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
Washington examiner he accuse Marc Lamont Hill of supporting genocide against jews which is just utterly ridiculous and we have even people like ben shapiro was a popular personality on the right he also joined the campaign to brand Mark Lamont Hill and were in an environment where people are susceptible to smear campaigns there is no question about it and unfortunately Large Media Companies are concerned about their image and so they sometimes respond in the wrong way to smear campaigns you know twice over the past decade c. N. N. Has fired veteran journalists jim clancy and Octavia Nasser for online comments that offended pro israel voices and unbeknownst to most of the networks viewers its lead political anchor wolf blitzer wasnt always a journalist he used to work for apac a one time pro israel lobbyist now occupying a c. N. N. Anchor chair his former employer and. Other pro israel advocates dont just focus their efforts on politicians elected to congress or News Networks based in
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