University. Her essays have been published in the american scholar, best american essays and best African American essays. She is the Julian Lindsey graham professor of english at the university of vermont. Her latest book stories from my grandmothers time my mothers time and mine is an extraordinary exquisitely written memoir that looks at race and a fearless and true way. In 12 connected a deeply personal essays that support up close the complexities and boxes of the haunting memories and ambushing realities of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man of getting a phd from yale, marrying a white man from the north, adopting two babies room ethiopia, teaching at a White College and living in americas new england today, Henry Louis Gates calls it a major contribution and Washington Post says its magnificent. Carolyn is an american poet, editor, translator and activist. Her books of poetry or blue hour the angel of history the country betweenou us and
Good afternoon, everyone. I dont like to always shout people out at the very beginning that in walking right now is the great, great grandfather, eleanor and her husband. [applause] , it is always special to have them. Welcome, everyone to the Barnum Museum. I know many of you have been here before. Is this anybodys first time . Welcome. We are delighted to have you on this Beautiful Day in downtown connecticut. This is the Barnum Museum. It is in fact the last museum and as we all know he started the enterprise in 1842 and this is the last gift of just the city of bridgeport to the Global Community that we served. Many of you are very familiar with the museum. In 2010, we were hit by a tornado because that is the kind of stuff that happened to barnum. And then a year after that it was hurricane irena and then super storm cindy. I want to also give a shout out to the state of connecticut indoor delegation who really supported the 7 milliondollar bond reappropriation because we are just
Mississippi communities counsel. We have anybody from the Advisory Board . Thank you. Also partner who just recently retired from congress from the mississippis third district. Thank you. [applause] our moderator for this session is a visiting professor of english and at the university of mississippi. The former editor of the quarterly review and author of two memoirs. Introduced our distinguished panelists. [applause] thank you all for joining us this afternoon. If i were to retitle this panel, i would call it family memory history and civil rights. Our analyst books all deal with those subjects. I want to quote from one of our panelists books books of history often help us we reach the present by explaining how people solve or failed to solve problems. Thats what all of these books really got is how we solve or fail to solve problems. His personal connection to the books that each of our panelists have they are going to, we will talk about this but first, let me introduce our panelis
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