Men whosts and the supported them as part of a series of events related to our Current Special exhibit, rightfully hers, american women and the vote. Partners are here tonight and we thank them for their support. Our special exhibit, rightfully hers, tells the story of the woman struggle for Voting Rights. Women activists had to win allies among men in influential positions. It was men who sat in state legislatures that would ratify or reject the 19 amendment, whose centennial we celebrate. Opened,htfully hers guests were offered a yellow rose pin when they entered. That was won by members of the mens league for womens suffrage. Not to theests, this role that men played came as a surprise. Tonight we will take a look at theirffragists and contributions to the voting right struggle. Its my pleasure to welcome nancy tate, she has served as womens votef the Centennial Initiative and is also on the board of the turning point suffragists memorial. She served as the executive director of the
Of it you can control. To be vulnerable and do the best work, and the diverse truth of people around the world, in the discourse, and the global something it was fabulous to see, and the issues in different ways to get the feminist, the immigrants, people who were concerned about police violence. It is not unusual to see dreamers who came here very young but are still deportable, involved in black lives matter. And very much involved in what is happening in haiti and brazil, and more and more, the new generation, we have these intersections. And we see what the gentleman was saying, we cant have change without one another. The merging of identity, what the writing should be, we do it sometimes for laughter, sometimes this other purpose. It is becoming somebody else, you should feel free within your imagination, if you want to write that is what is great about octavia butler, helping out with space travel and futurism, you can go to the past and the present where you can go to the futur
Was saying, we cant have change without one another. The merging of identity, what the writing should be, we do it sometimes for laughter, sometimes this other purpose. It is becoming somebody else, you should feel free within your imagination, if you want to write that is what is great about octavia butler, helping out with space travel and futurism, you can go to the past and the present where you can go to the future and write about different people, you can be the black woman writer, you are free to do all of that. Which actually brings us back to the beginning of the discussion, the destruction of that dualism, intersection out he seems to be the roadmap, that is the roadmap we have to follow as we move into the future. I think we are done. I want to thank our panelists, all the Great Questions and your attention, thank you very much. Thank you so much. I want to leave with this quote from charles johnson. When art is at its best, it liberates our perception. Thank you so much. Gi
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When i get stuck. So maybe if i read these two books at a nice pace,ll be able to know when i touch something that it jumps off ill know how to get it back. Do you intend to download books your ipad . After this, the skys the limit. Thank you very much. Thank you. What are you reading this summer . Tell us whats on your Summer Reading list. Tweet us. Post it to our facebook page. Or send us an email. From the 2014 National Black writers conference a Panel Discussion entitled race, power, and politics. This is about an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations discussion] [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] once again good, afternoon, and again, i want to welcome you to the National Black writers conference. Thank you so much for being part of this great, great conference. Again, lets give the organizers a big hand for organizing and putting this together. [applause] always do such a great job, and this panel is part of the great job theyre doing today. Race, power, and politics, is t