I want to get a few points across please put your cell phone on silent. If you would like to share on social bdm ago to a book festival. Thank you. Welcome to the session on southern history and we also want to thank our sponsor for this session. I would like to introduce you to robert who will be our moderator for today. He is a member of the board of directors for the mississippi book festival as well as a director for the center at Jackson State University whereja hhes also a professor. He is also an author. Thank you and welcome. Glad to see everyone here this afternoon. Im going to go down and introduce our panelists today. First, we have to my immediate left adrienne is the author of water tossing boulders help of chinese immigrants led the first sitedevice to desegregate schoon the south. She currently serves as managing editor of the daily paper in williamsburg virginia and at the school of journalism recently served as the writer an and a resident at the delta State University
I want to get a few points across please put your cell phone on silent. If you would like to share on social bdm ago to Literary Lawn Party we want to welcome you to the next session on southern history but also thank our sponsor for this session. I will introduce you to robert who will be our moderator for today and is a member of the board of directors as well as the director at Jackson State University where he is also a professor and is also an author. Glad to see everyone here this afternoon. Digital and Television News outlets such as abc, 20 20 and fox news. Her investigation into the life of an american Bounty Hunter in afghanistan is currently in production as a feature film. Although adrienne was raised in the northeast, she does come from a long line of mississippi women, so well claim you. [laughter] at least five generations long are. Her mother was born here in jackson, and she and her husband jesse live on a farm in norge, virginia. Was that close enough . All right. [la
The move is by a pastor out of georgia but who was talking about that weve gotten so complacent in our churches that we, this is how he explains it. We go to the same place and time even though the last few times weve been going, the fish are not there but were going to do the same thing. Maybe we have to go to deeper waters to find the fish because the fish are moving. Its important for me not just as a christian but as a leader to figure out how to i findthe fish. And not expect for the fish to always be atthe same place or to always come to me. And it struck me as such a great read, very tiny book. So powerful and impactful. We have to figure out how to go into the deeper water and not be afraid to go out further. We want to stay on the shore, sometimes you got to go into deep water so thats why that one. Then james helper is my friend. Is probably one of the most intelligent people ive ever met. Hes a great historian and hes a great experience so i wanted to get some understanding
Manifest. And it was called soap operas because Soap Companies sponsored the shows. So thats how the soap opera title came about. Yeah. Durham, he also wrote for the chicago defender. Thats an interesting story, particularly his firing and how they had i dont know if they were the first also, when you talked about the black Insurance Company that couldnt get it couldnt get funding to there was a show that he did, and the script basically was about this Insurance Company in, i believe it was in philadelphia. Im not sure. But the bottom line was, when this gentleman went to get money to refinance the building this was during the depression they assessed the building that this Insurance Company was in. And this was one of the Major Insurance Companies for africanamericans at the time. And he thought he could get maybe a 50,000 loan to tide him over through the depression. And they assessed the building for like 5,000. 5,000. And it was like okay, never mind. Ill figure out something else.
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