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Fact he was talking to him every day about your slip the 14th amendment is supposed to mean. That may not have worked out so well rather than convincing. But i think the Supreme Court often does not go with what we might consider the correct interpretation of a particular provision. They have their own way of doing things and that is part of the reason. The other thing to say is that support for the kind of things that they know most interested in, fundamental rights fundamentally in the years following the civil war. Once you got out about ten years after the end of the war, there was much less public sentiment for doing these things because it was hard and people wanted to move onto othe on to other subjn some way that had an impact on the way the Supreme Court viewed these questions and it wasnt until the 1960s that you saw the second reconstruction red by Martin Luther king, kind of the vindication of him other things he was trying to do. Some judges who say they believe in the ori
But the book is tentatively titled little is the new big, or why little is the new big. And its about what weve been talking about with Community Shops and the explosive growth of farmers markets, the explosive growth of independent bookstores and people looking to reclaim their own lives and, you know, no harm to them, the people who work in walmart are nice people, but to stay out of walmart, to stay out of the ways in which walmart and other very, very Large Businesses do business that the costs are hidden. The shortterm cheapness is paying a longterm, is taking a longterm price out of us and out of our childrens futures. Be so im working on a book about that. Well, my husband was born in a ham let in southwest virginia which one . Darwin, virginia, which we found recently had more or less disappeared from the map. But when he was six months also, his parents moved to puff frees borrow murfreesboro which was like moving to new york city. He had not been back until two years ago we w
Preparation for the opening of these museums or, excuse me, for these restaurants the original neon sign for mintons mayhouse was taken off and given to the play mouths was taken off and given to the yet to be opened africanamerican museum at the smithsonian. And i would just like to ask both of you if you really seriously think that harlem can avoid becoming a praise where the schomburg a place where the schomburg is sort of like a synagogue in china town. [laughter] real. Yeah, thats very real. Michael, ive heard you express that before, and i think its absolutely something anyone who cares needs to have their eye trained on. I also think as long as there are black people in the streets of harlem and im just hike, even as i say that, all these encounters i overhear and pass through and cross through in the most amazing poetic ways, like that is its own space making. And i have my own inner debate about, you know, i had a conversation with a friend about the we were looking at the ren
Inspired all the time either work of these young scholars. A day that farah came to speak to our class, the work were studying was pain, which is already one of my favorite books. It was so moving because i realized while she was giving us this wonderful guidance, the first time id been taught literature by a black person, besides my mother who was of course my first instruction in reading and writing but its one of those moments that if you like should be marked and i want to extend my gratitude for that, and you continue to inspire me. Thank you so much. Thats the great joys of teaching, you dont know who is sitting out there in terms of this extraordinarily talented young writer who i would read it many years later without knowing that she was one of the students in the class. So its really lovely to think it also for being here tonight. I wanted to ask farah to share with us the introduction of harlem nocturne. Is really a beautiful way she brings these women onto the page pics i w