Good evening. Im here to introduce our guest. Clive is a former Systems Engineer with ibm. Graduated from university here in portland as a doctor of chiropractic and a trained psychotherapist. Also the awardwinning author of small works of fiction and nonfiction. A recipient of the Richard Wright awarded africanamerican literature as well as numerous other words he is been a guest on oprah, and pr, radio and tv programs across the nation he appears tonight you speak about his latest book think plaque which was just shortlisted for the 2019 prize of social justice. Please join me to welcome to the kendall planetary in at the Oregon Museum of science and industry. [applause] thank you leslie and all for being here i cannot tell you how special it is to be here. Was just talking with the president , nancy and just re living my First Experience over 40 years ago at Washington Park and i was a volunteer working with a group that actually was involved i had just come from ibm to go to Chirop
My honor the convene this plenary, and when we were planning the conference, we always liked to bring our heavy hitters out. And i think that today is one of those occasions, in which we have a collection of fine scholars and activists here to address the theme. So what we are, and what we have decided to do is to run the plenary more as a round table, and the moderated conversation about the issues with the great migration, and i wanted to introduce our panelists, and give them an opportunity to speak for a few minutes as far as their own work and perceptions and ideas about the great migration, and then move on to the question and answer followed by a discussion with us, and followed by a question and answer session with the audience. So i wanted to introduce our panelists. The first panelist is joe trotter who is a giant history professor and prior with the Carnegie Mellon center in pittsburgh, and previously the president of the africanamerican studies in the urban life and economy
Good morning. Thank you for joining us. I have the honor of introducing this mornings very special program in conversation with Chris Matthews and former ceo and executive vice chairman of the corporation. Each night millions of viewers turn ttuned to msnbc at 7 00 tor chris deliver his trademark openings to hardball that the roots of the journalism career are actually with hearst. For over 15 years, i thought it was 12 but he corrected me like a journalist. Crisp is a washington, d. C. Bureau chief of the examiner and was a syndicated columnist for the San Francisco chronicle after frank thought the San Francisco chronicle and then he went on to not only launched hardball that successfully over eight bestselling books. As everyone knows, he returned this week after the hiatus to recover from Prostate Cancer surgery and we couldnt be more grateful to you being here today. Thank you. I had the pleasure of working with Frank Bennett the past 26 years. What is remarkable is that represent
Plannerry. I think when we were planning the conference, we always like to bring our heavy hitters out. And i think today is one of those occasions in which we have a collection of fine scholars and activists here to address our theme. So what we decided to do is run the plannerry more as a roundtable, as a moderated conversation about issue with the great migration. And i wanted to introduce our panelists and give them an opportunity to speak for a few minutes as far as their own work and their perceptions and ideas about the great migration and then move on into a question and answer followed by a discussion with us and followed by a question answer session with the audience. So i want to introduce our panelists. Our first pannestist is joe trotter who is a giant eagle professor of history in social justice and past History Department chair at cornegy university in pittsburgh. He is also the director and founder of the cornegy center for africanamerican urban studies in economy. Hes
Professor, what is the structure of your newest book breathe. Fear, flight and fortune. It is a letter, a series of letters to my son but also a letter to the o larger world, bh about the reality of anxiety, the worry that comes along with being a parent of lack children in particular black boys at this moment in the United States. But also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy in excellence and self regard. Much of which i think has lessons for an extraordinary tradition we have. Where you come up with the idea to write your sent a lett letter. I actually have written him letters privately for years but my editor at the beacon press said is this something need be interested in doing because i talk about my children all the time. I write post about them on social media, initially, what we both had in mind was something that was a bit more lighthearted but then when i started to reflect on what it would mean to try to tell a story to them about my expectation a