Everything on my mind of what had happened the other night. Last night i had gotten a house, what about tonight . I had to sleep in the car tonight. I might get a good deal tonight. What will happen . How will i get home today . I want to thank everybody, a few people to thank. I want to thank the festival of the book. I want to thank amnesty international, a lot to help me get here. I want to thank bill for the introduction, and my one man publishing super power team. And an incredible other book, the black history of the white house. Max and so many other activists across the country, take back the land and other housing disorganization as i definitely the reason i am here because they educated me to everything. I want to thank the family that are struggling, actually fighting back against one of the worst crises, financial, social, physical that this country had gone through. Without their willingness to talk to me. None of this would be here. So i am going to speak about my first b
Online discussion of the biography of stoically, michael. Look for the booktv tab at booktv. Org. One thing that is interesting about politics and movements in the 60s in a way that i think is different from our contemporary society is activism was something that in a large manor was considered it had an impact on popular culture. This is something we take for granted in the sense carmichael is not a rock star. Not to diminish him but a context of what happens when somebody who has that look, this activist where the cameras are all over, who was on the cover of every magazine in essence, all these different magazines, time, life, all these covers, very enormously charismatic, was married to this beautiful woman. How do they proceed in the black community but internationally . An iconography of the e way. Black panther party. Not just a Political Party but a party that images are seductive and attractive. When we think about all of that it is wrapped up in there. Not only a formidable a