship with Bill Clinton—a relationship that continued into Clinton's time in the White House. Taylor later wrote a book about that relationship, which he titled The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President. In our upcoming conversation, you'll hear some entertaining stories from Taylor about that experience. Taylor's many awards include a MacArthur Fellowship (also known as a "genius grant"), the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Lifetime Achievement Award, and the BIO Award from Biographers International Organization. Taylor now lives in Baltimore with his wife, Christy.
Ambitions and opportunities sometimes happen together, but many times you need to find a way to create opportunities to pursue your ambitions. Joshua Dubois is the kind of person who demonstrates how great things can happen with great tenacity and perseverance. Joshua DuBois CNN Contributor, author, and CEO of leading consulting company, Joshua DuBois is one of our country's top voices on community partnerships, religion in the public square, and issues impacting African Americans. Joshua led the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships in President Obama's first term and was called the President's "Pastor-in-Chief" by TIME Magazine. He spearheaded the White House's work on responsible fatherhood, grassroots community partnerships, and religion in foreign affairs, and brought together leaders from across the ideological spectrum to tackle the nation's biggest challenges. Joshua is the author of the bestselling book, The President's Devotional: The Daily Readings that Inspired President Obama, a compilation of the devotional meditations he shared with the President and narratives of faith in public life. Joshua now leads a consulting firm, Values Partnerships, that develops creative engagement campaigns for diverse sectors and audiences, provides strategic advice on complex issues, and markets and produces films and television programs with meaning and value. Joshua is Executive Producer of THE 44TH PRESIDENT IN HIS OWN WORDS (HISTORY) and SHINING A LIGHT (A&E). Joshua is also a frequent media commentator and has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC News' This Week, PBS Newshour, CNN and elsewhere. Joshua has been named to "The Root 100" and Ebony Magazine's "Power 150" list of the most influential African Americans in the country. He has authored four cover stories for Newsweek magazine, including a seminal piece entitled "The Fight for Black Men" which historian Taylor Branch called "stunning." Joshua received his Master's Degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and his Bachelor's Degree from Boston University. A former associate pastor at a small Pentecostal church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Joshua originally hails from Nashville, Tennessee. He currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Michelle, son, August and daughter, Adelaide. Don't forget we have a monthly giveaway you can easily download to help you discover your big ambitions. ————————— On the episode: Producer : Haley King Engineer : Jackson Carpenter Co-host : Scott Schimmel
Ambitions and opportunities sometimes happen together, but many times you need to find a way to create opportunities to pursue your ambitions. Joshua Dubois is the kind of person who demonstrates how great things can happen with great tenacity and perseverance. Joshua DuBois CNN Contributor, author, and CEO of leading consulting company, Joshua DuBois is one of our country's top voices on community partnerships, religion in the public square, and issues impacting African Americans. Joshua led the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships in President Obama's first term and was called the President's "Pastor-in-Chief" by TIME Magazine. He spearheaded the White House's work on responsible fatherhood, grassroots community partnerships, and religion in foreign affairs, and brought together leaders from across the ideological spectrum to tackle the nation's biggest challenges. Joshua is the author of the bestselling book, The President's Devotional: The Daily Readings that Inspired President Obama, a compilation of the devotional meditations he shared with the President and narratives of faith in public life. Joshua now leads a consulting firm, Values Partnerships, that develops creative engagement campaigns for diverse sectors and audiences, provides strategic advice on complex issues, and markets and produces films and television programs with meaning and value. Joshua is Executive Producer of THE 44TH PRESIDENT IN HIS OWN WORDS (HISTORY) and SHINING A LIGHT (A&E). Joshua is also a frequent media commentator and has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC News' This Week, PBS Newshour, CNN and elsewhere. Joshua has been named to "The Root 100" and Ebony Magazine's "Power 150" list of the most influential African Americans in the country. He has authored four cover stories for Newsweek magazine, including a seminal piece entitled "The Fight for Black Men" which historian Taylor Branch called "stunning." Joshua received his Master's Degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and his Bachelor's Degree from Boston University. A former associate pastor at a small Pentecostal church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Joshua originally hails from Nashville, Tennessee. He currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Michelle, son, August and daughter, Adelaide. Don't forget we have a monthly giveaway you can easily download to help you discover your big ambitions. ————————— On the episode: Producer : Haley King Engineer : Jackson Carpenter Co-host : Scott Schimmel
Ambitions and opportunities sometimes happen together, but many times you need to find a way to create opportunities to pursue your ambitions. Joshua Dubois is the kind of person who demonstrates how great things can happen with great tenacity and perseverance. Joshua DuBois CNN Contributor, author, and CEO of leading consulting company, Joshua DuBois is one of our country’s top voices on community partnerships, religion in the public square, and issues impacting African Americans. Joshua led the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships in President Obama’s first term and was called the President’s “Pastor-in-Chief” by TIME Magazine. He spearheaded the White House’s work on responsible fatherhood, grassroots community partnerships, and religion in foreign affairs, and brought together leaders from across the ideological spectrum to tackle the nation’s biggest challenges. Joshua is the author of the bestselling book, The President’s Devotional: The Daily Readings that Inspired President Obama, a compilation of the devotional meditations he shared with the President and narratives of faith in public life. Joshua now leads a consulting firm, Values Partnerships, that develops creative engagement campaigns for diverse sectors and audiences, provides strategic advice on complex issues, and markets and produces films and television programs with meaning and value. Joshua is Executive Producer of THE 44TH PRESIDENT IN HIS OWN WORDS (HISTORY) and SHINING A LIGHT (A&E). Joshua is also a frequent media commentator and has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC News’ This Week, PBS Newshour, CNN and elsewhere. Joshua has been named to “The Root 100” and Ebony Magazine‘s “Power 150” list of the most influential African Americans in the country. He has authored four cover stories for Newsweek magazine, including a seminal piece entitled “The Fight for Black Men” which historian Taylor Branch called “stunning.” Joshua received his Master’s Degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School and his Bachelor’s Degree from Boston University. A former associate pastor at a small Pentecostal church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Joshua originally hails from Nashville, Tennessee. He currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Michelle, son, August and daughter, Adelaide. Don’t forget we have a monthly giveaway you can easily download to help you discover your big ambitions. ————————— On the episode: Producer : Haley King Engineer : Jackson Carpenter Co-host : Scott Schimmel
Taylor Branch, Author, At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68. We spoke to Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author Taylor Branch. He joined the show to talk about his latest project. The book concludes Branch’s history of the civil rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King’s heroic role at the center of it all. While on Sunday Morning Magazine, Branch explained that the new book chronicles King’s efforts to hold his movement together in the face of internal factions that disagreed about strategy, tactics, and whether they could achieve their goals solely through nonviolence. Branch also spoke about the intermittent hostility Dr. King faced from President Johnson’s administration. Branch also provided insight into the unrelenting harassment Dr. King endured at the hands of the FBI.
Today, a preview of a powerful new film about the last three years in the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights leader who was assassinated 50 years ago next week, on April 4, 1968.The renowned historian Taylor Branch is an executive producer of the HBO documentary, King in the Wilderness, a compendium of reflections by King’s closest friends, interwoven with archival footage, about a period that was one of the most tumultuous in American history, and one of the most personally challenging and difficult for the iconic civil rights leader, as he struggled to confront racism, poverty and militarism, and the increasing danger to his own life. Taylor Branch joins Tom in Studio A to talk about the film, and its subject.King in the Wilderness will be screened tonight at 7pm the Parkway Theater. The film airs Monday April 2nd at 8pm on HBO.
Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian of the American Civil Rights Movement, talks about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April, 1968, the riots that broke out in Baltimore and other cities after King's death, and where the movement went after that. This interview comes in advance of ----King In The Wilderness,---- an HBO documentary film for which Branch, who lives in Baltimore, served as executive producer. The film airs on HBO for the first time on Monday, April 2 at 8 pm Eastern. Be sure to read The Sun's coverage of the 50th anniversary of King's death and the riots that ravaged sections of Baltimore in the week following the assassination.Links:http://taylorbranch.com/about-taylor-branch/https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/king-in-the-wilderness
On this Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday -- marking what would have been the slain civil rights leader's 89th birthday -- we are talking about Dr. King’s legacy, and how the movement for racial and economic equality and justice is positioned moving forward.This year, we’ll also mark the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination, as well as the Fair Housing Act, which President Lyndon Johnson signed into law just a week after King’s death, as cities across the country were enveloped in violence.Violence in many forms remains part of the American landscape, and with the political rise of Donald Trump, violent and abrasive rhetoric now permeate public discourse to a heart-breaking degree, from Charlottesville to the Oval Office. Joining Tom on this MLK Day edition is a panel of guests with keen insights into the long, continuing quest for racial justice in America:DeRay Mckesson is a civil rights activist and the host of a podcast called Pod Save the People; Michael Higgenbotham teaches at the University of Baltimore Law School. He’s the author of Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America; Taylor Branch is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Parting the Waters, the first volume of his seminal history of the civil rights movement, America in the King Years. And joining the conversation on the line from Frederick, where she is on the history faculty of Hood College: Dr. Terry Anne Scott. She teaches African American history and writes about African American social and cultural history.Tom and his guests also respond to listener comments and questions.
Jaemin and Gabe discuss making writing an effortless habit, the birthday blues, online dating woes, new favorite podcasts, microfiber towels, and more! Send us thoughts, feedback, and Quick Picks of your own at guyswithfeelingsshow@gmail.com. Show Notes (4:00) What Are You Bringing to the Table? • Gabe: The Birthday Blues…why is this such a prevalent thing? • (14:15) Jaemin: How I finally made writing an effortless, enjoyable habit (after struggling for over a decade). (28:25) Quick Picks • Gabe's #1: Making your own almond milk. • (31:31) Jaemin's #1: New favorite podcast: The Daily by the New York Times. • (34:51) Gabe's #2: Chrome extension for finding email addresses: Hunter • (37:18) Jaemin's #2: Ulysses writing app (for Mac and iOS) • (41:40) Gabe's #3: Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch • (44:55) Jaemin's #3: Antibacterial microfiber towels infused with silver. (Norwex, E-Cloth) Find Us Online • Gabe's twitter – Gabe's latest blog post: “My Top 6 Books of 2016”” • Jaemin's twitter – Jaemin's latest blog post: “My Favorite Podcasts of 2017” • Music for the podcast: “As Colorful As Ever” by Broke For Free
Taylor Branch, author and Open Society Institute Baltimore Advisory Board member, discusses what today's activists can learn from the African-American-led freedom movement of the 1950s and '60s. Speaker: Taylor Branch. (Recorded: Mar 22, 2017)
“Fear is just a monster motivator. It sells many a car and harnesses many a vote.” – James McBride, in this episode. Fear, says National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author James McBride, was the most powerful force in the life of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul. It drove him to become "the hardest working man in show business", to hoard massive stashes of cash beneath hotel room carpets, and to seek temporary refuge in drugs. It also drove him to leave one of the most astonishing musical legacies in American history, redefining R&B, Soul, and Funk music in the process. This, along with surprise interview clips from Charles Duhigg, Steven Pinker, and A.O. Scott, is the spark that sets James McBride and host Jason Gots off on a conversational journey with many twists and turns that touches on violence, virtual reality, and what it's like to be in a writer's room with Ta-Nahesi Coates, James McBride, David Simon (creator of The Wire) and Pulitzer Prize winning historian Taylor Branch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
C. T. Vivian oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Atlanta, Georgia, 2011-03-29.
Bill Russell oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Seattle, Washington, 2013-05-12.
Taylor Branch appears at the 2013 Library of Congress National Book Festival, Sep. 21, 2013. Speaker Biography: The civil rights era has profoundly shaped the writing of Taylor Branch. His trilogy, "America in the King Years," was intensively researched over a period of 24 years. The first book in the series, "Parting the Waters," won the Pulitzer Prize. His eight-year project to gather a sitting president's comprehensive oral history on tape resulted in 1990's "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President." In 2011, The Atlantic Monthly published Branch's highly influential and controversial article "The Shame of College Sports." Most recently, he has returned to the civil rights period for "The King Years: Moments in the Civil Rights Movement," which presents 18 singular moments from the entire era. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6143
he NCAA is beset with scandals, anti-trust lawsuits, calls for reform, and manic conference hopping—all signs that college sports has an identity crisis that begs to be resolved. Our panel considers the future of a beloved, embattled American institution. Speakers: Joe Nocera, Taylor Branch, Craig Robinson, Wallace Renfro, and Tom Farrey.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch has selected eighteen essential moments from the Civil Rights movement as presented in his "America in the King Years" trilogy and has written new introductions to set each passage in historical context. "For nearly 25 years, since publication of Parting the Waters," says Taylor Branch, "teachers have pressed upon me their need for more accessible ways to immerse students in stories of authentic detail and import. The goal here is to accommodate them and others by careful choice."Taylor Branch is the author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963; Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65; At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68; and The Clinton Tapes. In addition to the Pulitzer, he has won the National Book Critics Circle Award.Presented in partnership with Open Society Institute - Baltimore. Recorded On: Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Taylor Branch discusses his trilogy of the Civil Rights Movement America in the King Years.
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Taylor Branch discusses his trilogy of the Civil Rights Movement America in the King Years. [24:25]
Taylor Branch discusses his trilogy of the Civil Rights Movement America in the King Years. [24:25]
South County reporter Nancy McCarthy speaks with local Freedom Riders about civil rights issues in advance of the symposium with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch coming up in Cannon Beach Jan. 28-29. Continue reading →
Over a seven-year period Bill Clinton talked intimately to Taylor Branch about what it's like to be president, revealing what he thought and felt and could not say in public. Branch includes his own reactions to the content of these conversations, as well as observations on Clinton's demeanor, moods and puzzlements. The Clinton Tapes provides a unique look at the presidency and Bill Clinton's place in the ranks of our chief executives.Pulitzer Prize winning historian Taylor Branch is the author of three books on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Parting the Waters, Pillar of Fire, and At Canaan's Edge.+Recorded On: Thursday, November 5, 2009
Between 1993 and 2001, President Bill Clinton joined his friend of over 30 years Taylor Branch for a series of confidential interviews. Keeping much of his staff in the dark, Clinton recorded 78 sessions, each totaling 90 minutes and taking place at night, in the quiet of the White House Treaty Room. The White House diary project, transcribed, ran several thousand pages and became the basis for The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President. Branch’s work is filled with intimate observations from the president on the day-to-day, the nature of the job, and the major events of his tenure — the war in Bosnia, the effort to reform healthcare, Whitewater. Branch visited Zócalo to talk about the chronicling of his friend’s presidency, the Clinton legacy today, and the importance of keeping the public square alive.
Taylor Branch, journalist and historian, discusses Martin Luther King and the history of race relations in the United States. (Feb 2, 1990)
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Martin Luther King, Jr.,Taylor Branch explores America in the King years, 1965-68. Presented by the Walter H. Capps Center at UCSB. Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Humanities] [Show ID: 11464]
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