they argue that media was often culpable for cultivating acts of racial violence. this is an hour and a half. [applause] welcome, everyone, to cooper union, and this momentous launch of a masseterpiece of the latest book of juan gonzalez, written together with joe torres, called news for all the people: the epic story of race and the american media. no one could be more excited about this tonight than i am, and maybe, oh, joe and juan s parents and family. but at bill meijer bill moyer said we needed this book for a long time, this book that is a sweeping history of the american news media that puts race at the center of the story, and to be here at cooper union, a university, a college for all the people that is still tuition-free [applause] and to be here on the stage, at this podium, where president abraham lincoln spoke, where the great abolitionist frederick douglass spoke, the greatest abolitionist of all time, but frederick douglass was an editor, a publi
of a masseterpiece of the latest book of juan gonzalez, written together with joe torres, called news for all the people: the epic story of race and the american media. no one could be more excited about this tonight than i am, and maybe, oh, joe and juan s parents and family. but at bill meijer bill moyer said we needed this book for a long time, this book that is a sweeping history of the american news media that puts race at the center of the story, and to be here at cooper union, a university, a college for all the people that is still tuition-free [applause] and to be here on the stage, at this podium, where president abraham lincoln spoke, where the great abolitionist frederick douglass spoke, the greatest abolitionist of all time, but frederick douglass was an editor, a publisher, a writer, and when he came north to maryland, he took refuge not far from here, in an old brick house that was the printing press of david ruggle s born a free black man in connec