She explains as a young girl has used to write these stories about girls who are blind eating apples in the snow, and then there were more blondes, and more. And her mother said, child, do you know youre in nigeria . And she said well yes, but all of the book that she read had blondes eating apples and playing in the snow. Given everything that she had read, that appeared to be the story worth telling. With all great parables, there is an underlying message in that story. That underlying message is that there are these stories that we hear over and over and over again. We hear them so much, that they go by without interrogation. Without question. And they begin to frame our worldview. They begin to frame the way we see the world. So for instance, she says, africa is poor. Immigrants are mexicans. And legal. The poor and illegal. The poor do not work. When you begin to interrogate those stories, you had a very different understanding of how the world works. I also grew up with the same
King i think a Writers Institute is something that is very important within the culture. We are a culture of words, of voices, words are key to our imagination, our capacity to envision things, we ourselves are not completely tied to print on the page senses of writing, but i think that there is no other art form so readily accessible other than perhaps film which we work with too, but it is there is something in literature that just captures the human spirit. This weekend join booktv, American History tv and cspans local content vehicles as we look behind the scenes at the history of literary life of new yorks capital city albany today at noon eastern on booktv on cspan2 and sunday at 5 00 p. M. On American History tv on cspan2 un cspan3. Up next Beatrix Hoffman presented history of the American Healthcare system. She presents her thoughts on why the United States has been one of the few developed countries to not adopt universal health care. And examines why the issue is so divisive.
My fellow americans, this is my country. [ applause ] many of us have fought hard for the right to say that. Many are now struggling today so that they may say this with conviction. This is our country. [ applause ] we are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We must make the American People hear our tale of two cities. We must convince them that we dont have to settle for two cities. That we can have one city, indivisible, shining for all of its people. If you give us a chance, we can perform. After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that fred astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. [ cheers and applause ] there is not a liberal america and a conservative america. There is the United States of america. [ cheers and applause ] there is not a black america and a white america. And Latino America and asian america. There is the United States of america. The American Dream is not a sprint or even a marathon. But a relay. Our f
Im robyn curnow. Live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. Its more than a month after joe biden was declared the winner of the president ial election, the Electoral College has officially confirmed the results of that race. On monday they cast their own ballots giving him enough electoral votes to win the white house. Joseph r. Biden of delaware, yeas 55, noes 0. Californias 55 electors put him over the top. Afterwards, president elect said the will of the people had prevailed. The Electoral College in the United States officially voting on monday to declare joe biden the president elect. And biden really seizing that moment to deliver what was really a remarkable speech talking about how american democracy had been tested this year in ways that we had never seen before. But he also said that eventu despite the pandemic, despite abuses of power that we have seen in the country, that the American Democratic system could not be extinguished. It was very clear that th
Nations Largest Teachers Union wants to see education secretary arne duncan resigned from his position. We want to talk about education in the United States and your thoughts on the best way to boost failing schools. Perhaps you will turn to issues with federal policy, or more local and statelevel issues are your interest as well, but overall, the best ways to boost failing schools. Here is how you can weigh in this morning. Host if you go to the washington times, there is a pressfrom the associated about president obama talking about teachers and initiatives for low income areas. Focuses on the education secretary arne duncan pushing for these reforms after the Teachers Union showed a noconfidence vote. Saying that bit this initiative from the white House Centers on efforts to ensure low income and urban districts still have quality teachers. Joining us on the phone to talk about these issues is a reporter for education week. Good morning. Guest good morning, thanks for having me. Hos