A special focus on the rust belt. Gunman stormed Kabul University shooting students in that class rooms and as they fled in an attack which left at least 22. 00 dead. Tanzanias opposition president ial candidate and his partys chairman arrested after calling for protest against last weeks disputed election. Hello welcome to the program for the past hour or so weve been covering breaking news story from austria where police say at least 2 people have been killed in an attack in the center of the capital vienna. Well gunshots were heard in the city center in what the interior minister referred to as a terror attack at this point a suspected terror attack but he say tweeted that several suspects armed with rifles carried out the attack which took place at 6 different locations in the city one attacker has been shot dead but more op attention on the run so the situation is still unfolding it hasnt reached any conclusion just yet witnesses are saying that all this happened close to viennas
Because i didnt plan to publish during a pandemic. Ive been reaching out during that time for friends and colleagues to find out how they are doing and what they are doing. And maybe to take up a little inspiration along the way. Now im speaking with two of the leading lights of the book world today two of my neighbors in brooklyn, one is Johnny Temple of Akashic Books the other is tran eight from the green light bookstore, my neighborhood bookstore. Welcome to both of you and thank you for taking the time to speak. I want to talk shop with you guys and give you some insight baseball about our new lives as independent book people. Ill start with you, jessica what his is done to your business . [laughter] its a lot really fast, right . It has been a real reinvention over the past six or eight weeks. Mid march i feel like there were a couple of days we were like do we need to consider closing and like yes you absently have to. In any also need to send everyone home. That week of transiti
Up next its booktv is monthly in Depth Program with author and Princeton University professor imani perry. Our books on race and africanamerican history include prophets of the hood, may we forever stand, and the recently published breathe a letter to my sons. Its a letter. Its a series of letters to my son, but of course, its also a letter to the larger world, both about, you know, the reality of the terror and anxiety and worries that comes along with being a parent of black children, and particularly black boys in the United States at this moment, but its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy and excellence and selfregard. Much of which, i think, one finds a lessons for in an extraordinary tradition that we have to draw from. Where did you come up with the idea to write your sons a letter . Well, so, i actually have written them letters privately for years, but my editor, at beacon press said, is this something youd be interested in doing . In large pa
Professor imani perry, what is the structure of your newest book, brief . Guest well, there are three sections. Fear, fly and fortune. It is a letter, a series of letters to my son but its also a letter to the larger world. Both about the reality of the terror and anxiety and the worry that comes along with being the parent about black children in particular at this moment but its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy and excellence and self regard, much of which i think one finds the lesson for an extraordinary tradition which we have to draw from. Host where did you come up with the idea to write your sons a letter . Guest i have written some letters privately for years and my editor at beacon press said is this something youd be interested in doing in large part because ado talk about my children all the time and i write posts about them on social media and initially, you know, i think what we both had in mind with something that was probably bit more
Desk. Every single senator in the Democratic Congress and in our caucus here in the senate is cosponsoring the for the people act. Senator merkley, senator merkley and my companion bill the h. R. 1, for the people act, but it is very deep in the leaders legislative graveyard. Over the course of the last year, as the for the people act has languished, tens of millions of dollars were spent, much of it in secret, to influence the policymaking process. Almost half a dozen states passed new laws restricting voter rights. The u. S. Supreme court gave the green light to political gerrymandering, and President Trump has with his own properties dozens of times funneled millions of taxpayer dollars into his own pocket. Yet, the Republican Senate is silent, sigh length as silent as our democracy faces a crisis like none we have ever seen in our lifetimes. We can draw a Straight Line from the crisis in our democracy to more than 300 bipartisan bills buried in the majority leaders graveyard. The b