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the film is called, maya angelou and still i rise. the writer has to take these most known things and put them together in such a way that a reader says, i never thought of it that way before. that is a challenge. id i know many writers and said, no, are you sure you want me to do this? amy: we will speak to the filmmakers rita coburn whack and bob hercules, as well as maya angelou s ran son colin johnson. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. more senate republicans have backed majority leader mitch mcconnell s pledge to block any nominee president obama chooses to replace justice antonin scalia. scalia died on saturday at a hunting resort in texas at the age of 79. republicans are threatening to stall his replacement until a new president is in place 11 months from now. the white house has noted none of the last 12 supreme court justices to be confirmed had to wait more than 100 days f ....
remarkable life from her traumatic childhood, she was raped and went mute for five ars, to r days wking with martin lher kingjr., and malcolm to the wting of r classi i knowhy the ced birdings. thfilm is lled, ma angelou and still i rise. the writer has to take these most known things and put them together in such a way that a reader says, i never thought of it that way before. that is a challenge. id i know many writers and said, no, are you sure you want me to do this? amy: we will speak to the filmmakers rita coburn whack and bob hercules, as well as maya angelou s ran son colin johnson. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. more senate republicans have backed majority leader mitch mcconnell s pledge to block any nominee president obama chooses to replace justice antonin scalia. scalia died on saturday at a hunting resort in texas at the age of 79. republicans are threatening to sta ....
traumatic childhood, she was raped and went mute for five ars, to r days wking with martin lher kingjr., and malcolm to the wting of r classi i knowhy the ced birdings. thfilm is lled, ma angelou and still i rise. the writer has to take these most known things and put them together in such a way that a reader says, i never thought of it that way before. that is a challenge. id i know many writers and said, no, are you sure you want me to do this? amy: we will speak to the filmmakers rita coburn whack and bob hercules, as well as maya angelou s ran son colin johnson. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. more senate republicans have backed majority leader mitch mcconnell s pledge to block any nominee president obama chooses to replace justice antonin scalia. scalia died on saturday at a hunting resort in texas at the age of 79. republicans are threatening to stall his replacement until ....
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everybody. when martine. good afternoon. you ve enjoyed the three days we ve had here. you know, my third straight year of coming and nature they try to offer a great selection of poetry and discussions, film. thank you so much are coming to join us. the reception last night, the presentation we had the honorary chair last night. the honorees were [inaudible] and woody king junior. their messages were very inspiring and really got people fired up. i hope you got a chance to see it. today s the last day of the conference we want to make sure we have a good time today. this is a black literature and the topic we have come in today. my name is patrick oliver. i thought of the readers and writers raised in chicago, illinois. we supported and not of projects, to encourage young people to become the next generation of individuals who may be at the conference monday. check us out and speak loudly.com. it s a ....
godsend this out. i am elizabeth nunez. before i introduce myself, i would like to introduce my co-panelists, tracey syphax. thank you, elizabeth. a quick introduction. my name is tracey syphax. i am a 20 year entrepreneur. i wrote a book titled subfloor about my life story and i am here to share with you all this morning. i am also just as recent as two weeks ago one of the white house champ in exchange for this year by president obama and i spend a lot of my time now speaking on mass incarceration of proper reentry tools cannot tell you a little bit about why i do that. well, we may seem strange part is on the stage here, the thing that binds this is we have both written memoirs and for me it is my first memoir. i for made novels. some of you may know some of my titles. and in between boundaries, it ate it all. i really am an academic. i have been teaching at university for many, many years and currently at hunter college. this is my first memoir, not for everyday ....