on the other side of the border, air sirens screamed out in several cities. israel says it intercepted dozens of the nearly 150 rockets hamas fired, including two targeted at tel aviv. their shelling is intense on both sides. cnn s anderson cooper witnessed it firsthand. he s been reporting live from gaza city and earlier i was on the air with anderson when a massive explosion took place nearby. watch what happened. in that blast we know ten members of one family, also two media centers whoa. that was a rather large explosion. that occurred, look out here, i can t actually see where the impact of that was. it s actually set off a number of car alarms. but that was probably the largest explosion that we ve heard just in the past, really in the past hour. there ve been a numb beof explosions the past hour or two. but that one was pretty loud. we actually the rockets continue to be fired from gaza toward israel, about three or four hours ago there was actually a quite larg
preparation for the opening of these museums or, excuse me, for these restaurants the original neon sign for minton s mayhouse was taken off and given to the play mouths was taken off and given to the yet to be opened african-american museum at the smithsonian. and i would just like to ask both of you if you really seriously think that harlem can avoid becoming a praise where the schomburg a place where the schomburg is sort of like a synagogue in china town. [laughter] real. yeah, that s very real. michael, i ve heard you express that before, and i think it s absolutely something anyone who cares needs to have their eye trained on. i also think as long as there are black people in the streets of harlem and i m just hike, even as i say that, all these encounters i overhear and pass through and cross through in the most amazing poetic ways, like that is its own space making. and i have my own inner debate about, you know, i had a conversation with a friend about
inspired all the time either work of these young scholars. a day that farah came to speak to our class, the work we re studying was pain, which is already one of my favorite books. it was so moving because i realized while she was giving us this wonderful guidance, the first time i d been taught literature by a black person, besides my mother who was of course my first instruction in reading and writing but it s one of those moments that if you like should be marked and i want to extend my gratitude for that, and you continue to inspire me. thank you so much. that s the great joys of teaching, you don t know who is sitting out there in terms of this extraordinarily talented young writer who i would read it many years later without knowing that she was one of the students in the class. so it s really lovely to think it also for being here tonight. i wanted to ask farah to share with us the introduction of harlem nocturne. is really a beautiful way she brings these women
is always more that could be put in. . commandeers from the time you had to leave the department to get the book published how many years did this take? one year after i was disabled from the job and had a heart attack was the year i wrote the book it took 12 years to get the book published but an author writes with longevity in mind i had published several other books prior to this and i am always writing a new title all the time i have three books ready to go now and one book i wrote that many years ago as well glading to be published it is a combat war book from vietnam. it is in the same spirit of this one. it is great to see wonderful old friends and colleagues. i cannot tell you what a great thing if it is. my question is from your vietnam experience out of curiosity have to be here are from vietnam? quite a few. talking about your bronze star would it bother you to tell you how you got it? mcfadyen said good question. i was of the first recall a marine corps
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