Faulkner foundation Whose Mission is to promote the love of the written. The lecture is made possible by generous contributions from author down in memory of her mother, Aileen Wallace and her grandmother, aileen lampton wallace and also by the family of eudorawelty. In april 1983, eudora gave a series of lectures at Harvard University. The lectures were collected as a volume of essays entitled one writers beginnings. Published by the Harvard University press, one writers beginnings stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for almost a year. The essays detailed the inescapable bond between eudoras childhood and her later career as a writer. And after Early Experiences contributed to her distinctive literary voice, her novels include the robber bridesmaid. Which was adapted to the stage and a Tony Awardwinning musical in broadway. Delta wedding, losing battles. And the optimists daughter, for which she was awarded the pulitzer prize. Eudora is the master of the short story and her s
In hollywood award season is in fill bloom nominations for Academy Awards came out today, nominees you know, a lot of people didnt think i was going to make it, they were wrong. I am hosting the oscars again this year. [ cheers and applause ] and i have to say something. Im excited. I cant wait to see who accidentally wins best picture. Most went to water 13 nods, best picture, best director and Outstanding Achievement in fish penis design im glad shape of water got so many nominations finally hollywood is recognizing a monster other than harvey weinstein. I think thats great. [ cheers and applause ] members of the weinstein family here tonight . Is that what happened . There are a lot of familiar face as among the nominees, meryl streep nominated for 21st time. Denzel washington for his ninth oscar nomination, and im not even sure he was in a movie this year. Thats how good he was. For the first time a woman was nominated for best s cinematography. We have fifth africanamerican nomina
In hollywood award season is in fill bloom nominations for Academy Awards came out today, nominees you know, a lot of people didnt think i was going to make it, they were wrong. I am hosting the oscars again this year. [ cheers and applause ] and i have to say something. Im excited. I cant wait to see who accidentally wins best picture. Most went to water 13 nods, best picture, best director and Outstanding Achievement in fish penis design im glad shape of water got so many nominations finally hollywood is recognizing a monster other than harvey weinstein. I think thats great. [ cheers and applause ] members of the weinstein family here tonight . Is that what happened . There are a lot of familiar face as among the nominees, meryl streep nominated for 21st time. Denzel washington for his ninth oscar nomination, and im not even sure he was in a movie this year. Thats how good he was. For the first time a woman was nominated for best s cinematography. We have fifth africanamerican nomina
Theres very little room for the more than seven million residents. But there are plenty of buyers for luxury apartments a profitable business for real estate companies. Buying an apartment is barely affordable even for the middle class its long been the norm for them to spend half their income on rent or a mortgage. For many, hong kong is a housing nightmare. Because of her efforts to help, today shes visiting the home of 13yearold chak ming. Owners here have subdivided many of the apartments into minilodgings, known as shoeboxes. With just a parttime job and welfare, all this mother and child can afford are about twoandahalf square meters, with a bunk bed and a small table. The mother cries a lot, and wishes she could provide Something Better for her son. Our apartment should really be big enough so that my son and i can move around freely. Here, its so small that we can only enter the room one at a time. Reporter chak ming wont tell his classmates how he lives hes too ashamed. Most p
[applause] mayor coleman let me just say one quick thing about thurgood, how important he was to our country, for africanamericans, for those who wanted to go to law school africanamericans who wanted to go to law school, i was a part of that generation who looked up to him, believed in him, who was inspired by him. That i too someday could go to law school and i could someday become a lawyer. There is a whole generation of people just like me who have gone on to do that because of the bravery and the courage of Thurgood Marshall. So tonight, we are here gathered here this evening and i have view this really has the intersection of history and the future. What to i mean by that . The intersection of history and the future . Well, we are in Lincoln Theater. In this theater, this was the only place where black folks could come and get entertained in a theater because they couldnt go downtown. They would come right here. And this theater was nearly demolished. A wrecking ball almost tore