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 cspan 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 introduce jesmyn
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 africanamericans in the program to my knowledge on the first africanamerican 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 remember when he begins and i
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 were 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. Youll see in the back of the program the full booksigning schedule with authors and the times that theyll be signing today. Were delighted to have cspan 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 written word togeth
How are you guys feeling . Everybody is working for the weekend. We are working on the weekend, we will let you get over whatever you did last night. There is no friday night for us on saturday morning, never moved to alaska, lots of darkness too much of the year and working for the weekend i once saying that are karaoke party. It is not on tape that im aware of the now i am aware of it. It could be on someones iphone they accidentally cut by hitting the password too many times. Have a great show this morning, mike pence spoke to is exclusively, and marshall blackburn, and others so stay with us this morning and we were talking about how we are fully in election season. We put on our karl rove whiteboard had to sketch which states developed and wired what it means that races are taking. All those things go into consideration for campaigns as far as where they go, why they go there and who they send, donald trump is out in nevada this weekend, on the western time zone in nevada, las veg
Ak47. I didnt write that bill. Cuba on education. I think really . Really . If we cannot pull this Party Together . If we go to one of those extremes. We take a terrible risk of reelecting donald trump. You said medicare for all will cost 30 trillion. Over 30 years. Can you do the math for us . How many hours do you have . It adds up to four more years of donald trump, Kevin Mccarthy as speaker of the house and the inability to get the senate into democratic hands. Do something for the people of america instead of a bunch of broken promises that sound good on bumper stickers. Steve welcome to the post game show as we watch three days before the South Carolina primary. There was a big debate last night. The democrats needed a good one. They, instead, got a bad one. Ainsley it was a shouting match. Seven democrats on stage. This was their last chance going into the South Carolina primary to actually prove that they should be the front runner. And they talked over each other for two hours