In terms of generationally did not prepare us for the work that needs to happen today. Thats the critique i was making about trading on individual success without a sense of social responsibility. Who are your parents . My parents are both retired professionals. One was a School Teacher and administrator of the Chicago Public schools for 35 years and my father recently retired was photojournalist. He worked for Johnson Johnson publishing in the early days, charlotte observer, news day, for past 20 years, New York Times staff photographer. Are they retired from new york. My mother always lived in chicago. My parent were divorced when i was young. My father lived in new york for over 30 years. What is your lineage . The famous part of my lineage, the part i know as opposed to distantly, im greatgrandson of the founder of Elijah Mohammed founder of nation of islam. My mother never converted but very much formative to my early years my First Cousins aunts and uncles all very much part of t
The u. S. Information agency that was part of our show we say cold war apparatus . [laughter] and surveying postcolonial nations and keeping an eye on things so this is a benign side of the cia published topic magazine and Richard Tsongas was a photographer here taking a picture of james brown and legos nigeria in 1970. He has an expansive body of work and we have the entire collections of the images here are they meet the description of the show which is lesserknown images across the continent starting from pittsburgh to nigeria. Its a pretty the show. There also images of malcolm x for malcolm x for example or Elijah Mohammad as a rarely seen in terms of what people would find on a Google Search for example. Lets see that Elijah Mohammad photo down here. This is Elijah Mohammad at the end, correct . Right here, big as life and there is malcolm x. This is a 1961 shot in washington d. C. With a church of god figure. Debating the merits of islam. Host do you think we could have that deb
The panel is timely given thelso some crisis gering numbers about how the race and poverty in the country, which should be online a national crisis. This panel is called wealth and finance and post averts america come moderated by my colleague at columbia, Damon Phillips was a professor of business and the codirector at the center of social enterprise. Is the author of shaping jazz, book on the emergent and evolution for the market for recorded just been published in top jobs within management and sociology. We are in good hands your containment, take it away. First of all thank you rich for your leadership over the years and for the fantastic event. This was a really fun time for me to have this opportunity to moderate this panel. I have really and for me some top scholars and i will introduce them but then well jump into a discussion about the project for the day. I will say a few words in between but really my job is as a moderator is to facilitate the discussion and allow all of us
Mortimer. Theres absolutely no doubt where her commitment to the struggle and liberation of people were. I said, harper lee is a great novelist. Dont know where she stood on race relationships. I dont. Thats it. Thank you all so much for coming. That panel on harper lee was from the first annual mississippi book fair, held at the State Capitol in jackson. And by the way, go set a watchman, harper lees sobel novel, has sold about 1. 5 million copies since it was published in july. Up next, an Economics Panel from the harlem book fair in july. Thank you max rodriguez. Im rich from columbia university. An absolute pleasure to be here to introduce the panel that will launch the harlem book fairs author panel, broadcast on cspan, booktv. The panel is particularly timely given the crisis some staggering numbers about wealth inequality and should be a national crisis, this panel is calls wealth and finance in post civil rights area. I witness well moderateled by damon phillips, the codirector
1959. No im not familiar with that. Neither am i. Theres really some fascinating stuff that has come out. Gosh, i wish id been here for the first part of this. We were fabulous. Im sure you were. [applause] you had some very efficientgatekeepers out there. Thank you efficient gatekeepers out there. Haste gotten the signal were done yet. One more minute. One more question. Thank you. I was very interested in the comments you made about to kill a mockingbird being used as a book for literary instructions in the future. Id be interested in your comments regarding, in light of the present racial divide win within our country, the type of portrayal in to kill a mockingbird whereas we have this heroic person who is going to be the defender of africanamericans, in the light of the 60s, are you saying we should continue that portrayal by using this book as a literary tool for teaching about Race Relations in america . I think that mockingbird is a valuable text for teaching Race Relations in a