I title this a Promised Land because even though we may not get there in our lifetimes even if we experience hardships and disappointments along the way, i at least still have faith we can create a more perfect, not a Perfect Union but a more Perfect Union. Good morning and welcome to a special edition of Washington Post lives. I michelle lewis, opinion columnist for the race card project and for the special conversation this morning im joined by my dear friend elizabeth alexander, poet, scholar and president of the Andrew W Mellon foundation. Good morning. Wonderful to be together. It is wonderful to be together and we both welcome our guest for the conversation. The 40 fourth president of the United States, barack obama. Assume you recognize the guy in the middle. Washington post brought out the big guns. We are excited to see you. Im grateful you took the time. This is a News Organization so we have to begin with a little news. Overnight we learned astrazeneca has joined two other D
I am Vivian Schiller with the outfit institute. Glad you could be with us today. The New York Times bestseller list can be a mirror of the National Psyche and this reflects a nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books on matters of race and racism fill fiction and nonfiction. Thats the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest amy, the pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack others. There are a few people of color who serve as publishing several literary agents and even fewer who operate at a decisionmaking level and for those who are published, the market exposure can be so awesome. At this year of National Reckoning on racism, we look at the book Publishing Industry and whether it can bring more racial diversity to the field. This is part of our changing the narrative series, issues of race through the media and one program on the news media and another program about the entertainment in
The receiving line, hope it is not too chaotic, not everybody can make it through because there is a period of time to do this and he will not sign anything. If you will line up over there to the left, you have to line up against the wall to my left, thank you for coming this morning. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] every saturday night we feature author programs from our archives and tonight our focus is on former president s to have written books. Of next is president bill clinton who served in office from 1993 to 2001. His memoir my life was written in 2004 and sold over 1 million copies in its first week. He has since written four the books including thrillers with james patterson. From june of 2000 for president clinton talked about his over 900 page memoir, book expo which is the publishing industrys convention, here is president bill clinton. [inaudible con
They just have kept it to themselves. To can be completely honest when i was listening to the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing i was thinking a lot about these women. When women dont tell their stories a narrative is visited upon them, one of blame and shame. You did something wrong. You should have known better. I think that to me is the most resonant message from this book, to take back the narrative, the stigma, have to normalize it. One of four women terminate a pregnancy in the course of her lifetime. Putting a face to that instead of casting women as selfish and evil is important in a way to take the narrative back. Host you observe actual abortions. What was that like . Guest we shouldnt talk about abortion and euphemism. Interrupting life process even if you are prochoice you have to recognize that and he feels we should acknowledge that and what was being done during the termination. Invited me into the room to observe a 5week abortion and an 8 week abortion and a 16 week
Artifacts from that country are still held in german newseum including the remains of people who had been brutally dehumanised. The remains of people into objects through the boiling of corpses down to bone at the side of the grave of the stuffing of the corpse into a battle of salt in the history of museum collecting indigenous people. Are turned into objects through serialization and quest if acacia. The pain left by this violence is omnipresent in many african cultures peoples ancestors live on and that means their remains do as well because in the back is complicated there are 7000 museums in germany and most of the exhibits from the colonial era have no documentation to even extend human use e ms have the federal government sitting at the table with its usually museums where the federal states are involved so there isnt one Single National museum as there often are in african countries but rather a greater diversity of museums unified while restitution of human remains is moving a