[applause] [applause] [cheering] i dont want you to be intimidated, but i practiced these jazz hands for ten minutes backstage. Thats not actually a joke and that is the scary thing about it. Good evening and welcome to the 2018 pen america literary awards. Thank you for being here. [applause] honestly im thrilled to be here, very honored to celebrate the mission to protect Free Expression everywhere. Yes you should clap for Free Expression. It is honestly a weird time to be protecting Free Expression. I know that you are thinking but sally it is so obviously not under threat right now. [laughter] certainly not here in the United States of america. I mean, obviously free speech is so free, we have fake speech now. Seriously, i am honored to be here. It is such a big deal. There are so many incredible and important authors that grace us with their words and ideas this year, brilliant visionary inspired writers and of course im talking about ivanka. [laughter] the jokes dont get any bett
Input those blogs on her website up until last year. The mighty goods who brought this book to market and submitted to turn paired to sigrid brown who continued to attend and to the judges at 10 for selecting her for this award. Thank you. [applause] there was than a day, but i always found laws. Each are judged from farflung land to find evil queens. A wildness that falling in love could unleash. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage pulitzer prizewinning writer. [applause] gregory pardon my. Dreadful day. When the world shall pass away so the priests of the showman saying. What on class and show the firm be sharp though, wounded knee, to what judgment meekly led show then gather trumpeted by Louis Armstrong from the dead, life and death shall hear be rising from their moist internment wasting all their flags before them poison rocket bomb, nations of the earth shall calm and his record page on page for every building he shall scan indicates age sentences a righ
Years and theyre strong and they kind of stick with us, no matter what we do, as you have seen you go outside this museum and you travel around northwest arkansas, theres fortune 500 companies, theyre a Major Research university, theres all kinds of businesses and industry and hightech stuff going on out there but those images, those stereotypes, will theyll stick with us and theyre kind of theyre part of our story. We begin our tour of the local Literary Community with a visit to the university of Arkansas Library. To learn more about the life and accomplishmented of jay William Fulbright. James William Fulbright was a longtime senator serving arkansas from 1944 until 1974. 30 years. Before that he was a representativea u. S. Representative from the north arkansas area. He was president of the university of arkansas, the Youngest University president in the United States at the time. From 1939 to 1941 and worked for the department of justice, rhodes karl, a distinguish el alum of the
07 taking it forward around the region, expect to see temperatures low 80s down the shore with a shower or thunderstorm thunderstorms also in the forecast today for philly, and and you know pretty much everywhere that you go that you will be finding that. With the steamy necessary mugginess, with the storm testifily casino of unsettled mid week. But i have got much better news to wrap up our work week which we will go to as the show goes on, over to you. Thank you so much. Good morning everyone, traveling right now 95, you will notice few more headlights in the southbound direction. Heading out of the northeast rounding the curve here right around cottman avenue, really say say curve but more like the Construction Zone narrowing out there, that starts to kick off the rush hour. Not seeing rush hour just yet but another handful of cars now, now on the roadway northbound 95, still looking great out there. And it is really not only as you make your way out of center city head in the towar
Nuclear zeal with iran, and 70 years ago, the u. S. Dropped an atomic bomb on hiroshima. As the world ribs. Ask we begin with a look back at a tumultuous year with ferguson, missouri. The day that marks a year since the unarmed teen was shot and killed by Darren Wilson. It led to a Department Investigation and several regular nations, shining a spotlight on the Africanamerican Community and the Police Officers. For michaels death in 2014, the wounds are still raw and deep. In an exclusive interview with aljazeera, his mother discussed her sons death and the events that followed. And she shared her thoughts on the man who killed her son. I think that i had to be at work at 7 30, 7 00, so i went to work. August 9th began like any other workday for leslie. By lunchtime her life would change forever. Around noon, she received the first of two merr phonecalls. When he called, he didnt tell me that it was my son, he said that something happened to somebody, and they were lying in the street.