Welcome everyone to the brooklyn book festival. Tonight is the seventh day of an eightday festival where we have presented over 100 programs and almost 300 authors. It has been a tremendous week of literary celebration as were very grateful to have his of the wilkerson and Michael Eric Dyson with us tonight. I would like to say one thing, show the love by purchasing their books in the link below. They are authors with books after all and going to turn over now to both of them to continue the conversation. Thank you very much. Thank you very kindly. Im honored to be here today with a woman who is among the 304 greatest writers in america, arguably the finest writer in america today. I am going to make that argument. So it is an extraordinary honor to be with you, ms. Isabel wilkerson, and to have this opportunity to chat with you. Theyre calling it a a conversation but im just going to fan boy out and as as a sayn the hood, ask you some questions. And see if we can stimulate the convers
Us to prepare for outages tonight. In addition to the heat. The state says a transmission line carrying power from oregon to california went offline unexpectedly and that is also adding to the problem definitely not good news. Meanwhile, the rise in temperatures also increasing the fire danger. A red flag warning has been issued for tomorrow running through wednesday morning. The warning has been issued for the north bay mountains east bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains we want to bring in rebecca strong to talk about the record breaking heat and also that red flag warning and once again the big news, San Francisco hitting a 100 degrees something we have not seen in a 100 years rebecca yeah, thats right guys in fact it out beat the previous temperature. It was at 92 degrees back in 19 04 but today in 2020 up and hit that triple digit mark at a 100 degrees in downtown sfo also made record breaking heat set one 02 today and the triple digits continue downtown oakland. Youre at a high of
Year churches to create a theory that. The u. S. Ban on the fiction the pandemic expires despite a soaring infection rate. Looking at just about. Families in households many the 1st time there has been. In terms of how we will the. Courts open back up. For good morning to please that you can join us here on the internet. First this hour the feud between the worlds 2 largest economies china and the United States is ratcheting up in a cold war style standoff less than an hour after chinese officials left their consulate in houston following to close that facility. American or thirties and officials were seen forcibly entering the building where it was cordoned off and a group of men were spotted trying to break into the facilities in tools before they wanted to enter the building officials were seen trying 3 separate entrances but without success in the mall cleanness was seen taking out the rubbish at the u. S. Consulate general in the chinese city of chengdu ageing is told america to v
Will make an Opening Statement and senator booker and senator blumenthal. The title of the hearing today is protecting the integrity of College Athletics. Like most americans one of the highlights with basketball. And its a lot of fun its going to be really big business with collegeage athletics and its all built around the model and then the challenge that the Business Model is fair without destroying the immature nature of the game with the collegeage Athletic Team thats the end of their career and to get compensated they get scholarships and room and board but to go into the private sector that the College Athletic experience is something i want to preserve and those that will not turn that into their livelihood those that require College Athletics for the opportunities for women and thats a good thing. So at the highest level College Athletics football. The football budget supports everything else. If youre an athlete how do we treat you fairly without turning it all into minorleag
Excited to announce the least best seller list. [cheering and applauding] number 88 on usa today so welcome. Thank you so much. Happy to be here we go. Can you hear me . Can you hear me . No. Sorry about that. That has never happened before. [laughter] its because the tv is here. You can hear me, right . Going to ask a question and i will hand the microphone over so im going to start fascinating workbook and a book and a great exploration of a topic that we are all interested to talk about work tonight but in this book, youre asking white people in the u. S. , like me, to confront the racism outright, you know its an uncomfortable process. Talk about the motive you used specifically to tackle this as a writer. Its interesting because ive been asked this question so many times now and i think if i had known before embarking on this during of doing this kind of work, if i had known what was going to be out of time, i might not necessarily have chosen it. The work i was doing before, i wa