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Of white racism against africanamericans in this country. Up now Carol Anderson, author of white rage. I think will go ahead and get started. Hello and welcome to Left Bank Books for our event with Carol Anderson. This is of course not Left Bank Books. Imd event host for Left Bank Books and i would like to thank our cosponsor for the evening, the Ferguson Public Library library. Their work and their activism is incredible and inspiring. They are a wonderful partner to have for such an event like this Left Bank Books hosts over 300 author events each year end it is with your help that we c ....
In a front yard . No, what we did is this building was built in the 20s for karl it is very old. Historic building. And the book shop runs around the courtyard cafe, and as you can see particular plenty of people who come and partake of this and we have in music on the weekends but we just think that flows beautifully with books. How many book event dos you do on a regular basis . On a yearly basis we do about 600 book epghts year. About 600 events often kids and adults and other kinds of things. But were a very, very active school. When did you open . I opened books about 35 years ago. Why . Because, you know, the story is basically i was a failed law student english major in college an i didnt want to give up u the dream of being part of a literary culture so one quick way of doing that was getting into the Book Business into book stores and i always loved book stores. When i was a kid i find myself in a bookstore more than i was ....
Host we welcome for the first time freshmen democratic congresswoman Pramila Jayapal from washington. On twitter yesterday, you and some of your colleagues took to calling the new republican repeal and replace law why did you call it in that . Money fromakes regular people for Quality Health care, subsidies and gives it to Insurance Companies and Drug Companies and it is ultimately not going to cover the people who needed a moat. We call the wealth care. They are pushing it through without a hearing, without a cbo score, without any of the information we need to look at the plan and see what it is. The plane,u look at is there any areas of compromise you can see . Guest they recognize we need Medicaid Exp ....
And on thursday we will be at books smith bookstore in berkeley california historian and activist rebecca talks about the feminist movement. That is a look at some of the programs we will cover this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look for them to air in the near future on booktv on cspan2. And welcome to tucson and the university of arizona campus. This is the tucson festival of books. Booktv is live today from the gallagher theater and for the next 7 and a half hours you will hear from authors and have a chance to talk with them as well. Heres our lineup for today. In just a few minutes the first author panel will begin. It is on japanese internment during world war ii. Followed by your opportunity to talk with historian Richard Reeves. After that a panel on lgbt q rights and a calling program with panelists lillian vitamin and you will hear from authors later today discussing slavery in america, the history o ....
Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by its hard not to feel pride as a citizen of this country, when were in a place like this. Bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the United States senate formally opened debate today on Supreme Court nominee neil gorsuch, and headed toward a bruising battle. Republicans said they will change the rules to permit a simple majority to confirm gorsuch if they cant come up with what is called cloture, the 60 votes necessary to close off a democratic filibuster. It appears as if cloture will not be invoked, but well find out on thursday. But either way, well be moving toward confirming judge gor ....