Announcements to make. My name is danny kane and the owner of the bookstore where im sitting right now. Im the director of the paper plane area festival. We appreciate you being here with us today. It would be perhaps more fun if we were all together on a beautiful sunny day but we appreciate this regardless and plan to be back and stronger than ever in 2021. We had a great series of Online Events they are all archived and available for replay. A couple other things about how this is going to work. Marie is going to give a short author talk and show photos about her book then we will open it up to questions. You can ask questions by clicking that ask a question button at the bottom of your screen or typing into the chat window at the right hand side of your screen. We appreciate you asking questions to keep the discussion moving and we want this to be participatory event as much as we can another thing to note at the bottom of the screen is says by american harvest will take you throug
Crime in communities. Reporter Minnesota City council announced they planned to defund their police force following the killing of george floyd, explaining defunding is a reallocation of funds from police to other forms of police safety. At this black lives matter rally pin san jose, theyre calling fr reforms but not quick to take a stand on defunding police. We need a dialogue on reformative change. Reporter the mayor is expected to announce his budget tonight, aware that his community is looking for change. Its critical for us to respond with action for reform. Reporter in san jose, chris reyes, for abc7 news. Chris touched briefly on what it really means to say defund the police. Lets get into that a little deeper. Heres an explanation. Reporter its something were hearing about right now as we talk about solutions for ending police brutality. Defunding the police. Its not a new idea, but sit new to a lot of people just learning about it. So what does it mean . The answer really depe
Partnerships with the Historical Society. I like to give a special welcome for anyone attending a virtual one for the first time. Im sure there are some joining us for the first time. If youre not familiar with us, we are the oldest Historical Society in america. Hundred and 7091 as an independent nonprofit institution, dedicated to collecting and publishing in staring her history or 229 years. These days, we are taking to hosting Virtual Events and Online Events planned every week through june. Our Program Next Week and friday at 2 00 p. M. And a virtual tour in the philly programs. This years anniversary so we hope you will be able to join us on the property find Additional Details on our website. Today we have a great program, we are joined by abram from an associate professor of english at Washington University in st. Louis. Phd from northwestern university. His published widely on literature, possibly focusing especially on American Culture. Hell be talking about his new book, ame
Rest of the day. And no one cspan2 book tv, more television for serious readers. Host good evening virtual audience. On behalf of of Harvard Book Store, i am so pleased to introduce this new book the system by robert reich. Harvad book store brings our new Digital Community in this unprecedented time to you. Every week we will be hosting events. And they will also appear on our website on harbor. Com. You can sign up for a newsletter. You can check out on bookshelves. This evening, we will have time for your questions. If you have a question and any time, select the question button at the bottom of the screen. Also at the bottom of the screen during this presentation, we will see a button featured books the system with our partner bookshops. All sales go towards the purchases and contributions are donated also at the bottom of the screen. And now more than ever, they support the future of landmark independent bookstore. Thank you for tuning in and support of our authors. And the staff
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