Viewing on cspan which has been a supporter from the first year. We appreciate them very much, im with goodwin with the Mississippi Department of archives, if youve not already done so please silence your cell phones. Our panel this morning isa spotlight on mississippi civil rights. We thank bradley both cummings from sponsoring it, theyve also been withthe w book festival since the beginning, where grateful for that early support and for their sticking with us. We are in this room today, thanks to foreman watkins law efirm. We appreciate their support. Our panelists are Natalie Adams, Michelle Purdy and hezekiah watkins. Purchase copies of their books from vendors outside and you can find the times our authors will be signing in your programs. We will hear from our panelists forabout 40 minutes, and open the floor to questions. Please come to the podium in the center of the room to ask your questions. Be carefulof the ramp, dont trip. Now let me welcome our moderator, pamela said dc j
Welcome to the 2019 mississippi book festival. This morning we celebrate the fifth anniversary of her literary long party. [applause] we are honored to have so many distinguished authors and friends join our celebration from the Mississippi State capital. Today more than 170 authors will visit with thousands of booklovers making connections through the love of books and the written word. Cspan has been with us since the very beginning and we are grateful for the partnership we start today by recognizing the readers to mississippi culturally a landscape. The writers trail is an ever list the places all over the state that mark significant places in the lives of mississippi authors. Ida b wells and richard ford are the very best writers. Two is famous for Investigative Journalism. And ford is famous for his novels. The hardhitting pieces about lynching of the 20th century achieve such notoriety that was known by some as the most famous black woman in america. Her marker will be placed in
The Halftime Report starts right now. It is great to be with you on this thursday our Investment Committee today, joe terranova, steve weiss, jon najarian so the question here is what do you do with netflix. Is it a preview of what is to come in the coming year when netflix faces more competition doc . Well, it is interesting, mel, that their Pricing Power we all at least many of us, i was one of them, thought that he had that Pricing Power, that disney offering even though it is not, of course, fully rolled out at all, that disney offering is i think perhaps causing some folks that, and the lack of programming which they cited on the call last night. They didnt say lack of programming. They didnt say it that way. A weak slate of programming. A weak slate, thats very thats the best possible way to say it but, you know, now theyre getting back Stranger Things and a bump of the popular as well as, of course, the crown, the second versions of that are coming on to netflix those are all dr
Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said the elderly Aberdeen couple shot to death at their Roseland Road home on Friday were âpillars of our community.â
âThey were both widely known and loved,â Fields said of D.P. and Mary Lou Black. âTheir deaths have been a tremendous loss for us all.â
D.P. Black, 91, owned Blackâs Paving and Construction, a business he and his wife ran together for more than 50 years. Pam Dowd, who worked for D.P. Black in the 1980s, said her former boss would âgive you the shirt off his back.â
âIf you needed a job, heâd give you a job,â she said. âAnd if he didnât have any jobs available, heâd get you to wash his truck or do yard work at his house just so youâd have some money in your pocket. He was always helping people.â