I am lily and im a bend associate of politics and prose and im really glad you were here tonight. We do events all of the city from our main store on connecticut avenue to our busboys and poets who locations. We have gotten incredibly diverse and dynamic lineups this season starting tonight and continuing in the next few weeks with Sybrina Fulton and tracy martin who are the parents of trayvon martin. We hope you will join us for those events. Tonight we are so glad you have joined us to welcome Michael Eric Dyson who is a Georgetown Professor of sociology and ordained minister and author of 19 books most recently the black presidency from which he read at politics and prose not thank. His newest book tears we cannot stop a sermon to White America is the core Patrick Phillips New York Times has book that should take its place in baltimore and the fire next time in kings when we way. Combines colter mouses personal experience and is consuming in every way. Washington post Carlos Lovato