Its filled with her costumes. Unauthentic Southern Experience waiting for you right off of i40. We cant wait to see you soon. Tonight to introduce you to math event beater. Matthew is the author of this incredible book, deep delta justice. Its going talk about that with you. In a moment and give a great presentation we will have a conversation after words. Briefly we went to introduce matthew. He has worked for some of the most prestigious publications in the country. Including the atlantic, new republic, as well as the owl. He is a graduate of college in columbia at university when the best Journalism Schools out there. He also reports on criminal justice, teaches at the college for creative studies, and works as the assistant director for shakespeare in prison. Weve got a lot to talk about tonight. Including the foundations of this book which i think really is an untold story of the Civil Rights Era. A lot of people should know about. So math the ongoing handed over to you. And thank
For this election year. We will get started with sanford. Please turn off your cell phones. Afterwards we will have time for q and a and have an opportunity to go to the book signing tend where you can meet tim wu and pick up a copy of his new book the attention merchants, which is an outstanding and really quick read with a lot of Amazing Stories about the battle for oman. I enjoyed reading it. When you purchase the book you support an outstanding offer, you support the texas book festival and Public Libraries across texas. Join me in welcoming tim wu. [applause] glad to have you here, thanks for being here. Lets start broadly as we focus our attention on the attention merchants. Layout for us your overall thesis and what you want us to take away. I will do that but not before saying i love my brother lived here when we were younger. Richard gary out who is a native and i just love it. Every time i arrive the first 20 minutes i walk around and im reminded of that movie slacker. Always
Drove right through it. So please remind everybody at home just to avoid this area. I thinks i think thats the second time in a week weve seen someday drive to the inner through the barricades. Mallory, how do people get around this . You really just have to avoid that area especially right off the 51. Bell road right at 32nd street is the closure but it sounds like bell road closed between 28 and 32nd. So smart routes this morning, greenway road and maybe union hills can help you get around and maybe cave creek. Even 51 is looking too bad. Throughout the valley the delays are on i17 and i10. This is back right here about 75th avenue. Its pretty packed right now with a lot of brake lights making your way inbound. I will break down the desert drive times and what to expect on the 10 in a couple minutes. As you head out the door, mostly sunny skies and dry weather with the sun coming up right now at 6 01 so sunglasses heading out the door especially commuting eastbound. 87 degrees is the
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