Maxine is blessing us spiritually today as if to fabulous books and who wrote a fabulous book. We are really excited to be focusing on something positive as we get closer and closer to an election part and as we get crazier and crazier locked inside of our homes. Loyalty exist to uplift. Minority voices, clear voices in our community and those we are honored your joining us tonight. Reclaiming her time, all things maxine water and the legend that is maxine. Reclaiming her time is funny. But it is also inspiring. Brings up a champion in the face of ridiculous injustice. Also, ridiculous injustice as our authors. We are honored to be joined today by Helena Andrews dyer a fulltime columnist at the Washington Post covering popular children culture in the capital, sometimes children. [laughter] i think its a misprint i think were at childrens childrens level, sorry well. [laughter] before joining the post helene it was a contribute editor at xo jane additional womens magazine founded by jan
Opportunity. You may or may not know that tulsa is one of six chapters throughout the country to host a pen america chapter, we have pen america tulsa, im really proud to say im the leader of that group and its been a relationship that just gets better and better. We had the opportunity to do several events with pen, probably even prior to our affiliation as an actual chapter. It really started laying the groundwork for this relationship moving forward. Its something that if you dont know the work that penn does, its a very inextricably linked to what we are talking about tonight in many ways. Pen is an organization that advocates for authors, for freedom of the press, for all kinds of important things that are tied to the mission we have through magic city books and the tulsa literary coalition. If you dont know their work i would invite you to go to pen. Org and see every thing they are doing. There is so much going on with limitations to press freedoms, every day something is happen
Piling on the pressure in bellary small factory workers go on strike as they join protests calling the president to step down. And gazas only power plant shuts down leaving 2000000. 00 people with only 4 hours of electricity a day. Away what appears to be a coup is unfolding in one of west africas largest country soldiers have staged a mutiny at a military base near malis capital bamako and now say they detained the president and Prime Minister protesters of ransacked government offices after months of demonstrations demanding president abraham cater step down the back of reports. Hundreds of antigovernment protesters border to the streets of the mali and capital bamako some ransacking and burning government offices. They were responding to reports of an army intervention in the countrys trouble politics and the rest of president abraham cater a Prime Minister who polices say. Heavily on troops were seen as scorching a vehicle believed to be carrying the president. Weve come out today
Host among the speakers and activities you can see as part of this coverage tonight is former president bill clinton and there will be a roll call of america among the states as part of the nomination process for joe biden represented Alexander Ocasio cortez the democrat from newve york and rounding up this former second lady jill biden. Our coverage will start on the platforms where you can follow along as well. S when it comes to last nights coverage in the speakers the Washington Post highlights photographs of some of the highlights of the speakers heard senator sanders, Bernie Sanders of vermont and a former Ohio Republican Governor John Kasich but it was Michelle Obama getting a lot of the attention last night to the Washington Post story saying its a centerpiece speech of the night a searing indictment of her husband Barack Obamas Michelle Obama declared the president has mishandled the pandemic in this failed, to respond over the death of black americans she warned that they may
Mythmaking. In many cases these days made americans lives far worse off and in researching this book i found scores of data particularly from gallup and they have asked American Voters for decades now the answers have been overwhelming. The American People simply dont trust the media by a margin of 70 to tell them the truth about some of the ills of the political policies have created and another 60 of American People dont trust politicians to tell the truth about those issues as well. Researching and meticulously detailing the problems also laying out some solutions but having the fact for people to see and in many areas there is glaring issues has been a true testament to the research in this book who is they in the book. Is it just media or others . Explain a lot of this in the introduction. Being a young black man on a college campus, my college campus, unfortunately, looked like too many College Campuses today where young people are not encouraged to think radically but are instea