she taught at atlanta public schools morehouse college spelman college and was chair of clark atlanta university's music department. she currently lives in decatur, georgia and continues to be an advocate for education and an active member of the uga community as you'll see from her virtual background the school of education or the college of education was also recently named for miss early. hank clevenoff who is today's moderators a veteran journalist and both the pulitzer prize-winning author and a peabody award-winning podcast host. he is a professor of practice at emory's creative writing program. he coauthored the race beat the press and civil rights struggle and the awakening of a nation which won the 2007 pulitzer prize for history. prior to joining emory who is a long-time reporter and editor for more than 35 years, including a stint as managing editor of our hometown newspaper the atlanta journal constitution. so again, y'all are in for a treat to really wonderful speakers today as they're speaking if you have any questions that come up, you're welcome to drop those into the

even though you stayed in atlanta. if you don't mind, there's something in the book that i'd like to quote from. >> please do. >> it's a journal entry from when you were 17 years old at the end of orientation at clark college. i can't -- let me just read what you wrote because i just find it so powerful. on saturday evening of freshman orientation week, i mused as i walked back to my dorm. thank god i am an american. an american who can go forward not as a negro, but as a true american citizen to greater heights and to the pinnacle of success. tonight i say a verbnt prayer for the freshman class of clark college and the freshman classes all over the world that they might dedicate themselves to the task of finishing this college course in four years, if possible, and then turn back to help their people who are not as fortunate as they. mold themselves into true citizens of the united states and of america so that some day the negro race will not be called negro and the caucasian called white but all will be united toget

i work with the atlanta symphony. they have made great strides here of late but there is still room for improvement. but we have always had wonderful musicians. i have seen a lot of growth. when you have been here for 85 years, you have seen a lot. >> i imagine so. a couple other questions coming in here, in particular about some advice you can give to current educaors and some experiences yourself as an educator. i will start with the one from sarah. she was curious, you know, after you started your teaching -- well, you started your teaching career, then went back to uga and then restarted it. during that career, did you have to deal with prejudices from your students? and how did you approach that, if you did? >> i never taught in an integrated school. all of my teaches was done in all-black schools. i went to all-black schools. so that was not something that i had to deal with. but when i became a supervisor and then director of music, i had to work with white teachers as well as black. i had no problems at all. b

i'm here a metro atlanta native. i grew up just north of the city. i've wanted to be a journalist since fourth grade and really jumped into it starting in high school, but was the editor of the school newspaper at the university of georgia where i first started covering governor brian kemp. he was a state senate candidate running against an incumbent democrat back then when democrats ruled the state and he flipped the sea, so maybe that was the first flip i've covered was way back in 2002 and ryan camp wanna athens bay state senate seat, and since then i've covered the rise of sunny purdue as the first republican governor since reconstruction and documented nathan deals two terms as governor of georgia, and then really got into the the transformation of georgia starting with john assoffs run in 2017 when he proved that that the suburbs of atlanta were very competitive and almost slipped us house seat just north of atlanta where i live actually and covered the 2018 gubernatorial race between brian kemp and stacey abrams relentlessly, and of course 202

i'm here a metro atlanta native. i grew up just north of the city. i've wanted to be a journalist since fourth grade and really jumped into it starting in high school, but was the editor of the school newspaper at the university of georgia where i first started covering governor brian kemp. he was a state senate candidate running against an incumbent democrat back then when democrats ruled the state and he flipped the sea, so maybe that was the first flip i've covered was way back in 2002 and ryan camp want to athens bay state senate seat and since then i've covered the rise of sunny purdue as the first republican governor since we construction and documented nathan deals two terms as governor of georgia, and then really got into the transformation of georgia starting with john ossoff's run in 2017 when he proved that that the suburbs of atlanta were very competitive and almost flipped us house seat just north of atlanta where i live actually and covered the 2018 gubernatorial race between brian kemp and stacey abrams relentlessly, and of course 2020

shipping as well as in-store pickup if you are local to the atlanta area. we encourage you to support dean brown nagin and the book and purchase your copy from atlanta history center. again, tonight's guest is tomiko brown nagin, a dean, a professor of constitutional law at harvard law school and professor of history at harvard university's faculty of arts and sciences. she's appointed chair of the presidential committee on harvard and the legacy of slavery in 2019. and as a member of the american actually of arts and sciences, the american philosophical society and the american law institute. she has many other accolades which we can't quite get into in our short intro tonight. rest assured you are in for a wonderful conversation. she is in conversation tonight with rose scott. if you are familiar at all with atlanta, you know rose scott's voice-over the air waves. she's an award winning journalist, has been reporting in atlanta for more than two decades and is currently the host of closer look on wbae and on a radio station. welcome. we are going to turn

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spent plenty of time in atlanta. a part of my method for drawing people into that story was to write a biographical sketch of each lawyer, includes motley. i was just blown away by how relatively little there was out there. i wanted to correct that. i think we lose out when we don't understand the full range of individuals who contributed to the struggle for civil rights. certainly, when we lose the lens of gender, it matters to tell the story of the black freedom movement through the eyes of a woman. it's inspiring to know her story. it was just a labor of love to write this book. >> i don't want to give too much away, because i know some folks don't have their book. i have mine. the very first page we read a poem from a young -- i think she's 15 years old. >> yes. >> striking what she writes. you want to share some of that with the audience? >> sure. let's see. i will read you some of her words. it was extraordinary. i had the pleasure of being given this poem by a family member who thought it was so striking. it's

where were you born, atlanta, georgia? how long have you been residing in your current president locality three years. are you married singular widow? he's single. were you were your parents born in the united states? he says yes, are you a -- or gentile? gentile are you of white racer of colored race? he leaves it black do you believe in the principles of pure americanism? he says yes, i do. so this picture is actually a clan march in washington dc 40,000 people. you can see the capital in the building. i bet building in the background. one one eyewitness said that there were so many klansmen that washington looked like a giant snowbank because it was all white. so this is a force that's bubbling up right when walter comes of age and moves to new york. and at the same time he arrives in new york exactly in time to become part. of this literary and artistic renaissance we know now is the harlem renaissance. so he begins to live. a double life and we shall see how now that's duke ellington. all right. let me let set a littl

that's what happened to an atlanta mom but thanks to quick police work and technology, it has a happy ending. this body camera video shows police officers in atlanta, chasing down a man accused of carjacking a vehicle with a 9-year-old boy still inside. the boy's mother said she pulled into a parking lot, leaving her keys and her son inside. the suspect then jumped in and drove off. >> check area of south gordon. >> reporter: but the boy's mother was able to watch their every move, because she was tracking her son's smartphone, equipped with the "find my iphone" gps feature. police quickly caught up with the car, arresting the suspect and rescuing her son. >> you okay? >> yes. >> reporter: experts say the number of carjackings involving children is increasing nationwide, but more of those incidents are ending with the children safe, thanks to technology. >> we are using technology in a way to bring home children faster than ever before. we're all interconnected. we all have these devices in our pockets. >> reporter: the rescues are adding fuel to the debate over whether to track their

we offer domestic us shipping as well as in-store pickup if you're local to the atlanta area. so we encourage you to support dean brown nagan and the book and purchase your coffee from atlanta history center. helps inform the new york times bestseller list again, tonight's guest is tamika brown nagan. she's the dean of harvard's radcliffe institute for advanced study the daniel ps professor of constitutional law at harvard law school and professor of history at harvard university's faculty of arts and sciences. she's appointed chair of the presidential committee on harvard and the legacy of slavery in 2019. and as a member of the american academy of arts and sciences the american philosophical society and the american law institute. she has many other accolades which we can't quite get to in our shorts tonight of a rest assured you are in for just a really wonderful conversation. she's in conversation tonight with rose scott if you're familiar at all with atlanta, you know rose scott's voice over the airways. she is an award-winning journalist has been reporting in atlanta for

meddling probe to cause downtown atlanta road closures. the fulton county sheriff's office announced today that the department will close some roads in downtown atlanta next week ahead of major court proceedings. the agency plans to close for road starting monday, which is when fulton county district attorney fani willis and her office will begin to select members of a special grand jury, who lambasted to former president donald trump tried to illegally overturn georgia's election in 2020. expect blockades at the corners of the fulton county justice center complex. transit buses will have access. the sheriff's department says, quote, the public is advised to avoid the area, unless they must conduct a business in the vicinity. so, they are expecting this to be such a hullabaloo starting on monday in fulton county, georgia, that they have actually, in addition to the road closures, have canceled most of the proceedings in that district court, at that complex. they have canceled almost all the proceedings that the magistrate court and are als

. >> i'm glad you mentioned clark atlanta university and the fact that we are hearing atlanta, the cradle of the civil rights movement. dr. king, john lewis, many other greats call atlanta home. if you will, this was one of the epicenters of the 1960's civil rights movement. on the other hand, georgia has become ground zero for voter suppression, the way in which the georgia legislature reacted to the january 5 election and the aftermath of the january 6 insurrection is to literally lead an assault on the right of people to vote. he thought we needed to come again to the front lines, the front lines of where people can get a close look at what is happening in georgia. we also believe going to one of our great historically black universities, and including the students from spelman and morehouse and brown, along with the atlanta clark university community, places the spotlight on why protection of democracy and closing the racial gaps in this country is important to this next generation. to the students, who now are in activist mode, who are now posed -- poised to fight. our campaign says

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and back to michael and cnn headquarters in atlanta. that was a thinly veiled threat, michael, if you like they would send arms to the baltic regions. countries like lithuania and former prime minister of sweden points out those nuclear weapons are already there, so it is kind of an empty threat. >> yeah, yeah, exactly. and just terrifying to even contemplate any use of those weapons in this conflict. john, good to see you, my friend. we will talk to you later. >> thanks, mate. >>> and we are monitoring a breaking story out of jerusalem, where clashes have broken out in an area considered a holy site by both jews and muslims. it happened during friday prayer prayers at the mosque. hadas gold is near the area, she joins me now live with more. brings up to date on -- on what's happened, hadas. >> so, michael, i am right now at the damascus gate, one of the entries to the city for muslim worshippers to reach the temple mount. and actually, as we speak right now, there is an increased security presence here likely in response to earlier cla

now about that training course in flight control in atlanta next week. i can't spare any of my people right now and be a couple of months before i can get anybody to turn louder and we want to this thing going. since you're going to have a big program. might be more economical to start the training program right here in your state. i'll see what i can do with the atlantic people. oh, that's fine sam now, we've got some more training problems. what are we going to do about all of those technicians that require all the special courses now? you've just got to help me. that's all. so cdc trained the personnel of this state on the proven methods of fly control and enable them to set up their own program. training is an important part of the cdc organization and covers such things as water supply. stream pollution sewage housing laboratory procedures sanitary engineering mycotic diseases and many others training centers are strategically located throughout the united states and are attended by state and local health personnel and students from many foreign cou

tonight, oscar isaac star of "atlanta," actress, zazie beetz, comedian phil wang featuring the 8g band with fred eltringham. ♪ and now seth meyers. [ cheers and applause >> seth: good evening! i'm seth meyers. this is "late night. we hope you're doing well tonight. and now we're going to get to the news florida senator rick scott yesterday criticized disney for coming out against his state's so-called "don't say gay law" and said that he won't go back to the theme park. oh, no you mean we won't get to see rick scott at disney world [ laughter ] kids, do you even still want to go [ laughter ] that's like saying the trip's booked, but heads-up, the hall of presidents is closed [ laughter ] after it was announced that elon musk had purchased twitter, the social media platform's co-founder jack dorsey endorsed the sale and said he trusts musk's "mission to extend the light of consciousness." well, i feel a lot better knowing that twitter wasn't in great hands before [ laughter ] president biden said yesterday he tried to congratulate french president emmanuel macron on his reelection but

i'm michael holmes at the cnn center in atlanta. appreciate your company. coming up, russia's military confirms its objective in ukraine is to take full control of the black sea coast and establish a land bridge between russia and crimea. key to that is the city of mariupol. ukraine's prime minister calling the situation in mariupol one of the biggest humanitarian catastrophes in a century. in northeast ukraine, recent video shows ukrainian forces attacking russian positions with rockets. russian troops are attempting to break through the defenses and advance south, further into donbas. in a small town outside of kyiv, new video shows damaged and destroyed homes left by russian shelling during the first phase of this conflict. as ukraine's orthodox christians celebrate easter this weekend, ukraine's president said he was hopeful of prevailing against russia. >> translator: the 58th day of our defense is coming to an end. it ends on good friday, the day when death seems to have won. but we hope for a resurrection. we believe in the victory of life over death

to cause downtown atlanta road closures. the fulton county sheriff's office announced today that the department will close some roads downtown atlanta next week ahead of the major court proceedings. the agency plans to close four road, starting monday, which is when fulton county district attorney fani will is and her office will begin the selection of members of the special grand jury whether president trump tried to illegally overturn georgia's election am 2020. expect blockades at the corners of fulton county justice center complex. transit f buses will have acces. thetr public is advised to avoi the area, unless they must conduct business in the vicinity. so they are expecting this to be such a hula balaa, in addition to the road closure, they have canceled most of the proceedings in magistrate court at that justice complex. they canceled almost all of the proceedings in magistrate court and advising anyone who needs accesse to the fulton county court system to skip downtown atlanta and go to any satellite facilities ins

. >> here live at cnn headquarters in atlanta. coming up for us deja vu in the french presidential race. macron taking on far right rival. as they prepare to face off in a second round of voting.

but for now, let's get back to kim at cnn world headquarters there in atlanta. kim. >> thanks so much, john. >>> the world has reached another staggering covid milestone. half a billion people have now been infected with the virus since the pandemic began according to the latest data from johns hopkins university. have a look at this graph. just took over a year for the world to hit 100 million cases and less than 200 days to reach 200 million. since then, each new milestone has been reached much more quickly. now, we are at 500 million but many people believe the real number is much higher. now, for the first time since the start of the pandemic, the cdc predicts the u.s. will record 1 million deaths from coronavirus and it says that is likely to happen by early-next month. according to johns hopkins, the virus has already killed more than 987,000 people in the u.s. but despite the looming milestone, the number of newly-reported deaths is forecast to decrease over the next month. the cdc, also, announced wednesday that it's extending the federal transportation

marshall cohen, cnn, atlanta. >>> u.s. house minority leader kevin mccarthy is trying to contain the fallout after the release of audio containing conversations about then president donald trump in the aftermath of the capitol riots. in the tapes mccarthy says trump admitted to some responsibility for january 6th and he was going to recommend the former president resign. listen to this. >> he told me he does have some responsibility for what happened and he needs to acknowledge that. >> the discussion i had with him is that i think this will pass and that it would be my recommendation he should resign. >> -- the "wall street journal" he's spoken to mccarthy and the relationship "remained good." mccarthy has also called other key republicans. he's expected to meet privately with his republicans next wednesday. meanwhile, mccarthy is set to lead a group of republican lawmakers to the southern border in texas on monday. this comes amid debate over the biden administration's decision to end a measure known as title 42. that's

. >> shannon was a -- sophomore year in atlanta. they received a phone call from their childhood home. and on the other line was athena, the college roommate. >> athena was distraught, and was asking me if i heard or spoke to shannon. >> shannon had not been seen or heard form in more than a day. >> now are you starting to do the calculation even though you're 30? that there is trouble? >> there was. i knew immediately that something was terribly wrong. >> monique hooks up with the roommate and makes a few calls of her own. >> i immediately called my godmother who was living in atlanta. after she had heard from shannon, i she did not. i called my aunt that also lived there. she had not heard from shannon. >> monika was gripped with fear. she called her grandparents, and her grandfather came to pick her up. monika stat lueck's was at work. and the mom ivan who was with them. and after they were done, they went to the mother's house. >> i went to the car. and it was my mother, i, think my mother's sister came out. and said shannon is

marc morial is the president and c-e-o of the national urban league and he joins us fro atlanta where the report was released earlier today. what does it say in the it has been almost two decades yet the overall index number is virtually the same? >> thank you for having me. what it says is that the disparities in american life between blacks and white are persistent. lock in in a sense of suspended animation. were you could have some progress in some areas than a decline in others. it is the caboose on the train syndrome where black americans remained behind white americans even when things improve for black americans, they are improving at the same rate or even more for white americans at the same time. this is the persistent challenge for 21st century america. can these gaps, these structural gaps of racial inequality be closed in the 21st century? >> you talk about the caboose syndrome. the gains in economics, but the gain means you are only up to 3/5 of what white americans enjoy and in health, it's about 84%. talk a little bit about those areas where there have been gains. >> i

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