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New book that could not have been more timely. Yuko wrote the book with erica greene who is an awardwinning reporter and was a finalist of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking News Coverage of the death of ready gray and the events that followed. This book is just a beautiful way to understand what happened to freddie gray and baltimore, what happened in the lives of black america, how the lives that connect us in the untruth and the half spoken truth and the incomplete stories stop us from truly being one community and most important five days as a way to think about uprising in america and im just really pleased to be able to have this conversation with you. Thank you. Lets talk about the young man whose life was taken from us, freddie gray. The book begins, the entry point is your attending the funeral of freddie gray and leaving the funeral and seeing all the different part of Baltimore Society go back to their corners and you wanted to to paint a story that would really reflect th
Our society had trouble with in recent years. That makes us wonder how strong our institutions will prove to be, how we will rise to a challenge like this. You cant help but see it as a time of crisis but because it is the time of testing it is also time to think about what americas strengths are, what we are good at and how we can build on that to address the enormous problems we confront. Host how did we get here . Guest that is an awfully complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and the quality of the individual on the one hand and some form of strength of community on the other. Every free Society Faces that. Our society has in the past century emphasized the individual, emphasize liberty, emphasize freedom and diversity and that has brought some enormous advantages and benefits but there is another side to that coin and the other side look Like Division and fragmentation and isolation, it can look like alienation and loneliness and
The free library of philadelphia i am the director of author events. Before we begin tonight he will see there is a button below that suggest you buy the book the undocumented americans it leads to the website of the bookshop they will be happy to send you a copy anywhere in the country. Those that you can use to ask a question or to upload the question i may excited to introduce two terrific writers originally from ecuador one of the first undocumented students at university now a fellow at the Emerson Collective at the American Studies Program writing about race and culture and immigration with a variety of publications including the atlantic and as captivating and provocative those beyond political rhetoric and the stereotypical headlines to reveal that a deeply empathic composer the contribution and across this continent to be in conversation the writer at the publication and culture the screen is all yours. Hi everyone thank you for joining in and thank you for being here. Lets ju
You new programs and publishing news and watch the archived programs any time at the tv. Org. Spending more than five years in south africa he was elected to the African National congress. During the transformation after apartheid mmr of exile of red, white, and black the stricture of us antagonism. The rating has been honored with the legacy award for nonfiction and an ea promotion. In his new book memoir and philosophy through and from one another and with the worldview with examples from his own life which in turn forms philosophy. All yours. This is the third time ive done Something Like this. It seems to every time. Thank you for coming out tonight and sharing your evening with me in the auditorium of the free library of philadelphia. Now we are together like this so now in this type of situation there would have been an auditorium. I dont know. I hope everyone is safe and healthy. I will share with you an episode for my book. Those of you who have seen the book or read from the o