Offers programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. Keep watching for more here on cspan2 and watch any of our past programs online a book tv. Org. Hello and welcome to grapevine, harlem renaissance, 19th annual book library festival. I am benedict carton, with africanamerican studies, we appreciate your attendance today. The festival runs through saturday, october 14th. For all the most uptodate information on this festival and all the other programs throughout the year, visit ballstothebooks. All one word. This is funded through donations was one way to help us through this kind of programming is friends of fall for the book. To learn more visit please visit their website again. We ask that you please remember to silence your cell phones and thank you for filling out a survey and improve the festival of the future. Thank you to our main sponsor in africanamerican studies so we are pleased to have here Marylouise Patterson and Jeffrey Stewart, two writers who examine key figur
This festival is a a nonprofit that is funded exclusively through donations. One of the ways to help us through this kind of programming is through the friends of fall for the book. To learn more please visit that website again. We ask that you please remember to silence your cell phone and thank you in advance of filling out a survey which will help fall for the book improve the festival in the future. Thank you to our main sponsor, african and africanamerican studies. So we are pleased to have fear Marylouise Patterson and Jeffrey Stewart, two writers who examine key figures of the harlem renaissance, Langston Hughes and alan locke, respectively. In letters from langston dr. Patterson explores relationship that her family but particularly her mother had with Langston Hughes, and in the new negro the life of alain locke, Jeffrey Stewart chronicles the education and career of the central figure in the harlem renaissance. Its important Say Something about the subjects that they write ab
Created back in the wake of the depression by roosevelt in order to help make Home Ownership more widely available. After words airs sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern. You can watch all previous after words programs at booktv. Org. Columbia University Professor Susan Pedersen is next on booktv. She recalls the paris peace be conference after world war i and the creation of the league of nations. The great war had been a war of empires, and to the victorious allied powers, it seemed as if militaristic and aggressive empires had been defeated while the oppressive empire, the russians, had fallen by the wayside in the throes of revolt. It seemed as if the good empires who thought of themselves as having reluctantly acquired their possessions and had administered these for the good of their peoples had triumphed. Now it was left to the victors to clean up the mess, so to speak. President wilson had stressed the selfdetermination of nations as one of his 14 points, but this idea came up against dem
Its not covering southern delaware or extreme south jersey. The entire area aside from that is getting rain. It gets heavier time to time. We see a couple little blotches of yellow indicating moderate rain. We dont see thunderstorms. We dont see flooding potential, partly because it looks like a large area until you widen out. So this rain wont be lasting all day and not likely to be falling during the afternoon rush. As we go through the afternoon, you can see how fast it starts to move out by 1 00. Were already seeing some improvement. By 2 00 some parts of the area may be seeing sunshine. Temperatures going up into the 60s. Later today before sunset maybe more of the area with a little sunshine. A couple lingering showers up toward the poconos and then the wind starts to pick up, the skies clear and we get nice weather coming in, although it will be chilly. Well see how cold that will get, how long it will last in the seven day within a few minutes. Just in into the newsroom, Police
And earlier today in North Carolina where george floyd was born a third Memorial Service was held to honor his life. And among the mourners were his sister and his brother who both spoke about their loss. Im still devastated and very much overwhelmed by this. That ill never hear his voice, ill never hear his laughter have his hugs and me tell him i love him and like wise him tell me the same. We have reporters across the country covering todays events. Lets begin in los angeles where protests began at 8 00 a. M. This morning. Prosee youre still marching down there. Whats it like . Youre from here, im from here. This is not something you see every day. This is not something you see every ten years in los angeles. Take a look at this. As far as the eye can see in a city not know for its civic participation there are people everywhere in downtown los angeles. This march, katey, started on the steps of city hall where the Eric Garcetti the mayor nounced earlier in the we can hes going to t