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Darren walker to do serving as president of the Ford Foundation and will be the 2020 stanford distinguished lecturer and given all of his extraordinary accomplishmentshou whoever introduces him has their work cut out for them. Born in louisiana one of the first children of the nation to benefit from the Headstart Program he went on to earn a scholarship at the university of texas austin where he would graduate with degrees in government, speech communication and lobby for pursuing a successful career as an attorneyyst and investment banker. For the past three decades, mr. Walker has been one of our nations for most philanthropic executives. s serving as chief operating officer as the Largest DevelopmentCorporation Vice president of the rockefeller founda ....
[applause] her book me and White Supremacy combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor grew out of an online effort to get people to confront and disassemble the way they benefit from whiteness and become what she called good ancestors, people with a legacy of liberation for others to follow. She is a writer and speaker and podcast father, earned her bachelor of laws degree from Lancaster University of the united kingdom, her husbands two children, my a we are excited to talk with her tonight. We are excited to announce this new book is released number made on the New York Times bestseller list. Number 88 on usa today. Welcome. Happy to be here. Are you on . Here it comes. Can you hear me . Can you hear me . Sorry about that. Never happened before. Because the tv is here. You can hear me. Im going ....
Texas to learn more about its unique history and literary life. For nine years, weve traveled to u. S. Cities, bringing the book scene to our viewers. Watch more of our visits at cspan. Org. Amarillo is in the center of the texas panhandle. We affectionately call ourselves the capital city of the texas panhandle. We are approaching 200,000 people in this next census area census. Thats a marker for us. Its one of the most unique things, travel around and talk to other mayors, our superpower here in the city of amarillo is that we think regionally. While we do have geographic boundaries that define how many people live inside our city, we truly dont think that way. We think regionally. We think of world communities that belong to us. We are their city. Right now, we are standing in the historic depot. Its significant because when you think about building the entire city of amarillo, the materials for building our city came through this depot. They arrived by rail right here. Our city has ....
Supremacy and people who live the legacy of liberation for others to follow, writer speak fer podcast author, earned a lives in qatar and her husband, sam and two children. So, we are very excited to be able to talk with her tonight. And we also are very excited to announce that this very new book has already released as number eight on the New York Times bestseller list. [cheering] and number 88 on usa today. So with that, laically, wok. Thank you so much. Very happy to be here. Are you on . There it goes. Can you hear me . Can you hear me . No. Will how grab the third mic. Sorry. Sudden technical never happened before. Its because the tv is here. So you can hear me, right . So im going to ask a question and hand this mic over to layla so she can hear you. Ill stated with this fascinating workbook and a really great exploration of a topic that weall interested to talk about more tonight, but in this book youre asking white people ....