Thank you so much. This panel, i let myself in enough income a century and more. I have the pleasure of introducing the moderator for todays discussion, jasmine griffin. She is an author at five books for the focus of your steadiest cultural history. Shes a professor clever university of english and africanamericans daddies. Her current book is titled toward an intellectual history of the women. Ladies and gentlemen, Farah Jasmine griffin. Thank you and good afternoon. I know youre here because you love her sin. Cant hear . That better . Already. Ill keep talking until you can hear me. Ill try to speak a little more loudly. Is that any better . I know youre here because you love Zora Neale Hurston, not because this is one of the only airconditioned venues today. It is wholly appropriate today that we have this panel on someone here in harlem, which is a place for she calls home, a place that inspires mr. Roemer, a place that started her career. This year will mark the 100th anniversary