Authors Jesse Jarnow (Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America), Tim Mohr (Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the…
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Antonio Villaraigosa, a former Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, and Republican political consultant Mike Madrid talked about race, diversity, politics, and the 2020 presidential election.…
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Narrated by actor Sidney Poitier, this tribute to civil rights leader Roy Wilkins (1901-1981) was produced by the U.S. Information Agency. Mr. Wilkins was at the forefront of the civil…
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Current and former military officials testified before the House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee on the role of commanders in sexual assault prosecutions within the armed…
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Forging a Path: Striving to Become a More Perfect Union was one of the second-prize high school central winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Jonathan Godfrey and Jackson Cropper,…
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Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) led a group of Democratic and Republican senators in a commemorative reading of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Martin Luther King…
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Wendy Lucas and Mona Olivas Tucker talked about the history and culture of Native Americans in the San Luis Obispo area. C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2018 LCV…
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During World War II, the U.S. Marine Corps recruited Navajo Indians to create a code based on their unwritten language to help the military communicate their operational plans. In a series of…
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Science writer Nathalia Holt gave an illustrated talk about women mathematicians and engineers known as “human computers” who were recruited in the 1940s and 1950s to work at the Jet…
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The Gender Wage Gap was one of the middle school second-prize winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Allison Fan and Kaitlyn Li, 8th graders at Eastern Middle School in Silver Spring,…
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General counsel Philip Brumley talked about the legal struggles of Jehovah’s Witnesses and argued that their efforts have advanced the protection of human and civil rights globally. In 1943, the…
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The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the rise in the number of hate crimes and growth of white nationalism. The FBI said 2018 was the third consecutive year of increase. Facebook and…
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Telephone lines and social media were open for comments on a new Pentagon policy regarding transgender troops, which went into effect yesterday. After April 12, 2019, no one with gender…
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Til We Reach That Day was one of the second-prize high school west winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Tanner Fenton, Amy Pham, and Zada Jones, 11th and 12th graders at Frontier…
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Robert Brown talked about his book, You Can’t Go Wrong Doing Right: How a Child of Poverty Rose to the White House and Helped Change the World, in which he recalled his life and government…
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New York University Professor Mitchell Jackson talked about his book, Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family , in which he reflected on his family’s multi-generational experience…
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Daily Beast senior reporter Samantha Allen talked about her book, Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States.
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Western Carolina University Professor Benjamin Francis-Fallon talked about the Spanish-speaking vote in the 20th century. He described a group with distinct interests and voting patterns,…
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John McGreevy, professor at the University of Notre Dame, talked about 20th century Catholic politics and politicians. He compared the challenges faced by Al Smith and John Kennedy when…
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Professor Katherine Marino talked about her book, Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement, on the rise and impact of the women’s rights movement in…
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