You freedom fest, and and you will libertarian conference featuring several others. These panels will air on saturday and sunday. For complete scheduled visit booktv. Org. Afterwards veterans correspondent jay barbree talks about Neil Armstrong on the 45th anniversary of the moon landing. Then to des moines, iowa, literary sites and authors, you will see former wall street journal publisher Karen Elliott talking about saudi arabia from our college ceres ask pepperdine university. Former representative james rogan discusses his new book and actor danny glover is part of a panel on the black power movement. Of this and much more, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors on cspan2. Booktv, television for serious readers. Now on booktv, dayo olopade 11 talks about her book the bright continent breaking rules and making change in modern africa at the chicago printers fest. This is new and great ideas people in Subsaharan Africa are coming up with to deal with the global challenges they face
Street journal publisher karen elliot house talking about saudi arabia from our College Series at pepperdine university. Former u. S. Representative james rogan discusses his newest book, and actor danny be glover is part of a panel on the black power movement. 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors on cspan2. Booktv, television for serious readers. Ron capps, a combat veteran and founder of the veterans writing project, talks about his experiences in several different war zones and the damaging effect war has had on him. This is about an hour and ten minutes. [inaudible conversations] hi, folks. Welcome to the half king tonight. It is a to see so many of you all here a pleasure to see so many of you all here. We are absolutely thrilled to be welcoming mr. Ron capps here tonight. He has written just an incredible memoir, and id like to start by thanking Scott Manning of manning and associates, and the shatner press for having the wisdom to publish a wonderful and meaningful book. I t
If 2014 harlem book fair panel on multicultural book publishing. My name is weighed hudson and i am president and ceo of just us books, independent Childrens Book co. My wife cheryl and i started in 1988. We established just us books to addressing the needs to reflect our societys diversity. I will moderate the discussion but before we starts i would like to pay a little homage to a great writer we lost last week. Walter myers, winner of many of the awards for children and young adult literature produced a body of work that included more than 100 books for children and young adults. He often wrote about younger africanamericans who battled troubles in the streets, in school and at home, giving them a voice. Also a leading advocate for diversity in childrens literature. We will all miss his outstanding and wonderful writer and human being. Those interested in recognizing walter by making a donation may do so by contributing 2 two of his favorite causes, the Children Defense Fund and a l
Internal tough and tumble journalistic warfare. Garvey announced his intention of invading chicago. He rented the eighth regiment armory in a building that still exists. Garvey got on the platform and denounced abbott more vigorously than before. At the close of the meeting he was arrested for selling stock in the black star steamship line in violation of the illinois. Sky law, stock certificates and shares and later claimed the arrest had been engineered by abbott who he said had arranged to have a detective in the guise of a prospect of investor and insist on purchasing stock from the leader of the un i a to intimidate him. Gobby departed from the city never to return. His one and only trip to chicago. Lastly, therefore, final cultural chapters to the book. Is okay to read ahead. These the best chapters in the book. Chapters on literature, theater, music and one called rhythm, the black jazz and blues. This one, who wrote two of the four cultural chapters outlined the old days of the
Place. Id start with that and then find out why you cant get on public wifi in this building. Thank you. I want to thank professor hendricks and marc lamont hill, importantly want to thank all of you for attending here today your participation is then cached in a 10 fantastic manner. Thank you so much. If you want to get a copy of these discussions, there will be books outside a little bit later. So that is available and also very quickly we will be doing this in the book signing room. And so finally the reading series is in the auditorium next door in the Edison Jackson and they will go to the front desk and it lets you now. You can get your book signed. Next from the National Black writers conference, in brooklyn, a panel on black literature. [inaudible conversations] without further delay, ladies and a woman, brothers and sisters, those of you who are standing and not idle, those of you engaged in great conversations, please Pay Attention and welcome our panel and the moderator will