reporter: i just recently was promoted to full professor. congratulations. [applause]. so my colleagues might be watching this morning. james baldwin, i have a very good relationship with him when i first encountered his name i encountered it as my dad working in the village together. then then i met him when i was 14. i remember coming behind him and tracing collars as an adult in graduate school his words blonde with audrey and it literally saved my life. i was one of only two african-americans in the program to my knowledge on the first african-american to graduate in poetry and the msa program. so it was very isolated. my friends were the ladies who cleaned the building and we would talk about those sort of things. i would remember that i was young them. them. i was in my 20s feeling a real rage. his rage really help me it was sustained and it was intellectual. it was not messy rage it was purposeful rage. that was a real lesson that i learned from him. i reme
please silence your cell phones if you would. in terms of books which i know you all want to make sure you get the books you are going to be hearing about this morning outside the capitol building on mississippi st.. there are number of sellers who will have looks and adjacent to the industry as the signing tent. in the back page of your brochure you will see this fantastic schedule. authors will not necessarily be on immediately after the panel so just check the other name and the time in the brochure. we are delighted to have c-span broadcasting live this morning so welcome to jackson. the panel will also be shown on october so if you want to review it again. thank you for the state legislature for the use of this facility today and i want to thank the authors and the moderators for being here with us this morning. the first panel is sponsored by the university of southern mississippi friends of the university library so we are grateful for their support and now i will intr
this is an author panel on education issues. [inaudible conversations] good morning. welcome again to the 2016 mississippi book festival. [inaudible] all right. i think we re ready to get started. welcome to the 2016 book festival. this is our panel this morning on schools and change. i just have a few housekeeping rules. please remember to silence your cell phones. books of these and many of the other authors here today will be available outside the state capitol building. the booksellers are out on mississippi street, and signing tent is directly opposite that. you ll see in the back of the program the full book-signing schedule with authors and the times that they ll be signing today. we re delighted to have c-span broadcasting live with us today from jackson, mississippi. i want to thank the state legislature for allowing us the use of this facility today to come together. i want to thank the authors and the moderators today for helping us celebrate literature and the
AMMAN Pella, an ancient site located approximately 100 kilometres northwest from Amman, was discovered in 1818 by Charles Irby and James Mangles. Pella was part of ancient Decapolis, a coalition of cities during the Hellenistic Period, and it was a Bronze Age centre.
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