Exhibit, descendants of slaves, in alabama may be close and i am giving you a synopsis of a synopsis, ultimately the first lady, at the end of the tour, these black women, five black women who i do not believe were republicans, they were so happy, they embraced the first lady in a huddle, thank you jesus and started to climb and a descendant of a slave, fifth generation removed from a slave. Mayor are a lot of human stories people can relate to in this book and it is about you and me, not just black but white and all of us coming together. People go to booktv and type in april ryan, they will see this big panel, an author panel, what was that . Panel discussion on race. He talked about criminal justice. Wheat had julie reid, an author as well. And we had michael eric dyson, author himself. I was a moderator. We had a serious discussion, serious civil discussion on issues of race, and my authors have written about it and researched it. We had a panel discussion, people from all walks of
The church and for the festival by georgia power, bill and king at kelly and the estate of ralph. We are blessed once again to host such celebrated authors at United Methodist church which has been made possible by the generosity of bob and jean faircrop and substrate bank. Many of you have already watched on deck with eric larsen but we suspect today you are seeking your claims around chippewa squares as you choose among the dozens of renowned writers who have published outstanding books this year. We extend special thanks to our members and individual donors him make these events possible. If you would like to lend your support we welcome your donations and provided few bucks for books buckets. At the door. Please turn your cellphones off and there will be no flash photography. The question and answer portion of this morning we will ask you to line up down the central iowa, there will be a volunteer with the microphone end you will ask your questions at that point. After the presenta
Chance to get up close view of the presidency of the United States. What is the blackandwhite . The black and white is cyclical and continues to happen. The placement of africans in the country. Theres a problem with race in this country and has yet to be fixed. We saw major legislation, major laws, there is an intrinsic problem that should be fixed. Today we are seeing tensions between the black community and police, not saying we dont enforce law enforcement, wholeheartedly, but they have to be winning out of that. A lot of the problems, settled, some of it is over. I talked to president obama recently on a flight, he is here to close the gap, gaps still remain in this nation, there are still gaps. This is an issue that is not going away. Other countries are watching us. If someone picks up the presidency in black and white will they hear stories something you want to share . When the person picks of the presidency black and white, three president s in america, does get very confused
Families, because that is who is going to fight for are going to change the world. They are already out there, people who are here today and others who are part of this tiny fundraiser. They are trying to change the world by helping to provide services and homes for people that do not have them. We really are adults, we figured out not perfectly but we have really moved light years from where we were 50 years ago in terms of autism. For children. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] the question is what is going on in new york citys in terms of services particularly in school. I can tell you because compared to 20 years ago we have services, we have schools in new york, we have we have public schools, we have a Charter School that is created for children with autism. When my my son was diagnosed there was nothing in the city. I had to make a home program, i had it created from scratch. I had to fight to get the services and that i was not even able to get the money back from
The founders are. In 1954, come to the rescue was the Historic Preservation society who had enough when the Old City Market was destroyed and they built an incredibly hideous looking parking lot. So, they band together and formeded what some called it hysterical save savannah foundation. Literally seven old ladies, some in tennis shoes, went around throwing their bodies in front of the wrecking ball to stop the progress and a Revolving Fund started to buy a house for 5,000, restore it to what it was and sell it for 25,000 or something. You got 20,000 and you do it and do it until at some point savannah now has the largest restored Historic District in america which is quite an accomplishment. What has been done since 1954 is an accomplishment. And i will not name any of those seven little old ladies. They are not twittering old lady. They have clout and it showed. Historic savannah is sometimes nogs meaning north of gaston street. My wife and i live on gaston street. We live on the sou