Good evening everyone and thank you so much for joining us. My name is bennett and im a bookseller and Events Coordinator and im going to be your host tonight for literati featuring myles harvey. Lets get underway and i want to extend a thank you for your support of ourVirtual Events programming. We feel lucky that were able to continue to offer Virtual Events and we wouldnt be able to do that and hear about the king of confidence if it wasnt for you all showing up so thank you for doing that. Id like to quickly go over our policy for tonights event. We ask you keep your a video feed disabled throughout the duration of the that event and if you dont we will disable it for you and if you enable it a second time we will have toreview you from the event we appreciate your cooperation. I just wanted to briefly go over our plan for tonight, a reading by both miles and after myles reads from the king of confidence which was published this last tuesday and donovan reads from his book publishe
Our restaurant is so small, it used to be filled in there, but it was cozy. So, you know, the tables were too close to try to go in there and space it out. Outside here we have the tables, the chairs six to seven feet apart from each other. Reporter retail stores, indoor malls, libraries and offices can now open at full capacity. But with the holidays around the corner and people wanting to gather, San Mateo County supervisor david can he pa wants everyone to not let up. We need are he main vigilant. We need to make sure that people wear their damn mask. We need to make sure that people are socially distant. Reporter in the next tier down from orange is yellow. At this point the only place in that category is San Francisco. Reporting live in redwood city, anoushah rasta, nbc bay area news. Thanks, anoushah. High schools across Alameda County got the green light to open their doors to students. It can begin november 9th. The schools need to come up with a covid19 health and safety plan.
Twhar the deadlines . We clear up confusion to make sure your vote counts. Outrage involving Silicon Valleys Largest Chamber of commerce. Some are calling them racist. This photo and the caption do you really want to sign on to this was posted on the homepage of the Silicon Valley organizations website and part of a Facebook Ad Campaign attacking a City Council Candidate that supports defund the police. But it struck a nerve for many people. I was disgusted, disappointed and angered immediately. The Controversial Photo is not in san jose. It is unclear where it was taken. Words and images are powerful. The last thing that i want is for people to be deceived thinking low income families will hurt them or that black people are dangerous. The Silicon Valley naacp called for the dismissal of the president. The entire staff page has been removed. The executive committee has issued an apology. We are horrified by the images. During an afternoon event at city hall, they called on candidates t
Claims he could have died from his own covid infection. Not yet confirming that he is negative tor the virus. And casing spike in parts of northeast and 11 states in the middle of the country see record rates of infection and. And one of the oldest state fairs is maintaining the tradition while keeping patrons today. But we begin with todays eye opener. Youre world in 90 seconds. It is a Tropical Storm so it continues to elongate and it weakens but still the threat of rain, still the threat of storm surge. Hurricane delta roared ashore friday evening at category 2. Now it is weakened to a Tropical Storm. I think the story becomes how active it has been in the gulf of mexico this year. Despite the arrest of 13 man charged with planning to kidnap her, givenen whitmer said the threats against her havent stopped. I feel very good, i feel strong. President trump stopped taking coronavirus related medications midday on friday. I havent even found out numbers or anything yet but ive been rete
Questions via zoom. When i was a kid growing up or 12 years old or so, i went to a flea market. There were people there selling objects. It,rchased it, and i broke and it was not a philosophical thing. I just did not like the object. I do not remember the second object or the word or the fourth, but i started collecting , and basically i have been collecting for several decades. I did not start out with the anticipation of creating a museum. Becoming not just a collection as teaching tools, i happened much later. Not everyone where you grew up was collecting these items. What was it that me to keep doing it . What was it that made you keep doing it . I dont know. I have been thinking about that a lot. My ancestry, there are people from the bahamas, from trinidad, spain, Indigenous People of this country. I was a multiracial, black identify person in the jim crowh a time when was not as strong as it has been, but there was more of a presence. Historically black my schools, my high schoo