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Wendell pierce, welcome. Thank you so nice to meet you, an honor to meet you. The honor is mine. And i must say, i love this book, and what i loved about it, i love many things about it, but i loved about it the most, was that it read like fiction even though its nonfiction. Its such a literary, memoir. Youve written books before, or not . No, this is my first book. What a debut, then thank you, thank you. Im from new orleans, so the characters of my life and my family and my community, you coul...

Now actor and producer Wendell Pierce will talk about his family and their new orleans neighborhood followed by hurricane katrina. His book is, the wind and the reefs. He reefs. He speaks of the 27th annual southern festival of books. Hello, welcome. This is the southern festival of books session on the wind and the reefs with the author Wendell Pierce. We will be ready to begin. Just a bit of housekeeping. First of all welcome to the National Public library and thank you for so much for hosting...

So let me say thats he has said the mass media and at one point i wanted to volunteer but my own book was too demanding not to give it all away but the title of my book, a first of all, let me say to say he is the poet and i am a poet and i could not imagine that could be true he is a very astute historian you can call its historical gossip then there is a banquet and a look came over his face and said actually it is quite common after each of the shootings there ribby parties and gatherings for...

This is over. applause Wendell Pierce, welcome. Thank you so nice to meet you, an honor to meet you. The honor is mine. And i must say, i love this book, and what i loved about it, i love many things about it, but i loved about it the most, was that it read like fiction even though its nonfiction. Its such a literary, memoir. Youve written books before, or not . No, this is my first book. What a debut, then thank you, thank you. Im from new orleans, so the characters of my life and my family and...

Applause Wendell Pierce, welcome. Thank you so nice to meet you, an honor to meet you. The honor is mine. And i must say, i love this book, and what i loved about it, i love many things about it, but i loved about it the most, was that it read like fiction even though its nonfiction. Its such a literary, memoir. Youve written books before, or not . No, this is my first book. What a debut, then thank you, thank you. Im from new orleans, so the characters of my life and my family and my community,...

And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis wendell pierce, a successful career means taking on a wide array wide array of diverse characters. He is on the michael j. Fox show. Essedays a ratingsobs producer. He also plays in treme. Its final season on hbo. Before we start our conversation, a look at a scene from treme. I love it when dan comes in on the vocals. They used to do that a lot in the old days. It always cracked me up. Call and response . Yeah, tha...

President ial election, the only american soldiers in afghanistan could be a pretty modest force protecting the embassy and capital of kabul. Jim acosta joins me now. Jim, weve heard a lot of numbers, in the recent two years. When i hear 9,800, that is new. Reporter that is absolutely new, brooke. When you consider that the president is going to be at west point tomorrow talking about his Foreign Policy for the next two and a half years of his administration, he was at west point a few years ago...

The Tourism & Transport Forum (TTF) Australia has released its Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) and will unveil its First Nations Tourism Hub as part of its commitment to supporting First Nations tourism and reconciliation in 2024.