Online at booktv. Org. Now on booktv, dayo olopade talks about her book, the bright continent at the Chicago Tribune winters road lit fest. The book looks at the new and great ideas that people in Subsaharan Africa are coming up with to do with the global challenges they face today. This is about 45 minutes. Is a thank you, and thanks for coming. Its great to meet you and to the chance to talk about this wonderful book. I want to just start with thatel wonderful essay from the great kenyan satirist who wrote that mine glowingly good essay, how to write about africa. Hat nine bloodedly good essay, how to read about africa by which he meant of course all of us who write about the continent should stop representing that. Hes down with the following. Broad brush strokes throughout are good. Avoid having the african carrot tears laugh or struggle to educate their kids or just make good mundane circumstances. How could the women except in about europe or america and africa. African character
You freedom fest, and and you will libertarian conference featuring several others. These panels will air on saturday and sunday. For complete scheduled visit booktv. Org. Afterwards veterans correspondent jay barbree talks about Neil Armstrong on the 45th anniversary of the moon landing. Then to des moines, iowa, literary sites and authors, you will see former wall street journal publisher Karen Elliott talking about saudi arabia from our college ceres ask pepperdine university. Former representative james rogan discusses his new book and actor danny glover is part of a panel on the black power movement. Of this and much more, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors on cspan2. Booktv, television for serious readers. Now on booktv, dayo olopade 11 talks about her book the bright continent breaking rules and making change in modern africa at the chicago printers fest. This is new and great ideas people in Subsaharan Africa are coming up with to deal with the global challenges they face
Today we are joined by some esteemed panelist skisll bro abuse tremendous briefly. Jonathan holloway is a professor and teen of yale college the author of a number of volumes, most importantly, jim crow wisdom were also joined by Marcus Hunter Marcus Hunter holds appointments in africanamerican studies at yale and professor in sociology joining the attend of ucla this fall right . He is the author of the phenomenal back, black city makers. How the philadelphia anything grow changed urban america. Walter moseley is here. The phenomenal novelist, whose book [applause] whose books are too numerous to mention. So well move along to the wonderful, brilliant delightful, ammann any perry, the author of two major books on racial inequality in the United States and prophets of the hood politics politics and poetics in hiphop and finally but not least, the author of most recently ross unbound and he is unbound in that text. A writer in his books and a staffer at the the new yorker. Our moderator
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Business items . And i know that we got carried away there. Okay. Seeing none, is there any Public Comment . Seeing none, this meeting is now adjourned. Thank you, all. Good. Good afternoon and welcome to the october 28, 2013 meeting of the San Francisco kphaul business commission. The meeting is called to order at 2 03 pm. Well conduct a roll call attendance. Commissioner adams, dooley, white. Here. Ortizcartagena. Here. Riley. White. Here. We have two commissioners absent but we do have a quorum. Item two, general Public Comment. Anybody here that would like to make a comment pertaining to any items that are not on todays agenda. Seeing none, Public Comment is closing. Next item, item three, approval of october 17, meeting min utes. Motion to move minutes. I move. All in favor. I. Any opposed. Next item. Item four presentation and discussion on board of supervisors file number 130781, special finance taxing law. We have with us thank you for having us here today. I welcome the opport