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Area, so i've heard and seen a lot. i've got to pull from all of these experiences, so it's inspired by lots of different people. i can tell you there's a completely fictional account on the behind the scenes work of a daytime talk show and maxine, an homage on max robinson, our colleague. >> i write in my book how he inspired me. max robinson in chicago. peter jennings was in london and new york and frank reynolds or vice versa. i do have to say you sat your butt on a view today and i said that's the view. when you meredith did it, remember when he said april fool's? >> we were doing like a t...

ovesa ow, >> guest: now, he moves forward and cuts us off from any access to african history. sich was not what was intended. so we obviously over the value of the hype to the people who w sufferedho so much and their families, and those who are descended from those people who worked for 246 years. of th but we owe them. we have been asked to expect that people can survive in good and sound psychological health. on ashes and obliterated richm histories. we used to have this phrase that we used all the time. from here to timbuktu. but nobody knew what it was. i we didn't even know it ...

>> i am so proud to be here today. my name is peniel joseph and i professor of history at tufts university and director of the center of study for democracy there. welcome to the decision 2012 great democracy and the new jim crow. we have a standing-room-only audience at the harlem book fair. as a native new yorker i am very proud to be here with this panel of luminaries. i am going to do a brief introduction and i am going to set the stage for what is going to follow. we've got sonia sanchez. [applause] professor b8 is a national and international treasurer. she's a human rights a...

we've got sonia sanchez. [applause] professor b8 is a national and international treasurer. she's a human rights activist, poet, civil rights activist, feminist, humanist, mother, teacher, daughter, and really one of the heroic figures of the post civil-rights and civil rights of black power era. her latest book is morning haiku and she has edited 44 african-american writers on the election of barack obama, 44th president of the united states. [applause] next we have professor cornell west. [applause] with cornell as we all know is another national and international icon and in natio...

and courtesy. when the 3:00 special item, item 38 for 41, began today, many of you got up, went out of the room. some of you were reading e-mail. some of you were having side conversations. you were not showing the members of the public the same courtesy that i know you demand of each other. shame on you. shame on you. you could have called, mr. president, for a 10-minute recess so that people could take care of their bodily functions, could have gotten coffee, could have had a side conversations. i would humbly suggest and you know you are going to have a public hearing, a long publ...