Up to the War Memorial Auditorium upstairs and the book signing, i encourage you to continue discussion with both authors once you get there so we will get started. Patrick phillips is an associate professor of english and a poet as well, previous book he produced, eulogy for a broken mechanic was a National Book award finalist. Todays book we are talking about is blood at the root a racial cleansing in america. Please welcome patrick phillips. Thank you so much. For the southern festival of books, thank you for coming. This will con turn into a conversation, questions and comments but a little bit about the book blood at the root a racial cleansing in america and how i came to write it and a little about the story. The book began with the conversation in a taxicab ten years ago when my friend who some people may know, poet laureate of the us but at the time she was not yet. Ten years ago we were at a professional conference and natosha and i were old friends but one night she decided
Next 75 years. Good evening i have the president here at the center here welcoming professor and off 39 raised given Forsyth County a National Endowment for the arts and a recipient of the american scandinavian prize for the translation the poetry collection was a finalist for the National Book award. Even though were in the presence tonight discussing the book of nonfiction blood at the root a racial cleansing in america this tells a disturbing story of racial violence in the neighboring Forsyth County. Retells the story fetid is a much larger than Forsyth County to do significant work to tell people who have been erased from the historical record. Im excited to welcome a georgette native palms and after tonight the second most famous figure. [laughter] patrick phillips. [applause]. Thanks for coming everybody and for that introduction also for inviting me end ball coming me to the center. I will talk about my book called the blood at the root talks about racial cleansing of Forsyth C
Question none of what happened in the trial would happen today. It does matter that question and this is the originating moment. This is the originating thing of 100 years really of injustice. Thank you all so much for listening. [applause] anyone to read a book as prose is 25 off and he will sign it for you right now. Think so much for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] that was Patrick Phillips with blood at the root that i will tell you a little bit about how we at Publishers Weekly choose their list of best books each year. There are eight of us in the reviews department and at the end of the year a pool of freelancers who do the reviews asked them what they think are the best books and in the course via we read as many of them as we can ourselves. One that i personally have read and really enjoyed as a textbook by ed yong i contain multitudes which is about the largely unexplored world of the microbiome. [inaudible conversations] thank you all f
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On tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff americans have spent this day honoring the life and legacy of dr. Martin luther king, junior. It comes amid an open conflict between another iconic civil rights figure, and the nations new leader. President elect trump marked the king holiday by inviting the civil rights leaders son to his new york tower. Martin luther king iii called it a very constructive meeting, and quoted the president elect saying he wants to reach out to all americans supports i believe that thats his intent. But i think also that we have to consistently engage with pressure. Public pressure. It doesnt happen automatically. My father and his team