relatively easy time passing its rules package, its first order of business, but the rules package includes provisions like the motion to vacate, which makes it easier to remove the speaker, kevin mccarthy. it also gets rid of pandemic era changes like proxy voting, it imposes rules and limiting spending and blocking tax increases. house republicans also passed a pair of disingenuous and deceitful antiabortion bills that were designed to push propaganda rather than addressing real concerns about women s reproductive rights. their decision to pass these bills during the first week of that new term, and despite the overall unpopularity of their antiabortion positions, demonstrates how they seriously are about governing in general. republicans made it clear months ago that they intend to use their tenure to investigate democrats. the rules package includes a provision that allows the house to create a new subcommittee to investigate the origins of covid and to scrutinize the wor
best gambler in the world. janie just wants to have a light filled with beauty and love and play and the light and joy. and to have that portraits set against the ugliness, in many ways, of the jim crow south is really, really potent. it still resonates, right? it s a fundamentally human desire to have a beautiful life. even under the circumstances. it is the universality of this book. dr. amani perry is a director of african american studies at princeton university. ibram x kendi it s the founding director of the boston university center for anti racist research. i m not done with them. i will say this more where that came from. i m going to continue the conversation with imani perry and ibram x kendi, and in a few days, you will be able to stream the extended cut of this on peacock. that s it for me. thank you, for catch me back here 10 am eastern on velshi.
you are going to read a very differently than if you are reading it from your own experience, from your own life, from your own values. i think zora wrote for black people. but there were other risks novelist at the time who, in many ways, wrote for white people. they wrote characters who were either exceptional or characters who were living under the foot of white racism. and they did that because they wanted to expose white racism or demonstrate black excellence, thought zora thought it was important to demonstrate the complexity of black people, the imperfections of black people. that is actually what makes black eagle human. dr. perry, there their eyes were watching god has got three narrators in. it s janie, freebie, and i hurston herself at hearts. tell me about the significance of. that there s a call and response style in the book. sure. there is actually a conversation that is happening.
flame was actually just smoldering. with the help of alice walker, author of the color purple, and the essay that walker wrote in the early 1970s, both the public and the literary circles embraced hurston. today, she is considered one of the most influential black writers not just of the harlem renaissance, one of all-time, alongside legendary authors like tony morrison and maya angelou. today, velshi banned book club feature is the a for mentioned their eyes were watching god, by the unparalleled zora neale hurston. but steven suits. our protagonist is the beautiful middle aged janie crawford. she was raised by her grandmother, nanny, whose life is shaped by her experience conflate in the american south and by a fraught relationship with jamie s mother. throughout their eyes, we are watching god, janie mary s three times. once at the behest of her grandmother, once as a trophy wife, and then ultimately, for love, to the much younger tea cake. like hurston, the novel isn t just one thi
over the course of the 20th century. dr. kendi, we finally see the title, the reference to their eyes were watching god, in chapter 18 of the book during a hurricane. the passage in the book reads, the wind came back with trump or fury, and put out the light for the last time. they sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls, and their souls asking if he meant to measure their puny might against his. they seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching god. end quote. tell me about this moment. let me actually just share, i think, what it meant to me and the beauty about fiction is that we can all interpret it in different ways. you know, towards the end of the book, zora also writes janie stating that there are two things everyone needs to do for themselves.