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Peniel joseph. [applause] good afternoon, everyone. It is my pleasure to welcome you to our third panel of the day. Again the title was 50 years later blacks in the 21st century. The panel is framed around but kind of progress blacks have made since the Civil Rights Movement and the endorsement challenges and quality that these African Americans in the 21st century. The organizers have formulated two major questions for us to talk about. The first is of historical and contemporary factors continue to make racial equality a contested and elusive concept in the 21st century. And second, what kind of knowledge can we mobilize to face the specific challenges of racial inequity in our contemporary moment. I am absolutely thrilled to be able to be in conversation with two and possibly three speakers, dynamic speakers and thinkers today and i would like to introduce you to that before opening the conversation. Joining us is farah griffin, a professor of english, comparative literature and afr
[applause] thank you. Thank you all for coming out on a Beautiful Day here we are. We dont gate lot of those here. Im phil rosin that with the chicago tribune. Im with ken cull less than, cull less than and Shelley Murphy who are here not to do scouting on the Chicago Black hawks. [laughter] but talk about their new book on Whitey Bulger. The boston mobster caught on the lam after sixteen years. And first of all,let get the you have boston journalists for a long time. Between us its probably like what . Sixty years . [laughter] weve been chasing him combined total fifty years each. Wow. At this point in journalism, having a job is its own reward. You have an armful of to if i. A pulitzer prize, its an impressive list. You know, its a wonderful book. The thing that i was reminded of at the beginning, something when i was a kid my father was taking friend of mine to see butch cass did i did. He said whatever the movie makes of them, they are the bad guys. And the ore thing that reminded
So from the protest based politics to the electoral institutional government organized politics in which we sought to gain office and get on the school board, the city council, to be in the office, to become governors, and yes evin president s. I think, however, that what the current moment ought to be telling us is of those of us who understand that the black Freedom Movement was a Freedom Movement and not just the movement for civil rights can no longer rely exclusively on the strategy of the electoral the government politics. For the me the question becomes what form leadership do we need, and where ought that leadership to come from . Well, im persuaded that leadership is almost certainly not going to come from the main stream of the democratic party. And theres no way its going to come from the republican party. So i think we need to look, my brothers, sisters, friends, fellow citizens, to the left. And to the left which understands the fundamental and intransigent resistance of a
Now from the recent Chicago Tribune lit fest, boston globe reporters discuss their book Whitey Bulger americas most wanted gangster and the man hunt that brought him to justice. , the trialgan began june 12, 2013. [applause] thank you for coming out on such a beautiful day. We dont get a lot of those here. Im with the Chicago Tribune, write a business column with kevin and Shelly Murphy of the boston globe who are here not to do scouting on the Chicago Black hawks. [laughter] but to talk about their new book on Whitey Bulger, the boston mobster caught on the lamb after, what, 16 years, and first of all, lets get you guys have been boston journalists for quite a long time at this point. Somebody said between us its, like, what, 16 years . Yeah, weve been chasing him combined total for 25 i mean, 25 each, so 50 between us. Wow. I was reminded in the beginning, when i was a kid, my father was taking a friend of mine to go see Butch Cassidy and the sun dance kid. He said, you know, remembe