In debt. They started off incredibly well. They published grants memoirs, enormous success, and huckleberry finn. And twain expected to pay himself fat royalties. He wound up receiving no royalties. This is their final list of titles, and i dont know if you can see from there, but any publisher thats going to go out with stories from the rabbis [laughter] is probably going to be in a little trouble. [laughter] so headlines, and it was deeply humiliating, headlines in the newspaper said mark twain fails. I mean, it was brutal. Failure of mark twain, failure of humanist. And hes humorist. And hes this literary superstar, deeply embarrassed, and he gets two main advisers. One of the wealthiest men in america, the righthand man to john k. Rockefeller, standard oil. His nickname was hell hound, and this robberbaron wants to play hardball with the creditors. He wants to offer ten cents on the dollar. Twains other adviser is his wife, libby. She has absolutely no business experience. She writ
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 in the bookstore. Their books are in the bookstore so, please, go to the bookstore, check out their books, brick em back here or get them signed out there or back here. The next panel coming up, again, a great, great panel. I know a couple people on the panel, shaping memories the odd city to manhood. Shaping memories the odd city to man odyssey to manhood. Panel coming up next. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] adulthood. Adulthood. Theres some women on the panel. [laughter] im pushing so many programs around the country [inaudible conversations] and the National Black writers conference continues now with a panel on writings from youth to adulthood. This panel contains language that some may find offensive. All right. Good afternoon again. Good afternoon again. Good afternoon. All right. I hike that response. I like that response. Again, shaping memories the odd yssey to adulthood. Our moderator is going to be kathy wright lewis whos going to share the names of the panelists.
We will go to havana to speak with former cuban diplomat Carlos Alzugaray treto. As a cuban who respect everything that is positive from the u. S. But does not want to return to the situation of subordination we had before 1959, i look forward to a normalization of relations. Amy then to Khalil Muhammad the director of the Schomburg Center for research in black culture on the condemnation of blackness race, crime, and the making of modern urban america. Khalil that does not go away. Are they the collective unwillingness to confront the past . History, ultimately, is an essential tool of empowerment. It is a matter of life and death. Amy and then fast food workers in 230 cities are walking off of the job as part of the white for the fight for 15 campaign. A push for a 15 an hour minimum wage. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved a measure that would give con
Amy days after a historic meeting with raul castro president obama announces plans to remove cuba from a u. S. List of state sponsors of terrorism clearing a main obstacle to restoring diplomatic relations with havana for the first time in a half century. We will go to havana to speak with former cuban diplomat Carlos Alzugaray treto. As a cuban who respect everything that is positive from the u. S. But does not want to return to the situation of subordination we had before 1959, i look forward to a normalization of relations. Amy then to Khalil Muhammad the director of the Schomburg Center for research in black culture on the condemnation of blackness race, crime, and the making of modern urban america. Khalil that does not go away. Are they the collective unwillingness to confront the past . History, ultimately, is an essential tool of empowerment. It is a matter of life and death. Amy and then fast food workers in 230 cities are walking off of the job as part of the white for the fi