And her political affect she was on a first name basis with everyone from hermie everyone from harry truman to lbj and sang at the white house. But her own autobiography had hundreds of listings where she was and what she sang and why shes hanging. Why she sang it. There are other people who did as much or more but the hell you jackson was the lone black artists who could afford to do that. The ward sisters to a degree, but they were marching on the front lines, dividing the music at the meetings, giving where they could and doing benefit concerts. That has never been chronicled the way i think it deserved to be. When we started nothing but love and gods water, we went to the places where the movement happened and tried to track down not just the gospel singers, but the pastors, the djs, the people on the front lines, the members of the mass choirs and said what did you sing, where did you sing it and why did you sing it . Why were you compelled to sing this in the face of the dogs and
Communicating with or viewing the profile of a minor. He violated section 2. 5 by speaking. His friends and family about his experience in traffic court. If today he would to view or respond to any of the thousands of twitter messages about his case in this court that would be a felony. Second, the lot does not operate in some sleepy First Amendment corner. It operates in freespeech on the platforms of which America Today are most likely to communicate, to organize for social change and to petition their government. Third, section is a criminal law and imposes punishment for protective First Amendment activity without any regard to individual culpability or lack of culpability. Of the state imposes restriction as a condition of payroll. Your honor, i think, they have much more authority to impose conditional parole and states do this all the time. They limit peoples First Amendment rights and if you had something that was is seen as this for life for anybody who committed a offense,. J
If you can possibly make it to the microphone that is right here next to this pillar we would be really grateful because that makes the audio much more enjoyable for those who are trying to listen who arent actually physically in this space it if you have a phone or nose making device on your person and you could possibly silence it or make it so that it wont make noise, wed be grateful for that. And then lastly at the end of the event if you wouldnt mind folding up your chair and putting them to the side, elaine will sign bookings up here, we have plenty of copies up front. I think, you all know what it looks like, and shed be happy to sign at the end up here at table. I also want to just point out that we are coming to the end of warms History Month its been a great month for us here at the store. Weve had some terrific events i think for me this unwith is the highlight. We have a whole table dedicated to books related to womens history up at the front of the store and were very, ver
Backpack. Its licensed in the state of louisiana, and ive got a little weed. [laughter] so you know just shut up already. So he ended up having to take a plea. Because he defeated attorneys ability to get the stop, the evidence was obtained as a result of the stop suppressed because he volunteered this information. Everybody will say, you know, you didnt read robbin shipps book. [laughter] she told you to just shut up. So now this kid has a criminal record. Hes got a felony record. And a serious felony record because he was committing a felony, the amount of marijuana he had was a felony amount. And then he was in the possession of a firearm. So he got a gun charge on his record. Hes like 26. No priors, none of that. And he had this long history also though of Mental Health challenges. And we talked about that, and we talked about the fact that black and brown folks dont like to get their kids tested. Well, why not . You know . My child as learning disabilities, developmental challenge
[applause] good afternoon. The telling of history is consequential and recognition is consequential also. I am deeply honored and appreciated to receive the american book award today. I am also very honored to share it with the other recipients today who have presented such rot and real engagements for social life. Not the least it is also quite an honor to share the award with previous recipients, some of the people who shaped my intellectual development. Kerry snyder, edwards i eat, and very baraka. I want to thank first of all waldo martin column aye author. We spent many years together working on this vote. I want to thank my friends and family in the audience in my many comrades and colleagues who helped make this poker reality along the way. There are too many to thank individually. You know who you are and i never could have dreamed of getting here without you. Thank you. The recognition is nice, or writing the history of the black interparty let alone the 12 years that, but the