Who has the foresight to endow this important prize way back in 1935. Edith was the editor times anyways. She understood it was erasing the thing about racism and other forms of prejudice. She also understood, literature mr. As a posted an excerpt of the site. In the 84 years prize was established, our country has made Great Strides towards what is regard to respecting and embracing our diversity. Recently, we have taken disheartening steps backwards. Reported hate crimes of sharply risen in the past several years including of course the mass murders and the mothering manual church in Charleston South Carolina and the tree of live synagogue in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. This is the National Trend but it also gives its close to home. According to the southern poverty law center, there are more organized groups in the state of ohio than in kentucky and West Virginia combined. A great source of shame if ever there was one. But also. Follow action. They must rewrite our Current National nar
We are going to talk about something thats very popular right now. Podcasts. I dont know what they are, you dont know what they are. Nobody knows. But these people know and they will help walk us through what we need to do to create a podcast. Joining me today , i have the take off the glasses. Is a journalist. She relocated from chicago. Shes the host of the promise podcast which is about life in nashville Public Housing. Covers manufacturing in the rustbelt. Aviation and transportation. New york times, the new yorker, and on and on. Actually i have six cats. I have five cats. Ive gone full crazy. At the end is former director of nonfiction programming for slate sister company. She has hosted probably by the book. When megan met harry appeared in the Washington Post, collects im a dog person. But im allergic to all animals. No offense. Stephen is Program Coordinator for fm for memphis, tennessee. Because he apparently angered the gods at one point, stephen has on more than one occasio
Been treated so badly as i have. [ laughter ] even more amazing, he tweeted it from the Abraham Lincoln room in the john f. Kennedy library. [ laughter ] President Trump [ cheers and applause President Trump today released a transcript of the controversial phone call between him and the president of ukraine, which seemed to include some incriminating information and man, that is not good. [ laughter ] its like when someone has a face tattoo that says, hail satan. [ laughter ] if thats what youre showing people, what are you hiding . [ laughter and applause according to the call according to the call transcript released this morning, President Trump told the president of ukraine, quote, the United States has been very, very good to ukraine i wouldnt say that its reciprocal necessarily because things are happening that are not good, but the United States has been very, very good to ukraine. Good lord, trump is the worst criminaler ] hes like a character from the sopranos who everyone kno
An excellent book i read in grad school many years ago. Most recently, he is the author of the thin light of freedom, the civil war and emancipation in the heart of america, published in 2017. And the 2018 lincoln prizewinner. One of the things he has done throughout his career, he has made a point to speak to public audiences. He is hard evidence that this supposedly gap between academics and public historians there is maybe a gap, but it is ever so slight. It is close in large part because of academics like professor ayres who also does a Popular Program entitled back story, which you can get on a podcast. Please welcome professor edward ayres. [applause] hello, everybody. Did you have a good lunch . I had five carrot pieces and a bag of m ms. I am fired up. I had the peanut m ms. There is little protein in there. I know you folks have been thinking and working hard about this issue. I wanted to be honest. I wanted to come here and be sincere. I owe you an explanation. I had an idea
You can also follow along behind the scenes on social media. Welcome once again to our next program. I went to give special think use it to all of our sponsors. Wind trust as window trust is our programming sponsor. Three elle real l real estate in cspan book tv. If there is time at the end for a q a session with the authors we ask that you use the microphone in the center of the room. Please silence all of your cell phones and if you do choose to take photographs of our presenters please turn off the flash 1720 to 1830m scott human. With that said our moderator. La we are really glad to be here today. We will try not to put you folks to sleep. We work with professor Henry Louis Gates junior. Until recently i was a Research Associate at the Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture pioneers to the into bellum midwest. When i first started doing that research on the assumption was that there were four maybe fiveemp settlements that were homes to africanamerican