cooperstown graduate program of the state university of new york and the author of in the spirit of martin: the living legacy of dr. martin luther king jr. and through the eyes of others: african-americans and identity in american art. in her new book, driving while black, just out today, professor sorin tells the story of the indispensable green book which both reshaped the african-american traveling experience throughout our segregated land and helped drive the nays sent civil rights movement. please welcome gretchen sorin to the free library of philadelphia. [applause] good evening. it s wonderful to be in this great city of philadelphia. and i m, i apologize that rick wasn t able to join us this evening. he had a little bit of an emergency, and he s in italy. but i hope that you ll enjoy the preview of our film that he sent along. so i m going to talk, i m sure many of you have seen the green book movie, and i m going to talk this evening really about something,
the final score was 7-2. it s kansas city s first world series title since 1985. congratulations them. what a game. indeed. good morning to the royals. relentless and now redeemed. they won it in five and they became the first team in world series history to win three games after trailing in the 8th inning or later. sunday night was the crowning achievement. that s in the air to left. up against the wall. kc s come back kids were sparked this time by a 9th inning double, followed by an unforgettable and daring dash for home just minutes later. unbelievable base running! then in the 12th, new hero batted all season, singled in the run. atta boy. inside corner. the royals. 2015 world championship. the new kings of the baseball world celebrated in appropriate fashion, on the field and in the clubhouse. you are the kansas city royals, world champions! and in the streets of kansas city, fans ended 30 long years of waiting, including a punishing loss in last yea
he didn t want a biography. he wanted a story of his life of flight. he failed anything that he did any of the astronauts could have done so he wanted them to get equal credit. he was that type of a guy. he never thought of himself as being anything special but he wanted the story of flight told him we were going to do it and when he passed away we had already worked one chapter out and i decided to go ahead because and do the flight because people suddenly they made sense. i looked around mike and all the people from a poll of practically all of them are gone. we have to realize that over half the people on the planet weren t even here when he walked on the moon. the other asked it not said jay if you don t do it who else is going to do a quick s jim calls it a great book and adds to neil s legacy. we did our level best to try to get this done for the history. we have had a heavy library event sale so that s great. we were trying to get neil s story in a library for history
roger mika stepped away. we will will go door independent line, nick is waiting in oakland california. good morning. caller: hi. i was noticing in technologies you mentioned wind and solar. i ve been puzzled for some time why tidal energy hasn t been exploited. it s available and most of the people in the united states live within 25 miles of the coast. it s an obvious of energy and easy to use. guest: it s a great question. the answer is unfortunately like in a promising sounding alternative energy that has to be economical and tidal energy is useful and could be promising but it s not yet economical. it s just not going to generate enough power to be worth installing the installations and doing what you need to do to harness the power. that s actually what s interesting about this item on our list about smart wind and solar power. the knock against solar and wind is that it is too not cost competitive with coal or natural gas power. what s interesting about this item is
in philadelphia this is cbs-3 eyewitness news . developing right now at 11:00 joan rivers rush to the hospital. we have the latest from her family on her condition. also right now the search for a suspect. teen sexuallily assaulted near a school now community is on edge. and breaking tonight an incredible crash. a tractor trailer plows into home at a busy intersection in northeast philly and this isn t the first time. good evening, i m jessica dean. chris may is off tonight. it was a wild scene that rattled the neighborhood. it all happened on levick and farnsworth streets in mayfair. matt rivers is there live tonight with the latest. matt what s happening now? reporter: jesse, you can see the truck has actually been towed out of the house hyped me. you can see that truck just down the street over here on levick street. it was leaking diesel fuel a little bit earlier so officials are making sure that that has stopped but here you can see the damage that that truck