Author clint smith. His new book is how the word is passed the reckoning with a history of sleepy across america. You might know him through his writing in the atlantic or his youtube series crash course in black American History. Mr. Smith, you were raised in new orleans. What was your life like . Mr. Smith it was great. It is the best city in the world. It is one of those places you do not fully appreciate until you are not there anymore. I was 17 years old when Hurricane Katrina hit new orleans. This week marked the 17th anniversary of katrina. It was a surreal moment for me to reflect on the fact this was half a lifetime ago. In so many ways, it feels like yesterday. I have been thinking a lot about how new orleans shaped me as a husband, a father, a writer, a person. But also thinking about all the ways my life was offended in ways i do not think i have fully processed yet. I just wrote about this incredible documentary, katrina babies, and done by a young man will he is similar a
Author clint smith. His new book is how the word is passed the reckoning with a history of sleepy across america. You might know him through his writing in the atlantic or his youtube series crash course in black American History. Mr. Smith, you were raised in new orleans. What was your life like . Mr. Smith it was great. It is the best city in the world. It is one of those places you do not fully appreciate until you are not there anymore. I was 17 years old when Hurricane Katrina hit new orleans. This week marked the 17th anniversary of katrina. It was a surreal moment for me to reflect on the fact this was half a lifetime ago. In so many ways, it feels like yesterday. I have been thinking a lot about how new orleans shaped me as a husband, a father, a writer, a person. But also thinking about all the ways my life was offended in ways i do not think i have fully processed yet. I just wrote about this incredible documentary, katrina babies, and done by a young man will he is similar a
First Lady Laura Bush along with then library of librarian of congress and the current librarian of congress has continued. Carla it is so delightful to see people line up outside waiting to hear authors and get their books signed and all of these things. There is just so much excitement. After two years of being virtual, that was good for when we all had to hunker down, but being in person is just delightful. What is your role today . Carla my role is head cheerleader, and also to open up the main stage to actually get a chance to moderate a panel of young adult authors. This year we are having a stage for the young and young at heart, teenagers, specifically. The interesting part is we had a Youth Advisory Committee which could all happen during a pandemic, and they zoomed in through the country and gave us advice about authors they would like to hear from. They recommended the books and so i am just being led on to the stage but young people will be interviewing some of their favori
It is the best city in the world. It is one of those places you do not fully appreciate until you are not there anymore. I was 17 years old when Hurricane Katrina hit new orleans. This week marked the 17th anniversary of katrina. It was a surreal moment for me to reflect on the fact this was half a lifetime ago. In so many ways, it feels like yesterday. I have been thinking a lot about how new orleans shaped me as a husband, a father, a writer, a person. But also thinking about all the ways my life was offended in ways i do not think i have fully processed yet. I just wrote about this incredible documentary, katrina babies, and done by a young man will he is similar age to me but 13 when katrina hit. He made a documentary about the way young black children who were children when katrina happened, who did not necessarily have the language or vocabulary to express how they were experiencing this trauma, he is giving them a platform to do a retrospective and look back and explain what tha
The path for joe biden might be clearing with another highprofile dropout. The 3 biggest states to catch. California, texas and then North Carolina. Thats where we start this hour. Republican senator tom will join the president later tonight. I want to get to the coronavirus in a moment. The movement is on to stop Bernie Sanders. Who wins North Carolina tomorrow . Well, i think biden may have a shot at North Carolina. Particularly after the exit of buttigieg and klobuchar. I think Bernie Sanders will pick up some delegates here and back to california and texas where i think he will use. The poll shows headtohead match up with Bernie Sanders and donald trump and with Michael Bloomberg and donald trump and with joe biden with donald trump. All 3 beat them. I dont weigh it. Buy it. When President Trump takes the stage against biden, sanders or bloomberg, he has a good match up regardless of who comes out of it. A tweet from the west wing. Pete buttigieg is out. All of his super tuesday vo