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Surveillance. This is Francine Lacqua in london. Tom keene is in new york. Tom, i think we have to look at a lot of macro data. The economy in europe is quite slow and that puts extra on the currency. Tom questions on banking in germany. Francine lets get first to the bloomberg first word news. Taylor Hillary Clinton said she is ready to lead and warns that donald trump cannot be trusted in the oval office. Clinton accepted the Party Nomination to be the president ial candidate. She belittled trumps claim that the countrysolve problems. It is wrong to take tax breaks with one hand and give out...

Jasmine griffin. She is a professor at Columbia University of english and africanamerican studies. Her current book is titled towards an intellectual history of black women. Ladies and gentlemen, Farah Jasmine griffin. [applause] thank you, and good afternoon. I know youre here because you love hers stop, not because this hurston you want hear . Okay. Is that better . No . All right. I will keep talking until you can hear me. Ill try to speak a little more loudly. Is that better . Good. So, i know youre here because you love hurston, not bus that is one of the only air conditioned venues today...

Thank you so much. This panel, i let myself in enough income a century and more. I have the pleasure of introducing the moderator for todays discussion, jasmine griffin. She is an author at five books for the focus of your steadiest cultural history. Shes a professor clever university of english and africanamericans daddies. Her current book is titled toward an intellectual history of the women. Ladies and gentlemen, Farah Jasmine griffin. Thank you and good afternoon. I know youre here because you love her sin. Cant hear . That better . Already. Ill keep talking until you can hear me. Ill try...

Really details in the early part what makes why she is compelled to collect this literature. But read everything. You have time. They are reset all the other ones i love. But i think we see these contradictions. We see hurston the biographer, hurston who has who takes black people in the western hemisphere so seriously and is the first to say we do is a religion. And this is why. Why. These are components. And yet, hurston who has moments of american nationalism about the u. S. Occupation. Hurston who is so u. S. Centric do and how she sees the caribbean. So i think you get all the hurstons we...

Thoughts or something that could be adopted that i can you know, something i may not know about. Some of the stories in and men. Stories about butterflies and animals and i think those are the stories thats where i would start that you would find material there on the children would really relate to. You know she did not write them, so they belong to us. You had a recommendation . Hello, this is cheryl and nelson from the hurston festival. I also incorporate childrens literature my coursework at Community College at philadelphia. The one that they love the best is the china berry tree. So if y...