Im the provost at the university of tennessee at martin and tiff pleasure of hosting this session, shared history, americans of hispanic and african decent. Southern festival books remains completely free thanks to Strong Community support f youd like to donate to support the festival, you can do so on site at the Festival Headquarters or online via the humanitys tennessee website. You can purchase copies of the books that will be discussing today at the books sales area which is up on the Memorial Plaza and after the session both of our authors will be signing books at the signing tent. Our session today is going to focus on two books, dr. Kerry gibsons book el norte, epic and forgotten story of hispanic north america and Kristina Coles american founders how people after african decent established freedom in the new world. In just a minute we will hear from both of the authors and after that questions from the audience. Dr. Carry gibson grew up in United States and graduated from the
And thats something we really cant take for granted. The festival begins on individual donations to keep going into say free and you can donate at any level via the southern festival of books through their facebook page. The southern festival of books app. This weekend in person at vessel headquarters. See mac i want to encourage everyone to visit humanities labor literary website. There are wonderful reviews there. You can also sign up for a weekly newsletter information about upcoming author events. And also a great way to be a part of the literary community. In tennessee. Finally, after our session jason will be signing books at the signing tent on the plaza. And plaza. And copies of the books are for sale at the sales area and a portion of the proceeds directly benefits the festival. Enough announcements it is my delight to introduce jason depaul. I could talk for a long while about his decades of extraordinary writing about poverty and immigration among other publications in the N
Well, you can argue about who started it, but there has been a decided deterioration in the governments relationship with the eu in the last few days. The Prime Minister thinks there are people in brussels not from all the other Member States but brussels itself whove been stirring things up, and in the process, interfering in our election. If that was the case, the effect has probably been to help her. But for the europeans, the point is simply that they have now agreed their shared negotiating position that was over the weekend and if it appears tough well, thats not their doing, thats brexit. You might say this is alljust the dynamics of nationalism one side asserts itself, then so does the other. But has it poisoned the atmosphere for the real negotiation about to hit us . Well hear eu and uk perspectives, but first heres nick watt. Dont know why theres no sun up in the sky, stormy weather. The outlook for theresa may in this election has so far been pretty benign but an ill wind l
Morning. Not fighting for the title. Looking at a much brighte day morning. Looking at a much brighter day with more sunshine but it will feel cooler outside today. Meanwhile, the north of the uk, will continue to see some scattered showers. Join me for a full forecast a little bit later on. Its sunday november the 22nd. Our top story a plan to lift englands lockdown on december 2 will be finalised by government ministers today. The Prime Minister is planning to replace the National Lockdown with a stricter version of the three tiered system of restrictions, with more areas facing tougher rules, although pubs maybe allowed to stay open until beyond 10pm. Our Political Correspondent leila nathoo reports. What will christmas look like this year . We will soon find out. Tomorrow, borisjohnson will confirm to parliament that glenda is coming out of National Lockdown on the second of december and going back into three tiers of coronavirus restrictions. England is coming out. More areas unde
Good morning. Cool air good morning. Coolair is good morning. Cool air is arriving further north of the uk today, with rain followed by blustery showers and some sunshine. In the south it stays mild, but pretty cloudy, but that cooler areas moving across all of the uk by the time we to tomorrow. Cooler air is. I will have a full forecast coming up a bit later on. Its saturday 21st november. Our top story. The nhs has started setting up coronavirus Vaccination Centres across the uk, with the hope of getting all adults vaccinated by the spring. With infection rates dropping and levelling off in all four nations, the government has asked the medical regulator to asses the Pfizer Biontech vaccine for uk use. Anna oneill reports. This is the ray of light as described by the Health Secretary. Millions of doses of this pfizer ion tech vaccine against covid i9 could be heading to britain as early as next month, and the nhs is getting ready for a mass Vaccination Programme. ready for a mass Vac