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The author of the New York Times bestseller also a visiting professor at columbia university. Featured in the new yorker, the New York Times, the atlantic, rolling stone, esquire and the guardian among many others. Joining the conversation born and raised in jackson mississippi, professor of english and creative writing at the university and author of the novel Long Division and a collection of essays how to slowly kill your self and others in america. Also the author of the memoir heavy, shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie medal and named one of the best books by the New York Times, publishers weekly, npr, library journal, the washington post, entertainment weekly, the San Francisco chronicle and the New York Times critics. Without further ado please join me in welcoming morgan and kiese laymon. Hello, everyone. Im so excited to talk to you about this book. I wish that we could i really wish we could have done this down south. Guest i know. Two years ago i was in conversation with you
She is a historian of race and migration in the United States , specializing in asianAmerican History. Chinese must go. Fmaps the tangled relationship between local racial violence, and u. S. Imperial ambitions. Williams earned her b. A. From Brown University and phd in history from stanford. I believe he just spoke at sanford this afternoon. Thank you, beth, for coming and speaking this evening with us. David has worked as a social worker in San Franciscos chinatown with atrisk youth before starting his business in 1981 in exporting Consumer Products to mexico. He sold his business in 2003 and retired at the end of 2005. So now we get to work with david all the time, which is really lovely. David has a passion for building communities, social change, and improvements, Youth Education , the arts. He actively participates in the following nonprofit. The chineseamerican community fund, the dance troupe, the academy of chinese performing arts, so many places. I think the center for asiana
Hospitalization. Hospital admissions are down 10 and icu admissions are down 5 . Newsom said despite numbers surrounding the virus trending down, they are still leading. This kind of data to come in to feel more confident about where we are as a state. Andrea if we are seeing the curve lesson or flatten if i can be that bold, what kind of numbers are considered progress here . At this point come the gold to start loosening restrictions here in the state of california, many counties on this monitoring list to raat hovers around 5 . At the moment, 7 is too high, but it is better than it was if you weeks ago. Were not quite there yet. Art, thanks. The governor says the state is zeroing in on the Central Valley is a covid19 hotspot moving patients to neighboring communities. Starting to see the hospitalization and icu rates increase not just positivity rates in the valley, outpacing the rest of california. If you asked me today what our biggest area of concern in a state as large as ours i