Like ours that witnessed the Police Killing of george floyd. The book is challenging and introspective. Its outraged and quiet and devastating. Early in the book ms. Rankin writes i was always aware that my value in our cultures eyes is determined by my skin color first and foremost. Claudia rankin is a poet, and essayist and playwright. She is a professor of poetry at yale, the new book is titled just us, an american conversation. And we find ms. Rankin at her home in connecticut. I really miss talking to you in person in front of a live audience. Im glad we could make this work. But i just have to say im really going to miss that, so welcome. Host thank you so much kerri for having me. Tell me how, in the before times, before the pandemic you imagined you would be traveling in talking about this book, in front of live audiences. You are right. What we are doing is not what i thought i would be doing. I thought that as close as could come to having conversations with different people
President sanchez so were missing miss norton clerk moliga. President sanchez welcome to our staff and our families and our students particularly with us. Staff leaders and everybody and to my colleagues on the board. This is going to be quite a long meeting. Most likely quite emotional at times and im going to just make the case to the quorum that we need to treat each other with respect. Were not going to tolerate folks talking over other people, particularly our student delegates which happened last week, and so, again, we expect a quorum though we are discussing issues, theres a lot of emotion in this. And i may have to make that plea more than once, but, again, welcome, everybody. Section a is general information. And b is our opening items approval of the board minutes for october 6, 2020. And we need a motion and a second. So moved. Second. Thank you. Any corrections . All right. Roll call. Clerk thank you. [roll call] okay thats five ayes. President sanchez thank you. Two is th
Authors. And then to be simply made of the intensity of an audience in a Community Like ours with the killing of george floyd it is challenging and introspective and quiet and devastating i was always aware my value is determined by my skin color first and foremost. A poet and essayist a professor of poetry at yale and we find her in her home in connecticut. I really miss talking to you in front of a Live Audience im glad we can make this work but i have to say i will miss that. So thank you and welcome. Thank you for having me. Before the pandemic that you would imagine you would be traveling and talking about this book in front of Live Audiences . I thought as close as i could come to have conversations with different people across the country and try to make that happen this is the next best thing. And to speak to a wide range of people before the election to think how we managed to get ourselves where we are. The things that i say about doing these conversations on the stage is tha
National Constitution Center. They are the only institution, chartered by congress, to increase awareness of the constitution among the American People on a nonpartisan basis. We have a series of exciting town halls coming up and i want lug them. A new book, their virginian dynasty. On october 1, the National Constitution center is the National Constitution centers drafting project. Team teamd liberal and team conservative to draft, they will tell us how they think a constitution from scratch would reed and i cant wait to share that with you. We have programs on october in october on immigration and the new book the upswing. I hope you will join us for them as well as tuning into our weekly podcast. Now it is a pleasure to introduce the amazing panelists for this program tonight on the First Amendment, journalism, and the protests. We bill be taking her questions throughout the program, so put them in the Community Box and i will introduce them. Now it is time to introduce our guests a
Can be one of the nations foremost scholars on racism and hes just been tasked with building the center for Antiracist Research that Boston University here in thank you so much for joining us i know you have a new book coming out and it is called antiracist baby id love to understand based on you know what youve done and how to be an antiracist youre reaching further what are you trying to do with this new book that youre releasing. I think its a tool for for parents and guardians and caretakers and teachers to begin nurturing in raising the youngest of people to to to be antiracists to record is human equality to see conditions as problems not necessarily people to value all the different skin colors and you know the young people may not be able to fully understand race and racism especially if theyre 6 months or or one years old but we oftentimes teach 3 months old a 9 month old in one and a half euro children about come Sophisticated Concepts like love and kindness and the older the