About 20 years ago i was doing research on my first book about africanamerican women in the north and i came across an advertisement for a hundredway, and enslaved person who had run from the president s house in philadelphia. May 1796. And i was sort of caught up looking through microfilm and old newspapers and this made me pause and i said, wait, who is this person who ran away . She was named only judge in the advertisement. I thought, wait a minute, i dont know this person and that was troubleing to me. This miss area of expertise and i had no idea who thats owny judge was. And there was something that was very sort of compelling about this advertisement, never sort of escaped me. And i said, you know, im going to come back those important story and try to trace this woman. I need answers. So i finished the first book and here i am. Man years later. Was a lengthy processy attempting to recover the life ona judge and those who do specifically early africanamerican history, doing thi
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Carla power, who talks about the misconceptions westerners have about islam. It is a topic she writes about in if the oceans work ink. From the Commonwealth Club of california, this is an hour and 10 minutes. Jonathan my mic is on. That is an auspicious start. Good evening. Welcome to todays meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where you are in the know. We are online at commonwealthclub. Org. I am jonathan curiel, your moderator for todays program, cold bridging islam and the west. I want to introduce our esteemed speaker, carla power. Those of you who know carla know she is a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She is a journalist specializing in muslim societies and the author of if the oceans were ink an unlikely friendship and journey to the heart of koran, a result of spending a year with Sheikh Mohammed akram nadwi. It offers a look into the muslim world that is often ignored by our news media and explores the many complexities of one of the worlds most misunderstood r