This is about one hour welcome to the fifth annual book festival at the department of archives this panel is titled American History, renegades and is sponsored by the Mississippi Library commission. Tracy carr was with the Library Commission was in the room for the very first organizational meeting of the festival. We couldnt do this without the Mississippi Library commission or the libraries from all over the state to thank you very much for your support. And we are in the room today courtesy of the law firm and our gratitude goes to them. Our panelists you can purchase copies of their books from vendors outside and find the times are authors will be signing in the program. We will hear from our panelists for about 40 minutes and then open up the floor to questions please come to the podium in the center of the room to ask yourse questions. Now help me welcome our moderator for the panel director of the Mississippi Department of archives and history. [applause] im going to tell you a
Takes you behind the scenes of the Nonfiction Book Publishing Industry with insider interviews. Find all the podcasts by downloading the free app wherever you get your podcast and on the website. Im happy to welcome those of you that have made it in person as well as those joining online. We have a Great Program this evening. One of the most notorious pirates. Secretly aided and abetted her husband fighting alongside him and accusers and more remarkably still went on to live a successful and productive liferk as one of the most predominant. Telling the story is historian, journalist and author. She holds a doctoraten and masters as well as a masters in Business Administration from George Washington university. She spent the last 15 years conducting research on pilots and their wives and archives, washington, new york, rhode island and massachusetts from the Massachusetts Historical Society anyone who might be joining us forst the first time. We have been collecting and preserving and m
you know what it is time for? lessons in diversity hi, and welcome to lessons in diversity. i am your host mary lou breton. this is what she looks like. and in a perfect world, diversity would be awesome. who does not want to work with the different people? as opposed to this. [laughter] there is nothing more boring and on the same, and i should know. [laughter] i love different phases in different races all comingling in a melting pot i call greg s hot tub of the quality. but today s diversity seems to be only about looks and ideas, which is not how you make something funny unless you look like this. [laughter] it s a cheap shot, but see. there is a downside to diversity once you put it over other variables like talent or skill and poor hygiene. what if you find someone that is funnier than someone else, but that person is not black or female or lgbtq asap byob lol. the problem with diversity hiring as you may end up with something or someone like this. [laughter] yeah,
greg: feds are hot. imagine if they did this to hillary s closet. what do you think they would find there? true. she s killed more people than alec baldwin. oh, stop it. of course, the new angle for the media is the president raids his opponent s home but it s the republicans who pounce. so it s now you who s the threat. forget people trying to kill supreme court justices or killing cops, they forget the culprit to their fancy stereotypes which often look like this. that s actually, that s not photo shopped tyrus. until they face possibilities of violence based on words of everyday people reacting to a news event that takes up their lives, arresting them for thought crimes can t be far behind which is something that s literally impossible for our president to be charged with. but remember to them words are the same as violence. meanwhile real violence burning down a couple city blocks is something you had coming. calls of nbc actually combed through pro trump message boa
Ben, thank you very much. The top stories tonight. Around 12,000 households remain without electricity in ireland this evening. Thats after storm kathleen swept across the island and other parts of the country. Today its brought strong winds, resulting in the cancellation of dozens of flights. Gusts of up dozens of flights. Gusts of up to 70mph have been felt in Northern Ireland and the west of britain. Over 140 flights have also been called off. Meanwhile, two planes on the runway at Heathrow Airport have collided, causing damage to their wings. Footage shows a Virgin Atlantic planes wing touching a British Airways aircraft surrounded by emergency services. The virgin boeing 787 nine plane had completed a flight and was being towed to a different part of the airfield. Its understood there were no passengers on board at the time of the incident. Were no passengers on board at the time of the incident. Rail passengers have been facing fresh travel disruption today as train drivers have