Deciding i am gold bold enough am going to make it change. Beulah may donald took on one of the most violent courtroom in the united states. This is an incredible story. The body of a black man has been found hanging from a tree, mobile, alabama. Living in mobile was a quiet town. It is nothing but oak trees but after march 1981, it was kind of like creepy to me to look at the trees. The hurt is still there. The hurt my mom went through. I just visualize her face and i go like i can t talk about it today. My mom beulah mae donald, she was a wellliked person. She volunteered at the time working with children, a mom. Makeichael was my brother. He was wellloved and quiet and he worked at night and he kept my oldest son during the daytime. Michael was a wellmannered and a polite young man. Michael is a true example. The house where we lived in everybody knew each other. If my mom, they ate from us. We didn t get involved in gangs. My mom was always sitting at the porch waiting on us arrivi
hello. good evening as the director at the creative writing program we re happy to welcome back our friends we have been honored to post this award in the auditorium from the creative writing program with a series of interviews posted on our block to check that out at book critics thought work over a three week period that could not have been done without our intrepid stewart - student interviewers thank you to the board members and to all others for their efforts. also can we get a round of applause? [applause] the board enterprise is volunteer and it is called preaching to the choir and then to propose the elimination. [applause] and mention the things we could have better not have happened like to keep funding for health care so mention those other things as needed and americans for the arts is a great organization so support them pergonal is my pleasure to turn over to the book s editor at newsday. [applause] it is nice to see so many people here tonight it is my ple
because we are so thrilled to welcome blance cook. i m jennifer raab, privilege to be president of hunter college, incredible institution. and it could not be for fitting that we are here tonight to celebrate this book and this author and this subject in this house. as everyone sitting here, that is really true, right. [applause] as all of you know we are gathered in the new york city home that ellen oar eleanor roosevelt lived here and depart today washington in 1933 and while the book we are deb cuting here tonight cover it is war years and decades after when eleanor roosevelt not only became the lady of the land but the first lady of the world. it s fair too say that her activism, belief in women s rights and quest for equal opportunity and civil right were all commitment that is were born and nurtured under this roof. this was the headquarters that launched her into becoming the eleanor who made impact on her country and this planet. as this house was a home and inspi
here. i want to congratulate once you ve gotten is a taste of how fluid he is in these issues that have come to the floor. there s tremendous economic consequences and i think increasingly social consequences for this and other countries. so join me in congratulating everyone. [applause] [applause] somehow i don t think that was for me. thank you for coming out. i am one of the co-owners and on behalf of my husband and i. we welcome you to this event. we have an unfortunate alert i am embarrassed to have to give you but in the interest of all of your security, let me advise you that we have had a pickpocket who s been infiltrating some of our even so keep track of your purses and wallets and whoever it is if they are in our mates as i try to out them. i regret to have to tell you that. along those in the messages we ve put out about the role of the bookstore and all independent bookstores at a time of such divisiveness in the country of such political turmoil if you haven t r
festival. found that [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the mac in morning. [inaudible] welcome to the best law school in brooklyn. come on, that is pretty funny. it s too early. the locals that are 100,000 plus graduates since we opened our doors widely 115 years ago know that it the only law school in brooklyn. but we had the best law school and the biggest borough in the most drivers 50 great u.s.a., so they ve got that going for us. we ve got a very special edition and we re very proud of what we are doing here in producing new lawyers to serve the public in many different ways. so i m glad that you are here. we are going to be beginning with an outstanding panel very soon. i just wanted to note among other things that when they over 10,000, between 10,020,000 people who will be despite some iffy weather enjoyed this incredible book festival, which may be the largest free public book festival in the galaxy. my penchant for unders