Pleased to have with us Toni Morrison for indepth conversation about her lifes work. Toni morrison, as he began, ive seen several citations that you told people that its easiest best most apt to describe you as a black woman novelist. Is that correct . Absolutely. What are we the public to take away from your choice of those three words . I think it was an attempt on my part to choose to be given the status of honorary white male writer. Generally speaking, womens work has been reduced to regional or merely or people complement ethnic writers by saying or implying that they are as good as mainstream writers and whereas i understand the complement, i thought it would be better for me to, at least in the late 60s early 70s to establish once and for all that all three of those things play, and black, i am a woman, and im a writer and they go together. Youve also always been a teacher. Yes. Why is that important to who you are and what you do . Edit quite know what else to do when i gradua
Moves its way to the northeast, live to the gulf this morning. Markets this morning trading up, take a look at futures, wild week with triple digit gains for the dow industrials in record territory. Nasdaq up right now is lower but the s p 500 scored a fifth Straight Record high close yesterday and continues higher this morning up another 11 points. Airlines getting turbulence, United Airlines warning 3,000 pilots could be grounded by october. Mornings with maria live right now. Global markets are mixed, take a look at european indices. The cac quarante is up 3 points but the dax index in germany is lower by 17, in asian markets big news, japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe announcing hes resigning. He announced resignation overnight and the news weighing on japans stock. The nikkei average down 1 and a half percent over night. Some of the top stories that we are watching this morning. President trump wrapping up the rnc last night officially accepting the gop nomination for president m
Classroom. How educators overseas are handling safety. And starting over. Country star Chris Stapleton talks about his new album and his newersptiven life duringhedemicnd movement. Want to hear that. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. Joe biden has given moral aid and comfort to the vandals repeating the monstrous lie these were peaceful protests. Theyre not peaceful protests. Thats anarchy. The president blaming democrats but joe biden says violence is playing out in President Trumps america. Ture. Ise are not images of som ese a dond um ameca President Trump make something controversial statements about the suspected gunman who killed protesters ahead of his trip to kenosha. He was in very big trouble. He probably would have been killed. If you felt pressure to make a vaccine available before its ready, what would you do . We will not make that decision on the basis of politics. Thats a promise. Voters in massachusetts head to the polls in a closely watched
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Containment also went up to 17 the hurricane warning is out for all of the areas in this red area here. As we come in closer, when you from 13 yesterday. About 77,000 people remain evacuate from the homes in have a storm this strong, the santa cruz and san mateo storm surge will be a huge counties. This fire has destroyed more concern, possibly on the order of 9 to 13 feet, and theres a than 330 buildings, most in Santa Cruz County. That number is only going to chance this surge of water could move 30 miles inland. Thats just amazing. Increase. Obviously a large incident like so thats the latest on what is a strengthening storm, and it this encompasses numerous will be a big concern over the roadways and numerous next few days. Structures within the interior here is a live camera look at that is very difficult to get San Francisco, where you see to. Especially with the amount of some layers im watching. Trees that have fallen and the the fog hanging out ern, that amount of debris thats