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Susan david ferriero, do you remember why you said yes . I said yes because of the opportunity to participate in and administers and i was serious about, and thought that the National Archives have a role to play in transparency. Susan dr. Skorton, why did you say yes to such a different gig . Dr. Skorton part of the goes back to my dad, who was a nationalist citizen. Were a little corny. He said if you can do something for the country, you should do it. I felt like i had some small part in tell...

Should get together with each other and say what do we want and then make it known and then illustrate by your example that you can have a home life and work life. One of my former had three young children, a day schedule. There happy with her work. She has a whole library of work at her fingertips at home. It should be much easier to have a balanced life that once was, but dont be shy about speaking up. Have company when you do so so you are not a lone voice. Thank you. [applause] thank you ver...

Immigrant Legal Resource Center and with mi familia vo, the vota. She has been named embassador for citizenship and naturalization by the white house. Tonight she is joined by the Baltimore Suns Award Winning education reporter liz and liz we thank you very much for being here and moderating this conversation with dian. Please welcome dian and liz to the Pratt Library. [applause] hello. Good evening. Can you all hear us . Hello. Oh, this does work. [laughter] well, i just wanted to start the con...

Libraries. I like to own t they might loan me a book or Something Like that. I do go to bookstores and just browse like everybody else. I read reviews. And you know, i just see something or hear something, there is no particularly systematic way. Or i decide i want to, you know, i want to read something on fillintheblank. You just go to the internet and pop up something about this and there you go. And then i try, if i am going to have an opportunity to meet an author, the other night at the lib...

[inaudible] i was wondering. [inaudible] the people who are my true friends are supportive and a lot of my friends from clueless are still supportive of me but there are a lot of people who are no longer my friends. They just stop talking to me. Family members as well. But thats okay because i believe if god wants you to do something he opens up the doors and all you have to do is walk through them and thats what im doing. [inaudible] i just wondered what you would say to people who are supporti...

Disenfranchised, dont get to have the education that we might have now or know we have now, going talk to people and places you might not want to talk to people and share what you know. Share whats good and weve got to break that narrative that the democrats have been feeding to the country, that plantation mentality that they been feeding to everyone that this is as far as you get to go and you cant do everything, you cant achieve everything you want. Theres not enough to go around. Then you kn...

Issues, but i think we can get around them. I think we got the sense that there are serious and deep problems that need addressing. We thank you very much for coming to present your book and thank you to the panel. If you have questions we will be at the reception and just ask us in the informal setting. With that, our time is up. [applause] skraz oakland is 11th on the list. To find out the other cities making the top 20 list look for the article on booksquire. Com. Carla hayden was sworn in as...

Sell on cable tv this production they came up with called hillary the movie, about hillary clinton. And the Bipartisan Campaign reform act said that because Citizens United was a Nonprofit Corporation, they were limited in how much they could spend in the days leading up to an election. And and so, basically, this group i sued and said youre discriminating against us. Were not able to offer our message because of the Bipartisan Campaign reform act. Now, the court ruled in their favor by a 54 dec...

Focusing on he thoughts on immigration and immigration is the focus of into book ofs series of campaigns this week. Now another point of view from actress diane guerrero,er book called in the country we love. Diane guerrero has appeared in the liery rated tv series, tv shows, orange is the new black, and jane the virgin. Her new book, in the country we love my family divided is a compelling and moving memoir which has received praise from the literary community. Die diane volunteer with the nonp...

The president ial campaign of 2016 as we approach the election, Many Americans say that the political outsiders like trump and carson over the career politicians. A year that americans are so fed up his politics as usual that many now favor unusual politicians. They keep reelecting incumbents over and over. It is really a bizarre moment. Based on a study, independent of the people of the bottom 90 have no impact on the actual congress. The opinions of the economic elite however, are reflected in...