The 40th anniversary of the fulbright scholarship program. Future speakers include James Buchanan on january 23 and John Harrington on fairbury 19th. If you have questions for our speaker, please write them down on the part on your table and send them to the front. I will ask as many questions as time permits. I would like to introduce our guest. Please stand when i call your name. Please withhold your applause until i am completed. Bernard shaw of cable news network, Lita Williams of the new york times, adrian farrell, a member who organized the lunch, a member of the french embassy, randy allen from pyramid video, dorothy of the washington post, finley lewis for the Minneapolis Tribune and ernest white of washington living magazine. [applause] host our guest today, James Baldwin, offers a lesson for those of us who are readers and writers. A message of clarity, wisdom, and determination. The message needs to be heard. 23 years ago 33 years ago, his first book, go tell on the mountain
I would like to welcome our members to lunch as well as our guest, and to those listening live over the National Public radio stations, and for those , before watch it later going further i would like to remind the members of upcoming events. Next tuesday, the guest will be william fulbright. The 40th anniversary of the fulbright scholarship program. James speakers include buchanan on january 23 and John Harrington on fairbury 19th. Ould like to remind february 19. If you have questions for our downer, please write them on the part on your table and send them to the front. I will ask as many questions as time permits. I would like to introduce our guest. Please stand when i call your. Ame please withhold your applause until i am completed. Bernard shaw of cable news , Lita Williams of the new york times, adrian farrell, a member who organized the lunch, a member of the french embassy, randy allen from pyramid video, dorothy of the lewisgton post, finley for the Minneapolis Tribune and
Next tuesday, the guest will be william fulbright. The 40th anniversary of the fulbright scholarship program. Future speakers include James Buchanan on january 23 and John Harrington on fairbury 19th. I would like to remind february 19. I would like to remind those of you in the audience that if you have questions for our speaker, please write them down on the part on your table and send them to the front. I will ask as many questions as time permits. I would like to introduce our guest. Please stand when i call your name. Please withhold your applause until i am completed. Bernard shaw of cable news network, Lita Williams of the new york times, adrian farrell, riter for the first foreign affairs, a member who organized the lunch, a member of the french embassy, randy allen from pyramid video, dorothy of the washington post, finley lewis for the Minneapolis Tribune and ernest white of washington living magazine. [applause] host our guest today, James Baldwin, offers a lesson for those
This is an hour. Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon, minnesota. A beautiful early summer day in minnesota. I just want to give a heartfelt thank you to a lot of people for the peace and the generosity, the kindness and the love thats been shown on our streets of minneapolis, st. Paul, and across minnesota over the last several days. Last evening was another example of that. We saw peaceful protests across the city. We saw memorials continue to floyd down one 38th and chicago. We saw beautiful interactions on the state capital where, out of respect, the National Guard troops there told the protesters out of respect they would go back a way to the building and just take care of those vehicles which were out front, which they did, not protesters at that point. Certainly, neighbors and friends and agents of change. We saw thousands gather in front of the beautiful minnesota governors residence that my family and i have the privilege of occupying for a short time. The pain of the fami
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