Steve tonight join jimmy and his guests gwyneth paltromusical guest ale, and the legendary roots crew and now hereimmy jimmy welcome to the tonight show, everybody thank you so much for tuning in, i appreciate it. What a show we have for you tonight. Gwyneth paltrow is here. [ applause ] i want to get some face tips from gwenny. I dont even call her gwenny, but anyway i did it tonight. Zachary quinto is on the show. I going to talk to zacky and see what we i dont really call him zacky, but you know what, maybe tonight i will who knows . And then Alec Benjamin [ applause ] lecy is doing a new song tonight. Lets get to some news earlier today President Trump held a press conference in the white house rose garden. He was there to sign an executive order on Police Reform but when the topic of a coronavirus cure came up, he looks like he got a little side tracked along the way. Check it out these are the people. The best, the smartest, the most brilliant anywhere. And theyve come up with th
Rebecca roanhorse. So, we are not going to take audience questions but feel free to chat amongst yourself in the chat feature and let us know where youre viewing from. Well re recording the event so folks who couldnt join us live can watch this later on and ill give you a quick rundown of the format. Were going to give each author seven to mine minutes to talk about anywhere upcoming books and then we joy will lead a chat of the group. So without further adieu ill pass things over to zerina and well take it away. Zerina maxwell the msnbc political analyst, commentator, speaker and writer the and the senior director of progressive programming for pierus xm cohost of signal boost. Take it away. Im so excited to be here this evening. I know so many of us are struggling through our individual circumstances during this quarantine, and maybe were thinking and wondering what we can do in this particular moment to make the world around us just a little bit different and a lot better. So, i can
If i dont give everybody the utmost expect an understanding and compassion are doing that i am not doing right by the book. Its not a movie or a book but has the best of both worlds. Because you have an actual human being giving the story to you and i love that. And the feeling of how that person tells the story. Hearing your novel read aloud transformed into an audiobook is such an honor and a privilege. And where it is finding itself. Its another way to access literature and often times for nontraditional readers. And these are all the reason that 50 percent of americans listen to ann audiobook in 2019s. Here is to all of you. Here is to amazing audiobooks and here is to 25 years of the audie awards. Ladies and gentlemen we are thrilled to introduce the master of ceremonies mr. Mo rock up. And a frequent panelist on npr quiz show wait wait dont tell me. He is also the host of the obituaries podcast. We are here to have him here this evening. Without further ado teethree. [applause] t
Postponed new in depth programs. We are showing highlights from past programs. First from november of 2018, author imani perry, author of several books including a history of the black National Anthem and breeze which is written as a letter to her son. Heres a portion of that program. People here when you see i wonder if people are irredeemable they hear all white people and they hear white people as individuals as opposed to whiteness as an identity so that when i go into the second paragraph, what if we took this identity apart, those people would not have a different history or body, but it would be a different relationship to identity that i think would potentially have as a consequence a more humane relationship to each other. When i went into later in the first paragraph saying a person, an individual can be a heaven, certainly both as someone who was raised by a white man or as someone who thinks of so many figures like, take for example john brown or bob zellner, some of the mo
So that when i go into the second paragraph where im like what if we took this identity apart, those people would not sort of, have a different history or body. But it would be a different relationship to identity. I think as a consequence, we have a more humane relationship to each other. When i got leader into the first paragraph when im saying an individual can be a heaven. Certainly, both someone who was raised by a white man or as someone who thinks of so many figures like, take for example, john brown. Who i think are some of the most precious people in the world. Its important to me to not have a formulation that removes them. So thats what i was thinking. One more question before we move on to some of your other books. Mothering black boys in america is a special calling. Yeah. Its a sentence my mother said to me. I think about it in a number of different ways. People talk about, in some ways that are difficult and maybe not a really hopeful about the challenges that black boys