If you missed our two hour live election day show, you can see part of it tonight on GRITtv. We have in our studio Danny Schechter, the author of Plunder: Investigating our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal, Roberto Lovato, Associate Editor with New America Media, and Esther Armah, the co-host of “Wake Up Call” on WBAI. And reports from Ari Melber of the Nation Magazine with the Obama campaign in Chicago and Anthony Shull Campaign Communications Specialist for Unite Here on the ground in Milwaukee.

In the summer of 1964 a quiet revolution began in Mississippi. It was Freedom Summer. Black and white women from Boston, New York, Philly and Chicago traveled to Mississippi on Tuesdays — every week. “Wednesdays Women” were supplying cover and support to the local de-segregation movement, doing what Dorothy Height called, “women’s work…the work of making connections and building community.” The film being made about these courageous women, WEDNESDAYS IN MISSISSIPPI, is this week’s GOT DOCS.

Then an interview with David Amram. He’s lived more than nine lives in one lifetime and there’s no stopping him now. In his musical career he has composed more than 100 works of music, two operas, written scores for Broadway and movies including the classic films, Splendor in the Grass and The Manchurian Candidate.

He is a virtuoso on the piano, plays the French horn, flute, whistles, percussion – you name it, he plays it. And he has collaborated with the greats he calls his friends from Leonard Bernstein, who chose David as the first composer in residence for the New York Philharmonic, Langston Hughes, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk, Tito Puente, Charlie Parker, and the list goes on and on. This year Amram was appointed as Composer-In-Residence for the Democratic National Convention.

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