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- Date Issued:
- 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama addresses the National Urban League at their convention in New Orleans, LA. He recounts the struggle for equal rights and the reasons the Urban League was formed. Obama talks about equal opportunity, hard work, and achieving the American dream. He declares education is an economic issue and speaks about the need to change firearm laws to step-up background checks adding restrictions to keep mentally unbalanced individuals from buying weapons, all as part of an initiative to reduce all kinds of violence. His comments are made in the wake of a mass shooting in Aurora, CO.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-07-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Kirk Domer, Michigan State University Associate Professor of Theatre, moderates the first of three presentations at a symposium entitled, Dramatization and Context: a Symposium and Roundtable held at the MSU Museum in conjunction with the premiere staging of the play Music History written by MSU College of Law Writer in Residence Sandra Seaton. Featured presenters are, Ann Folino White, MSU Associate Professor of Arts and Humanities, and Renee Newman Knake, MSU Assistant Professor of Law. White talks about the use of civil disobedience and theatrics to raise public awareness of the plight of Mississippi sharecroppers. Knake talks about First Amendment rights, civil rights, and the limitations of the law in illuminating and solving social problems. Gabriel Dotto, director of the MSU Press convenes the symposium, welcomes presenters and audience, and explains the concept behind the event. Joan W. Howath, dean of the MSU College of Law and Eva L. Evans from the Michigan Humanities Council, offer welcoming remarks. Recording begins as Dotto is speaking.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-11-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Naoko Wake, professor of History at Michigan State University, delivers a talk entitled "Hibakusha in cold war America: the working lives of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors." Wake discusses the impact nuclear radiation has had on individuals as well as the failure of the American government to provide assistance to Japanese-Americans suffering with radiation related illnesses. Wake highlights the racist nature of this treatment and classifies it as a legacy of the nuclear age and a product of the consistent labeling of Japanese-Americans as foreigners. She answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by professor John P. Beck from the Michigan State University School of Human Resources and Labor Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-04-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Paul Brayshaw welcomes President Barack Obama to his home in Falls Church, Virginia. Obama leads a backyard discussion on heath care and hears from citizens who are already benefiting from health reform, on the six-month anniversary of the passage of The Affordable Care Act & The Patient’s Bill of Rights. Several persons in attendance describe how they and their family members have benefited from the Act. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius comments on provisions of the Act.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-09-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Jordan also discusses the reasons why white liberals do not understand Jimmy Carter.
- Date Issued:
- 1976-06-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection