Prison for the mass killing of political opponents. And im we are starting with sports and the arabian gulf cup host qatar on the field right now against the u. A. E. With a place in the semifinals at stake its a game with as much politics as team pride. Thank you very much for joining as Security Forces have stopped and for marching towards a u. N. Base in the east of the democratic republic of congo they were heading to the peacekeeping compound near the airport in beni one of 2 bases in that city at least 2 people have been killed demonstrators have been targeting u. N. Peacekeepers there for more than a week now saying theyre failing to protect civilians from attacks by rebel groups that speak to aljazeera as catherine soy whos in goma the knowledge a city in east india r. C. Catherine tell us 1st about what youre hearing about the situation in beni whats happening on the streets there right now. Well right now the military in beni is expected to hold a press conference in the comi
Facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. This is booktv on cspan2 television for serious readers. Heres our prime time lineup. In anticipation of next weeks release of harper lees second book, so get a watchman, booktv presents several programs about the pulitzer prizewinning authors life and writing career. Next Mary Mcdonagh murphy looks at the impact of harper lees to kill a mockingbird. Then at 7 30, maria mills reports on the 18 months she lived next door to harper lee in monroeville, alabama. And at 9 p. M. Eastern on after words, charles shields author of mockingbird a portrait of harper lee, discusses the events leading up to the publication of her new novel go set a watchman. That all happens next on cspan2s booktv. And now heres Mary Mcdonagh murphy, author of Scout Atticus and boo. Good morning everyone. And welcome to the auditorium speaker series. My name is m. Claire knowles and i serve as a member of the American Library Association Executive board. But i also have a day job
Fact he was talking to him every day about your slip the 14th amendment is supposed to mean. That may not have worked out so well rather than convincing. But i think the Supreme Court often does not go with what we might consider the correct interpretation of a particular provision. They have their own way of doing things and that is part of the reason. The other thing to say is that support for the kind of things that they know most interested in, fundamental rights fundamentally in the years following the civil war. Once you got out about ten years after the end of the war, there was much less public sentiment for doing these things because it was hard and people wanted to move onto othe on to other subjn some way that had an impact on the way the Supreme Court viewed these questions and it wasnt until the 1960s that you saw the second reconstruction red by Martin Luther king, kind of the vindication of him other things he was trying to do. Some judges who say they believe in the ori
But the book is tentatively titled little is the new big, or why little is the new big. And its about what weve been talking about with Community Shops and the explosive growth of farmers markets, the explosive growth of independent bookstores and people looking to reclaim their own lives and, you know, no harm to them, the people who work in walmart are nice people, but to stay out of walmart, to stay out of the ways in which walmart and other very, very Large Businesses do business that the costs are hidden. The shortterm cheapness is paying a longterm, is taking a longterm price out of us and out of our childrens futures. Be so im working on a book about that. Well, my husband was born in a ham let in southwest virginia which one . Darwin, virginia, which we found recently had more or less disappeared from the map. But when he was six months also, his parents moved to puff frees borrow murfreesboro which was like moving to new york city. He had not been back until two years ago we w
Inspired all the time either work of these young scholars. A day that farah came to speak to our class, the work were 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 id been taught literature by a black person, besides my mother who was of course my first instruction in reading and writing but its 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. Thats the great joys of teaching, you dont 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 its 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 onto the page pics i w