To come back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there he and thousands and we followed him as the unofficial detective as he reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that havent been talked about. How did you come up with the name . A voice was speaking first person and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rent and then woman he was in love with of adam made that she is in love with mouse and mouse looks at the person who is talking and thats what he came from. Why voices he supposed to represent . Its interesting because how the africanamerican voice is the choir of america. Did you set out as a vehicle for social commentary . Any good novel that talks about any character talks about how they are incurred and the society and culture and politics. Then you dont have a real character. It seems that everybody does that. Not a lot of people were doing that with black mail he rose to become a Strong Social commentary not because that was my intention bu
Welcome to booktvs fiction edition. Youve written 50 fiction books. Lets start with devil in a blue dress, the book that launched a series who is easy rawlins . Guest a kind of every man for the black community in the middle of the twentieth century. His whole view of himself has changed. He came back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there because of what he has learned and he and thousands of others, from texas and louisiana moved to los angeles. What we do is follow him as a kind of unofficial detective. What he does is reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that havent been talked about. Host how did you come up with the name . Guest i was writing a story and there was a voice speaking firstperson talking about a party he was given and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rent and a woman he was in love with who was in love with another guy and mouse comes in and looks at the person who is talking and says hey, e the, how are you doing . That
Wouldve the latest on the case from Minnesota Attorney general Keith Ellison. We will discuss how to heal the divide between the black community and Law Enforcement with andy skoogman, head of the minnesota chiefs of police. And why in the year 2020 is race still such a flash point . We are joined by professor cornel west and South Carolina senator tim scott. Then, twitter tags the president s tweet on how to stop the minneapolis riots for glorifying violence. We wile new battle between the president and big attack. And our power player of the week. This authors new work of fiction hits close to home. The question was, what would happen if we had a pandemic . Chris all right now now on fox news sunday. Chris angelo again from fox news in washington. A nation already on edge now pushed to the brink. The coronavirus claiming more than 100,000 lives and some 40 million jobs, and now the video recorded death of an unarmed black man in Police Custody acting like a match tossed on a tinderbo
Kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth are here with us today courtesy of tom and margaret mr. Garrett graduated from harvard in 1963. He has had a 30 year emmy and peabody awardwinning career in Television News and documentaries. Jeanne ellsworth has a nephd in social foundations of education from the university of buffalo and has devoted her life to teaching from Elementary School to prisms, to universities. The authors live in roxbury new york. Please give a warm savannah welcome avto kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth. [applause] thank you for inviting us. The book is called the last negroes at harvard, 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroes, thats what we were called then, we were the largest number at that time ever admitted to harvard. We were from all different parts of the country, north, south, east, west, we came e fr different economic and socioeconomic grounds and they had been admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time, most guys would go do their four years
Theauthors live in roxbury new york. Please give a warm savanna welcome to and jean ellsworth. [applause] thank you for inviting us and the focus for the last negroes at harvard and 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 harvard. We were from all different parts of the country. North, south, east and west and we came from economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. And we heretofore they had been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time most guys would just go and do their four years and get out of town. We leave cameras but was different in the sense that we had numbers. 18 and we could form an individual racial identity as well as a group identity. We were able to become actually a force for change at harvard and harvard, we changed harvard and harvard changed us and that essentially what the book is about, its about our four years here and what happened before and