Available to the public for research and we host an ample number of programs. Thisevening , Anthony Pangaro who is a good friend of the Historical Society will do the honors of introducing our speaker. I wanted to take a moment to greet everyone and welcome you to the massachusetts Historical Society so without further ado i turn it over to Anthony Pangaro. [applause] good evening everyone, thank you gavin. Gavin has put together a terrific number of programs at massachusetts historical including definitive conversations about the era well over ayear ago which is where i first met liz. Its a pleasure for me to have a pleasant task of introducing liz and the book. How to begin . This is a book about a lifetimes work, about a career based in the strong premise that cities were important and vital to civilization,vital to this country, not only the world and i think liz has captured it. Ill let you her tell you about the book but ill tell you one story about it which lets you know how i f
Occupations in the modern world. In revolutionary movements whats whats remarkable really about them is that they were in addition to being over represented in key modern professions they were equally over represented in the world of capitalism. Now use the banking and so on just to conclude briefly on the one hand and various anticapitalist radical movements on the other including both of us along with other road movements and those observations. Are all beautifully controversial. In your work you often rely on matter forests as a vehicle for the historical narrative and i think in the jewish century in particular youre talking about jews not only as an ethnic group but more so as a matter for for modernity moreover you start and and your book with the prediction that we will all become jews at some point of time. What do you mean no i dont really see that we will become jews im saying that we that being modern. Means being in some ways similar to. The traditional jewish way of acting
A political suicide bomb for the Democratic Party. A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at moscow thanks for joining us this hour. The russian president s annual q. And a session has wrapped up at the Moscow World Trade Center spending well over 4 hours this year a lot more putin fielding questions on both domestic and International Issues with the latest stepping scandal and the impeachment proceedings against donald trump among the topics raised now lets cross live to our correspondent in the a franco lots of topics have been covered what did we learn. Hey there jack well 1st of all let me bring up the russian constitution because this is something that lot of our putin does and talk about quite often well this time he actually hinted that some parts of it may be changed and in particular he spoke about changing the cost to sion to make it up allow only 2 president ial terms now why is that a big deal while there was a lot of public debate about this specific aspect
Mitchell jackson. [applause] even came to his new times bestselling author and the founding director of the Antiracist Research and policy center at american university. A professor of history and International Relations and a frequent public speaker, hes a columnist at the atlantic. He is author of stand from the beginning which won the National Book award for nonfiction. And the black Campus Movement which one the wb doughboy book prizethat is the author of how to be in how to be an antiracist. In this book its combination of ethics, history, law and sciee bring it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism. Sarah broom has appeared in the new yorker, the New York Times magazine, the oxford american and Oprah Magazine among others. She received her masters in journalism from the university of california berkeley and was awarded a a foundation created nonfiction grant in 2016. House in 1961 sarah broomes mother ive remade thought ab and built h
Is a columnist at the atlantic. He is the author of stand from the beginning the definitive history and racist a he is the author of how to be an antiracist. Bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakenings antiracism. Sarah broome has appeared in the new yorker, the New York Times magazine, the oxford american and Oprah Magazine among others. She received her masters in journalism from the university of california berkeley and awarded the waiting Foundation Creative nonfiction grant in 2016. She is the author of yellow house in 1961 sarah broomes mother ive remade thought ab and built her world inside of it. Widowed, ivory may remarried sarahs father simon broome and their combined family would eventually number 12 children. Yellow house tells a story of 100 years of her family and their relationship to a home and a neglected area of one of americas most metallized cities. Mitchell jacksons debut novel one curtis j gaines award for literary excellence