Includes nighthawks, doctor kings refrigerator, dreamer, facing a good thing and Middle Passage for which he won the National Book award in 25 years ago now. 1990. Wow. In 2002 he received the arthur letters award in literature from the American Academy of arts and letters. In the format tonight will beam remarks by Clifford Thompson and a conversation by doctor johnson and mr. Thompson and then we have time for your questions. Without further ado, help me welcome Clifford Thompson. [applause] thank you, thank you all for coming. And thanks to the library for hosting this, its great to appear with doctor johnson. I thought what i would do is read the first few pages of the introduction to my book what it is and then lay out the way the rest of the book is set up. Put on my old man specs so i can see. This is from the introduction. I am a black man, brooklynbased, 54 years old as i write this, for many years as i can remember there has been at the core of my being making me who i am or
Im ben brown. Today at two. Bell tolls. The Prime Minister, the labour leader and the mayor of london lead tributes to the victims of the London Bridge terror attack. In cambridge, tributes to jack merritt and saskia jones who were killed. Mr merritts girlfriend attended a service along with family and friends. More details emerge of how a polish chef who fought off the attacker was stabbed five times in the struggle. There is a bad guy, hes got two knives in his hand, there is blood, theres screams, there is chaos. Lucas pulls off this long stick, he charges toward the bad guy and he impacts him 00 01 46,1000 00 01 50,967 on the chest. The point of no return on Climate Change is looming. The stark warning from the United Nations as leaders gather in madrid for talks. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with sarah. Monster innings from joe bruh to. Certainly was. The england captain made a double century. However hopes ofa win, made a double century. However hopes of a win, they
Taking. Reporter within the hour we have learned all of the victims are students and the School President issued this letter to the school community, recognizing the anxiety these incidents create and she also outlined steps to make this campus safer. Has Campus Police have patrols, students said they feel safer traveling in packs following a series of disturbing Sexual Battery cases. It seems like its happening daily. It seems to almost happen exclusively to women. Reporter at least six cases since midoctober, the most recent on wednesday at duncan hall. A female student says she was groped on the northeast stairwell. The same thing happened in the Student Union and a week ago wednesday in the northeast stairs of sweeney hall. It didnt used to be something you had to worry about. I am just going to class. But now it feels like even if somebody is working to closely behind me its a weird feeling to always have to be on your guard. You have no idea when somebody is going to come out of
Where a 66yearold law means dancing in venues like this is illegal. No one seems to have told anyone here though. The sunni group trying to establish on Islamic State across swathes of the middle east as its leader appears on video for the first time. Iraqs government says the footage is fabricated. It shows Abu Bakr Albaghdadi giving a sermon in mosul. One of the iraqi cities that the group known as the Islamic State took over. Abu bakr albaghdadi called on all muslim to obey him as long as he followed the rules of god. Abu bakr albaghdadi is the secretive leader of the group Islamic State of iraq and levant. Up until now this photo was one of two authenticated images of him, earning him the nickname the invisible sheikh. He joined the fight against the u. S. Led invasion of iraq in 2003 and spend time in a u. S. Detention camp. He became the leader of an armed group led by al qaeda. Al qaeda rejected ties to him. Imran khan has more from baghdad. If this video of Abu Bakr Albaghdadi
Cost. When federal money is involved state governments do not spend their money as efficiently. Host we are out of time. Chris edwards with the cato institute. Robert with the brookings institute. Thank you. That does it for todays washington journal. We will be that you tomorrow morning. Enjoy the rest of your day. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] president gets briefed by german chancellor Angela Merkel about a scheduled summit wednesday to try to revive a peace plan for easter ukraine. Germany, france, russia and ukraine will take part. They will talk with reporters. Among the issues, Army Fighters opposing russian backed separatists. Live coverage starts at 11 40. Should the u. S. Arm ukraine . We are taking your comments. Here are a couple of the more than 300 comments. Sue says putin is taking advantage of a weak adminis