That started injapan ten years ago, and is now taking a firm hold here in the uk. Temperatures in parts of the us are predicted to fall to minus 29, as a record breaking freeze follows heavy snow caused by the so called bomb cyclone. Not quite so cold here. Stav has the details. Thank you, good morning to you. Well, it is turning much colder for all of us this weekend. Not on the plus side we should see some sunshine, particularly tomorrow, but a return to overnight frost as well. I will have all the details for you very shortly. Good morning. First, our main story a lawyer who represented victims of the serial sex offender john worboys says some of her clients whose cases werent taken to trial want to give evidence. The former black cab driver is being freed from jail after ten yea rs. He was convicted of 19 offences, although Police Believe he carried out more than 100 attacks. Lawyers say that a number of women were told that their testimony wasnt required to put worboys behind bars
Jasmine griffin. She is a professor at Columbia University of english and africanamerican studies. Her current book is titled towards an intellectual history of black women. Ladies and gentlemen, Farah Jasmine griffin. [applause] thank you, and good afternoon. I know youre here because you love hers stop, not because this hurston you want hear . Okay. Is that better . No . All right. I will keep talking until you can hear me. Ill try to speak a little more loudly. Is that better . Good. So, i know youre here because you love hurston, not bus that is one of the only air conditioned venues today. It is wholly appropriate we have this panel on hurston here in harlem, place she called home. A place that inspired much of her work. A place that started her career. This year will mark the 100th 100th anniversary of her birth, and she continues to be a writer and a figure who messmerrize us. Were fortunate to be joined by a june of scholars and speakers and writers who have spent quite a bit o
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Thank you so much. This panel, i let myself in enough income a century and more. I have the pleasure of introducing the moderator for todays discussion, jasmine griffin. She is an author at five books for the focus of your steadiest cultural history. Shes a professor clever university of english and africanamericans daddies. Her current book is titled toward an intellectual history of the women. Ladies and gentlemen, Farah Jasmine griffin. Thank you and good afternoon. I know youre here because you love her sin. Cant hear . That better . Already. Ill keep talking until you can hear me. Ill try to speak a little more loudly. Is that any better . I know youre here because you love Zora Neale Hurston, not because this is one of the only airconditioned venues today. It is wholly appropriate today that we have this panel on someone here in harlem, which is a place for she calls home, a place that inspires mr. Roemer, a place that started her career. This year will mark the 100th anniversary
Really details in the early part what makes why she is compelled to collect this literature. But read everything. You have time. They are reset all the other ones i love. But i think we see these contradictions. We see hurston the biographer, hurston who has who takes black people in the western hemisphere so seriously and is the first to say we do is a religion. And this is why. Why. These are components. And yet, hurston who has moments of american nationalism about the u. S. Occupation. Hurston who is so u. S. Centric do and how she sees the caribbean. So i think you get all the hurstons we have been talking about in and i agree with the characteristics, just because this just so wonderful to see you take so seriously and how you going to a blacks house and everything is on an angle or how we turn nouns into verbs. And right whenever i you hear someone use a word conversation i think of the world hurston. Thats not bad language, if there were doesnt exist we make it exist. Hurston h