And the brooks still worth reading. Thank you for your time and good nights been a good afternoon. I want to welcome you on the half of humanity tennessee to the southern festival of books. I want to particularly thank our key sponsors, Metro National art commission, and chrome content, tennessee art commission, vanderbilt university. This session is entitled dreaming america. We have a panel of three authors and three books and our first we will read some, but im going to reduce the authors first. I will begin with amra sabicelrayess. She grew up in bosnia. After surviving ethnic cleansing and more than 1100 days under the serbs military siege she immigrated to the United States in 1986. By december, 1999, she earned a ba from Brown University and later obtained to master degrees in a doctorate from Columbia University currently, shes a compass a professor eric on the egg working on understanding how and why societies fall apart and what role education plays a rebuilding decimated cou
Then, Anthony Perrone should be charged. They say he was aggressive and restrained grant before he was shot in the back. He is the ultimate cause of this entire event. The Attorney Says that it is still possible for him to be charged with murder. Anthony was holding oscar down, physically, aggressively. Then stepped back and fired the fatal shot. He mistakenly pulled out his gun instead of his taser. He was charged with murder but convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Manslaughter, that statue of limitations has what . It is too late to charge him with manslaughter, let alone being an accessory to manslaughter. A jury in l. A. Determined it was not a murder case. They settled the family and friends of oscar grant years ago. If they already brought a civil suit, it is over. It is an election year, i think people are grandstanding a bit. Keith garcia as president of the police union. He too says the se is over. How can you make someone an accessory to lking to lawyers t represent us, th
Excited to announce the least best seller list. [cheering and applauding] number 88 on usa today so welcome. Thank you so much. Happy to be here we go. Can you hear me . Can you hear me . No. Sorry about that. That has never happened before. [laughter] its because the tv is here. You can hear me, right . Going to ask a question and i will hand the microphone over so im going to start fascinating workbook and a book and a great exploration of a topic that we are all interested to talk about work tonight but in this book, youre asking white people in the u. S. , like me, to confront the racism outright, you know its an uncomfortable process. Talk about the motive you used specifically to tackle this as a writer. Its interesting because ive been asked this question so many times now and i think if i had known before embarking on this during of doing this kind of work, if i had known what was going to be out of time, i might not necessarily have chosen it. The work i was doing before, i wa
I had had to shake his hand and for us it was very poignant last year my dads way when we often called morning to see he was a break to pass and my sister and her family and myself were able to feast with them. Im literally 0 goodbyes to them and as my sister and her family myself were talking we could see without breaching his hands at the same of us beds for our hero he raised in 4 people with her blue gloves on and it was a really great moment because touch was such a reassuring the increment and we werent there the whole my dads hand you know we were denied opportunity to be with him just in his final hours and when we think of the most vulnerable in our society you know our Elderly Population some places theres theres been cases where with people with disabilities and they dont have this embrace that will again and again with them and they are into these homes you cared for to be protected. And this is not happened it was found almost all of the residents and 29. 00 stars in the h
I thought how k. And joy in the Stream Research shows that exposure to reading material early in a childs life has both an immediate effect on the capillary general knowledge and comprehension skills. Studies have also shown that nonwhite children who see their own identities and experiences reflected have higher selfesteem better social emotional functioning and increased classroom engagement so then why is it that there is such a dearth of Childrens Books that include diverse characters with diverse attributes this info off summarizes well things are in the us and numbers are improving but hardly where they should be today may 3 autists with changing. As always as conversation is for you and our Community Growing up did you see book characters that reflected your life so many of you have already shared your thoughts and there is much to talk about so join our conversation live on you tube or message us at e. J. Stream or twitter on twitter or instagram thats what robin thomas did whe