My honor the convene this plenary, and when we were planning the conference, we always liked to bring our heavy hitters out. And i think that today is one of those occasions, in which we have a collection of fine scholars and activists here to address the theme. So what we are, and what we have decided to do is to run the plenary more as a round table, and the moderated conversation about the issues with the great migration, and i wanted to introduce our panelists, and give them an opportunity to speak for a few minutes as far as their own work and perceptions and ideas about the great migration, and then move on to the question and answer followed by a discussion with us, and followed by a question and answer session with the audience. So i wanted to introduce our panelists. The first panelist is joe trotter who is a giant history professor and prior with the Carnegie Mellon center in pittsburgh, and previously the president of the africanamerican studies in the urban life and economy
With the current field of candidates. If you say yes you are satisfied, tell us why at 202848800. You can text us your opinion. All we ask is that you include your city, name, and state. Our twitter feed cspanwj and our facebook facebook. Com c span. Ll to thiso question, some comments this morning, one from erin saying, how about dropping everyone, but Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren . Someone else on facebook saying, yes. Im trying to figure out what the deal is with tulsa gabbard. They are fine and capable folks. James davis from facebook, Michael Bloomberg was not my choice but i can support him now. He seems more realistic and sane. Michael bloomberg and norfolk, virginia with a start to his campaign. Asing that he chose norfolk the first stop because the region is a case study for political change. Southeast virginia proves that with the right candidate, we can turn areas from red to blue, he said. Bloomberg also said he would make a gun violence a major focus of his campaign
Host guy snodgrass is the author of holding the line. The about your role at pentagon specifically under jim mattis. Guest i was the chief speechwriter for secretary mattis. Speechn charge of operations, writing memos and letters to world leaders. I was also his director of communications. That started to elevate that role to the communications and messaging coordination with the white house, state department and international organizations. Host did you know secretary mattis before you got the job . Guest i had met him once very , i had beenically interviewing for my first speechwriter job. For 20 years i was in f18 fighter pilot. Maybe a year to two years of a break. I was interviewing for my first speechwriter role. Here comes secretary mattis. Had a chance to meet him very briefly. Get the job . You host i was contacted. Forere stationed overseas two and a half years. When we moved back to the United States we had just taken a job in norfolk, virginia. I got a call saying my servic
Plannerry. I think when we were planning the conference, we always like to bring our heavy hitters out. And i think today is one of those occasions in which we have a collection of fine scholars and activists here to address our theme. So what we decided to do is run the plannerry more as a roundtable, as a moderated conversation about issue with the great migration. And i wanted to introduce our panelists and give them an opportunity to speak for a few minutes as far as their own work and their perceptions and ideas about the great migration and then move on into a question and answer followed by a discussion with us and followed by a question answer session with the audience. So i want to introduce our panelists. Our first pannestist is joe trotter who is a giant eagle professor of history in social justice and past History Department chair at cornegy university in pittsburgh. He is also the director and founder of the cornegy center for africanamerican urban studies in economy. Hes
Lets welcome him on the stage. [applause] good evening. Thank you for being here, we are very excited at the conversation you are about to see. Not just because its on other celebration or successful book fair that miamidade book fair put on every year but its rare to have professionals with the type of firsthand knowledge that they bring to this discussion shared with you and have the opportunity to engage. Rest assured theres going to be an opportunity for all of you to ask questions of our panelists but we thank you for being here and with that, let me introduce the first of our authors this evening. Josh campbell is a correspondent for cnn and prior to joining the network, he did a very distinguished tenure at the federal bureau of investigation where he served as a special assistant fbi director james comey, hes worked with former special counsel on fbi director robert malik and hes the author of the brandnew book, crossfire hurricane inside Donald Trumps work on the fbi, lets giv