Pleasure to welcome you to this particular conversation this evening. The center for arts and culture teams up with the new press for pushout the criminalization of black girls in schools. This conversation is deeply meaningful to restoration and the press as we share the marginalized voices and stories. We want to thank diane and the new team for their incredible partnership in tonights conversation. Thank you so much. A round of applause. [applause] i also want to note books are for sale following the conversation to my left and youre right. Gloria steinem asked to this writer and journalist wrote about pushout, if you ever doubted that the supremacy crime, those devoted to maintaining hierarchy are rooted in both race and sex, read pushout. She tells us how the schools are crushing the spirit and talent this country needs. Guiding us through tonights conversation of cheryl harris, executive director of Field Support from new york schools she will be speaking with the author doctor M
Yes, they are interesting in that regard. Its really sort of speaks to the selfconscious mission of creating a particular kind of leadership. West point is really remarkable in that regard. Those institutions come up in debate. Thomas jefferson who helped bring west point into being also was in support of a National University although he thought we needed a constitutional amendment to establish that and he speaks of west point in much of the same way although west point for jeffersons most important in its scientific terms at the time when the Scientific Development that will come out of it. At a place like west point, encourages maybe too strong a word but its a genuine liberal Arts Education and that means that while we want to cultivate certain understanding of politics in certain habits of mind that will be essential for leadership, part of those habits are going to be very openended and subject to serious questioning and thats something that those who think about the National Uni
As he details how the york city is full of the union during the civil war and at 7 45 p. M. Its a look at the lessons us president s learned during their first year in office. At 9 00 p. M. , nadia lopez discusses her work at a school her work as a principal and a school in brooklyn. Alberto gonzales sits down for book tvs afterwards program discussing his new book. Its about his time in the george w. Bush administration. And we wrap up book tv at 11 00 p. M. With political cartoonists discussing his use of donald trump is a character in his comic strip doonesbury. That all happens tonight on cspan2 book tv. This gives me great pleasure to welcome you to this particular conversation this evening. The center for arts and culture teams up with the new press to present pushout the criminalization of black girls. This conversation is deeply meaningful to both restoration and the new press as we share a commitment to amplify and spotlight marginalized voices and stories. We want to thank di