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First a discussion on the late author and active audra lorde, following by eddie glaude on james baldwin. Welcome to the Shomberg Center book festival. We had to reimagine a block long multistaged outdoor philadelphia as a viral one with your favorite write centers opportunity to discover more books. This we we have 35 authors and midraters sharing narratives from the u. S. And uk to west africa and jamaica, each night we go between the past and present like the Shomberg Centers archives and pro...

Ah, is there a certain way pmy hair or look should look . I dont know. Is that max . Okay, yeah, i can hear you. Are we rollin this . George dploifloyd, well, i t like everybody, we saw the footage on television, and it was, i dont know, harrowing, it was just devastating to see. Did really was striking that this could still happen in a global pandemic, like folks are still being killed by, by police. As george floyd said i cant breathe, there was only what i depicted to be hatred, what i depict...

In conversation. Part of our ongoing Virtual Event series. Were so fortunate to be able to be here with their authors and their writing. Every week we will be hosting an event via zoom. This evenings event well have your questions available. If you go to the check section. They have also included in the chat. And lastly. The technical logistics may come up. We apologize in advance for that. We will do our best to recall any issues. Im so pleased to introduce tonights the speaker. With the gradua...

Giants outfielder Mike Yastrzemski discussing the situation. We understand the world is a bigger place than the baseball field and when events of the world are overflowing on to the baseball field, we dont have control over that, and thats when we have to adapt and thats when we have to make our choices on how we want to handle situations. I think the thing that was most enlightening about yesterday is how many good, highquality conversations happened around the clubhouse. Four of five of them w...

Against the pandemic and when were losing, we buy the cramer covid19 index. Oh, i wish there were more to it than that. But when the virus seems unstoppable. You go back to the wealth and buy the stocks of the companies regardless of valuation. Thats how the dow gained 236 points today the s p advanced 2. 7 . And winners surge 1. 47 . This rally was extra infuriating to anyone who thinks the market should be linked to washingtons inability to pass another stimulus bill now that the 600 a week be...

A wendys fast food drive through or as the state president of the georgia and reverend james wood also rightfully observed this is not the 1st time a black man has been killed. For sleeping. Just 48 hours later after the wendys burned in the protesters had to add yet another name to that now growing list of lives lost to Police Violence the world celebrated the birthday of legendary revolutionary mess those. Whose observations on what drives rebellion still ring true to today that the true revol...

A wendys fast food drive thru or is the state president of the georgia and c. P. Reverend james would also rightfully observed this is not the 1st time a black man has been killed for sleeping. Just 48 hours later after the wendys burned in the protesters had to add yet another name to that now growing list of lives lost to Police Violence the world celebrated the birthday of a legendary revolutionary or a mess those. Whose observations on what drives rebellion still ring true to today that the ...

This country late into the heat of the early summer night on friday june 12th Atlanta Police officer Garrett Rolfe chose to shoot and kill 27 year old rae sharp brooks for that most heinous crime of being supremely drunk and passed out in a wendys fast food drive through or is the state president of the georgia n. W. C p reverend james wood also rightfully observed this is not the 1st time a black man has been killed for sleeping. Just 48 hours later after the wendys burned in the protesters had...

Expected to run for president is sentenced to 20 years in prison for corruption. And demands for Racial Justice protests in parts of europe with growing calls for controversial statues to be torn down. And arpita stated as u. S. Sports suffers a blow to its return from coronavirus a several athletes from Major League Baseball to professional golf to its positive despite being in socalled sporting bubbles. But we begin this hour with breaking news out of washington d. C. A u. S. Court has ruled t...

Anthem changes has become one of the many featured songs that have made up the soundtrack to these protests in fact changes actually jumped to the top of i tunes top 100 in early june reaching as high as the 25th spot born quite literally out of the black Panther Party in the 1970 s. And later becoming one of the legendary hip hop voices representing the struggle of black america in the 1980 s. And ninetys sure once quoted as saying im not saying im going to rule the world or im going to change ...