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Bay Area Book Festival Begins With A Star-Studded Roster Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail Bay City News Foundation The seventh annual Bay Area Book Festival, going all virtual for the second year in a row, launched its nine-day run on Saturday and is such a high-wattage affair, attendees may want to consider donning sunglasses to tune in. The literary luminaries who will be featured include Nobel Prize laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, 2020 National Book Award winner Charles Yu, renowned journalist and China expert Orville Schell, 2020 Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart, Pulitzer Prize winne...

Life, and the story, the africans deck of flight, i'm just pointing everybody to the great black people. >> we came here and we forgot that we could fly. >> that's exactly right. they'd be out on the plantation and someday they'd say a secret word and get up on wings and fly away, and some would fly away for good, but some of them would fly away for just a little while. and i claimed that part of our that digs. i think many of us have to take whether it's three minutes or three years or three decades. you've got to take that minute to reclaim and restore and renew that inner freedom so we can ...

Someone who can be excellent as opposed to someone who is just a behavioral problem, impacts that child, possibly for the rest of their life, and so racist ideas are impactful, right, they don't just kill people as we saw in el paso, they literally harm people's lives. and that's why i'm struggle and striving to get americans to see how important it is to be antiracist. >> that's just the tip of the iceberg. it's all in this book, how to be an antiracist, it's available now, dr. ibram kendi, and casey gerald, his latest piece, the black art of escape, 400 years have passed, where do we go from...

now you're thinking about baltimore, cleveland, staten island and other names like mike brown, eric garner tamir rice. all sparked by the mention of that one. the south americas that led to the end of freddie gray's life are the same as those that forever changed the lives of those we don't know. donde johnson, sr., was paralyzed following a 2005 police van ride and later died of pneumonia caused by his paralysis. his family won a $7.4 million verdict against the police. in 2004 a jury awarded sw jeffrey alston 39 million dollars after he emerged from a police van paralyzed from the ...

>> miss crabtree is the way you should address me. and with us on set is jon meacham and andrea mitchell. >> can i say anything before we go anywhere? has in my opinion seen jon meacham's pulitzer? >> i'm not going to address that. >> did anyone have vacations? were you all filling? you were away. amazing. i saw all of your pictures on instagram. >> did you have a good july fourth weekend? >> i took my girls and goddaughter to a red sox game. we all went. that was fun. >> did they win or lose? >> they did not win but i think i have them all indock nated now. >> we need to make one of...