Under the Circle Mission with the Community Working for social justice and encouraging diverse and marginalized, all through the virtual formats, we feel very fortunate that we have the privilege of talking to authors who live around the country during this time and we feel it is really significant that we continue to do the programming that we are to have scheduled because folks need history as we move through this historic time. There is really no, i cannot give a better book to help us focus on what the movement on right now and what we can do right now, and the books of 1962 and 2015. We have the editor here, michael and pam who is a lifelong collaborator for justice in his widow we hope will be on soon, shes having technical difficulties. Im going to invite you to settling and make yourself at home and we will get to some questions in the chat, please keep your cell phone and you can turn your camera on, you do not have to turn it on but were just going to enjoy some time with mic
He was smooth and cool, he was good looking. He was smart. And he always was a complete package. The spoke eloquently for africanamericans and the four in this country. One of the great things about this is not too long ago we had a student come in i was looking for a biography of anna Clayton Powell. And there was not one. Although books about him were outofprint. So it is a privilege really to have king of the gas back in print and also privilege for us to have will be good here to talk about it. Welcome back king of the cats the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, jr. Welcome hi and thank you. Wil it is always nice to be here. At this bookstore. They did treat me like i live in the neighborhood which i do. They treat me as if i come here and do all of my book shopping which i do. I also noticed that there are these posters. They are advertising the authors for the month of february. My picture is right in the center of the poster free it is so nice to have your picture on the pos
In washington dc. Host i would like to welcome you to politics and prose. And i would like to welcome wil haygood that we see him several times a week. Is a customer in front of the store. In the author of the book that we are celebrating tonight. One of the things that i like about this book, a sign that it is a biography of one of the great men of the last century. His title. King of the cats. Because it so adequate describes Adam Clayton Powell jr. It was smooth and he was cool and goodlooking. He was smart. And he always was a complete package. And he spoke eloquently for africanamericans and the poor in this country. One of the great things about this, we have student come in was looking for a biography of Adam Clayton Powell jr. There wasnt one. All of the books about him were outofprint. So is a privilege really to have king of the cats back in front read and also privilege for us to have wil haygood here to talk about his book. Walk on. [applause]. Adam welcome. Thank you. It i
In his career with the happenings of the harlem renaissance. Mr. Wil haygood connections to the hughes and lena horne. A generation of africanamericans found success in their perspective fields during the start of a broader Civil Rights Movement. Wil haygood discusses i his boos with an agent magazine. Another of the peoples history of sports in the united states. Host welcome my name is dave and i am the Sports Editor for the nations magazine and im absolutely thrilled at the interview, to be interviewing a man who has written a tremendous biography about the greatest pound for pound boxer of the 20th century. That boxers name is walker, smith junior. Better known as Sugar Ray Robinson. And the author, is wil haygood. How you doing. Wil im good and its good to be here. Host it is great to be here. Dave i really do think this book is worthy of Sugar Ray Robinson. As a great achievement. So congratulations right away. You are not a sports biographer by trade right. Why did you decide to
Of the state. Where people had their social networks, their continuities. One of the interesting things has come out of those ofnections was a kind leadership out of a black congregation, particularly the clergy. In this discussion, i am going ,o talk too much about men but males have dominated in some ways the kind of conversation about american politics for a number of reasons as we can see. Let us see if my little thing works. Let us try that again. A host ofare characters. I will not talk about all of them. There are some things that i really want you to Pay Attention to. One, it says Indigenous Community organizations. Black churches are Indigenous Community organizations. By the it is controlled people at the very lowest level. At the ground level. I dont mean that in terms of status but at the ground level. Thatherefore, you can see it creates its own organic leadership. A leadership that belongs to its own community. About that aalk little more, these terms, ecclesial politics.