Mr. Trump these attacks and many others were made possible because of our extremely open immigration system from 9 11 to san bernardino, we have seen how failures this grain who is entering the United States puts all of our citizens everyone in this room a danger. Mrs. Clinton we know a lot of the rhetoric we have heard from donald trump has been seized on by terrorists, in particular, i says, because theyre looking to make this into a war against islam. Response to the president ial candidate and the in new york, new jersey, and st. Cloud, minnesota, where in were a man named dahir adan knifed 10 people. We will host a roundtable discussion. We will go to minneapolis to speak with haji yusuf with unite cloud, to philadelphia to speak with nazia kazi, author of article in the chronicle of Higher Education headlined teaching against islamophobia in the age of terror. Here in new york, well talk to Debbie Almontaser, president of the Muslim Community network, and with cuny law professor
Mr. Trump these attacks and many others were made possible because of our extremely open immigration system from 9 11 to san bernardino, we have seen how failures this grain who is entering the United States puts all of our citizens everyone in this room a danger. Mrs. Clinton we know a lot of the rhetoric we have heard from donald trump has been seized on by terrorists, in particular, i says, because theyre looking to make this into a war against islam. Response to the president ial candidate and the in new york, new jersey, and st. Cloud, minnesota, where in were a man named dahir adan knifed 10 people. We will host a roundtable discussion. We will go to minneapolis to speak with haji yusuf with unite cloud, to philadelphia to speak with nazia kazi, author of article in the chronicle of Higher Education headlined teaching against islamophobia in the age of terror. Here in new york, well talk to Debbie Almontaser, president of the Muslim Community network, and with cuny law professor
The final panel from this Years National black writers conference. Thank you for coming out this afternoon. We really, really, really are glad to see you here and glad you stayed over these four days. When i founded the center for black literature in 2003, one of the major goals was to host the National Black writer withs conference, and it was a vision of john oliver kilns who was poet and writer in residence at that time, and he would have been 100 years in january. He wanted to support the work of black writers by hosting programs and holding a conference every year. And we did this through the center for black literature where we have literary readings, workshops, symposia and Youth Programs for our students. Its called, our Youth Program is called reenvisioning our lives through literature. Weve continued to do this. And as i think over these last four days, i know John Oliver Killens would be smiling. I thank him for his visioning, and i thank all of you for coming together to ce
Are at the world famous Schomburg Center for research in black culture. Why is the world famous . Because it is the most important repository to study black history founded 90 years ago. And who is pearl . He is the founding cureateer. He migrated from puerto rico and found a job on wall street working in a mail room. He worked hard and brought any rare or unique books you could find that were by or about black people eventually becoming famous for this collection. People would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library, borrow from the library, people like langston hues and hurston eventually. It arrived 90 years ago and made up the core of what is a 10 million item collection at the Schomburg Center for research in black culture. How did it end up at this location . Because this was the settlement zone, ground zero, for what came to be the negro mecca of the world. Harlem usa four blocks over. Most people today think about harlem in relation to the apollo or the baptist church. 12
Charter communitions, along with these Television Companies come support cspan2 as a public service. Welcome again to the 16th National Black writers conference. My name is Erica Buddington and as you for of langston league, a consulting curriculum from the specialize in cultural affirmative Chuck Schumer materials and writing for latenight segment called how to begetter . Speaking of how we got here, we are all here for a roundtable discussion entitled the souls of black folk telling our stories. Todays roundtable title is taken from w. E. B. Du bois Landmark Book the souls of black folk and in this regard todays speakers will discuss how their work speaks to the publics expense of black people throughout the African Diaspora through fiction, poetry, drama and acidic each writer featured here today will illustrate the ways in which his or her work speak to the complex experiences of black people in the literature and beyond. I i know at the 16th National Black writers conference, but