david: your parents were prominent leaders in the african-american community in chicago and in the chicago immunity. now you live in chicago, do you feel discrimination or have you been able to bypass that? john: when people think about supporting minority business, it is around what they call supplier diversity, instruction, catering, things that are bought through procurement. my mom had this challenge when she was building her law practice and my dad did, people didn't think about hiring minority lawyers to do the transactions. the same thing when it comes to money management. the first african-american money management company in the history. to see people, they had never thought about hiring someone african-american to manage their money or have funds in the 401(k) plan. those who may not know, this is the president of the company, you are the ceo and she is the president. she is someone who also went to princeton. you hire people that didn't go to princeton? john: we do. david: melanie came from a challenged at ground, you would say, but she has become a very well-known -- tell us ab

this is very epic journey for her to get to chicago and chicago is a place -- she is here for about 15 years in the place where she establishes of the whole and was reagan calling her a woman in chicago in the place where she's fixed in time and memory. >> this is such a complex story and is not been documented before. your ability to create a timeline -- how did you work on this. can you illuminate your sources, how you documented it, and how it seamlessly written in those moments on the timeline. >> there is a timeline so if you ever confused look to the back. keep that bookmark. but it was a really difficult task to construct where she came from, where she ended up in how her life ended because she lived under so many different names and so many different places, that was a lot of theto work putting this book together and simply finding where she went. after she gets convicted of welfare fraud in illinois, she essentially disappears there is nothing ever written about her until i startedyo researching ts book and she lived for another 25 years after that. so i defined where she ende

the university of shankar chicago. 1919. this is about 50 minutes. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the 35th annual printers rowlett fest presented by the deer self killed thank you to our sponsors for their support and our programming sponsors the tribune and three l real estate and c-span book tv. the program will be broadcast live in if there is time at the end of the presentation we ask you use the microphone located in the center of the room so viewers at home can follow along. also silence your cell phones and if you choose to take photos turn off your flash. with that said please welcome gary and eve. [applause] >> hello everyone. this will be fast we only have 45 minutes so what we decided to do is i would talk about the book and read a few j poems and then i will hop back over here and asking questions only those thatat you are not embarrassed to broadcast live on c-span two. [laughter] e thiss book is called 1919. it is about the race riots that took place in chicago in the year 191-9100 years ago. each of the columns is in conversation

in chicago i read books and write them. i care a lot and i realized every time i talk to people about the project they would say i'm embarrassed to say i don't know much about that so i wanted to create it as an accessiblele entry point about the period in history we should talk about a lot more. >> when you talk about the history on this and the impact of note being taught, not something that we hear about, your book looks at this from three points b of view before, during and after and you kind of go back and forth with others tying it back in different ways. can you talk about the process of putting it together? >> as you said the book has these three sections. before the event itself which is about the conditions of the tgreat migration, what it was like for people coming up to chicago for many folks in the w.room this is the time i revead that i amg. telekinetic. [laughter] the period of what it was like for black people in chicago during this time perhaps folks toin the room. or great grandparents but it was like to a

leaders in the chicago community. so when you were growing up, or now that you live in chicago, do you feel discrimination, or have you been able to bypass that? john: i have to say that when people think about supporting minority business, it is typically around what they call supplier diversity -- construction, catering, things that are, you know, bought through procurement. and my mom had this challenge when she was building her law practice, and my dad did, too, that people didn't think about hiring a minority lawyers to do their transactions. and the same thing when it comes to money management. we were the first african-american money management and mutual fund company to start in the country's history. so when we went to see people, they had never thought about hiring someone african american to manage their money or to have our mutual funds in their 401(k) plan. david: you mentioned mellody hobson. she is the president of your company. you are the ceo and she is the president. john: yes. david: and she is some

she did speak to the chicago defender, a black newspaper here in chicago. in her version of events was that she was a victim. she was being persecuted by the police and by prosecutors and that she hadn't done any of the things that she was accused of doing. whereas, in the tribune, their sources were, the same, please, prosecutors, government officials who called her the biggest welfare cheat of all time. they basically had accusation after accusation about her and it was not, the tribune didn't even really kind of get at the truth value of owning any of the stuff for them, it was more just in the realm of this is what these people say she did. and you know, it wasn't this welfare fraud, their accusations about kidnapping and homicide and they just kind of kept piling and piling on. >> and you know, she was a victim but she was also victimized, she's really complex person. you mention a story, i'm thinking of what to the african-american media, did they catch on to this? >> yeah. >> this story in jet? >> yes jet would cover her, and what was other outlets b

chicago. in baltimore, in detroit, cities you don't hear a lot about, just seeing again a terrible ongoing wave of brutality, murder, et cetera. people in the media, the mob, theyey are not talking about it because apparently, they can't bludgeon president trump and blame him. these cities sadly have been run by the most compassionate, so they tell us, liberals, for decades. the most violent cities, theo most poverty in these cities, innocent men, women, and children gunned down in cold-blood, every day in every big city all across this country. a and by the way, they are all part of our american family. their families, their loved ones, this is our family, our united states. they'lles never be the same, the families, and the disgusting monsters, people, for whatever sick, twisted, ugly, evil agenda they carry out these heinous acts, they deserve to rot in hell. like many of you, i am disgusted.n we are all americans. when these acts of evil are perpetrated against our families, we have the ri

what does chicago need? >> chicago needs spiritual leadership. politicians cannot solve these kind of problems.it is our pastr communities that must go together to address these issues. politicians have something to do with it.but the ministers, the , has more to do with it than politicians. >> and, pastor, this has been a difficult week for the country.k white nationalists take out all these people, and it's horrific. in el paso, another shooting in the same time. in dayton, ohio, and yet a lotoe this is horrific, and why is there not attention, even after eight-years we had a president from chicago, barack obama, why is there not the intention, why is there not a sustained effort to curb violence in places like baltimore, chicago, st. louis -- it goes on and on. >> it does, it goes on and on and on. how are we going to solve it? i repeat, with emphasis, the politicians cannot solve this, andsi it's not right, it's not fair to point to one person and say he caused it all. how disrespectful is that? one person caused it all. is he god? the minist

chicago. >> yeah. take a look. there's our "gma" rv on the move driving past that oh so famous skyline, and so many gathered there on north avenue beach to celebrate along with us. we have a big surprise for someone very special coming up. >> i love the music. ♪ >> look at that. >> oh! >> we cannot wait for that. can't wait to check in with chicago, and that surprise you mentioned coming up here. >>> first, we have that breaking news from overnight. that dramatic standoff in philadelphia finally coming to an end after more than seven hours. six police officers shot before the gunman was taken into custody. gio benitez is on the scene in philadelphia this morning with the very latest. good morning, gio. >> reporter: hey, david, good morning. yeah, just an incredible, scary situation for both residents and officers. take a look behind me because if you look closely, you can see all the evidence markers on the ground. that's because more than 100 bullets were fired here. residents jumping fences just to get away fro

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we talk about violence in chicago. no one else would talk about this issue precede those names names? we scroll the names of all the people shot and killed that you never heard about in the windy city. on the hopes that maybe we would help this city, help our fellow americans, stop this violence. the media ignored all of it. the violence continues to this day. wait till you see the numbers from this week of the loan. we will break those down for you to make it also without a doubt, there have been hate filled evil monsters on all sides of the political spectrum. unit bomber, great. anarchy is. he loved and had al gore's exchange exam little book in the balance. others, take place in 2016, remember this in texas, five police officers murdered two others injured by a man who stated that he wanted to kill white people especially white police officers. the democrats blamed the group, old, black lives matter, the group that we have on tape chanting what we want, doug cobbs? or pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon. no, i d

the city of chicago. this past weekend, well, yeah, another weekend, a lot of gun violence, seven people killed, 52 other people wounded. one chicago hospital couldn't even keep up. they had to turn patients away. patients that were shot. we sent our own lawrence jones, our investigative reporter and correspondent to the windy city to talk to presidents about what has been going on there for a long time that the media doesn't talk about. watch this. >> so this weekend, we saw two shooters they got national media coverage, el paso and dayton. but chicago had a deadly shooting is welded why isn't chicago getting the attention like the rest of the cities are? >> i think that people have gotten used to this being synonymous with chicago. it said. that's all i got to say. >> why don't you think it's being covered right now? because i don't care. it's a race thing in my opinion. i don't care. >> do you think people care about chicago question might the national media cares about chicago benchmarks because they

. >> so, to do that, they came here to chicago. there were several in chicago. there was the track, the garfield track which you could compete. the manager helped engineer a fast pacing machine and decided he would write it himself and some air in chicago they made six of them and one to try to beat the world record and they were not successful. they went to another here in chicago he tried again on the concrete track into the major taylor set the speed in 1899 after the race occurred so at that point once again he could be declared the title of the world's fastest man right here in m chicago. that was in about july 1899 and here is the story from that time. co. if you can read it. this is a story here in chicago. breaking the record in chicago to participate in the world championships which as they would have it is just north of the border in canada held at montrÉal. he was hailed as a hero and most people knew he broke the record so there were many stories about him as thehe largest crowd gathered in montrÉal in 1899 to see the cycling match featured either

of the chicago journalist association. please welcome [inaudible] of the chicago sun-times. thank you back. [applause] >> good morning. thank you all for being here today. for joining us for what promises to be an inspiring and intriguing conversation. as a columnist at a major chicago newspaper and as president of the national association of black journalists chicago chapter i owe my career to dorothy butler gilliam. author of trailblazer, pioneering journalist fighting to make the media look more like america. yes, i owe my career to dorothy butler gilliam and two pioneers such as sheet. those who endured the struggle of being the first. those who endured the struggles associated with breaking down racial barriers. dorothy butler gilliam was only 23 when hired at "the washington post". twenty-three. the year was 1961, a time of civil unrest in the battle for racial equality. she would be the first african-american woman reporter ever to be hired by the iconic newspaper but in the post, prestigious hall miss gilliam was i

from the chicago set -- joined the chicago sun-times in 1982. began writing a column in the year 2000. what has been the most important change that happened in chicago in that time? well, i think probably is ourgest change situation is going in two ways. we've got a younger more affluent group of people moving into the city and they are moving into a part of the city a large groupve of mostly african-americans who are fleeing the city because of the problems in their community. violence, unemployment, schools. host: talk about the issue of violence particularly gun violence in this country. we've seen a couple shootings in the city of chicago just since those mass shootings that took place in el paso, in ohio. what is the city doing about this ongoing issue of gun violence in chicago? the city is doing a little bit of everything. , programs, trying different methods of policing. it's a very deep very complicated situation. we talk about gangs and drugs and certainly that's a large part of it. but it's something that goes deeper. after community

where both a host and a tenant railroad in chicago. metra's primary goals operate nearly 700 trains that run daily throughout our system with our partners. intermingled with approximately 700 additional freight and passenger trains. ptc of the petition will further enhance the safety of our network, simultaneously we will work to sustain our legacy system that includes capital components dating back well into the 1800s. a proxy half of all trips made from suburban chicago to downtown are on our network. despite our complex complexity and our network and are we're pleased to report since our inception we've been able to maintain and 93% on-time performance or better. it is with these realities in mind i provide an update to the committee on ptc supplementation status, challenges we face a potential next steps for both congress and industry. in 2018 we met all the statutory requirements for the extension, interoperability right now is one of our biggest challenges. not only for metra but for the entire rail network in chicago. ptc must w

to have any access to any data, any chicago police data. my question for theme areas will you allow i.c.e. to have access to these, this database or are you going to give out the almost 200,000 illegal immigrants that are in the city of chicago currently? if you choose to do so, we have to call it what it is. it is racist because you are allowing for a particular group of people to not be included in the database with those may be african-american, white, legal, hispanics, whoever else. with that being the case, that i think you will need to consider. are you doing something that's going to make everything better. are you doing something for p.r p.r.? >> shannon: that's a big question. i don't off there would be anything in this public information of a dog what immigration status. these are people lit up in charge of the gun crimes and whether they are bailed out or not. they are those who, curtis black rights "talks about the police chief touting the data portal as an example. it's not transparent to putting data that's completely misleadi

we have had challenges in chicago. i believe that we have turned a corner several of the subdivisions are now in revenues for this demonstration and are performing well. we've had our share of challenges but based on the interoperability testing than elsewhere in the country,de i he confidence that we have overcome the most significant problems. certainly the lesson learned is there can't be enough testing. it also requires a lot of collaboration with the itc committees that were mentioned, as well as the other railroad customers to make sure that we stay in front of the problems before they cause in operational impact. >> thank you. i'm over time. i will yield back. ... >> this will be critical to ensure those can overcome the challenges particularly with interoperability achievement as we approached the 2020 deadline. aside from the subject of the mandate i am interested to hear more about the progress of the short line railroads implementing due to contracts with host railroad short line provides a critical service

they are trying to stop him from going to chicago. this is where we are. >> they can't give us a commencement, and stuck in the rose garden. it was a time when john f. kennedy, there was a time when ted kennedy could work with orrin hatch and they didn't hate each other, they liked each other and gave each of their personal advice. we did have to get to the point where we could disagree with someone. i bet i disagree with dennis and you disagree with me on almost every big issue. but we like each other and kind of thrash it out. but in what we are actually talking about here is a call for calm, and not just looking at those differences. it would be good as americans to look at ourselves as americans, but as americans there something that connects us. i want to share something with you. when i campaign twice for president i saw something that was so important. i saw an underlying community. and that's a deeper meaning of america. >> how about people stopping and doing cpr on the victims? i know these are tragedies but there's also beau

it went to chicago and was distributed to 10 other states out of chicago. hannah initially, the 1850's, shipped his lumber on skinner's. to 50robably shipped 30 loads of lumber per year. we can probably say that every vessel would have built 10 or 20 houses. so is a huge amount. in 1857, he bought a secondhand steamboat. he started carrying his lumber to chicago twice a week on this steamboat. the steamboat left traverse city every wednesday afternoon, and it left chicago every sunday afternoon. people could rely on transportation that way. this was 15 years before the railroad arrived. he did that and in 1872 with the arrival of the railroad, he built a large, very well outfitted steamboat to carry both lumber or grain and passengers. and he operated that to chicago on a regular schedule. so he was bringing people here as fast as he could to come to his store or something else. steamers thatall he circled the bay all the way to charlotte and back two or three times awake to bring all the homesteaders anywhere within reach -- anywhere within reach to his st

as a columnist at a major chicago newspaper and as a president of the chicago chapter i owe my career to dorothy gilman author of trailblazer a pioneering journalist yes i owe my career to dorothy gilliam and pioneer such as she those who endeared the struggles to be the first and the struggles associated with breaking down racial barriers. she was only 23 when hired at the washington post. twenty-three. the year was 1961 a time of civil unrest in the battle for racial equality. the first african-american reporter ever to be hired by the iconic newspaper but she was ignored and dismissed but by most of the white colleagues. taxis would not stop for her but a doorman did when she arrived at the upscale apartment building to interview a white resident he informed her that made entrances in the back. the post not at the time would even cover the black community calling them unworthy of attention. through it all she persisted with the highs and lows of a storied career of 50 years as the award-winning journalist, editor, columnist and author. feminist and civil rights activist mentor and

we start off on october 11 in chicago. last year, confrontation with the big power structure around the war at the time of the democratic convention. now there are eight revolutionaries on trial for organizing that demonstration. they are trying to repress us, slow us down. we say that his bo -- we say that is bull* * . it is time for us to be stronger than we were last summer. october 11, reaching working-class people to get them to come to chicago and fight in the international struggle, to get them to pull students off the campuses the second and third week of the semester around demands like free all political prisoners, u.s. occupation troops out of vietnam, black and brown communities, to school. we continue to wage those demands and the tradition of the san francisco state's trouble -- san francisco state struggle. narrator: trouble erupted at san francisco state university after the arrest of one of the black panthers. this film is from cuban television. you see here george mason murray. the trance -- the translati

from the chicago set -- joined the chicago sun-times in 1982. began writing a column in the year 2000. what has been the most important change that happened in chicago in that time? well, i think probably is ourgest change situation is going in two ways. we've got a younger more affluent group of people moving into the city and they are moving into a part of the city a large groupve of mostly african-americans who are fleeing the city because of the problems in their community. violence, unemployment, schools. host: talk about the issue of violence particularly gun violence in this country. we've seen a couple shootings in the city of chicago just since those mass shootings that took place in el paso, in ohio. what is the city doing about this ongoing issue of gun violence in chicago? the city is doing a little bit of everything. , programs, trying different methods of policing. it's a very deep very complicated situation. we talk about gangs and drugs and certainly that's a large part of it. but it's something that goes deeper. after community

right now there's another story out of chicago were. were making the kids dependent on some of the off so they can get better scholarships. the crisis is not what the parents did at the cost for even well-off families. there's a fight but more about means and ends. it is a fight in the sense of how than the political side, you look lower on the hood which is how they win an election. there are people as you said who really believe you have to put a bunch of 220 volts on the base. there are others, which i think both 92, 96 presidential, 082012 presidential, 2006 congressional, 2008 congressional -- >> those be the ones you're pretty one. >> the ones i participated in. [laughter] the fact is, we have one and sees the majority or the presidency when we have one in swinging areas because we made a case. i don't really believe it's about either or. we need a very strong turnout and we also need to make sure that voters who are not happy with trump come home to the democratic party. there is old whole slug of voters who did not vote for trum

at the same time, chicago simultaneously prohibited firing ranges within the city of chicago, thereby making it illegal basically impossible for its own residents to actually obtain what chicago had said they needed to have in order to qualify under chicago law, to have a firearm. that was struck down. the city of chicago nonetheless continued to have aggressive laws. it was one of the first jurisdictions to have a complete absolute prohibition on carrying a firearm. which is held constitutional. and it continues to have extreme aggressions today. including being among the jurisdictions that imposes a special discriminatory tax on firearms. on obtaining a firearm. the supreme court has said for decades that you cannot impose special taxes on the exercise of a constitutional right. sure, if you have just a general tax that applies to everything and incidentally reaches a constitutional right, then the tax can apply thereto. but the supreme court has long made clear when it comes to the exercise of first amendment rights, speech, the exercise of freedom of religion, all these other area

this debate, local chicago newspapers saying what about chicago, the same weekend as the massacres in el paso and dayton, 52 people shot in chicago and 7 killed. why aren't those called mass shootings, too. the grow be backlash against the "new york times." the top editor admitting it did change its first headline that said trump urges unity versus racism. did the paper make the change after democrats on social media complained. plans critics warn will hurt the economy. we have the latest push by joe biden and elizabeth warren to get rid of all fossil fuels. the challenger to alexandria ocasio-cortez will talk to us about how bad cortez' policies are for america and how new yorkers feel about aoc. we have a jam-packed hour just ahead. news about aoc's chief of staff resigning. the federal government resigning due to campaign violations there. liz: president trump will visit el paso tomorrow. democrats saying he's not welcome. >> i don't think the president should come here. >> why? >> i was just talking to somebody, listening to a woman to said to me why is he coming here when he hate

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, buried here in chicago. what's important is his is a story of inspiration. there's a way overcome adversary and he wrote autobiography for the reason and transcended role for fight for civil rights, taylor's words, life should be remembered for, quote, simple justice, equal rights, deal, brave people not only athletic game but every honorable game, quote, unquote, great civil rights leader and i'm very proud to be part of that effort to keep memory going because it's very relevant even to this day, thanks very much. [applause] >> i would be dliebted to take questions. people who have known about major taylor, yes, question [inaudible] >> 18 years i had heard of major taylor. i was interested in what happened after reconstruction when the jim crow era took hold and i wondered how did that happen, what did he do to overcome incredible adversity that so many people in his race faced and he became world champion. became interested in the story because i believe history is a way to enlighten where we are today. i

those remarks did not set very well with the mayor of chicago lori lightfoot. she called the tweets misleading at a press conference and said it wasn't a playground and it wasn't one single incident as the tweet implied. i spoke with mayor lightfoot earlier. >> mayor, when you saw ivanka trump's tweet from a family which is constantly attacking the news media as factually incorrect or fake, the amount of inaccuracies in her one tweet, it was kind of -- it was certainly surprising how inaccurate it was. i'm wondering what exactly it was that you took issue with. >> well, first and foremost, i think if you really want to be helpful, and particularly given the platform you're in, you actually pick up the phone and you call and you talk to us about what actually happened so we could have given her a full rundown of what the facts were, and then we have a communication about what is the best path forward. i understand that she thought she was being helpful, but her failure -- or anybody on her team to just pick up the phone and communicate with us was really disappo

. >> after chicago's extensive investigation into jesse's mullet's alleged hate crime the city of chicago demanded small at pay back a hundred $30,000. and the city student today, small's attorneys filed motions to have the lawsuit throughout. back in march, chicago's legal department set a letter to him demanding restitution for its two dozen detectives that spent weeks of overtime looking into small's alleged hate crime. reviewing videos, conducting interviews, poring over evidence, chicago's police department and even some former male small menu it said though it hate crime was a hoax. a city warned smaller than i paid a $130,000 could result in a lawsuit seeking much more in fees and damages which the city now is. today, the actor's attorney filed motions calling the lawsuit of perverse tactics stressing that between seven never admitted wrongdoing and prosecutors dropped the case. they also filed an alleged -- a few weeks ago veteran judge in chicago ruled that a special independent prosecutor will now investigate the entire's speech 27 case from the start. the actor faces the same o