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One of these National Book festival presents . Good. Keep coming back, we like you. Thank you so much. [laughter] well, welcome to the library of congress National Book festival presents, a vibrant new series of programs inspired by the National Book festival and meant to bring you into the heart of this historic, dynamic institution, the library of congress, your national library. This is a brand new effort through which we hope to spark conversations, engage, inspire and entertain you with some of the most diverse, provocative and notable writers of the day. In every program that we put before you, say from the childrens writer dave pilke to a conversation with the haitianamerican wonderful literary novelist [inaudible] to the program youve come to hear tonight, we mean to connect the works of living writers to a larger history, a deeper understanding. We delight in making those connections for you, and we delight in provoking the kind of exchanges that make all of us more informed a
Taken place throughout the course of the countrys history what were seeing right now at the moment are people still continuing to arrive forming a protest where there are thousands of people would not tens of thousands of people despite today being a National Holiday a day of the people still coming out to demonstrate 2 against a number of different grievances people are saying that theyre angry over the wages over over other people access to health care and education over a growing inequality in the country and as the demands of protesters have evolved over time were now hearing calls for the resignation of the countrys president but even deeper than that people tell us that they want systemic change calling for a Constitutional Convention the drafting of a new constitution for the country so again what were seeing now despite the state protests mostly peaceful protests of thousands of people we are unfortunately once again seeing the Security Forces police using tear gas and Water Ca
Going to this group brothers to brothers a few times now and i will be coming back and going back. When i asked them if they would like to have a representative from mosaic on the program, you most unanimously recommended reginald liles. Welcome. Thank you for having me thank u taking the time to be here. One of the things before we get to brothers to brothers, i always like my audience to know who you are, some of your background and some of your history. Show me your experiences. I was raised in north oakland. I lived in other places in the city of oakland. And member of Temple Baptist church. I have been there for 40. I was a chairman. A deacon. A servant, believer. I teach class nine, sunday school class nine. It is an adult class. 3540 people attend every sunday. Interesting. Make the woour context as our understanding. And i teach Old Testament one and two with the leadership institute. Institute. , seminarian undergraduate. Graduate of San Francisco state. High school at oakland
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