we are good to go. welcome everybody. we are back with chatter on books and happily we already disclosed location, one more page books in arlington we take books, wine and chocolate more seriously than we take ourselves. thank you so much for letting us be here. thank you so much for coming. it s going to be out in the open. my name is jeanne mcmanus, later we re going to be speaking with wil haygood who i m honored to meet. the book will talk about a lot of things that talk about tigerland which is remarkable book about some really incredible young man at a very difficult time. a couple of the things on tap, random thoughts, i know you re the you. i kind of obsessed with look at bestseller list you hate. i take the bullet for the team but i m always interested in something that pops up unexpectedly, and i talked a couple of weeks ago about these books that were decades old popping up, to kill a mockingbird, was a prime example, and we know why and we know why th
ainsfield-wolf who had this prize way back in 1985in she understood that literature could serve as the potent elixir in this fight. in the 84 years since the prize was established, our country has made great strides forward with regard to respecting and embracing our diversity. but recently we have taken disheartening steps backward. reported hate crimes have risen sharply in the past several years, including, of course, the mass murders at the mother emanuel ame church in south carolina and the tree of pennsylvania. this is a national trend, but it also hits close to home. according to the southern poverty law center, there are more organized hate groups in the state of ohio than in kentucky and west virginia combined. a great source of re was one, ba clarion call for action. we must rewrite our current national narrative to vigorously oppose bigotry in all of its forms. [applaus [applause] and tonight s ceremony provides an opportunity to energize that sense of purpose.
fdr in the beginning of the war. you give speeches where you talk about the great-niece to a english. the thing about the speech sound like. from the no. think about the speech sound like from the philippines. they didn t speeches two. the key to the radio. they would listen to them and thought england. england is an imperialist power why were we talking about the british empire when united states is letting its own territory last impact units incident shockingly little to build up territorial defenses. despite knowing that the war was probably going to probably probably get united states and western territories. virtually left one in the philippines had only a few things. it was a surprise that japan was very quickly able to take these western territories of the united states and the one the united states actually did do to prepare for this expected war in the 1930s, was to the philippines on the road to independence. so that the philippines into the countdown and got indepe
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pastor of bethany baptist church. it s my last year as board chair of the foundation and while of course i will still be involved, it s an honor to represent the board and the foundation on this very special night. we welcome you. the anisfield-wolf book awards were established in 1935 to honor literature that celebrates diversity and confronts racism. edith anisfield-wolf, a person far ahead of her time, endowed this prize to bring necessary topics and voices to our collective attention. over the years, the anisfield-wolf canon has become a living, breathing community of thinkers, writers and artists that spans continents, generations and intellectual traditions, and as the video you just watched demonstrates, anisfield-wolf award winning literature is moving off the pages and into our community in new and exciting ways. the inter-urban art installations show how these essential works of literature capture our attention, attention to language, attention to thought, attention