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Offers programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. Keep watching for more here on cspan2 and watch any of our past programs online a book tv. Org. Hello and welcome to grapevine, harlem renaissance, 19th annual book library festival. I am benedict carton, with africanamerican studies, we appreciate your attendance today. The festival runs through saturday, october 14th. For all the most uptodate information on this festival and all the other programs throughout the year, visit ballstothebooks. All one word. This is funded through donations was one way to help us through this kind of programming is friends of fall for the book. To learn more visit please visit their website again. We ask that you please remember to silence your cell phones and thank you for filling out a survey and improve the festival of the future. Thank you to our main sponsor in africanamerican studies so we are pleased to have here Marylouise Patter ....
This festival is a a nonprofit that is funded exclusively through donations. One of the ways to help us through this kind of programming is through the friends of fall for the book. To learn more please visit that website again. We ask that you please remember to silence your cell phone and thank you in advance of filling out a survey which will help fall for the book improve the festival in the future. Thank you to our main sponsor, african and africanamerican studies. So we are pleased to have fear Marylouise Patterson and Jeffrey Stewart, two writers who examine key figures of the harlem renaissance, Langston Hughes and alan locke, respectively. In letters from langston dr. Patterson explores relationship that her family but particularly her mother had with ....
Created back in the wake of the depression by roosevelt in order to help make Home Ownership more widely available. After words airs sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern. You can watch all previous after words programs at booktv. Org. Columbia University ProfessorSusan Pedersen is next on booktv. She recalls the paris peace be conference after world war i and the creation of the league of nations. The great war had been a war of empires, and to the victorious allied powers, it seemed as if militaristic and aggressive empires had been defeated while the oppressive empire, the russians, had fallen by the wayside in the throes of revolt. It seemed as if the good empires who thought of themselves as having reluctantly acquired their possessions and had administered these for the good of their peoples had triumphed. Now it was le ....
And earlier today in North Carolina where george floyd was born a third Memorial Service was held to honor his life. And among the mourners were his sister and his brother who both spoke about their loss. Im still devastated and very much overwhelmed by this. That ill never hear his voice, ill never hear his laughter have his hugs and me tell him i love him and like wise him tell me the same. We have reporters across the country covering todays events. Lets begin in los angeles where protests began at 8 00 a. M. This morning. Prosee youre still marching down there. Whats it like . Youre from here, im from here. This is not something you see every day. This is not something you see every ten years in los angeles. Take a look at this. As far as the eye can see in a city not know for its civic participation there are people everywhere in downtown los angeles. This march, katey ....