So nice be with you today to talk about this Exciting Book whose and why a hidden chapter from the 18th century invention race. This came out with harvard in 2022 and i love to get started by asking you about the genesis of this project. How how did this project come about. Well thanks its kind of a long story and a story involves the most important kind of person in the project. And thats Henry Louis Gates jr. Apparently, he reading an earlier book that i wrote called the anatomy of blackness that mentioned this debate or this contest which took place at the Bordeaux Academy of sciences. And ill get back to that second and at the same time, he was already thinking about doing a project this, and he just gave me a phone call out of the blue is an amazing day where he said, listen, im going to do a book and im going to call whos black and why about this contest . That took place at the Bordeaux Academy of sciences in 1741, and we worked on it very closely for two years, and it just came
Talk about this Exciting Book whose and why a hien chapter from the 18th century invention race. This came out with harvard in 2022 and i love to get started by asking you about the genesis of this project. How how did this project come about. Well thanks its kind of a long story and a story involves the most important kind of person in the project. And thats Henry Louis Gates jr. Apparently, he reading an earlier book that i wrote called the anatomy of blackness that mentioned this debate or this contest which took place at the Bordeaux Academy of sciences. And ill get back to that second and at the same time, he was already thinking about doing a project this, and he just gave me a phone call out of the blue is an amazing day where he said, listen, im going to do a book and im going to call whos black and why about this contest . That took place at the Bordeaux Academy of sciences in 1741, and we worked on it very closely for two years, and it just came out in paperback, by the way.
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, leaksmp administration and whistleblowers. Today, i have this message for our friends in the Intelligence Community. The department of justice is open for business and i have this warning for would be leakers. Dont do it. We speak to a former cia analyst who is jailed for almost two years after he became the first cia official to differ to declare publicly the bush administrations use of waterboarding. And the mosque bombing on saturday. Why hasnt trump said a word about what the minnesota governor has described as an act of terrorism . Cowardly, ae, it terrible acts committed yesterday. It was a crime. If the roles were reversed, it would be called a terrorist attack and that is what it is. An act of terrorism. The president has been tweeting up a storm on his vacation but not a word on the mosque bombing. All that and more is coming up. To democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. I am amy goodman. The average temperature in the u. S. Has risen dramatically and th
Blew the whistle on the trumpp administration about how scientists are being targeted for speaking out against Climate Change. , leaksmp administration and whistleblowers. Today, have thisis message for our friends in the Intelligence Community. The department of justice is open for business and i have this warning for would be leakers. Dont do it. We speak to a former cia analyst who is jailed for almost two years after he became the first cia official to differ to declare publicly the bush administrations use of waterbrboarding. Anand the mosque bombing onn saturday. Why hasnt trump said a word about what the minnesota governor has described as an act of terrorism . Cowardly, ae, it terrible acts committed yesterday. It was a crime. If the roles were reversed, it would be called a terrorist attack and that is what it is. An act of terrorism. The president has been tweetiting up a storm on his vacation but not a word on the mosque bombing. All that and more is coming up. To democracy