And now on book tv on cspan2 it as live coverage of the brooklyn book festival. Todays author schedule includes msnbc chris hayes, law professor cheryl and National Book award kathy oneill and recently named National Book award finalist. We will kick off today with a discussion on the immigrant experience. This is a book tvs live coverage of the brooklyn book festival. Good morning. Welcome to the best law school in brooklyn. Those of you brooklynites get that punch line but being the only law school and the best law school in the most vibrant and largest borough of the big apple in the greatest country on earth we got that going for us. So weve got that going for us, too. On this day in late august, our law school welcomed its new class of students of 371 students plus about 35 international students. And they were all enthralled with americans across the country with an extraordinary event that was the day of the totality, the day of the eclipse. People across the United States and h
Award finalist. We are going to kick off today with a discussion on the immigrant experience. This is booktv live coverage of the brooklyn book festival. G good morning. Welcome to the best law school in brooklyn. Some of you get the punchline. Being the only law school and the best and most vibrant and largest of the big apple the t greatest country on earth weve got that going for us. You hear a lot about divide these days but you also heard the brooklyn president talked about for today may be the only divide that matters and that is america is basically only two groups of people. One is the group of people who live, work, study into the other is a pretty us who wish they could so weve got that going for us, too. On this day in late august, our law school welcomed a new class of students of 371 students pl plus, about 75 International Students and they were old and bold with americans across the country at an event that was the totality, the day of the eclipse. People across the Unit
Have you send them to hashtag Literary Lawn Party or hashtag ms book festival. I would like to introduce you to the sponsor of our session today. Our sponsor today is humanities council, Mister Stewart rockoff is the director. [applause] thank you very much. Im here to do two things. One is to say the session is sponsored with the National Endowment for the humanities as part of their race initiative. And then pamela junior, was previously the director of the Smith Robertson museum down the street and several months ago, the director of the mississippi civil rights museum. Which will be open to the public and to the people of mississippi, december 9th, who better . Pamela. Thank you so much. I am a big fan of these folks. What i decided to do is ask individual questions than a general question. Very good. I will introduce everybody, Charles W Eagles and i was told your students would be in here. The university of mississippi since 1983, his books include outside agitator, the Civil Rig
Hurt our Brooklyn Borough president talk about for today maybe the only divide that matters, and that is americas really basically only two groups of people. One either group of people who live, work, study and enjoy brooklyn. And the other is everybody else who wished they could. So weve got that going for us, too. On this date in late august, our law school welcomed its new class of students of 371 students, plus about 35 international students. They were all enthralled with americans across the country with an external event. That was the day of the totality, the day of the eclipse, and people across the United States and our students and faculty gazed up from, with their safety glasses i hope, and it was as if nature itself was conspiring to bring us together if only for a few hours. But that sense of unity and wonder while pleading was very welcomed from the tumultuous events that continue to roil this country. As of this writing, floridians, some of them graduates of our law scho
Cell phones, please feel free to take any pictures and if you would like, we would love to have you send them to hashtag Literary Lawn Party or hashtag ms book festival. I would like to introduce you to the sponsor of our session today. Our sponsor today is humanities council, Mister Stewart rockoff is the director. [applause] thank you very much. Im here to do two things. One is to say the session is sponsored with the National Endowment for the humanities as part of their race initiative. And then pamela junior, was previously the director of the Smith Robertson museum down the street and several months ago, the director of the mississippi civil rights museum. Which will be open to the public and to the people of mississippi, december 9th, who better . Pamela. Thank you so much. I am a big fan of these folks. What i decided to do is ask individual questions than a general question. Very good. I will introduce everybody, Charles W Eagles and i was told your students would be in here.