Authors discuss then < 1955 mur of emmett till, and the role of these events in the Civil Rights Movement. Cspan recorded the panel at the 2018 festival of books in nashville, tennessee. Greetings. My name is lee williams, jr. Im an associate professor of africanamerican and public history at Tennessee State university, and i will be the moderator for this panel. First id like to welcome you to nashville. If youre not a nashville resident, welcome, welcome. And welcome to the greatest library in america. This session will run precisely 50 minutes i am told. So we will give both our authors 20 minutes to speak, and well allocate ten minutes for question and answer. I was also admonished to remind you if youre really enjoying yourself this southern festival of books depends upon individual donations. So if you really enjoy what youve seen over the past couple of days id encourage you to donate as much as you can. Were in for a treat today. I asked these two gentlemen for bios a couple of
Is expected to deliver remarks in the st. Patricks Day Celebration. We will take you there, live, when the president begins speaking. While we wait, i am honored to be joined by senator warnock, democratic, of georgia. Thank you for joining us this evening. Good evening. Let me start with, as we wait for the president , i have to ask you about remarks made by his opponent, former President Trump, at a rally in ohio last night, the Presumptive Republican nominee warned that there would be a Bloodbath Unquote if he loses the election bid he claims he was talking about the Car Industry River but repeated those words several times and even said some migrants are not people and at another point called them animals. Whats your reaction . Well, my angelou said when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. Donald trump is shown as who he is time and time and time again. We ought to take him seriously. This is the insurrectionist president. This is the man who egged on the m
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