Industry, americas Cable Television company, as a public and brought to you today i your television provider. Good evening. My name is leslie kavasch and im here to introduce our guest, clyde ford. Client is former assistant engineer with ibm. He graduated from university of Western State here in portland as a doctor of chiropractic, and he is a trained psychotherapist. He the awardwinning author of 12 works of fiction and nonfiction. Clive is recipient of the rate award, in African American literature as well as numerous other awards for his books. Hes been a guest on the oprah show, npr, and radio and tv programs across the nation. Clyde is here tonight to speak about his latest book think black which was just released shortlisted for the 2019 book prize in social justice. Wed you please join me in welcoming to the planetarium at the Oregon Museum of science and industry clyde ford. [applause] thank you leslie and thank you all for being here. I cant tell you how special it is to bee
Good evening everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im yuval levin, director of constitutional studies at ai and it is my great pleasure to commute to a discussion of the land of hope, the new one volume history of our country by the Great American story and Wilfrid Mcclay area is a book that comes a time when questions of who we are as a people, whether we can have a unifying rather than a divisive story and of how to tell the story of our country in a way that neither some shorts our National Greatness north white washes our national sins, are really live questions in our politics and what may be on unusual way and this book is clearly intended to speak to just that moment though there could be a better time to hear from bill about his sense of howto approach these questions. Bill mcclay is a national treasure. Pure and simple. He is first and foremost a teacher. Behold the blankenship care and history of liberty at the history of oklahoma. He has admired and bowl o
Stay and how you defend yourself in those contexts is one of those conversations that we need to be having so muchmore as a culture. I think it opens up so many doors for people. Megan is herself a writer and activist. She left the Westboro Baptist church in 2012 and isan educator on topics related to extremism and communication across ideological lines. At the age of five megan began protesting homosexuality and other vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist church into beaconkansas. The church was founded by her grandfather and consisted almost entirely of her extended family. The group gained notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy. As the churchs twitter spokesman megan was one of the few thatinteracted with the outside world. And twitter did something for. Maybe we can applaud it it caused her to begin doubting the Strict Church leaders and their message it humans are sinful and fallible how can the church itself be so con