Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It is an honor to welcome everyone to the 71st National Book awards. I am Jason Reynolds coming to you live from washington dc go this is overnight but there is so much going on in the world this is our night and it is a big deal. It is so much of a big deal i woke up this morning anxious and nervous as usual. I always, mother and i am anxious. It is 7 00 oclock in the morning and she says oh no i said i am feeling anxious about tonight have to hope the National Book awards am calling you to see if you have advice for your child go she said that she always has been to make the call. Let me ask you something, son. What did i make you say every single night before you got into bed when you were little boy . I said i dont want to do this right now she said no dont know what did i. C. E. Make you say every night when you got into bed . I said you made me say i can do anything. Exactly you can do anything. You tell me this all the time on. But i never asked
Cspan. Org thepresident s to learn about each president and historian featured in order your copy today wherever books and ebooks are sold. Jaquira diaz is with us courtesy of david and noel ray and roseline rocks berg. She was born in puerto rico. Her work has been published in rolling stone, the guardian, and the New York Times style magazine. And included in the best american essays 2016. She is the recipient of two pushcart prizes and Elizabeth George Foundation Grant and fellowships from the kenyon review and the Wisconsin Institute for creative writing. She lives in miami beach with her partner writer lars thorne. Please give a warm savanna welcome to jaquira diaz. [applause] thank you so much. Im so happy to be here, wonderful to see all you booklovers here, thank you savanna for your southern hospitality. I want to thank the savanna book festival and everyone who made this event hospital including sponsors, booksellers. Lets give it up for the indy booksellers in the room. I lo
Her partner please give a warm savanna welcome to jacquira diaz. Thank you so much. I am so happy to be here and its wonderful to see all of you book lovers here. And thank you savanna for your southern hospitality. I also want to thank the savanna book festival and everyone who made this event possible lets give it up to the indie booksellers in the room. I love you all. Thank you for all that you do for loving books and championing writers. Because of you im here. Thank you. I want to open with a just the just a little piece that opens the book it functions like we were the girls who strolled onto the blacktop. Going towards the boards letting the world spin. The wind in our hair. We were the loud moms and the troublemakers. We were at the party girls. Hitting the clubs in height top jordans. We where the wild girls who loved music and dancing. Girls who were black and brown and poor and queer girls who love each other. I had been those girls on a greyhound bus. Homeless and on the r
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Cara way, a young volunteer, with access to the kids, despite bizarre behavior. To be in around the school, in and out. That was a concern. Reporter and how about the damage . Done to this community. A lot of damage. Because now, people are questioning. All my kids really think so. That family has two kids up to the age of 11, that have contact with caraway at and to the choir. Cara way, when the judge specifically asked him in his guilty plea, are those facts that the prosecutor read true . A long pause, his lawyer waved at him, and finally, he simply said, yes, maam. He complained his legal representation could have been better in this case. And he also ritalin and medication for depression. He popped a pill before this hearing. And, of course, the children in this case have much greater challenges ahead of them than he does. Reporting live, wusa 9 am. And those children are going to need a lot of support. Them and their families. Thank you. A plea agreement reached today means that