In 2013, we moved into the space that we are in now. Midtown detroit. How far from the downtown area are you, in detroit. Eight or 9 miles. Downtown is one district, as they are saying now, in detroit. The next district after that. Years ago, new center was created, and another part of the city. That is another five or 7 miles up beyond us. We are really right in the heart of the cultural life of the city with the university, library, main library, wayne state university, the Health Centers in a lot of galleys and africanamerican museums, historical museums. We are in a wonderful, cultural rich area of the city. Really, the heart of the city. A couple blocks off woodward avenue. I mention the little train that goes up and down the road. 1 mile. Not 1 mile, one block. You turn left and you are right with it. [laughter] allison, what has the last month been like for you . We have to get used to having our doors shut because of the covid19 situation. We had to go into the very unfamiliar
South of tulsa about 60 miles south. My father and mother moved there about 1911 or 12 because he had had experiences in shreveport, louisiana. These are as red experiences that were not present. He was ready to give up on the white people because the way they treated him. He had been thrown out of court in shreveport, louisiana. So he retreated from shreveport and where he was practicing and went to an allblack town. Due to the humiliation he experienced in shreveport. They moved to in about 1912. What was that experience like . It was not all that much better because although the strife that was going on separated the methodist from the baptists and the baptists were hard on my mother and father because they were methodist. And the result was, the strife was not racial, but religions. Not at all convenient or comfortable. I was born there. They lived there for several years after i was born. But they were not happy there. Not nearly because of the hostility but because it was such a
Governments around the world. Her book is the information trade. Hi, everybody. Thank you for coming. I am the editor of the outlook section of the Washington Post which is our home for ideas and essays and criticism including Nonfiction Book coverage, and im very lucky and you are very lucky to be here tonight with alexis wichowski, who is the author of the information trade, how big tech conquerors, challenges rights and transforms the world. Can you hear me without the microphone . No. Okay. Can you hear me with the microphone . Also, know in the back. Yeah. Alexis wichowski is the deputy y cto of new york city where she runs basically the policy Experiment Lab trying to get the others to compete for who can devise the best programs to improve the social warfare of the citizens of new york. Shes an adjunct professor of the communications of Columbia University and spent a couple of decades studying the issues then as a member of the staff in the un mission, state department, and als
Readers. Good evening, welcome to murmur. I am stephanie valdes, coowner of humidity bookstore and m b, its also a hardcore indie bookstore crowd. Tonight were thrilled to welcome Rebecca Solnit on the publication date of her new book recollections of my nonexistence. She will be in conversation with Leslie Jamison area is no that there will not be assigning tonight after the event but Rebecca Solnit did arrive early to sign each and every one ofyour books. So Rebecca Solnit is the author of 20 books including a field guide to getting lost, the faraway nearby, a paradise built in hell, river shadows and wanderlust. A history of walking. She is also the author of essays on feminism, activism and social change, hope and also the climate crisis. A product of the California Public Education System in kindergarten to graduate school shes a regular contributor to the guardian. Leslie jamison is the author of the New York Times that sellers recovering and the empathy exam and the novel gin cl
We just have taken whatever fever dream of a Technology People had in the 1960s and said right, were going to take that in our current pocket. Its never how technological change works. Very often its how we think about it. As we see our lives the way we behave, the way we interact with people at political institutions,our organizations , the office, we see that and we imagine what technology does is it just drops in and it replaces one little bit of what we do and nothing else changes. This is similar to theblade runner problem we have. You have artificial humans and yet people are still making calls from payphones. So we always or almost always adapt to take advantage of the new technology and the adaptation process is not always pleasant but it always happens. Its usually necessary and we prove to be very adaptable and contorting ourselves to make the Technology Work for us or being contorted because you work for an organization, you have to do what the boss of the Organization Says