I suppose we are. Good evening. Im the president for the Atlanta History Center and its my pleasure to welcome you all tonight professor, author and po et patrick phillips. Patrick phillips received ph. D from nyu. He was a fullbright scholar and a National Endowment for arts fellow and recipient from the translation prize for translation of the works of danish poet. His 2015 poetry collection was a finalist for the book award. Even though we are in the presence of a distinguished poet, tonight phillips will be discussing his first work of nonfiction, blood at the root. A racial cleansing in america. This work tells the disturbing story, by tracing the broader historical phenomena that led to similar violent around our nation, phillips tells a story thats tragically much larger than foresight county. It is a significant work in so much that begins to tell a story about a bunch of people throughout the country who can effectively erase from the historical record. Im excited to welcome a
Analogy. Im also very pleased to welcome you to this event tonight to the main local event. This event is one of many wonderful events brought to you through our partnership with pittsburgh arts and lectures to the library arts and lectures have been presenting events like this one for many years for broad ranges of audiences. We are always pleased for a very nice positive response to these events and we would invite you to next time bring a friend or two, help us promote these and keep them going. Also i want to remind you that the library is open until 8 00 p. M. Tonight so you can head over and get your library card after this event. I would like to recognize classic lines books and more. They will be selling books this evening, the playing through the whistle book and i want to make you aware that s. L. Price will be sending the book immediately after the event this evening. As i mentioned earlier i am new to working at the main library but one of my first experiences was hearing a
No official days have been set but we do know theyre looking at either election day or the week before thanksgiving. The district urges parents to keep an eye on their online portal parent link to see if classes will resume tomorrow or not. Reporting live from johnson junior high. Nia wong 8 news now. Michael Stevens a 43 year old man now facing dui and hit and run charges. Metro police say he hit a bicyclist last night near torrey pines and charleston. Crashed through a wall and into a backyard. Then took off running. He was later arrested at his home. The bicyclist was transported to umc, where he later died. This is the 7 death in metros jurisdiction this year. Michael Stevens and in reno. Three people are dead. After a small plane crashed after taking off at the reno tahoe airport yesterday. It landed in a parking lot. There were no survivors. No word just yet on what exactly caused the technical difficulty. Michael Stevens the heat is moving out after a warm weekend. But before we