[applause] good evening thank you for that wonderful introduction. I like to start off tonights event based first offering a land acknowledgment birdlike to gratefully acknowledge the native people whose ancestral homelands we gather as well as the Diverse Communities who make their home in washington d. C. And for all of those streaming to acknowledge the land youre coming to us from. I am so excited and pleased about tonights event both personally and also at the secretary of education. As you heard this is a special evening for us as we are doing in person and Live Streaming for the first time. And also that education has been at the cook core of the smithsonian Mission Sensor 175 your founding. In fact the spirit and purpose of the programming you will have tonight the Smithsonian Associates have been doing for 55 years through highquality inperson programming. We are happy tonight. We are particularly excited about this event because we have two fabulous people pretty properly the
Last train to memphis and careless love. Theyre here discussing wills new book colorization 100 years of black films in a white world. Publishers weekly calls it an engrossing account of a vital but often slated cinematic tradition full of fascinating lore and Dwight Garner writes for the New York Times. This is sweeping history, but in hagoods hands, it feels crisp urgent and paired down like a good movie. It pops from the start. Were so pleased to be hosting this event tonight. The digital podium is yours will and peter. Thank you. Thank you. Well, its great to be here with you. I wish we were here in person. And congratulations on the book. Weve known each other a long time. Weve known each other over 30 years. And all that time, you know, i feel like weve been not so secret santa asks. Yeah, last youve come out and declared yourself, and i wondered if you always had. Book like this in the back of your mind. Big book resting on the twin pillars of art and social history and storytel
Now please welcome to the stage. Sheila, with Donna Brazile brazile. Oh, hello, everyone. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, we have such a big audience and i would like come up close please. This is filling up and well before i sit down, i to just say how pleased or honored i am to introduce a phenomenal woman Sheila Johnson and is a woman who have blazed so many trails. Shes an entrepreneur. Shes a philanthropist. Shes in the hospitality business. In fact all of my decorating ideas have come from. Oh, right. Because she understands people humanity when. You think of the arts, you should think of Sheila Johnson of course television entertainment. Shes been a producer of documentaries films and now you know she, hosts an amazing film fest in middleburg, virginia. So i am deeply honored that i get a chance to spend some time with sheila. The name of this, i guess in the program books, women of wisdom, that shes wise woman here. And the first African American female billionaire and god knows kno
Now please welcome to the stage. Sheila, with Donna Brazile brazile. Oh, hello, everyone. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, we have such a big audience and i would like come up close please. This is filling up and well before i sit down, i to just say how pleased or honored i am to introduce a phenomenal woman Sheila Johnson and is a woman who have blazed so many trails. Shes an entrepreneur. Shes a philanthropist. Shes in the hospitality business. In fact all of my decorating ideas have come from. Oh, right. Because she understands people humanity when. You think of the arts, you should think of Sheila Johnson of course television entertainment. Shes been a producer of documentaries films and now you know she, hosts an amazing film fest in middleburg, virginia. So i am deeply honored that i get a chance to spend some time with sheila. The name of this, i guess in the program books, women of wisdom, that shes wise woman here. And the first African American female billionaire and god knows kno
Birthday for tipp and reagan decided to invade by tipped and have a Birthday Party for and tip came in. He had of his friends there though the white house and at the end of lunch break and got up to get to give a read a little doggerel as they like to do and reagan said tip if i had ticket to heaven and you didnt have one to well id get my back and go to hell with you. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Ladies and gentlemen, david gergen. That wasladies and gentlemen, wu now please welcome to the stage. Sheila, with Donna Brazile brazile. Oh, hello, everyone. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, we have such a big audience and i would like come up close please. This is filling up and well before i sit down, i to just say how pleased or honored i am to introduce a phenomenal woman Sheila Johnson and is a woman who have blazed so many trails. Shes an entrepreneur. Shes a philanthropist. Shes in the hospitality business. In fact all of my decorating ideas have come from. Oh, right. Because she understands peopl