Im susan crawford. Is the john a riley clinical of law at harvard law school. She previously was obamas assistant to the president for science and innovation policy and coled the fcc transition between his and the bush administration. As an academic, she teaches courses about Climate Adaptation and leadership. Crawford is the of several books, including captive audience, the Telecom Industry and monopoly power in the gilded and fiber coming Tech Revolution and why america might miss it. Joining her tonight is randall kennedy, the Michael Klein professor of law at harvard law school. He received degrees from princeton, yale and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and is a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood marshall. Hes the author of race, crime and the law a winner of the Robert F Kennedy book award and the persistence of the color line, racial politics and the obama presidency, among others. Tonight will discuss susans new book charleston race. Water the coming storm, wh
It is my deep conviction that we have reached a turning point in the long history of our countrys efforts to guarantee freedom and equality to all our citizens. Our immediate task is to move the last remnants of the barrier, which stand between millions of our citizens and their birthright. We must make the federal government a friendly, vigilant defender of the rights and equality of all americans. When i say all americans, i mean all americans. We can no longer afford luxury of a leisurely attack upon prejudice and discriminate never before has the need been so urgent for skillful and vigorous action to bring us closer to. Our ideal. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Clifton Truman. Daniel. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. I am Clifton Truman daniel and it is my great pleasure to welcome you to the Opening Event of the truman civil rights symposium 75 years ago today. My grandfather our president , harry truman, changed the course of American History when he signed executive or
Witnesses. Just because my own story touches on everything these three write about, i recommend all the books. Theyre wonderful. I and ellie native, which is something that does not surprise people as much as it used to, but my family came from the louisiana, from new orleans. My father came in 1942 during the war, and this kind of to margarets book. My family did not talk a whole lot about what happened in the south. You just did not hear a lot. I put it together over the course of my life, really. As an essayist, i always tried to sort of dove right i dont know write about the history of black folk and about my own individual life, which is very hard to do. I think im still trying to put those pieces together, so all these books speak to that effort, i think, by black people to continue to do that. We are in the era of black lives matter, which is the same campaign we have been running for a very long time. I think of dr. King in 1968. His last campaign for the sanitation workers in
Earth day. I hope you go do Something Special for the earth but we are happy. We have an unbelievably special panel today. We are lucky. There will be a lot we can learn from these individual books that you think you know about these subjects but will find your surprised to learn, as i was when i read them. I will introduce myself. I am dan smith, a writer from montana. I like to come here and get sunshine in the spring so its nice to be here. We will be doing some book signings and i urge you to join us if you want to talk to talk to any of these authors. We will lead you out. I want to introduce each person with a brief biography so you know who they are. First, i would say this is one of my books, so i will let you know that i will have a book fair as well, letters from yellowstone, but to the important ones. First is david maraniss. He wrote this book, the life of jim thorpe. An associate editor at the Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at vanderbilt. Hes won tw
so the first and most important thing people can do is go out and get vaccinated. that will keep people, kids, adults, everybody out of the hospital at very high rates. that is probably the most important thing. and then we know how to manage rsv. most children, most adults, relatively mild. small somebody of kids that get sick from it, we can take care of it. we need to make sure the beds are open for children which is why it is important to protect yourself from influenza and covid as well. are we going to be seeing makeshift hospitals or wards for children this winter? i hope not. we re seeing a lot of rsv right now. my hope is that turns around. what worries me is if we then add in influenza and covid on top of that, that s where we can get into trouble, but we don t have to. we can t control everything, but there are things we can control. the two most important things now are going out and getting the influenza shot, the flu shot and getting the new updated covid sh