To come back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there he and thousands and we followed him as the unofficial detective as he reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that havent been talked about. How did you come up with the name . A voice was speaking first person and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rent and then woman he was in love with of adam made that she is in love with mouse and mouse looks at the person who is talking and thats what he came from. Why voices he supposed to represent . Its interesting because how the africanamerican voice is the choir of america. Did you set out as a vehicle for social commentary . Any good novel that talks about any character talks about how they are incurred and the society and culture and politics. Then you dont have a real character. It seems that everybody does that. Not a lot of people were doing that with black mail he rose to become a Strong Social commentary not because that was my intention bu
Welcome to booktvs fiction edition. Youve written 50 fiction books. Lets start with devil in a blue dress, the book that launched a series who is easy rawlins . Guest a kind of every man for the black community in the middle of the twentieth century. His whole view of himself has changed. He came back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there because of what he has learned and he and thousands of others, from texas and louisiana moved to los angeles. What we do is follow him as a kind of unofficial detective. What he does is reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that havent been talked about. Host how did you come up with the name . Guest i was writing a story and there was a voice speaking firstperson talking about a party he was given and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rent and a woman he was in love with who was in love with another guy and mouse comes in and looks at the person who is talking and says hey, e the, how are you doing . That
And also, bill hampton freds brother and freds sister. And [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce berkshires. She is here tonight also. [applause] i want to thank northwestern and bernadine for bringing together such a prestigious and accomplished panel. I feel like now, i can sit down and hear what they have to say. I am and all of the people who are here tonight and their accomplishments. Bernadine fork putting it together and for being one of the inspirations for wired with this book. It was bernadine mentioned that fred hampton spoke at Northwestern University law School Almost exactly 40 years ago to the day. The person who introduced him was a young law student by the name of [indiscernible] who is sitting in the front row. Butrently, i wasnt there he stammered through an introduction of fred. Fred. Red got when fred got up he chided him and said you better get it together. He also knew that he had helped him get out on appeal bond. As you kno
Thank you and welcome everyone. I am very honored to be here. I also want to recognize Fred Hamptons mother who was here tonight. [applause] and also, bill hampton freds brother and freds sister. And [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce and [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce berkshires. She is here tonight also. [applause] i want to thank northwestern and bernadine for bringing together such a prestigious and accomplished panel. I feel like now, i can sit down and hear what they have to say. I am and all of the people who are here tonight and their accomplishments. I want to thank bernadine for putting it together and for being one of the inspirations for wired with this book. It was bernadine mentioned that fred hampton spoke at Northwestern University law School Almost exactly 40 years ago to the day. The person who introduced him was a young law student by the name of [indiscernible] who is sitting in th
Myself for five minutes. Coates, you state 250 years of slavery, 90 years of jim crow, 60 years of separate but equal, 35 years of racist housing policies until we reckon with our compounding moral debts america will never be whole. Why should the federal government bear responsibility for social and economic damages for descendents of the enslaved . R. Coates thank you chairman the federal government is complicit in it. The article you spoke about, this period of White Supremacy that you referenced in the headlines, it is so broad that if i tried to cover it in one article it would have been impossible so i focused on a specific thing, housing segregation and redlining specifically in the city of chicago. The federal government was deeply complicit in housing segregation and redlining and in the plunder of black homeowners in chicago. It would not have existed if the fha had not had a policy of not insuring loans for black People Living in chicago. It would not have existed if not for