Shout out couple families. I want to shout out my pbs family who [applause] thank you. You all taught me how to be a lawyer. I want to shout out my family, David Domenici and in particular, and you all taught me how to fight for children. [applause] [cheering] and i want to give a shout out to my sn double c. Family. [applause] im wearing my button tonight and right now i am thinking of you all and of my data. And i know that he is here with us. [applause] i want to start by talking a little bit about why i wrote this book. The first reason for writing this book is that i dont know if you all are like this but im the kind of person who when i go to a movie and theres no black characters in the movie and then afterwards people are like what did you think about it and im like its pretty goo good but we were the black people, and i feel that way about our history as well so it was important for me to write a book that had africanamerican characters at the center of the narrative. This is