Music has shaped the course of history songs can be vehicles for social change and happened speired rebels pioneering thinkers and Freedom Fighters from bela chao to the good duncanson fi the old freedom songs are still played today and new versions of classics are really recorded i think that music can help give people courage help remind people that theyre not alone. Music does not stop at borders it connects people brings hope and unites communities people of found singing together gives them a sense of being my. Last concert and that solidarity of song i think is the most powerful tool we use. Come the sound of freedom has no creed culture or color. I. This is injustice and inequality theres going to be a protest song. And it can feel entirely personal. Comes it comes if its news you can help build bridges sanny can give people strength and courage. Has an ability to convey a message because theres a physical vibrational quality to the way that message is being received. The right
And they also declared that they are not from those which get that the criminal code the criminal code they are basically putting detainees in limbo where they make up the rules as they go along. Live on on book tv in depth. From noon to 3 p. M. Eastern. Its great to see all of you think you for coming. As most of you know this is the fourth year doing conversations about the freedom studies. We started this four years ago to bring new work into black history and the scholars and writers and conversation with us and to create a space to put that in the struggles of today and so tonight we will be talking about black power into political repression. Its very timely in the moment we are in and most of you whove been here before also know that every few months i like to talk about rosa parks and many of you know i wrote a biography of rosa parks and today would have been her 103rd birthday. In honor of that, me and some colleagues have built a new website called rosa parks biography to ki
To kind of challenge the ways thathat in much of our public conversation today there is a kind of dangerous i think distinction being made between whats being treated as the good old Civil Rights Movement and the sort of movements for Racial Justice and black lives matter today. These are very dangerous distinctions and i think really looking at the history of rosa parks and particularly look at the history of rosa parks through criminal justice, really challenges these distinctions that some commentators are making today. And so i think a real look at rosa parks remind us from scottsboro to emmett till and jeremiah reeds distorted campaigns for justice for black women who were raped to the kind of criminalization of organizing that we see with Highlander Folk School and the bus buck offs to all of the Defense Committees she served on to all the antiPolice Brutality work she did sitting on the peoples tribunal after the 1967 detroit uprising and on and on. I think seeing that scope giv
Hayek, huge fan. Youre not that big. My question is what advice would you give to an aspiring writer who is a huge fan of your boat and also loves to write . Dont write like me. Right, ray, ray. Try to get every day if you can. If you love it, you will find its not that hard to do. Even if he just read a page. If you read a page it day at the end of the air you have 365. Im george bush. [laughter] read, read, read, try not to imitate some analysis style. Try to develop your own Style Company roadways. Hayek, fan, big reader. Bear with me. I get nervous. For the witch and wizard series, while i do love the characters, you give us a little bit i remember in the last book you gave us a little insight . It may seem goofy, but the sound is okay. You gave insight on the one who is the one and i wonder youre ever going to listen a full history because im a little curious about them. Yeah, as we continue, well get a little more. How many have you vetted the series . How many books in the serie
About things in your life. And you realize if you could turn that passion to politics, it would be a really incredible force. Now, regardless if i agreed or disagreed with the politics of the people who served over me, i liked the fact they wanted to engage people, i liked the fact they wanted people to express and learn about their own political leanings and feelings. And every once in a while id jump in there and get a little bloody, but when you challenge one another, when you really learn what you believe and why you believe it, itll make you a better person for it. She spoke to booktv at this years freedom fest in las vegas. Along with our schedule, you can also see our programs anytime at booktv. Org. And get the latest updates throughout the week. Follow us on facebook and twitter. We were right, in my view, to fully fund the military since 9 11, but what we did was we deprived the state department and the u. S. Agency of International Development of funds. And there is, as a re