Our city store visits detroit, michigan to learn more about its unique history and literary life. For eight years now, we have traveled to u. S. Cities, ringing the literary scene and Historic Sites to our viewers. You can watch more of our visits at the span. Org beauty store tour. Org cities air at the Detroit Museum and we are about to walk into an exhibit called americas motor city. Detroit has been. The motor city capital of the world since at least 1915 when there were over 42 Companies Making cars and another 75 Companies Making parts. While other towns build cars, we built lots of cars. The detroit area enjoyed a wealth of strong manufacturing, a lot of it based in the building of carriage bodies but also in building iron stoves, building Railroad Cars, realworld wheels and the rails that go with them. Understood the manufacturing process but also how to deal with steel, iron, rubber. They had all the engineers, designers and toolmakers and the tools they needed to make an auto
Wonderful person to introduce here. And the wonderful part about this is that this event has happened in such a circular synergistic cooperative and loving way i can tell you i first learned about the book the tentative agreement coming out through the pipeline. I saw dr. Miles. Yes, it just started like that. And here you are. Weve been talking on email. I love the fact that you are here. The nonfiction bookstore. In our book fair in the categories of history and Culture Health and wellbeing. Without any further ado i want to introduce you to stephen for with history of his very own i am proud to be introducing my friend and colleague as you will hear from what i tell you and what she will present to you. She is a fierce intellectual force. I want you to know that shes one of the nicest and warmest people that you will ever get to meet. She is an Author University teacher and public historian. With the native native american history. The story of a turkey family published in 2005 next
Affairs intellectual force. I want you to also know shes one of the nicest people you will ever get to meet. In addition to that she is an author, University Teachers ad public historian. She has two prizewinning works of afro afroamerican and natie american instead. The ties that bind us to open afro cherokee family and slavery of freedom. Published in 2005. Next the house on the diamond hill published in 2010. She follows those works for the study of race and gender in southern ghost stories titled tales from a haunted south. Published in 2015. She is also a writer of fiction, academic articles on indigenous womens history and feminist essays. Her debut novel is cherokee ros rose. The novel was named and publishers week weekly pick [laughing] is particularly as well. You should pick it up. In 2015. And selected for her books all of georgia should read. She teaches at the university of michigan as you heard in the departments of american culture, afroamerican african studies, history,
An extraordinary story of justice denied in our continuing reports on crime and punishment in america. Also tonight shot in the arm, the case for childhood vaccinations gets a booster from an outbreak of measle, and worries about the return of other childhood diseases. Why a small but growing number of parents say though to shots. What would happen if nobody vaccinated their kids at all . Wed be a lot healthier. You do. I do. Michael okwu with a look at the measles epidemic and its connection to the Antivaccine Movement. And swept away. What the tide brings the artist shapes and the waters return to the sea. Gooeping thanks for joining us for america tonight, the weekend edition. Its hard to under the criminal mind, what is the truth about criminal congegss. Do people who are truly in the confess to crimes they dont commit. We examine false confessions. They happen more often than you might think. America tonight correspondent sara hoy begins with the story of a man who pent spent near
To hear, and ill prove its a lie. A story of justice denied in our continuing report on crime and punishment. Also lost on september 11th, and the 13 years sings the growing death toll of those that came to help, and the evidence that their sacrifice didnt end when they left ground zero. Ive been diagnosed with cancer, and leukaemia. What they left behind the lonely struggles across the border. Travellers unseen as they make their long journeys through the desert leaving only remnants of the fabric of their lives. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Im joie chen. Its hard enough to understand the criminal mind. Whats the truth about criminal confessions. Do people who are truly innocent confess to crimes they didnt commit . We look at crime and punishment in america. We examine false confessions. They happen more than you think. Sara hoy begins with a story of a man that spent two decades behind bars, but has proof he didnt do it. Reporter Shermone Johnson was roller skating with frie