You will find the candidates, speeches and debates and most importantly your questions. This year road to the white house coverage is in classrooms across the country letting them decide the most important questions for the candidates. Join the coverage on tv, on the radio, and online at cspan. Org. Host welcome to booktv in prime time. Tonight we want to show you some of the panels and authors we have covered at book festivals throughout the year. We will show you panels from vegas, mississippi, harlem. We have a panel on harper lee from the mississippi book festival coming up first. Harper lee panel. [applause] thank you. I thank you. I like being called an expert. I am Anderson Nelson and i want to welcome you to the mississippi book festival and the harper lee considered. I will introduce the panel and we will jump in and the last ten minutes are reserved for audience questions. You can go up to that mike if you questions. This is my panel. We have sterling plumpp first. The editor
Im at the university of memphis. Welcome to the roundtable discussion of Stokely Carmichael. We thought this would be an appropriate moment to discuss Stokely Carmichael. An important locus of civil rights organizing. His political journey takes us through atlanta. Born in trinidad, raised in the bronx, educated at howard university. Moreover, at the 50 year anniversary, between the most formative experiences of Stokely Carmichaels political life. He organized the freedom independent like party. Ependent he introduced the slogan black power. He organized in atlanta and washington, d. C. He traveled the world in alliance with revolutionary political movements. Moving to ginny, changing his name and devoting his last years to the all African Peoples revolutionary party. We brought together a panel of historians and activists. We begin with charles cobb junior. A scholar of the black freedom movement. He attended Harvard University and got involved in demonstrations against segregation. H
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Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Trade, money and politics are our issues this week, and my guest is the outspoken journalist who runs the iconic harpers magazine, which for 164 years now has thrown open its pages to some of the most ferociously independent voices in american letters, from mark twain, jack london and Herman Melville to william styron, Joyce Carol Oates and david foster wallace. As the president and publisher of harpers for the last 31 years,john r. Rick macarthur has been as ferocious a champion of democr
Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Trade, money and politics are our issues this week, and my guest is the outspoken journalist who runs the iconic harpers magazine, which for 164 years now has thrown open its pages to some of the most ferociously independent voices in american letters, from mark twain, jack london and Herman Melville to william styron, Joyce Carol Oates and david foster wallace. As the president and publisher of harpers for the last 31 years,john r. Rick macarthur has been as ferocious a champion of democr