By way of quick introduction or not so quick introduction because, its quite the impressive bio journalists and author ernie suggs has been a reporter for the Atlanta Journal constitution since 1997, currently covering a variety of breaking news and investigative stories for page a1. He previously reported for newspapers new york city and durham, North Carolina. Hes a veteran of more than 20 years as a newspaper reporter and has covered stories ranging from politics to civil rights to Higher Education. A 1990 graduate of North Carolina university with a degree in english i have one of those to look at us both employed is my eagle pen writing well very nice yes huh. Ernie also a Harvard University nieman fellow. He is currently on the nieman board of trustees and. Hes the former Vice President of the National Association of black journalists. So please join me in welcoming suggs everybody. Thank you. Were probably going to spend most of our time talking about the subject. The book globa
Vanderbilts divinity library. And im so excited to be today with hala allen, who is author insurrection. Hawa is attorney and author whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune los angeles review of books lathams quarterly and the baffler, amongst other publications, she lives and works in new york city. Now, as a side note, the southern festival of books remains completely free. And we want to keep it that way. So please visit us on the web at ww dot humanity tennessee dawg to donate or you can also donate via the festival of books app. So how is going to read for us and then well a conversation and well open it for an audience. Q a and when the q a starts, please the mic in the corner just get better audio. However, take it away. Thank you very much because so im going to read from third chapter of the book called a house divided, which largely talks about the insurrection act invocation during the civil war and leading up to the civil war, which is interspersed with my personal n
Hello, everyone. Good. My name is kashif andrew graham. I am outreach librarian, religion and theology of vanderbilts divinity library. And im so excited to be today with hala allen, who is author insurrection. Hawa is attorney and author whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune los angeles review of books lathams quarterly and the baffler, amongst other publications, she lives and works in new york city. Now, as a side note, the southern festival of books remains completely free. And we want to keep it that way. So please visit us on the web at ww dot humanity tennessee dawg to donate or you can also donate via the festival of books app. So how is going to read for us and then well a conversation and well open it for an audience. Q a and when the q a starts, please the mic in the corner just get better audio. However, take it away. Thank you very much because so im going to read from third chapter of the book called a house divided, which largely talks about the insurrection act
By way of quick introduction or not so quick introduction because, its quite the impressive bio journalists and author ernie suggs has been a reporter for the Atlanta Journal constitution since 1997, currently covering a variety of breaking news and investigative stories for page a1. He previously reported for newspapers new york city and durham, North Carolina. Hes a veteran of more than 20 years as a newspaper reporter and has covered stories ranging from politics to civil rights to Higher Education. A 1990 graduate of North Carolina university with a degree in english i have one of those to look at us both employed is my eagle pen writing well very nice yes huh. Ernie also a Harvard University nieman fellow. He is currently on the nieman board of trustees and. Hes the former Vice President of the National Association of black journalists. So please join me in welcoming suggs everybody. Thank you. Were probably going to spend most of our time talking about the subject. The book globa
City. Now, as a side note, the southern festival of books remains completely free. And we want to keep it that way. So please visit us on the web at ww dot humanity tennessee dawg to donate or you can also donate via the festival of books app. So how is going to read for us and then well a conversation and well open it for an audience. Q a and when the q a starts, please the mic in the corner just get better audio. However, take it away. Thank you very much because so im going to read from third chapter of the book called a house divided, which largely talks about the insurrection act invocation during the civil war and leading up to the civil war, which is interspersed with my personal narrative from which im going to share this excerpt and the subtitle for. This portion is irrepressible conflict. I had much interest in history. The subject in and of itself was not the source of my disinclination. I was educated in a Public School district in Suffolk County island that was well resour