About being a librarian in congress. I can remember that because i was surprised, i had been advising and consulting because this was an opportunity for the Library Community to weigh in basically on what would be needed for the library of Congress Going into the next few decades so my name was put forward as a person that i should talk to and that went on for a little while and then i was asked, would you consider being considered for the position yourself and it took me back a little bit and i had to think about what i was currently doing, really publicservice innercity that the state had the Public Library be the state library of baltimore and maryland, this was a very unique situation and i had become a Baltimore Ian and was really working on the issues and i had to think, how can i go from serving the community to serving a country. And what contribution could i make. Why did you say yes . Because when i really thought about the treasures and what is contained in the library of co
Think that travel is the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter how does iraq. There i want a work of this train home edition today were looking at what the congress and the fiji settlements around the world how is it impacting to help of 3 guess we will look at the cow conditions where they are working the challenges of handling kovac 19 and what help do they need i know you will have ice chains for them so you know what to do we have a huge conversation it is live right now if you have questions you have concerns about refugees wherever they may be around the well line up is more than happy to tackle your questions if youve got stories that dont love to see you and you can be. Right and they guess the guests will introduce themselves to yours francesco good to have you on the street Care International you are. Friends for me good afternoon everyone my name is just go through i work in jordan Storage Units are the
People are here when you say i wonder if i am irredeemable to hear all white people and white people as individuals as opposed to whiteness as an identity. So when i go to the second paragraph, what if we took this identity apart that people would not have the different history but a different relationship to identity. And potentially have as a consequence a more humane relationship to each other. So later into the first paragraph an individual someone that was raised by a white man or someone take for example john brown or bob zellner. Who i think are the most precious people in the world but its important to me not to have a formulation that removes them from my sense of the struggle that i am engaged in. So thats what i was thinking. One more question about breathe, mothering black boys in america is a special calling. Yes. Thats the sentence my mother said to me. And i think about it in a number of different ways. One of course is all the risk so people talk about it incessantly an
That we cant just take a country club view, winners and losers, this would be donald trump, i dont care about them. Ive got my cadillac, all is well in the world. On a lot of the policy proposals nancy makes on the left, i agree. I may not quite agree with the scale she wants to do them on but we agree that we should help poor people and pregnant women and so forth, that there should be not a fist in peoples face but an open hand of help and that is perfectly consistent with what we unfortunately called capitalism. The ordinary capitalists transaction, we buy a cup of coffee and for one thing for sure act of buying a cup of coffee is mutually advantageous in both people are happy about it but furthermore youll notice in your own life that if you make a habit of going to that coffee shop you eventually become friends. Commerce creates friendship the way church creates friendship. Or College High School class. They are not forcing each other to do things. They are allowed to say no and o
Sort of the frenzied pace, but it was beautiful. I learned so much in i was nurtd by all of the generations of people who came before me and helped me understand the world. Youve written a biography of the song. May we forever stand is the name of the book. James johnson and john rosa monde they are the author and composer. They were brothers born in jacksonville florida. Renaissance men and of course back in the day they were called race man. People who thought every achievement they had as being in the service of the race. He became the first secretary general of the naacp. Really extraordinary. One of the signature accomplishments was the accomplishment of the song. They were firstgeneration freemen. Born in the 1870s . Yes, they were of that generation that emerged from slavery with these hopes and dreams and aspirations that were so quickly dashed with the end of reconstruction. What was extraordinary is that the song caught on like wildfire. It was the most immediately embraced a