Arianna we are very excited about the authors who will be speaking here. Started, please silence your cell phones. We are filming and recording today and we prefer not to have any interruptions. We sure to use a microphone at the end of the event to ask questions. If you have not purchased a book and would like to do so, they are available at the register. After the event is over, there will be a signing line to the right of this table here. If you have been here before, you know we ask everyone to fold up their chairs after the event. Here with us tonight is dr. Damaris hill. Dr. Hill is an accomplished explores the work digital humanities. She has written the fluid boundaries of suffrage and jim crow. Dr. Hill is an assistant professor of africanamerican studies at the university of kentucky but she is here to talk to us about her most recent work , a bound woman is a dangerous thing. Dr. Hill honors the lives and suffering of africanamerican women heroes throughout history while pro
Now on booktv, Pamela Newkirk, professor of journalism at New York University talks about the life of ota benga, a congolese dwarf was featured in antipolitics it did during the 1904 st. Louis world there. Two years later, the 103pound 411 ota benga was displayed in the bronx zoo monkey house with an orangutan. Now its my pleasure to introduce the next speaker, Pamela Newkirk is professor of journalism at direct of undergraduate studies at New York Universitys institute. Shes also the author of black journalists, white immediate which one an award and is the editor of letters for black america. Her many honors were published in numerous publications. Prior to joining nyu she worked at for news organizations including new york newsday which is on 18. Were so happy to have her here this evening so please help me in looking Pamela Newkirk. [applause] good evening everyone. Theres good like here. I wont have to were my classes. At such a pleasure to be here tonight, particularly to be here
Theyre not as good as the fouryear Public Institution degree but that theyre allowing people who are working without degrees to go back, often times in their 30s and get i think theres plenty of public in most places theres plenty of public options. I worked for free for the university of the people, that is essentially free. And just as good as the university of phoenix which is going to charge you a lot of money for exactly the same amount of educationsive convenience. I think the language that would work in america in american politics you hear the plate tall pundits is the fact that these are not this is not private enterprise. This is corporate welfare. Theyre getting the public really known cussing on the fact that theyre just hoovering up Public Resources theyre not really free theyre not really businesses that are standing in competition in the real economy. Theyre just these just like defense contractors with no bid. Theyre just something that are actually just like welfare su
The u. S. Information agency that was part of our show we say cold war apparatus . [laughter] and surveying postcolonial nations and keeping an eye on things so this is a benign side of the cia published topic magazine and Richard Tsongas was a photographer here taking a picture of james brown and legos nigeria in 1970. He has an expansive body of work and we have the entire collections of the images here are they meet the description of the show which is lesserknown images across the continent starting from pittsburgh to nigeria. Its a pretty the show. There also images of malcolm x for malcolm x for example or Elijah Mohammad as a rarely seen in terms of what people would find on a Google Search for example. Lets see that Elijah Mohammad photo down here. This is Elijah Mohammad at the end, correct . Right here, big as life and there is malcolm x. This is a 1961 shot in washington d. C. With a church of god figure. Debating the merits of islam. Host do you think we could have that deb
[inaudible conversations] on your screen now is a live picture of the Langston Hughes auditorium at the schomburg center. The home of the harlem book fair. The center for research and black culture part of the New York Public Library system is one of the leading institutions focusing on africanamerican life culture and experiences. Well be back live with the harlem book fair in just a few minutes. [inaudible conversations] what we often think as the bribery of our National Leaders by powerful special interests in washington may actually make more sense, understood as extortion by government officials both elected and unelected. Please elaborate. Guest i think sometimes that often times in fact the conventional wisdom is wrong and the conventional wisdom is you have good intentioned government officials who are being influenced or there are attachments to influence them by corporations corporations and public unyouens and if with could just seal off these Public Officials from outside i