You and ive been on several cnn panels throughout the election but you know i really came from a small town in florida and for those of you who eat strawberries its the world strawberry cat to the capitol it was important to me to write a book that just explored my roots but how i see this election through the prism i grew up in, not through the confines of the cnn news are here in washington where i service rnc spokesperson but this prism of a smalltown girl and the movement that i recognized early on when i endorse President Trump to be the president. Three months after he declared his candidacy eyes im on the horizon with a few others and one of my colleagues recognize the movement as well although he recognized the leftwing party. Host lets talk about van jones who are few people in the book to make appearances and in some ways surprising. Van jones was part of the Obama Administration and let people conservative and at one point thought of him as the bogeyman but what was your exp
He has had a 30year emmy and peabody awardwinning career in Television News and documentaries. Jeanne ellsworth has a ph. D. In social foundations of education from the university of buffalo and has devoted her life to teaching from Elementary School to prisons, to universities. The authors live in rocksbury, new york. Please give a warm savannah welcome to kent garrett and jeannie else worth. [applause] finish jeanne ellsworth. [applause] well, thank you for enlightening us, and ill let you know the book is called the last negroes at harvard. 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroes, and thats what we were called then, and we were the largest number at that time ever admitted to harvard. We were from all different parts of the country north, south, east and west and we came from different economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. And we, heretofore theyd been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time. And most guys would just go and do their four years and the
[inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. My name is anne. Welcome to the 13th annual savannah book festival. The festival is presented by georgia power, bob faircloth, david and nancy seven terror and the phillip e. And nancy b. Bigman foundation. We are especially grateful to jack and mary romano who are our sponsors for this beautiful venue. Wed also like to welcome our literati members and individual donors today. It is through your support that we are able to make todays festival events free to the public. 90 of our revenue comes from our donors and literati members, and we thank you. Before we get started, i have some housekeeping notes. Kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth will be signing festivalpurchased copies of their book at Telfair Square following their presentation. If youre planning to stay for the next author, edward j. Larson, after this presentation please move forward to fill seats as the venue empties. This will help the ushers get people seated for the next session.
New york. Please give a warm savannah welcome to kent garrett and jeannie else worth. [applause] finish jeanne ellsworth. [applause] well, thank you for enlightening us, and ill let you know the book is called the last negroes at harvard. 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroes, and thats what we were called then, and we were the largest number at that time ever admitted to harvard. We were from all different parts of the country north, south, east and west and we came from different economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. And we, heretofore theyd been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time. And most guys would just go and do their four years and then get out of town. Finish leave cambridge. But for us it was different in the sense that we had numbers, the 18, and we could form an individual racial identity as well as a group identity. And we were able to become actually a force for change at harvard, and harvard or we changed harvard and harvard changed
Hey welcome to the stream indias government now has direct control over kashmir but what does the end of the territories semi autonomy mean for People Living there if any ok imo it could be a god send us your thoughts on whats happening in kashmir through twitter and you tube. It is now 3 months since indias government sent thousands of extra troops to Jammu And Kashmir and ended 7 decades a special status now the region has been divided into border under federal control the government says the new Union Territories of Jammu And Kashmir have a Bright Future but many civilians in the muslim majority region are still living under lockdown with their movements tightly policed and the internet and some Cell Phone Service is cut off hundreds of kashmiri politicians and activists have been arrested with many still in detention over the last few weeks theres also been sporadic violence on tuesday one person was killed and dozens hurt in a grenade attack in the Regional Center of srinagar for