Everybody has to move. Thank you for coming out. Im ginger, part of the event team. If you will do me a favor and check your cell phones and make sure they are turned to vibrate. We do 300 events around town each year. If you are not on our mailing list you can set up for our mailing list at the front. We send 3 or 4 emails a month. Tonight we welcome four contributors to the anthology appalachian reckoning. Anthony harkins, meredith mccarroll, bob hutton and ivy brashear. This is a diverse, complex and the management of response to hillbilly elegy a memoir of family and culture in crisis. I will turn the floor over to them. Anthony harkins is professor of history, the author of hillbilly, a cultural history of an american icon. Meredith mccarroll is director of writing and rhetoric, the author of race and film. T. R. C. Hutton teaches american studies at the university of tennessee and is the author of it is i will say this wrong. Blood he blessed. Politics and violence published to t
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To order. The National Museum of the american latino act. Under Committee Role as they are limited to the chair and the ranking minority member. Therefore i ask unanimous consent that all other members be made part of a curing Record Record if they are submitted to the clerk 5 00 p. M. Today tiered hearing no objection so order. In addition to the broad interest in todays hearing i would like to ask unanimous consent that all interested members be allowed to join us and participate on the dais. Before we get started, i would like to take, i would like to take a point of personal privilege and have a moment of silence for our friends. Our colleague. Defender of justice and inequality. And humanity. Mr. Elisha cummings. Thank you all so much. Thank you for attending the subcommittee. Legislative hearing on the National Museum of the american latino act. A proposal i am proud to cosponsor along with over 200 of my colleagues. I would like to extend my gratitude to the representative as we
i like to call it, holly wouldn t. i say it with love, yeah, because for all the times i ve been told, no, as a latin actor. now, los angeles, surrounded by beautiful mountains, palm tree, s magnificent sunsets, and without a doubt, the best mexican food in the country. this is a melting pot with a little bit of all of us latinos. even its name is latino, the name los angeles, no, it s lost angeles. now hollywood has become a global metaphor film in a place that many of us want to reach, but what if i told you that a latino was behind one of the most incredible tv empires in the world, it s a fact. 1950s actor desi arnaz and his wife, lucille ball, were not only stars of i love lucy, but they also produced, along with many other shows, they even helped create the multi cab sitcom genre. so even though there is still the struggle, hollywood is not a new territory for us latinos, no, because we have been here. do you hear me? so today, an ally icon is taking us to its old stom