Preparation for the opening of these museums or, excuse me, for these restaurants the original neon sign for mintons mayhouse was taken off and given to the play mouths was taken off and given to the yet to be opened africanamerican museum at the smithsonian. And i would just like to ask both of you if you really seriously think that harlem can avoid becoming a praise where the schomburg a place where the schomburg is sort of like a synagogue in china town. [laughter] real. Yeah, thats very real. Michael, ive heard you express that before, and i think its absolutely something anyone who cares needs to have their eye trained on. I also think as long as there are black people in the streets of harlem and im just hike, even as i say that, all these encounters i overhear and pass through and cross through in the most amazing poetic ways, like that is its own space making. And i have my own inner debate about, you know, i had a conversation with a friend about the we were looking at the ren
Inspired all the time either work of these young scholars. A day that farah came to speak to our class, the work were studying was pain, which is already one of my favorite books. It was so moving because i realized while she was giving us this wonderful guidance, the first time id been taught literature by a black person, besides my mother who was of course my first instruction in reading and writing but its one of those moments that if you like should be marked and i want to extend my gratitude for that, and you continue to inspire me. Thank you so much. Thats the great joys of teaching, you dont know who is sitting out there in terms of this extraordinarily talented young writer who i would read it many years later without knowing that she was one of the students in the class. So its really lovely to think it also for being here tonight. I wanted to ask farah to share with us the introduction of harlem nocturne. Is really a beautiful way she brings these women onto the page pics i w
Is always more that could be put in. Commandeers from the time you had to leave the department to get the book published how many years did this take . One year after i was disabled from the job and had a heart attack was the year i wrote the book it took 12 years to get the book published but an author writes with longevity in mind i had published several other books prior to this and i am always writing a new title all the time i have three books ready to go now and one book i wrote that many years ago as well glading to be published it is a combat war book from vietnam. It is in the same spirit of this one. It is great to see wonderful old friends and colleagues. I cannot tell you what a great thing if it is. My question is from your vietnam experience out of curiosity have to be here are from vietnam . Quite a few. Talking about your bronze star would it bother you to tell you how you got it . Mcfadyen said good question. I was of the first recall a marine corps combat for a man an
One of them. Never in my wildest dreams. And where the Movement Goes from here, more than 20 officers injured, hundreds of protesters arrested across the country overnight at black lives matters protests, raising questions about what it will take to bridge the divide between police and the lives they are sworn to protect. But we start in dallas where this afternoon we are learning new details about the shooter that could change the focus of the investigation. I want to bring in now nbcs tammy litener in dallas. Tell us about the eerie details the shooter leaving messages in his own blood. Thats right, frances. We now know he apparently left a final message. He wrote the initials rb on a note in his own blood in a parking garage. Its unclear what it means. Investigators are trying to figure out if it ties into the shootings, may be a piece of clue as to why he did this. We do know now though there may have been some evidence this shooter was delusional. During the police chief he said d
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