Series if anybody would get on the bike with fuel injection it is one of the smoothest ride you will ever find most charlie people dont maya to be pulling up to ride with them. How often do you ride . This past sunday i got out with the bench of National Guard guys and we had a barbeque. Maybe every of the weekend. Host former congressman and auth held this t september 1 of the panels was on the future of the city and some of the issues. Prevent presented by the mayor and the office of promotion of the arts to serve from the arts Council Please note after you enjoy the presentation in volunteers are on hand to have be happy to except your ordinations bake you for helping to keep the of baltimore festival free. I will start with introductions. The east side. A columnist for someone in work was published to the habit to post commandeer times, the guardian and other magazines holding a masters from Johns Hopkins is a College Professor and also the recipient of numerous awards include a a
Spence can be regularly heard, his next book, knocking the hustle, will be out at the end of october. Please welcome all of our esteemed panelists. [applause] so what im going to do is start with letting the panelists, beginning with lester spence, kind of describe what their individual books are about. Lester . Oh, wow. Thank you very much. Thank you to the baltimore book festival. I knew i was in the right place when i saw that they had a book festival, because that meant that baltimore was actual literate, and i kind of wanted to be in a place where people liked to read and reading mattered. Im really interested in kind of the reproduction of inequality within black spaces, right . If you look at inequality across time from, say, 1929 or so to the present, it takes the shape of a u. Really, really high levels in 1929, low levels in 1950 or so, and there are really high levels now. In fact, we have higher levels of inequality now than we did in the great depression. It takes the shap
Quite a few years ago. Remember . Now that were getting a little closer, i changed my story because we need the support of the people that never seem to have extraordinary evidence so it is an intense effort the aliens out there for that invisible rays that communicates to earth and other planets here with some of their people. Aliens. And they are invisible and there was one ride over there behind you right now. This has created a lot of interest. And to there will think about the moon and go into bars. Made all sorts of people because the public needs to support what the nation wants to repair. Wants to do. The annual baltimore book fair held this past september 1 of the panels was on the future of the city and some of the issues. Prevent presented by the mayor and the office of promotion of the arts to serve from the arts Council Please note after you enjoy the presentation in volunteers are on hand to have be happy to except your ordinations bake you for helping to keep the of balt
Him in all four quadrants of the city. Marion barry was held as a hero for the things he did and he embarrassed the people that loved him. I am not surprised. I think marion barry was a big figure. Four turns as mayor and as city council member. Brian because there are a number of officials from virginia, not from virginia yet, but from maryland, Public Officials that are in jail. We wanted to do an update. Lets start with i have some video of you interviewing someone that the audience might remember because of his father, ron brown. This is michael brown. He is in prison where . Tom he is in a small prison in alabama. A minimum security prison. It was a spectacular falling for michael brown. He had all of the gifts you could possibly want. From his father, ron brown who was so close to clinton. Michael brown was not a lawyer. But he was paid a lot of money to work with law firms. He was elected to the council. He ran on his fathers name. Brian he was on the city council. Tom what brou
And 1990s was it. Brian do you think it is strange and all that they want to change the name of a high school to marion barry in high school and have a statute that says, mirror for life. Tom there is a camp in to get some kind of acknowledgment of im in washington, d. C. Marion barry was heralded as a hero for the things he did. He was hated for the bad things. I am not surprised. Mary was a big figure. Four terms as mayor, for terms on the deep. See perry council. He did do it never things that he ought to be remembered. Aian because there are number of officials from butinia, not virginia maryland, who are in jail, Public Officials we wanted to kind of do an update on everything. We have some video of you interviewing someone the audience might remember because was father, ron brown. This is Michael Brown. He is in prison. Where . Tom he is at a small, minimum security prison in alabama. A spectacular falling for Michael Brown. He had all of the gifts you hisd possibly want from fat