Conservative activist and former U.S. Air Force Captain Vernon Robinson and Ohio State history professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries discuss Friday's March on Washington amid continued racial unrest.
The National Action Network (NAN) held a "Get Your Knee Off Our Necks" rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Among the speakers were Vice Presidential Candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King, III. Also delivering remarks were family members of police shooting victims including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Ahmaud Arbery. Following the conclusion of the rally, participants marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.
Noting the anniversary of the August 28, 1963 March on Washington with speeches by John Lewis and Martin Luther King, Jr. and author William Jones at the National Book Festival in 2013.
Nikki Haley, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and former Governor of South Carolina was among the featured speakers on the first night of the Republican National Convention.
Washington Post reporters and columnists review the President Trump's acceptance speech. Topics included fact checking the president's words, his use of the White House for the speech and Republicans and inclusivity.
Today, Vermont Independent Senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke about the economic plans of the Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Trump. From Burlington Vermont, Senator Sanders talked for about 15 minutes.
Michael Kazin talked about culture and society in the 1920s. He spoke about Prohibition and the exploits of the gangster Al Capone, who eventually went to prison on tax evasion charges, the motion picture industry and the new production codes that sought to reduce sexuality in films, and the 1925 State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes trial, in which a high school teacher faced charges of unlawfully teaching evolution in a state-funded school.
Authors Elizabeth Hinton, Robin Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Cornell West discussed the Black Lives Matter movement and next steps for the movement.
The Wall Street Journal's Melissa Korn and Jennifer Levitz discussed their reporting of the largest college admissions bribery case ever prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice. This virtual event was sponsored by McNally Jackson Booksin New York City
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner looked at the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments added to the U.S. Constitution during the Reconstruction Era. This virtual event was sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
University of California, Berkeley law professor and former deputy assistant attorney general in the George W. Bush administration John Yoo offered his thoughts on presidential powers. This virtual event was hosted by the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
Princeton University history professor Julian Zelizer explored the political ascendancy of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and argued that his congressional leadership was the beginning of America's hyper partisan divide. This was a virtual author event hosted by the Strand Bookstore in New York City.
Harvard Kennedy School professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad looked at how race became linked to criminality in post-Civil War America. This was a virtual event hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City.
Filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain talked about the benefits of turning off your screens for one day every week. This virtual event was hosted by the Bay Area Book Festival.
