And Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanks for joining us. Authorities in little rock, arkansas, say all 25 people wounded by gunfire inside a music club early this morning are expected to survive. The violence occurred around 2 30 a. M. Inside the power ultra lounge, a twostory club a mile from the State Capitol building. Little rock police say several people fired weapons during a rap concert in what they believe was a dispute among rival gang members. Police say those wounded ranged in age from 16 to 35 years old, and all were african american. So far, no arrests have been made. The memphisbased rapper on stage at the time, finese 2times, has expressed his condolences to the victims,
Michael what i would like to do in this talk is introduce you to some of the literature on the counterculture. I should go back for just a moment. This presentation takes much longer to do thoroughly. Im going to hit some of the high points that i want to call attention to the fact that i have the url where the full presentation may be accessed. The final slide will happen again also. That way you could dwell longer on some of the slides, so i will be going over that lightly. The book came out in the last two years. Its called days of rage. In the dust jacket blurb, it reads he gives the story of the american underground revolutionaries and what it has long desperately needed. Conflagration of the counterculture. That is what i want to begin with, because this term counterculture has, in recent years, come to subsume everything that happened in the 1960s, particularly associated with activities on the left, whether they be of political or cultural origin and intent. And you find this t
Disclosure that a u. N. Peacekeeping force from nepal was the source of a cholera outbreak. He leaves readers fully aware of how much remains to be done if haiti is to have a Brighter Future is and it currently is looking at. That is it, they were all fabulous books but one of them has to win the bernstein award. That is dan fagin for toms river a story of science and salvation. [applause] dont go quite yet. Have two words. Wow. All right. I long for liz. [applause] wow. Long form lives because of people like the bernstein family. Thank you very much for places like New York Public Library that care about reality, care about what actually is in this world. It lives because of people like you that support this kind of work and it especially lives because of amazing books like david and jonathan and fred and sheri fink and we are just surrogates for a much Larger Population of people who do this work everyday. This is an amazing faint. Truth actually matters and when it stopped smatterin
But the book is tentatively titled little is the new big, or why little is the new big. And its about what weve been talking about with Community Shops and the explosive growth of farmers markets, the explosive growth of independent bookstores and people looking to reclaim their own lives and, you know, no harm to them, the people who work in walmart are nice people, but to stay out of walmart, to stay out of the ways in which walmart and other very, very Large Businesses do business that the costs are hidden. The shortterm cheapness is paying a longterm, is taking a longterm price out of us and out of our childrens futures. Be so im working on a book about that. Well, my husband was born in a ham let in southwest virginia which one . Darwin, virginia, which we found recently had more or less disappeared from the map. But when he was six months also, his parents moved to puff frees borrow murfreesboro which was like moving to new york city. He had not been back until two years ago we w
Inspired all the time either work of these young scholars. A day that farah came to speak to our class, the work were studying was pain, which is already one of my favorite books. It was so moving because i realized while she was giving us this wonderful guidance, the first time id been taught literature by a black person, besides my mother who was of course my first instruction in reading and writing but its one of those moments that if you like should be marked and i want to extend my gratitude for that, and you continue to inspire me. Thank you so much. Thats the great joys of teaching, you dont know who is sitting out there in terms of this extraordinarily talented young writer who i would read it many years later without knowing that she was one of the students in the class. So its really lovely to think it also for being here tonight. I wanted to ask farah to share with us the introduction of harlem nocturne. Is really a beautiful way she brings these women onto the page pics i w