Cabletelevision companies as a Public Service and brought you today by your television provider. History and biography is sponsored by wells fargo. I am sarah broom and i am in harlem. I wrote the yellow house to answer what is at once a basic but also important question about who belongs, whose stories get told. I wanted to speak into a void in the literature. I wondered why the stories of me and my family and my 50 nieces and nephews didnt exist in the narrative of new orleans. I wanted to make a book that was the beginning of an answer to a question about how our lives mattered and how we deserved to also be on the american map, and then the city story of itself. This book is not only a book about a house that i lived in and that i loved and that in certain ways remains a part of me, but its really an attempt to think about what it actually means to belong to a place, what it means to feel that you have somehow from a place that has shaped you a major into the person you are. For me
We last broadcast book read updates. There are two i want to start with. One is this monumental Frederick Douglass prophet of freedom by david w. Blight, the definitive biography of Frederick Douglass especially what is going on in the United States with racial injustice, nobody was more consequential it has been more consequential on the target of race in america than Frederick Douglass. Way ahead of his time. He was not only in abolitionist and passionate abolitionists as a former slave but he insisted from the earliest time in the 1840s right through his death in the Nineteenth Century video quality was the goal and he would brook no deviation from that. He was very clear what the goal was and so many of his words ring true today and i recommend the biography. It is a long read but one of the things i learned about Frederick Douglass is he was an active suffragist. Absolutely. Very insistent. Had a distinguished career, was able to talk to a mixed race audience at a time when that w
First a discussion on the late author and active audra lorde, following by eddie glaude on james baldwin. Welcome to the Shomberg Center book festival. We had to reimagine a block long multistaged outdoor philadelphia as a viral one with your favorite write centers opportunity to discover more books. This we we have 35 authors and midraters sharing narratives from the u. S. And uk to west africa and jamaica, each night we go between the past and present like the Shomberg Centers archives and programs. Tonights program, audra lordo features writers roxanne gay, tracy. Something i and mahogany browne. Im the associate director of Public Programs and exhibitions at the Shomberg Center for research in black culture. Were celebrating 95 years of one of the world residents leading cultural institutions devoted to research, preservation and exhibition. Our are care has 11 million ims at that time illuminate the richness of black history and culture and we have met some items v8 digitally. Vis
Exhibitions at the Schomburg Center for research in black culture coming to you live from new york city in my little living room. Thank you for tuning in to this full day of conversation. 1963, magazine profile of james talks about reading his way to the library in harlem where he grew up which is what became the Schomburg Center. He said you think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world but then you read, it was books that taught me the things that tormented me most were the very things that brought me to the people who are alive, have ever been alive. Who says you cant read or write deliberation . You can see a Literary Festival expands notions of black mans introducing to scholars, Childrens Book authors, memoirs, those who write our joy and sorrow, rage and triumph. Those who have new ideas and spark our nation, help us make sense of the path past the plan for the future. Take you to all of our authors and moderators on our virtual stage today, i will
I title this a Promised Land because even though we may not get there in our lifetimes even if we experience hardships and disappointments along the way, i at least still have faith we can create a more perfect, not a Perfect Union but a more Perfect Union. Good morning and welcome to a special edition of Washington Post lives. I michelle lewis, opinion columnist for the race card project and for the special conversation this morning im joined by my dear friend elizabeth alexander, poet, scholar and president of the Andrew W Mellon foundation. Good morning. Wonderful to be together. It is wonderful to be together and we both welcome our guest for the conversation. The 40 fourth president of the United States, barack obama. Assume you recognize the guy in the middle. Washington post brought out the big guns. We are excited to see you. Im grateful you took the time. This is a News Organization so we have to begin with a little news. Overnight we learned astrazeneca has joined two other D