Hold and reflected on her governing principles. Here she is at George Washington university in washington dc. This thing has got to come down lower for me. How are all of you tonight. Happy new year and thankyou for being here. Im less of muscatine and im one of the coowners of politicsand prose bookstore. Thank you. And along with my coowner and husband graham was in the front here and are fabulous wonderful staff, we welcome all of you to tonights event here in our Nations Capital and on the campus of George Washington university. I mention our location because well, think about it. We are at an institution named for our nations first president and we are assembled only blocks from the nurse centers of american government, the white house and congress so what better venue for a conversation with the next guest speaker . Better Kamala Harris spends her days on capitol hill and youre not alone if you think in a couple of years she just might be taking up residence at the other end of p
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Writers conference. It is such a pleasure to be today. This afternoon, in conversation with Patricia Spears Jones merida, golden and kevin powell, we can give them a round of applause, please. I am just going to briefly read each of our authors bios and these are condensed kind of in the effort for us to have enough time, a very brief word about each writer. And then, as you know as you will do there is room that contains their wonderful books and i hope you will spend time picking up their books and spending with all of their words. As i have done for many, many years. So to begin we have Marita Golden. She is the Award Winning author over 20 works of fiction and nonfiction. Her most book is the new black woman herself has boundaries heals every day. She cofounder and present president emerita of the Hurston Wright foundation and teaches workshops and is a literary consult tim Patricia Spears Jones is an arkansas born and raised playwright cultural and author of the beloved community
Good afternoon. How is everyone . I know we are a bit happier and brighter to be in this of Medgar Evers College at the National Writers conference. It is such a pleasure to be today. This afternoon, in conversation with Patricia Spears Jones merida, golden and kevin powell, we can give them a round of applause, please. I am just going to briefly read each of our authors bios and these are condensed kind of in the effort for us to have enough time, a very brief word about each writer. And then, as you know as you will do there is room that contains their wonderful books and i hope you will spend time picking up their books and spending with all of their words. As i have done for many, many years. So to begin we have Marita Golden. She is the Award Winning author over 20 works of fiction and nonfiction. Her most book is the new black woman herself has boundaries heals every day. She cofounder and present president emerita of the Hurston Wright foundation and teaches workshops and is a l
With Patricia Spears Jones merida, golden and kevin powell, we can give them a round of applause, please. I am just going to briefly read each of our authors bios and these are condensed kind of in the effort for us to have enough time, a very brief word about each writer. And then, as you know as you will do there is room that contains their wonderful books and i hope you will spend time picking up their books and spending with all of their words. As i have done for many, many years. So to begin we have Marita Golden. She is the Award Winning author over 20 works of fiction and nonfiction. Her most book is the new black woman herself has boundaries heals every day. She cofounder and present president emerita of the Hurston Wright foundation and teaches workshops and is a literary consult tim Patricia Spears Jones is an arkansas born and raised playwright cultural and author of the beloved community and other collections of poetry. Her work is widely anthologized raised and she teaches