Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. To think about what i was doing is speaking back to the Power Dynamics and trying to push back against those marginalizing and, frankly, violent practices. So, for me, it represents people on the map most significant and powerful and important to do using the archive of black life as a source to reflect it was important. There are limitations in the way i was able to reflect it and so, you know, which is why the project was helpful in ways. I was glad to have the opportunity to present it by my editor to actually do Something Like the project which allowed me to have this version of the book. It becomes messy. Its hard to see. But working through it allowed me in conjunction with the jeff and everhart and tom woodward and folks as i was finishing up to the project to come up with ways to create a moving map. Right. One you can toggle on different layers and see the relationship. So there are ways in which trying to reflect even using blac
Tories, who didnt support the revolution sided with the british, were killed or driven off their lands, and on and on through american hoyt, as each immigrant group was kind of pulled into the country for labor, the chinese to build the railroads, the eastern europeans for the steel industry. Northern europeans for farming. And we knew all along there was great deal of hatred, prejudice that they werent like us, until they were us. And all of the people in this room come from those people. So, it is happening again and again, and i ten to write books a second question how was it . How would you like living in a horse stable in santa anita for months and then being transferred into tar paper shacks without plumbing, without heat without cooking facilities. In the most warren parts of america where the ten Relocation Centers were places no one ever lived before or ever would again. Tulie lake in california, is a lava bed. Manzanar was built on the driedup remains of owen valley of owens
This week on q a, our guest is dick lehr, author of the birth of a nation, how a legendary fille maker and crusading editor reignited americas civil war. Dick lehr, author of the birth of a nation in a recent Washington Post review, the gentleman that wrote it Dennis Drabelle starts out this way no red blooded american today would favor sensoring works of art, but while reading dick lehrs new book the birth of a nation, you may find yourself rooting for just that in the form of a clamp down on the landmark 1915 teen film of the same name. Boy, isnt that a great start to a review. Not bad to use the word fascinating fascinating. Why birth of a nation. Well birth of a nation by d. W. Griffith is considered americas first blockbuster film and i want to tell the making and releasing of the film in 1915 and the controversy that is provoked. And it is mainly a story about a civil rights leader a forgotten kriefl rights civil rights leader named William Trotter at the forefront of protest act
Overwhelming against it. I was drug czar, director of National Drug control policy, 8 990. We didnt have this kind of research then. We had some, smattering. But now it is overwhelming, the harm that marijuana does. And i just have to believe or want to believe the American People are not informed of these facts. And so the point of the book was to get these facts out so they can make a second judgment on this, an informed decision. Let me get to the end of my story. I think in colorado which has been kind of ground zero here, that they will reconsider at the end of the day. Host uhhuh. Guest try to put this jeepny back in the genie back in the boding and recriminallize because theyre starting to see the results. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. And its day two of booktvs lye coverage of the Los Angeles Times festival of books. On your screen the campus of the university of Southern California, home of this 20th annual festival. Yesterday we covered programs
Los Angeles Times festival of books. On your screen the campus of the university of Southern California, home of this 20th annual festival. Yesterday we covered programs on journalism publishing, World Leaders and more, and today we continue our live festival coverage with author panels on u. S. History, california history and crime. Youll also be able to talk with authors such Azzam Quinones and ben shapiro. Theyll sit down with us on our outdoor set to answer your questions via twitter and by phone. Check booktv. Org for a complete schedule of todays events, and you can see schedule updates all day long at the bottom of your television screen. All right. We kick off todays l. A. Times festival inside newman hall on the usc campus. Youre going to hear from Claudia Rankin author of a book called citizen, which was a finalist for the National Book award. Live coverage of the 20th annual los Angeles Times festival of books starts now on booktv. [inaudible conversations] hi everyone welco