New york. Please give a warm savannah welcome to kent garrett and jeannie else worth. [applause] finish jeanne ellsworth. [applause] well, thank you for enlightening us, and ill let you know the book is called the last negroes at harvard. 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroes, and thats what we were called then, and we were the largest number at that time ever admitted to harvard. We were from all different parts of the country north, south, east and west and we came from different economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. And we, heretofore theyd been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time. And most guys would just go and do their four years and then get out of town. Finish leave cambridge. But for us it was different in the sense that we had numbers, the 18, and we could form an individual racial identity as well as a group identity. And we were able to become actually a force for change at harvard, and harvard or we changed harvard and harvard changed
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An 8th day and still refusing to send them over to the u. S. Senate for a trial. He predicts her political posturing will even h will lo her downfall. President trump my poll numbers are the highest they have ever been. Fundraising is the highest its ever been. She hates the people to voted for me and the republican party. She won by 63 seats. I think its going to happen again. Gregg the president lashing out against the radical dimms Constant Campaign claiming their barrage of spiteful investigations has hammered his ability to work with world leaders. President trump took charge of world matters firing off a new warning to the Syrian Regime and its allies of russia and iran. For details we turn to rich edson traveling with the president in west palm beach, florida. In the middle of a 2week trip to maralago the president says hes distracted. He said it makes it much more difficult to deal with foreign leaders when i have to constantly defend myself against the do nothing democratsance
Because of the deaths of their predecessors are talking about is the accidental president s. This is in our. Good evening, everybody. Im part of the event staff at politics and prose. Before we begin id like to go over a few quick announcements splease silence your cell phones and other noise making devices not only is it courteous to the author but we are also on cspan tonight so if you do not want to be the person whose phone goes off on cspan. During the question and answer portion in the interest of the video and audio recording if you could come up to the microphone over here its right here that way we can all hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion afterwards. Last once everything is done if you could fold up your chairs and place them against something solid im pleased to introduce the founder and ceo at alphabet inc. New york times bestselling coauthor with eric schmidt of the new digital age and has written several books on his own including the children of jihad.