That all happensathath [inaudible conversations] hello, everyone, welcome to books at noon, im jessica, director of Public Programs and events at the library and im happy today thrilled to introduce lewis sullivan, dr. Lewis sullivan who is im going to have to read because his long list, he is a policy leader and Minority Health advocate and author and physician and educateor. And i wanted to just begin, i mean, its a hard to think to say because can you sinopize your life, but i wanted to in a brief way tell the audience what this book covers and then i will delve in and we will start going into specifics and and then we will build from there. Well, thanks very much, its a great pleasure to be here with you and at for public library. Youre welcome. What i would say is my auto biography tells my story. I was second of two boys in atlanta but nobody was buying life insurance. My father left atlanta and went to southwest georgia and establish it had first funeral home in georgia. Beyond
Thank you very much. It is my pleasure to introduce a number of great winners to the Pulitzer Prizes tonight. Let me take a moment to recognize one of my predecessors both as the chair of the Tampa Bay Times company and of the Pulitzer Prize, andy barnes is with us. [applause] our purpose here this evening is to say happy birthday to the Pulitzer Prizes. They turn 100 years old this year, which is older than anybody in this room, i believe. [laughter] this is a great tribute to a robust and resilient american institution. So, lets also say thank you to Joseph Pulitzer who created these prizes. It is a very hard thing to win a pulitzer. It is hard even to become one of the finalists. Hundreds and hundreds of entries arrive in new york each year for prizes given in journalism, literature, and the arts. Volunteer juries of experts spend days winnowing down the entries. The Board Members read every finalists entry and vote on a winner. It is with great pleasure then to present to you these
Board. [applause] thank you very much. It is my pleasure to introduce a number of great winners to the Pulitzer Prizes tonight. Let me take a moment of personal privilege to recognize one of my predecessors both as the chair of the Tampa Bay Times company and of the Pulitzer Prize, andy barnes is with us. [applause] our purpose here this evening is to say happy birthday to the Pulitzer Prizes. They turn 100 years old this year, which is older than anybody in this room, i believe. [laughter] this is a great tribute to a robust and resilient american institution. So, lets also say thank you to Joseph Pulitzer who created these prizes. It is a very hard thing to when win a pulitzer. It is hard even to become one of the three finalists. Hundreds and hundreds of entries arrive in new york each year for prizes given in journalism, literature, and the arts. Volunteer juries of experts spend days willing down the entries down to a final three. These are submitted to the thetzer prize board and
Beautiful soul, very sharp and handsome and smart guy, whether he could represent our vision, that aint easy. All of that investment, this is what we invested in and yet you are restraining them, you are constraining them, im sorry. You are impoaning stress upon them and literally basically implied threat against them and sending hate mails because they are having threat against people. No one can ever be put above the entire trajectory of our movement or tradition that nurtures and sustain us. So for me, right [applause] so as much as i and we love obama, we have to hold him accountable, you love kids, you dont say nothing to them, i cant be critical, that aint the negroes i know. Thats my husband, i cant be critical. When it comes to obama, you know what, given the rather sharp, stunning, astonishing analogy that professor mohamed has put forth black people think that tough love is the only love available for black americans, we confuse love with abuse. When bill cosby was doing his
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