That was moved in with heads of grace and love Public Policy at college and nieman fellow at Harvard University his awardwinning work has been published in the new york times, the Washington Post among many other periodicals and he has appeared in tonight he is here with his new book why didnt we write a . Addressing such topics and is confederate iconography and Police Brutality. This collection explores what it means to be black and trump america. It is called a powerful weapon in history and truth that is present and surprisingly vulnerable. To main conversation from the library. And the screen is all yours. Thank you so much for here in the area and then to underscore about the q a. And then we will get to as many of them as we can. So you start off the book we do a deep dive early on he make a prediction about the president ial election. Donald trump would receive 60 percent of the way vote even more than the last time and the exit polls are correct and you are spot on looking at
Archives. Visit booktv. Org for a complete schedule. And we now kick off with Professor William darity and Kirsten Mullin with their thoughts on reparations for africanamericans. Good afternoon, im director of the hutchens center on fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution. We gather here this afternoon virtually because of the covid plague to talk about reparations for africanamericans for the descendants of slaves. We planned this event before covid19 and, of course, william darity and Kirstin Mullen wrote the book long before covid19. Its worth noting that the coronavirus seems to be afflicting blacks much more than whites. Theres a piece in the journal of the American Medical Association which points out that more than half the covid19 cases in chicago and nearly 70 of the deaths involve black individuals although blacks make up only 30 of the population. Theres a story on the front page of the Washington Post today about contrasting the intensive care unit in afflue
Pandemic, an economic crisis and a deep uncertainty. This is an nbc news special report america in crisis. Good evening, im lester holt in minneapolis. Ten days ago george floyd was known only to his family and friends. Today he was mourned and celebrated in a nationally televised memorial service. It continues tonight at the intersection not far from here where he died. His name is known around the world. The latest in a lit of africanamerican men who have fallen victim to Police Brutality. His death has triggered a national outpouring of grief and anger and a growing resolve that tragedies like this never happen again. Tonight, peaceful protests continue across the country. Even around the world as many call for change. It all comes at a perilous point in our country. We have seen this before. But now in 2020, we are seeing all of it all at once coming at us. We are in uncharted territory. Tonight, we will look at how we got here and whats at stake. And we will meet some of the peopl
To ask a question because we after susans talk today she is taking questions and if you like to ask a question you are asked to line up at the microphone here. She will speak for about half an hour. Please dont ask your question from your seat but from your microphone. As someone who has written about civil rights in the south and my next book takes place in 1936 in nazi germany at the olympics. I cannot could not be more excited about being here in nashville with susan to hear about her new book. Shes one of the leading philosophers of the time. This is such an important book for these times. She studied at harvard. Shes taught at yale and tel aviv university. She is now the director of the Einstein Forum outside of berlin. Shes been in the u. S. On her book tour for about five weeks. I know shes looking forward to getting back home after a long book tour. Please join me in welcoming susan neiman to nashville. Thank you so much for coming. [applause] thank you. I am delighted to be he
Festival. You can do that online, or you can do that in various spots around the book festival. Youll see the donation stations. To thank you for considering that. Also after susans talk today, she is taking questions, and if you would like to ask a question because we aren on cspan, youre asked to line up at this microphone here. Shell speak for about half an hour so shell have about 20 minutes for questions. Please, dont ask your question from your seat, but from the microphone. My name is andrew maraniss, and as someone who has written about civil rights in the south and my next book takes place in 1936 nazi germany at to him picks i could not be more excited about susan here to talk about her new book, and im so eager to hear more about it. Learning from the germans. Theres probably no person on the t planet that is more qualified to write about this subject than susan who was born in atlanta during the segregated time and now lives in berlin. One of the leading philosophers of the