Please give them a look. I mentioned to some of the other day, i was reading the words in preparation for tonight and thats the new faulkner biography. You have the faux fur part right. The best way i could describe this book is equal parts. Military history social commentary and literary criticism. I think all appear equally to fans many of those subjects. What the book really did for me, was forced me to get some serious thought to his fans where at the time we are asking ourselves difficult questions about our countrys history on issues of race. Was he a pioneer it was another white wire that was profiting off of the characters of black americans. Is a professor englishman literature at Smith College in massachusetts sits which was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. Is essays have come up in the New York Times book review. Thank you for joining us tonight. Thank you very much for having me. I want to thank the library for hosting and my friends that live right for putting us togethe
Preparation for the event tonight and they said that is the new faulkner biography. I said well, you got the faulkner part right. The best way i can describe this book is equal parts military history, social commentary, and literary criticism. And i think it will appeal equally to fans of any of those subjects. What the book really did for me is force me to give some serious thought to where faulkner stands at a time when we are asking ourselves some difficult and longoverdue questions about our countrys historic difficulties when it comes to matters of race. Was he something of a pioneer on those issues or was he or another white writer profiting off of racist caricatures of black americans . Dr. Michael gorra, as you might imagine, has some thoughts on that. He is a professor of English Literature at Smith College in massachusetts. He is the author of several books including portrait of a novel, the making of an american masterpiece, which was a finalist for the pool surprise and bio
The scope of what we are talking about when we are talking about changes in policing. Instead of focusing primarily on reform, there are conversations about defunding or shrieking or abolishing the police, fundamentally changing the institution of the police and what they do. Data is really being proffered in many ways as this sort of panacea or Silver Bullet with many of these issues. In the defunding debate, lets say we are going to defund the cut costs. People say data can be used to allocate resources more efficiently. Or lets reduce racial bias and officer decisionmaking. Lets automate it. Or you want to reduce the categorical suspicion of young black males and more accurately predict crime, try predictive algorithms. I think we need to be cautious , when we using data are trying to solve social problems with technological solutions. The first thing i would suggest in moving forward is that we pause,moment to stop, to and really invert the order of operations of what has been goin
Shock and disappointment as well but the overriding emotion here is shock followed by grief of course i mean you must understand that vienna has to be expedient Something Like this the last time they had attended a tackle of such a back to do it or any incident such as this was nearly 40 years ago so this comes as a very rude shock a very rude awakening for this country and also for this city and just to sort of give you an idea of how shocking this is for the indies and for this country im standing right now i dont want to step on spots Stephon Square which is essentially almost in the middle of the city and the square that you see in the distance behind me is only just chock full with people at the moment it is virtually empty that is the extent of the shock that people are experiencing over here im standing in front of also the well known stefans kick up where the bells are going off at the moment this is were talking about the heart of here and this is what was attacked and this is
A disputed general election. The World Food Program wins this years Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and improve conditions for peace. I mean this is the 1st time a lot of the big speeches of. The. French aid worker is back home after a prisoner swap deal ended 4 years of captivity in mali. The Foreign Ministers of armenia and azerbaijan are holding talks in moscow over nagornokarabakh its the latest effort to end the ongoing conflict over the disputed region the worst since a cease fire in 1994 and were going to go to Alexandra Steele janowicz go try and moscow shortly 1st lets go to sin cos the other whose life was in monk guy for man gets of the cheer as a by john as every president has been addressing the nation in the past few minutes since im just bring us up to date with what he has been saying. Well he has been saying the same thing actually but his speech today was a little bit stronger than his previous speeches he was very confident saying that john is afte