Im the provost at the university of tennessee at martin and tiff pleasure of hosting this session, shared history, americans of hispanic and african decent. Southern festival books remains completely free thanks to Strong Community support f youd like to donate to support the festival, you can do so on site at the Festival Headquarters or online via the humanitys tennessee website. You can purchase copies of the books that will be discussing today at the books sales area which is up on the Memorial Plaza and after the session both of our authors will be signing books at the signing tent. Our session today is going to focus on two books, dr. Kerry gibsons book el norte, epic and forgotten story of hispanic north america and Kristina Coles american founders how people after african decent established freedom in the new world. In just a minute we will hear from both of the authors and after that questions from the audience. Dr. Carry gibson grew up in United States and graduated from the
The tribune has invited texans from all corners of the state to open congress. Thank you for joining this event. Forso want to thank pfizer sponsoring the event today. My colleagues and i are excited to convene important conversations in the politico tent, including exchange with the freedom caucus. How to fix american politics is after that. 2020 and the border will be third, and then finally agriculture in the modern world. Stick around for all of those things. Our first conversation of the day, i am honored to be sitting with this mostly distinguished panel of three of the Top Republican strategists in the country, these guys were Campaign Managers for the job campaign, the Marco Rubio Campaign and the Ted Cruz Campaign respectively. They are danny diaz. [applause] terry sullivan. [applause] a little less enthusiasm for terry. Please clap. Jethro jeff roe. Joined bypposed to be a fourth guest, the Campaign Manager for john kasichs president ial campaign, but she has run into some fl
And thats something we really cant take for granted. The festival begins on individual donations to keep going into say free and you can donate at any level via the southern festival of books through their facebook page. The southern festival of books app. This weekend in person at vessel headquarters. See mac i want to encourage everyone to visit humanities labor literary website. There are wonderful reviews there. You can also sign up for a weekly newsletter information about upcoming author events. And also a great way to be a part of the literary community. In tennessee. Finally, after our session jason will be signing books at the signing tent on the plaza. And plaza. And copies of the books are for sale at the sales area and a portion of the proceeds directly benefits the festival. Enough announcements it is my delight to introduce jason depaul. I could talk for a long while about his decades of extraordinary writing about poverty and immigration among other publications in the N
About 25 years theyre clocking off the shortest day theyve had. So off the shortest day theyve had. So essentially what theyre doing is working less for more money with this 5. 5 pay increase. Yeah the house of commons is rising now at about 430 in the afternoon. Now people can remember back to some of the midnight sittings that mps used to do. Were a long way away from that now. Late votes seem to be a thing of the past, and mps can seemingly go back to their offices and put their feet up around 430. I wonder if under if there is a labour government, i wonder with all the stuff about Flexible Working and, you know, being able to bring your children to work, they wont need of these benches at need all of these benches at all. Theyll probably be working from what from home. Isnt that what yvette from home. Isnt that what yve but question from home. Isnt that what yvebut question is, is this but the question is, is this value for money from our mps . Less time in the commons, less legisl
Princess diana every day, but meanwhile, meghan has launched this new lifestyle blog within an hour of this event happening. More details shortly. More details shortly. Mps salaries will increase by 5. 5 in april, taking their yearly wage to over £91,000. Were asking does your local mp deserve it . Deserve it . Rishi sunak rules out a general election on may the 2nd, the same day when voters are set to go to the polls for the local elections. Elections. Russia jammed signals on an raf plane carrying defence minister grant shapps and a group of journalists, including our very own gb News Reporter ray addison. Ray addison. Youll love this. Drivers are warned to stay away from a five mile stretch of the m25 in surrey this weekend. Therell be an unprecedented closure of the motorway. Motorway. Yes. Let us know what you make of that , especially if you make of that, especially if you live near that section of the m25. Apparently the reroute away from the m25 is going to be through all the