Cspan. Org thepresident s to learn about each president and historian featured in order your copy today wherever books and ebooks are sold. Jaquira diaz is with us courtesy of david and noel ray and roseline rocks berg. She was born in puerto rico. Her work has been published in rolling stone, the guardian, and the New York Times style magazine. And included in the best american essays 2016. She is the recipient of two pushcart prizes and Elizabeth George Foundation Grant and fellowships from the kenyon review and the Wisconsin Institute for creative writing. She lives in miami beach with her partner writer lars thorne. Please give a warm savanna welcome to jaquira diaz. [applause] thank you so much. Im so happy to be here, wonderful to see all you booklovers here, thank you savanna for your southern hospitality. I want to thank the savanna book festival and everyone who made this event hospital including sponsors, booksellers. Lets give it up for the indy booksellers in the room. I lo
So kevin merida, why is espn putting down a book called the fierce 44 black americans who shook up the world. Guest our platform that focuses on race, sports and culture, weve done a digital project in 2017, to the first africanamerican president , hence the title the fee is 44. We had this idea, lets do in homage to i think the greatest achievement for africanamericans, to become president. Host who should be on the list . It was an Interactive Digital project and it was well received, highly debated and Houghton Mifflin harcourt publisher said could you turn this into a Childrens Book and because there are not a lot of africanamerican biographies of a genre that is popular, childrens biography collections so they robert ball had these beautiful illustrations so we edited our digital project and turned it into a book. What the format of this book . Short bio sketches coupled with illustrations and it just gives you the best give kids enough that they can learn about these tremendous a
How hate groups target vulnerable people. [inaudible conversations] welcome, everyone, to the Commonwealth Club california. Just a quick housekeeping, of course, if you have anything that mix noises cell phones, beepers, husbands, whatever if you could just put them on silent for the rest of the program. Of course, recording this for tv and podcast, so we appreciate the nonbeepingness. And now i would like to turn it over to our, my ecohost and the person whose name is on the show, michelle meow. [laughter] thanks so much, john. Thank you. Welcome to michelle meow show. If youre here for the first time, its your az covering the ag, l, m, n, o, p and everyone in between. [laughter] our special guest tonight is the finder of the free radicals prompt, a Global Network of former extremists who work on deradicallizing others trying to lee the movement leave the movement hes a proud father of two, a husband and an author, and here to talk about his new book, braching hate confronting the new
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V. A. Hospital in san antonio, texas. Theyre checking appointment records after allegations from a whistleblower, a clerk who handles appointments. Our drew griffin spent months uncovering these allegations. Hes in san antonio with this exclusive report. Reporter wolf, while the v. A. Secretary and his staff try to answer questions in washington, theres yet another investigation under way. This one right here in texas. San antonio, texas, is the latest location where investigators from the v. A. s office of the Inspector General are on the ground, trying to determine if managers at this sprawling v. A. Hospital were trying to hide the fact veterans had been waiting months to get care. And if any veterans died as a result. The allegations come from this clerk, who works in the hospitals medical Administrative Services and is speaking publicly for the first time. Brian turner says his job is to help veterans secure appointments. Help says he says he was told to fudge the numbers. He was