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take in letters from the incarcerated and fulfill the best they can through book donations at the store. they send i think about 40 states or so across the country. the numbers are staggering. i think they get about 10,000 packages a year, which represents about 20 to 30,000 books. i think the program since june of 2020 has collected about 7,000 books so far, so thanks to everybody that s made donations at that time. if you want to know more about new york city bookstores you can go to their site, bookstores nospaceco ny.org. they ve demonstrated and shown why literacy and access is the human rights. we commend them on that. it s a setback and we want to continue to support the people that are there. i want to give a shout out to our two guests that have a book out just published i think in the last month called the black panther party. graphic novel history is a category that is hard sometimes. it is the history of the black panther party and david walker is an award ....
Is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. And now on booktv, we are live with author, journalist and history professor herb boyd, professor boyd who teaches at the city college of new york and writes a column for new York Amsterdam News is of the author or editor of many books including autobiography of a people, and his latest black k detroit a peoples history of selfdetermination. Host author herb boyd with us on this Independence Day weekend. Professor boyd, what is july 4 me deal . Guest it means the same thing what it meant to Frederick Douglass, you know. While you can have the general celebration and everything, we have a different perspective from the africanamerican community. This was a long history to understand exactly the distinction in terms of the celebration for one community ....
Selfdetermination. Host author herb boyd with us on this Independence Day weekend. Professor boyd, what is july 4 me deal . Guest it means the same thing what it meant to Frederick Douglass, you know. While you can have the general celebration and everything, we have a different perspective from the africanamerican community. This was a long history to understand exactly the distinction in terms of the celebration for one community and the kind of lack of observers on the other part of the community. What does it mean to people who history of segregation. You have to understand the kind of sensitivity that might be distinct from one community to another. Obviously we Start Talking about this history of this country and the role of africanamericans in terms of providing that celebration, that is a whole another quest ....