In terms of generationally did not prepare us for the work that needs to happen today. Thats the critique i was making about trading on individual success without a sense of social responsibility. Who are your parents . My parents are both retired professionals. One was a School Teacher and administrator of the Chicago Public schools for 35 years and my father recently retired was photojournalist. He worked for Johnson Johnson publishing in the early days, charlotte observer, news day, for past 20 years, New York Times staff photographer. Are they retired from new york. My mother always lived in chicago. My parent were divorced when i was young. My father lived in new york for over 30 years. What is your lineage . The famous part of my lineage, the part i know as opposed to distantly, im greatgrandson of the founder of Elijah Mohammed founder of nation of islam. My mother never converted but very much formative to my early years my First Cousins aunts and uncles all very much part of t
That collection arrived at the 135th Street Public Library 90 years ago. He was a bibliophile who migrated from puerto rico in 1891 found a job on wall street work in the mailroom saves his pennies and worked really hard and bought anywhere are unique but he could find that was by or about black people. He eventually became famous for this collection. People would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library to borrow from the Library People like Langston Hughes and eventually people like and when the librarian at the library and library decided she had a lot of lack patrons coming to the library and a large immigrant community at the time she said ive got to find material for my patrons and ultimately schombergs collection of 5000 items was purchased by Carnegie Corporation and a variety of 90 years ago and made up the core of what now today is a 10 million item collection at the Schomberg Center. Host how did the Schomberg Center end up at 135th . Guest this was the settlement zone
Hospital, the chief of staff who so generously allowed us to broadcast from the harlem atrium. Its a wonderful place. It was important because while we usually broadcast from schaumburg it was important to introduce another harlem institution and interestingly enough to have a more literally the harlem hospital live, the schaumburg in another way but i wanted you to just know that harlem is a vibrant community, a community that in many ways sustains not only those who live here but is the idea of harlem and what it represents it sustains us all. So i wanted wanted to thank harlem hospitals. I wanted to thank christopher from the Public Affairs department who i have called too many times and i know he has answered the phone to many times. So thank you christopher. With all that is going on in the nation, i think it is important to begin the harlem book fair with an opening remark and that is, we know what is. My question is, what is the alternative and for me the alternative is for us t
To. A book i am rereading. I am also reading a book at the National Gallery a week or so ago called the accidental masterpiece. It is about how you see art and to me i am a great lover of art, every day objects, everywhere you look. An interesting book i picked up. You see by my office, i do my own art. And keep my day job here. Reading, i want to mention, is foundational. I was not born in this country. English is not my first language. I credit a library and in Elementary School who awakened my love of reading and i remember the book, those who sit at her feet at the library and she read is mary poppins. That brought the love of reading for me which was foundational. You should be a reader. I am a pretty voracious reader. Anything else you are reading this summer . I picked up i read as a new yorker compilation, short stories on the ipad, those are things i can read and when i have time, as i said, i have a number of those books on my ipad. The other thing i want to mention is often
He demanded that the group got off of the horses immediately. And so here was this group in the middle of egypt they have no idea where they were were in there is some friction sometimes with americans in egypt now but she felt like she was in a vulnerable state. After a couple of miles find their way to familiar ground. They were open to real problems. I guess thats its a long answer to say you want to makes something can crash actually in place and certainly not while you are abroad. You want to get it all taken care of before you go overseas. We want to thank everyone for coming. Very thorough information. Its my pleasure to be able to do this. Please grab a slice of pizza before you leap. Thank you very much. [applause]. In your watching book tv on cspan two. Here is a look at what is on our prime time schedule for tonight. It will kick off at about 6 45 6 45 eastern time for the lessons that they learned. And 9 00 p. M. Nadia lopez discusses her work at a school in brooklyn. In 10