Microphones to your right and we hope the audience will be able to hear. As always make sure to silence your cell phones and turn off your camera flashes at this point in time come and with that please welcome dahleen glanton, columnist with the chicago tribune. [applause] good morning. Thank you all for coming. I am so excited to be here today with ibram x. Kendi whose book stamped from the beginning the definitive history of racist ideas in america is probably one of the most timely books that are out there right now. And we certainly can learn a lot from what ibram has to talk about today. So ibram is the recipient of the National Book award. They praised him in preventin pd that word as a masterful voyage the history of u. S. Rhetoric. So ibram is a professor of history at the university of florida, also a finalist for the book critics circle award. And i just learned today that while in undergraduate school, ibram was interested in being a journalist, working for a newspaper. We c