[inaudible conversations] hey, once again, good afternoon. And, again, want to welcome you to the National Black writers conference. Again, thank you so much for being a part of this great, great conference. Again, lets give the organizers a big hand for organizing, putting this together. [applause] they always do such a great job, and this panel part of the great job that theyre doing today. Race, power and politics is the title of our panel. Our moderator for the day is wallace ford. His panelists will be Marc Lamont Hill and obery hend distribution, so hendricks, so lets welcome our moderator for the day, wallace ford. [applause] thank you and good afternoon. Good afternoon, hello. Good afternoon. All right, okay. We would like to, first of all, just thank you for coming to the 14th annual black writers conference here at medgar evers college. My name is wallace ford, i am the chairman of the Public Administration department here at the school of business, and im the author of the p
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