Good evening and thank you all so very much. If you will all sit down. Thank you so much for coming out to night. Its heartening to see so many people here on this important day for our country. Before we get started i just want to mention that this panel will go a little longer than usual because its a very special program as you can see from our guests and because the topic is so important, so we will run longer than usual, but in every other way it will be the same as our other panels. There will be a discussion and opportunity for question if you can make it to the microphone that would be great because this is being filmed on cspan and also live streamed on politics and prose Facebook Page at its helpful if people can hear the question as the question is asked. Lastly, there will not be a signing afterwards, but we do have copies of all of our guests books at the front. They are all very prolific. We dont have all of all of their books, but we have some of all of their books, so p
Esthetic, maybe amendment hesic, maybe a better word would be snobbery. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Welcome to lynchburg, virginia, on booktv. Located in the foothills of the blue Ridge Mountains along the james river, it has a population of about 80,000 people. Founded in 1757, lynchburg was named more its founder for its founder, john lynch. The city is home to poplar forest, Thomas Jeffersons private retreat. And with the help of our Comcast Cable partners, for the next 90 minutes well feature the citys Literary History beginning with poet ann spencer. Ann spencer was a poet, an american poet mostly associated with the harlem renaissance period in 19241945. How she becomes part of the harlem renaissance is how harlem comes to lynchburg. Unfortunately, theres a whole group of people who are associated with that period of time like ann spencer that people dont know about. Ann spencer was born in 1882 in henry county, virginia, which is southwestern vir
Good evening. And on this important day, this goes beyond a very special program. As you can see, the topic is important, it will run longer than usual but in every way it is the same as our other panels, there will be an opportunity for questions. If you can make it to a microphone that would be great because it is filled on cspan, and live streamed on our Facebook Page and it is helpful if people can hear the question is the question is asked. Lastly there will not be a signing afterward but we have copies of all our guestss books, they are very prolific, we dont have all of all of their books, but some of all of their books and help yourselves to those as well. We appreciate you being part of this discussion. We can think of no better way to honor the legacy of Martin Luther king junior especially on his National Holiday named for him then having this distinguished group of panelists to educate and lead us in a conversation about race in america. Before we get going lets explain for
After the suspects. News4s Darcy Spencer is live in fairfax and how the woman is doing right now. Darcy . Reporter jim, first, i want to tell you, this is a very quiet neighborhood just off the street here it is a dead end, a culdesac, not the place where you would expect Something Like this to happen. The family here believes very strongly that these victims in their 60s were followed from the maryland live casino last night. This all happened just before midnight. The woman, like you said, drove home with her husband from the casino, had walked to her front door and thats when one of the suspects grabbed her purse. We are going to go to some video of the neighborhood. We are not going to show the victims house. In just a moment you are going to hear from the victims son. He told me that his parent also gotten home, heard the commotion outside we having that was happening. He ran out, ran down the street and was chased by the car. The woman grabbed the purse and got into a getaway veh
Young women and a 5yearold boy. Horrific africa accident was captured by cameras at the lucky 37 restaurant. A car plows into a crosswalk and strikes to to york two young women. The lights flash right before me and then i remember the car hitting me. And then i remember i was the first one to wake up. Reporter Carla Mendoza says she saw her cousin jackie and her 5yearold brother laying on the ground. Both unconscious. And i thought they didnt make it. It was pretty horrible. Reporter they had just gotten off a bus to go home after taking a tricked a trip to the supermarket. They were about halfway through the crosswalk when they saw a gray car approaching. It was pretty far. To the point that we you would see us and they would stop. Reporter the 18yearold has a broken pelvis and multiple bruises. Karls little brother jonathan remains in a hospital. He suffers from a spinal cord injury and is paralyzed. Mom tells me he may be in the hospital up to a year. Unknown if he will be able to w