Programs across the nation. Clyde is here tonight to speak about his latest book think black which was just released shortlisted for the 2019 book price in social justice. Which you please join me welcoming to the planetarium at the Oregon Museum of science and industry clyde ford. [applause] thank you, leslie, i thank you all for being here. I cant tell you how special it is to be here again. I was just talking with your president nancy, and just reliving my First Experience at omsi over 40 years ago when omsi was up at washington park, and i was a volunteer. And i was working with a group at omsi that actually was involved in software. I had just come from ibm to go to Chiropractic College and i needed something to do around computers because ive been doing that for so long when i wasnt studying chiropractic, and i was able to get computer time by exchanging my work to help them develop the omsi compiler or anyone is old enough to remember what the compiler is, kind of date yourself,
Id like to welcome yall here to politics and prose. My name is allen watke and im then events staff here where we host klose to a thousand author events a year at three locations. For everything confirm you can go to the website at politics prose. Com or pick up a monthly printed calendar. Before we get started id like to ask everyone to please silence your cellphones so not to disrupt the event. And when we get to the q a, if you could line up at themake crow phone at the pillar lat would be great because were audio recording and cspan for booktv is filming as well. So wed really like to have your questions in there following the q a well have a signing at the table and if you could just leave your chairs where we are because we have a couple mored reading today. So today were very excited to welcome robert c plumb, celebrate his back the bert angel, five women who changed civil war america. Collective biography of five extraordinary women who came to National Prominence during the ci
Here in portland as a doctor of chiropractic and hes a trained psychotherapist. Hes also the Award Winning author of 12 works of fiction and nonfiction. Hes the recipient of the award of africanamerican literature and numerous awards for his books. Hes been a guest on the oprah show, npr and radio and tv programs across the nation. Clyde is here tonight to talk about his latest book think black which was just short listed for the 2019 goddard resso book prize. Would you welcome him at the science and industry, clyde w. Ford. [applause]. Thank you, leslie and this you all for beinger hoo being here. And i cant tell you how it is to be here again and reliving my First Experience here over 40 years ago when it was up at Washington Park and i was a volunteer and working with a group at omsi with software. Id gone to Chiropractic College and i needed to do that, and i was able to get computer time exchanging my work for the omsi compiler, and anyone who knows how it is dates yourself. And i
Midst to talk about the shop. But first i want to talk about richard bell, scholar, beautiful writer. This book really jumps in with his incredibly human picture of a young by, and from that moment i knew that i was in sure creative hands but he is a remarkable scholar. Educated at cambridge harvard, moved professor at the university of maryland, has won one of the major awards and if theres a round of applause it is for people who are educating the next generation of historical people to have a sense of history and what it means as human beings in the world but also particularly as americans, and somewhere from wells is dedicated to helping us mine that history. He is a 2017 public scholar after the National Endowment for the humanities. And has had fellowships from the Huntington Library in california to cambridge in england and everywhere in between, yale and the library of congress. So this is a mind we want sort of tilling the soil of americas past and helping us come to under and
Partsinevelos, carol roth and john burnett. So nba commissioner adam silver insisting that Houston Rockets general manager has the right to show support for anti protesters in hong kong even after chinas state broadcaster canceled plans susan li is standing by in the news room with the very latest details. Susan . Reporter so adam silver there you heard him and hes also backpedaling a bit today, saying that they dont regulate what owners, players and employees of the nba say. I guess they are doing this internal calculus right now that the nba need china or does china need the nba. You know, the nba hasnt been in china since 1987 going back to the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan and theres only one nba in the world so 600 Million People stream the games on streaming services and hundreds of millions, close to 1 billion watch it on broadcasters, cctv, so some would say that the nba has actually more of a preferential position compared to disney or starbucks because you can go to altern