Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It is an honor to welcome everyone to the 71st National Book awards. I am Jason Reynolds coming to you live from washington dc go this is overnight but there is so much going on in the world this is our night and it is a big deal. It is so much of a big deal i woke up this morning anxious and nervous as usual. I always, mother and i am anxious. It is 7 00 oclock in the morning and she says oh no i said i am feeling anxious about tonight have to hope the National Book awards am calling you to see if you have advice for your child go she said that she always has been to make the call. Let me ask you something, son. What did i make you say every single night before you got into bed when you were little boy . I said i dont want to do this right now she said no dont know what did i. C. E. Make you say every night when you got into bed . I said you made me say i can do anything. Exactly you can do anything. You tell me this all the time on. But i never asked
And go. Back to the. Book back. To. The black live smash a movement a new migratory flows european colonialism has been center stage centuries of european imperialism still impacting on the modern world but this legacy is often completely missing from political discourse how deeply are western societies themselves rooted in colonial ism. What are the questions we need to be asking for anxious to respond. Images of people under colonial rule objectified by the white. More the few brushstrokes american artist roger carlo reinvents these photos and many others. She paints a way if you think sot of sizing white european view of the world and the way so many in the west see history. I work very fast i work very intuitively and i just let the images kind of come out and often what happens is that theres a kind of funny or violent. Pushback to the image. A nameless burmese girl with a taste for revenge. A woman in india we having claws for a superpower. So it seems islanders uniting in solida
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In washington. They are gathered together for the white house Correspondents Dinner. Without the president. Comedians getting in their own jabs as thousands of trump critics protest his stance on climate change. And festival fail. We have got new details on that luxury weekend in paraties that turned into a disaster. The events cofounder speaking out this morning. We took a big jump here and a big risk. And d1 has failed. Where hes putting the blame. And celebrity bella hadid is sharing her feelings on the Fyre Festival disaster. Good sunday morning, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. Overnight, we did see the split screen. On one side, the president marking his 100th day in office with a raucous rally in pennsylvania. The national media, dressed to the nines, partying at the annual white house Correspondents Dinner, a soiree the president decided to skip this year. More on that coming up. We wart to start with this. A powerful and deadly storm barrelling through the central p