next from the san antonio public library, home of this year s san antonio book festival, hispanic essayist richard rodriguez, talks about his memoir darling. well, good afternoon everyone. thanks for coming to the san antonio book festival. we welcome all of you. this has been a year in the making, but months in preparation and it s been an incredible group of volunteers that made this all possible. so thanks for coming and participating. remember that just after this session, that richard rodriguez will be signing copies of darling and any other broughts you brought in the mezzanine level. so he will be there to do that after we finish today. i m john santos, it is an extraordinary honor to be here with two writers who i really regard as mentors, so it s an honor to be given an opportunity to just introduce them. whose work will be known to many of you here from san antonio, theologian, international thinker, international scholar, his works included, life where cult
greater had begun. been in the old world. and i thought that s it. the greater journey. they know they are in a greater journey which should be their experience. their spiritual, mental, professional journey in the city of paris where they are trying to rise to the occasion to exile in a particular field whether it was writing or music or painting our scope share are not a sin because many of them went as medical students in the capital of the world. so they are ambitious to exile and they are going against the trend because to go off to europe was not fashionable yet and it wasn t part of one s broadening education yet. many of them had no money. many of them had no friends in europe. no one in paris and spoke not a word of the language and yet they were brave enough to go to embark on the greater journey. c-span: this renuart painting, when i first saw it i thought it costs a lot of money to put it on there. do you all not? guest: know, that belongs to a museum. the old
from the active roster because of off the field problems. abc news reporter marcy gonzalez has more on the controversy shaking up the nfl. reporter: yet another nfl player pulled from the field after being accused of abuse. greg hardy, who is appealing his july conviction on domestic abuse charges, was at first suspended by the carolina panthers for just one game. today, team officials had this to say. greg s decided to take a voluntary leave with pay until his legal proceedings are resolved. reporter: just this morning, the minnesota vikings announced that embattled star adrian peterson is banned from all team activities as he faces a child abuse charge, accused of hitting his 4-year-old son with a tree branch. the decision to put peterson on the nfl s exempt list coming just one day after the team announced it would reinstate the former mvp. we made a mistake. and we needed to get this right. adrian will be away from the team and focus on his personal situation. r
america. [applause] [applause] by the way for those of you that want to continue celebrating latino heritage month in a very celebratory way the giants just won. [applause] [cheers and applause] thank you to all honorees. if you take a seat we will begin with the rest of the formal program. thank you mayor lee. thank you leader pelosi. for joining us here today and go giants. [applause] woo ! don t you love when we re all together. so we re going to try to get through the program quickly, so now we re going to move on to the next stage of our presentation tonight and we re going to be presenting our first award. we like to invite the newly appointed trustee of city college in san francisco louis santos to the stage. [applause] our latina heritage education award this year goes to the new superintendent of the san francisco school district. ms. carranza. [applause] . ritual carranza was sworn in as the new superintendent of the district on june 27 of this year. richard hel
[applause] by the way for those of you that want to continue celebrating latino heritage month in a very celebratory way the giants just won. [applause] [cheers and applause] thank you to all honorees. if you take a seat we will begin with the rest of the formal program. thank you mayor lee. thank you leader pelosi. for joining us here today and go giants. [applause] woo ! don t you love when we re all together. so we re going to try to get through the program quickly, so now we re going to move on to the next stage of our presentation tonight and we re going to be presenting our first award. we like to invite the newly appointed trustee of city college in san francisco louis santos to the stage. [applause] our latina heritage education award this year goes to the new superintendent of the san francisco school district. ms. carranza. [applause] . ritual carranza was sworn in as the new superintendent of the district on june 27 of this year. richard held a position of dire