So, again, encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is kai bird, im the new executive director of the Leon Levy Center for biography which is celebrating its tenth year now all due to shelby white and the leon levy foundation. And i want to advertise, first of all, our new alliance with bio. This is our first sort of jointlysponsored event with them, but we are also, courtesy of will swift here the president of bio, we are also going to be doing, cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next may. And that will also be happening here at cuny. Should be a great event with over 200 biographers. I also want to advertise and put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for our new, our annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of 65,000 a pop for aspiring biographers. So if you know of people who are aspiring, please encourage them to apply. And finally, i just, you know, im really thrilled that were able to do
To prosecute cosby on a womans claims that he sexually assaulted her at his cheltenham mansion. Caster says he told cosby he would not prosecute him if he gave a sworn disposition, which is where this statement took place. 10 years later, what do you think about casters decision back then in 2005, nia. I think he cut the best deal he thought he could make happen. Its interesting that he actually got something thats on the record that now is going to come out and probably impact a lot of things for bill cosby perhaps not in a criminal record, in a court of opinion more so because on the criminal side, a lot of the statutes of limitations have run out unfortunately, but i do appreciate the fact that we do have something on the record. There are so many women who have come out not saying that each one of them told the truth but every one of them, for the most part, have been castigated as liars and, oh, money grubbing and blah, blah, blah, and its unfortunate that we cannot still take the
That collection arrived at the 135th Street Public Library 90 years ago. He was a bibliophile who migrated from puerto rico in 1891 found a job on wall street work in the mailroom saves his pennies and worked really hard and bought anywhere are unique but he could find that was by or about black people. He eventually became famous for this collection. People would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library to borrow from the Library People like Langston Hughes and eventually people like and when the librarian at the library and library decided she had a lot of lack patrons coming to the library and a large immigrant community at the time she said ive got to find material for my patrons and ultimately schombergs collection of 5000 items was purchased by Carnegie Corporation and a variety of 90 years ago and made up the core of what now today is a 10 million item collection at the Schomberg Center. Host how did the Schomberg Center end up at 135th . Guest this was the settlement zone
And latino relations, people are living it on a day to day basis, but both of you kind of approach this from your academic perspectives in terms of literature. So professor gates well just call you skip. Mmhmm. Hinojosa . Why look at this current important relationship through the prism of literature . Well, ive added to the Norton Anthology of African American literature along with ten of my colleagues. Hinojosa this big book big, heavy book, yes. laughing its the big bible. This. The mother ship of black literature. In order to enshrine African American literature in the academy. Look, if you are from the whitest place in say, idaho and there are no black people around and you cant get black books in the bookstore, if you can get one anthology, theres no excuse not to teach African American literature. So you buy one book, you get a whole semester course. And i wanted to do this, as im sure ilan did, to make it possible for people to teach and to study African American literature and
Living it on a day to day basis, but both of you kind of approach this from your academic perspectives in terms of literature. So professor gates well just call you skip. Mmhmm. Hinojosa . Why look at this current important relationship through the prism of literature . Well, ive added to the Norton Anthology of African American literature along with ten of my colleagues. Hinojosa this big book big, heavy book, yes. laughing its the big bible. This. The mother ship of black literature. In order to enshrine African American literature in the academy. Look, if you are from the whitest place in say, idaho and there are no black people around and you cant get black books in the bookstore, if you can get one anthology, theres no excuse not to teach African American literature. So you buy one book, you get a whole semester course. And i wanted to do this, as im sure ilan did, to make it possible for people to teach and to study African American literature and latino literature. And theres so