Facebook. Com booktv. My forthcoming book is called r freedom now, and i have an edited volume, black women respond to michelle obama. I want to welcome everybody on behalf of the links, wonderful organization here in charlottesville, virginia, as well as the Virginia Foundation for the humanities and the producers of the virginia festival of the book. Please turn off all your cell phones, okay . I will just tell you the festival is free of charge, not free of cost. So please remember to go online and give back or pick be up a giving envelope from the information desk at the omni hotel and support your festival so we may sustain it for many, many years. Please till out the evaluations, these provide useful information that helps the festival continue to be free and open to the public. Following the talk there will be a book sale so, please, support our fabulous authors by buying tear books, okay their books, okay . And the program today is called africanamerican stories of work, change
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The poor black neighbourhoods where the burly Washingtonian has spent 20 years trying to improve educational opportunity are among the most ravaged in the country. Plagued by generations of poverty and ill-health, black residents of the capital city have succumbed to the virus at six times the rate of whites. And with government-support programmes running dry, even as many of Washington’s restaurants and other businesses remain shut, years of steady poverty alleviation in the city are unravelling.