And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis wendell pierce, a successful career means taking on a wide array wide array of diverse characters. He is on the michael j. Fox show. Essedays a ratingsobs producer. He also plays in treme. Its final season on hbo. Before we start our conversation, a look at a scene from treme. I love it when dan comes in on the vocals. They used to do that a lot in the old days. It always cracked me up. Call and response . Yeah, thats right. The guys in back go, we love all. [laughter] says i said a moment ago, it aint so, but as it turns out, this has been a pretty good run for a series that come if you looked at it on paper a few years ago, given the katrina evenue, it might not have gotten off the ground, let alone lasted this long. It is one of those things that you realize that come in a disaster, the greatest thing that you have is the will of the people. A lot of times, people saw katrina is just an event that dealt
Lets bring them in first. First ladies first. Always first. Welcome, lady hubbard. Lady she is, of course mo talked about literary geniuses. Well, we have one here, author of last suspicious hold out the rib king and our novel, the talented. And shes won a lot of awards as. Well, thank you for joining us. Also here is ebrahim kendi. We got a lot to talk about. Patel from the beginning how to be an antiracist. Antiracist babys making all of the news. Hes here all the awards, bestsellers, blah, blah. Yes, maurice, Carlos Ruffin of the ones who dont say they love you, and his debut novel, the caste, we cast a shadow of definitely have a rousing conversation. Him and my birthday twin. Why i left him last. Mr. Literally we are twins birthday. Twins kevin powell, author of many, many books, including the education of kevin powell and his latest when we free the world. Is that our responsibility . Well, were going to talk about that. Let me welcome the panelists. Thank you. Thank you all for
Look for more booktv on line error write us on facebook. Next in this booknotes from 1999, Randall Kenan discusses his book walking on water black american lives at the turn of the twentyfirst century. In preparing the book mr. Sapi travel the country for period of six years and interviewed nearly 200 africanamericans. This encore presentation is about an hour. Cspan Randall Kenan, author of walking on water, whats your book about . Guest well, its a travel narrative about what it means to be black in america. I sort of set out to travel all over north america, traveling on a theme. And the theme was to ask the question what does it mean at the end of the Twentieth Century to be black . Cspan wheres this cover picture taken . Guest i dont know thats one of the reasons we chose it, it sort of looks like everytown, america. Cspan when did you start to travel . Guest i started in 1991, beginning in new england and traveling north and west, going to places like alaska, coming back around d