Welcome. My name is Vivian Schiller and the executive director of aspen digital of the Aspen Institute program really glad you could be with us today. The York Times Bestseller list can often seem to be a near untimely or of the national psyche. As such this year seems to reflect a nation going through and awaking of matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists. Both fiction and nonfiction prayed that is the good news. Sadly, the Publishing Industry does not necessarily always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest has back publishing paid and exposed a major pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. There are few people of color who serve as publishing staff or literary agents. And even fewer who operate as decisionmaking levels. And for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure coming sub optimal. This year, of National Reckoning on racism, we can take a look at the boo
Hosting. Good night. And now on cspan2 book tb, more television for serious readers. Hi everybody i am Vivian Schiller and i the aspen institute. Really glad you could be with us today. The near times bestseller list can often be a mirror of the national psyche. As such, this year it seems to reflect the nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists. Both fiction and nonfiction. That is the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest publishing paid me expose a major pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. Theres a few people of color who served as publishing staff or literary agents. And even fewer who operate at decisionmaking levels. And for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure can be suboptimal. And this year of National Reckoning on racism, we are going to take a look at th
I welcome the latest developments and a look back at whats been happening over the last 7 days to watch and weekly here on r. T. International now for a 5th day being capital has been rocked by violence anger erupted over the decision to reintroduce lockdown measures after figures showed a surge in cases on saturday thousands protested outside the Parliament Building in the capital this despite new restrictions by the government which banned gatherings of more than 10 people the measure was introduced earlier in the week causing even more discontent protesters say that the governments angle the pandemic badly and a calling for the president to step down. There is no clear reaction here because its a conglomerate of false also. Things and the worst thing is that those protests are supported by those who destroy our country still not see what this is so we want to make a life we dont care who is in power and you want to just work in seeing the rest of the citizens and all of us watching
As millions clean up from an intense Tropical Storm, even more now face dangerously hot temperatures, some in the triple digits. Why it may last the rest of the month and maybe even longer. And one big test. A 15year project to protect 1,500 years of culture is used for the first time. Well take you to venice to see what billions of dollars bought and why it took so long. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The president of the United States told me that he decided to use his extraordinary powers of clemency. Reporter President Trump commuted the sentence of longtime friend and confidante roger stone just days before stone was due to report to prison. The president saying if you lie for me, you cover up for me, i will reward you. Reporter death rates surging in at least ten states with texas extending its statewide coronavirus disaster declaration. Actually the worst is yet come reporter Ghislaine Maxwell is requesting bail. Reporter
San francisco. A heat advisory once again for the bay area except for the coast an immediate shoreline so all inland locations under the heat advisory to check out how hot its going to get. So mid 70s in San Francisco, 80s in oakland, 93 and triple digit heat once again in concord we have more in the full forecast coming up. Governor gavin newsom is using restrictions on hair salons and barbershops, napa and solano counties of the state approval to move forward and open up shops today as the rest of this date slowly moves into phase 3 of the reopening plan. Phase 3 also includes gyms, movie theaters, religious services, weddings and sporting events without live audiences and theme parks. For people wanting to get a haircut, not every county is in a rush to reopen but with more than 200 new covid19 cases in the past two weeks in Sonoma County, the Health Officer is not comfortable moving into the next phase so soon. I think we will wait a little bit to see where were going, we are close