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jasmine griffin. she is a professor at columbia university of english and african-american studies. her current book is titled towards an intellectual history of black women. ladies and gentlemen, farah jasmine griffin. [applause] thank you, and good afternoon. i know you re here because you love hers stop, not because this hurston you want hear? okay. is that better? no? all right. i will keep talking until you can hear me. i ll try to speak a little more loudly. is that better? good. so, i know you re here because you love hurston, not bus that is one of the only air conditioned venues today. it is wholly appropriate we have this panel on hurston here in harlem, place she called home. a place that inspired much of her work. a place that started her career. this year will mark the 100th 100th anniversary of her birth, and she continues to be a writer and a figure who messmerrize us. we re fortunate to be joined by a june of scholars and speakers and writers who have
HaitiNew-yorkUnited-statesLouisianaArizonaAlabamaPolk-countyFloridaPhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaWashingtonChina to. a book i am rereading. i am also reading a book at the national gallery a week or so ago called the accidental masterpiece. it is about how you see art and to me i am a great lover of art, every day objects, everywhere you look. an interesting book i picked up. you see by my office, i do my own art. and keep my day job here. reading, i want to mention, is foundational. i was not born in this country. english is not my first language. i credit a library and in elementary school who awakened my love of reading and i remember the book, those who sit at her feet at the library and she read is mary poppins. that brought the love of reading for me which was foundational. you should be a reader. i am a pretty voracious reader. anything else you are reading this summer? i picked up i read as a new yorker compilation, short stories on the ipad, those are things i can read and when i have time, as i said, i have a number of those books on my ipad. the other thing i want to me
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TokyoJapanIranPhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaUnited-statesWashingtonTurkeyColumbusOhioCaliforniaVirginia a driver was taken into custody. we ll get to that story ahead. thank you for joining us. we are start off with your first alert forecast. that is lake eola you re taking a look at on your friday morning. let s go to eric. eric: it is friday. we re ready for the weekend and ready to get the storms through central florida. they re going to be moving through quickly. some of them will be relatively strong. the good news is we ve been saying all week long the majority of the ingredients necessary for severe weather stay across north florida. a 90% coverage of storms through lunch time. 3:00, that s a 40% chance of storms. out. at this hour our first alert doppler radar is tracking some of these showers coming in. a pretty decent swath of marion, sumter, lake counties you ll be first to see the rainfall. on your doorstep in the next few moments time. then it moving in. i want to show you nasty storms up in north florida. this line of severe thunderstorms will be moving into tal
MiamiFloridaUnited-statesFranklin-countyTampaVolusia-countyOcalaBelleviewKentuckyAltamonte-springsBrevard-countySeminole-county on stage? jason: start your engine. that s what we heard at the new daytona speedway. michelle: we made it through the week. we are sitting under cloud cover but this is going to change in the days ahead. amy is here to break it down. the two days of rain that we ve had moving on out and now the dry air is coming in, which means we will get some sunshine for your friday. sunrise doesn t happen until 7:16. once we get to sunrise we will start seeing more sun especially farther north. as the clouds clear we ll get more sun farther south. temperatures today mid 60 s, upper 60 s. not quite back to normal. here s our temperatures now. we have dropped to 46 in ocala where the skies have cleared and the temperatures are falling. 48 now in the villages 49 leesburg. we re 54 in orlando, still at 58 in melbourne. the wind out of the northwest, a bit breezy this morning and clouds are pushing south. you can see how they started to clear to the north and they will keep clearing as we h
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