Beautiful and powerful add heart wrenching and makes you want to cry and jump up like a caged burg seeing bird sings and something else. Thank you. That really means a lot to me. Are there books you have read you thought here is the north star . I live off of memoirs. Alex haley, malcolm x, i spent a lot of time digging into the personal stories of my personal heroes because their journey which is so significant and important related shape my book because what i love about those books as it doesnt just talk about their story but gives a context what is happening and they do that in the book. Tell us about the process how long did it take . I think the better one the better timeline asha we got a book deal. It was quick in the literary world but i came to her because somebody came to me and said you have a book in you. I wasnt thinking about that it was the height of black lives matter thinking of the movement the next stage and i played with that idea and then i went back to organizing
Beautiful and powerful and heart wrenching. Its sort of like a little bit of a cage bird thing and monster there Something Else in their. Other certain books that you have read that he thought heres a northstar if i could just get close to that i would be happy. I live off of memoirs, i think elaine brown and malcolm x, i spent a lot of time taking into the stories of my personal heroes. Their journeys were so significant and important. It really shaped how i wanted to talk about my book. What i love about those books as it doesnt just talk about the store but gives contacts about whats happening. And i do that in the book. As someone whos done a few of those unwanted know how you worked, how long did it take. I think it was a better timeline, the time i spoke to nine months later were getting a book deal. Is pretty quick in the literary world. They said you have a book in you. I wasnt thinking about that. It was the height of black lives matter. There was what the next protest gonna b
Fiftythree in millville. Fiftytwo atlantic city. Winds are from the north and west. Front has cleared and colder air moving n notice how cold to the northwest, temperatures in the 30s in buffalo, pittsburgh and state college, all that cold air again settling into place, just in time for that second piece of energy to move by to the south , winter storm watch has already been issued for all of our northwestern suburbs including bucks, montgomery counties, Chester County and up through Lehigh Valley and this system is going to bring accumulating snow. Hard to believe right now meteorologist Chelsea Ingram live at cooper river park with the mobile weather watcher. Chelsea, it is warm right now but you are tracking snow as well for the weekend. That is exactly right, kate we had a couple sprinkles moving through here earlier this afternoon but as you can see it is dry right now. We are at cooper river park. Mobile weather watcher behind me. The Current Conditions with the mobile weather wa
Swatter here, they are doing an extensive second search of the building, including lockers, backpacks, all students i want to repeat are safe, according to police, authorities were on the scene just after 8 30 this morning when a student reported seeing a male, we dont know age of that person with the gun on campus. The school immediately went into lock down. Dogs, swat they were soon on the scene. Authorities had all of the students moved to the auditorium. They did one search which took about an hour and a half. They are on that second search inside of the school, nervous parents rushed to the scene, and have been pacing back and forth understandably waiting to hear very latest from police. It is sad, my daughter called me crying, somebody called said the school is on lock down. School gave me no information. And shes just really scared in there right now. They are in the building and the individuals too, so right new there is no evidence of a weapon and there is no injuries reported
Caused some anxious moments two days after the massacre of 17 students and Staff Members at a high school in parkland, florida. Sierra cooper was glad to see her mother after a tense morning inside. Fort first two hours i didnt know if it was real or fake. I was just sitting there. When she texted me, shes like, mom, shes like were on lock down. Shes like, i think its real. Reporter 9 00 a. M. Lock down came after a 13yearold female student reported seeing another student showing off a gun outside the school. Then she saw the same student inside. After two intense essentials by swat teams and k9s police found a plastic toy gun that shoots plastic pellets stashed behind a radiator. What this speaks to is the importance of something that we hammer down every day which is see something, say something. The swat team came in. What did they say to you. They pat us down. Reporter this is the 81 is the school lock down in philadelphia this school year. Fox 29 has learned there have been 270 sc