Discussion with julian, id like to share a little bit about the history of the strand. The strand was founded in 1927 on book row. Stretching from union square, book row gradually dwindled from 48 bookstores until, after 93 years, the strand is the sole survivor. Now run by Third Generation owner nancy bass. We want to thank all for our support because without all of you, we wouldnt be where we are today. And also an update on the store in case youre curious, the physical store in union square is open, weve been open for about two weeks. So wear a mask and stop by if youre in the area. Tonight were excited to have Julian Zelizer who is celebrating the release of his book, burning down the house. Julian is a class of 1941 professor of history of Public Affairs at Princeton University and a cnn political analyst. His most recent book coauthored by our moderator, kevin kruse and the fierce urgency of now. Zelizer has been awarded fellowships with the New York Historical society, the russe
In washington dc. Host i would like to welcome you to politics and prose. And i would like to welcome wil haygood that we see him several times a week. Is a customer in front of the store. In the author of the book that we are celebrating tonight. One of the things that i like about this book, a sign that it is a biography of one of the great men of the last century. His title. King of the cats. Because it so adequate describes Adam Clayton Powell jr. It was smooth and he was cool and goodlooking. He was smart. And he always was a complete package. And he spoke eloquently for africanamericans and the poor in this country. One of the great things about this, we have student come in was looking for a biography of Adam Clayton Powell jr. There wasnt one. All of the books about him were outofprint. So is a privilege really to have king of the cats back in front read and also privilege for us to have wil haygood here to talk about his book. Walk on. [applause]. Adam welcome. Thank you. It i
Invite virtual audiences together in dialogue even were not exactly together in space. I would especially like to thank erica and claire for helping ups keep ideas and community aloft here. The presentation will likely run 40 minutes. You can view the event on facebook or youtube to participate in q a, directly using the app or question button on croquettes. You can enable close captions by clicking the cc button at the bottom corner. Nicole anna jones with a discussing race and journalism. Congresswoman purnell it aand naomi offering a blueprint to political actions to the next generation of women and people of color and a special live stream recording of our first podcast residency, life on the margins, this week featuring also make sure to visit the Media Library for the recent and precovered path. Whats made possible through your support and support of your sponsors. Supported by the real network foundation, true brown foundation, and abmost of you know townhall is a member support
Questions in realtime on Facebook Live and youtube live, so extend us your questions right now and well get chatting. Good afternoon, doctor. Thanks for joining us. My pleasure, liz. Thanks for having me on. So doctor, for people who are just joining us right now, as theyre starting to put their questions in, tell us a little bit about what the fda has announced today regarding hydroxychloroquine. For many of us in the field, its kind of about time, i think we were all surprised that it got an eua designation in the first place. Eua emergency authorization, theres enough evidence the drug actually works. We never really had enough evidence. It was only in the test tube in a petri dish that killed virus but never in a human and i think more than three studies now that havent been rerbuked shows this doesnt work. How much of a change to revoke this emergency use . Are we surprised by it . I think were not surprised by it. A lot of people in the scientific community, actually happy becaus
She is a former senior fellow with the Ford Foundation and advisor to the world bank. She joins us tonight to discuss her life, work and new book, being human. She will be in conversation with our very good friend Pamela Edwards and abc news anchor of the morning addition. Duty and pam, the screen is yours. Andy, this new age of social distancing is great to see we can get it done. Duty, it was an honor to read your book. It is a running theme in the book, how often people tell you they should know they had no idea and im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made. In fact, thats where i want to start, to give people a perspective and i wanted you to compare and contrast what it was like when you are a young person pick you up in the book talk about your childhood in brooklyn. What it was like to be a person coming into the world then with a disability a