I am Vivian Schiller with the outfit institute. Glad you could be with us today. The New York Times bestseller list can be a mirror of the National Psyche and this reflects a nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books on matters of race and racism fill fiction and nonfiction. Thats the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest amy, the pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack others. There are a few people of color who serve as publishing several literary agents and even fewer who operate at a decisionmaking level and for those who are published, the market exposure can be so awesome. At this year of National Reckoning on racism, we look at the book Publishing Industry and whether it can bring more racial diversity to the field. This is part of our changing the narrative series, issues of race through the media and one program on the news media and another program about the entertainment in
to get to it. you can tell me in the hall later. as mentioned tom hanks is our special guest tonight. the oscar winner who campaigned for biden and obama is here tonight. he has a new book. we re going to get into a lot more. that s tonight. we begin right now with this. you know the sound. new election votes in america. voters just went to the polls in four states and some results have some of the republicans shook again, and we all remember the fizzle of the 2022 midterms. now democrats won in several more key states, including ousting republican mayor in a conservative city in florida. last night florida democrats scored their biggest election victory in years. a stunner in jacksonville, florida, the most populous city. a democrat has flipped the mayor s office. this is really important a democrat won the mayoral seat in jacksonville, florida. it s all new. they re calling that republican loss there in the largest city in florida a stunner because the desant
over law enforcement today. mark claxton is here for a special conversation about just comply. that s coming up. before the hour is out, we will hear from the icon fran leibowitz on politics, democracy, and why she says mitch mcconnell is one of the worst things to ever happen to american government. fran doesn t pull her punches, and we will hear from her later tonight. so, i got to tell you, as far as i can see, there is something to get excited about here, and we ll goat all that, but the top story are the new details about trump s national security scandal. and this is one of those stories that actually, i got to tell you, felt slow for a long time women knew there was this clash with the archives. and then we knew the government was viewing trump as holding some important materials that were not his. that s also commonly known as stealing. but that was playing out for a while. it was not until the unprecedented search that blew this up in the public realm and made clear
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Im talking with David Steinberger about a companion book to knowing your value which is my second book which is great for women. Were looking for a knowing your value millennial edition. So hopefully, ill be back next year. Ladies and gentlemen, mika bear zip sky. Good evening. Hows everyone tonight . The beautiful. Im Mika Brzezinski, cohost of morning joe, and im deeply honored to be here tonight. Im also very excited to say this to you uninterrupted. Welcome to the 64th National Book awards. I got through it. Its the oscars of the book world, or as Fran Leibowitz once called them, the oscars without money. But well take em. [laughter] so i have a very close connection to this evenings awards. Just last month we had the honor of having David Steinberger, the chairman of the National Book foundation, on our show, on morning joe, to announce the National Book foundation finalists. As a threetime author myself, i know firsthand what an incredible undertaking it is to write a book and th