This new documentary traces the rise of the best selling author hewletts or a Nobel Prize Winner and force of nature Toni Morrison. Before becoming a writer made her way up the male dominated world of new york publishing always fearless she soon realized that she not any of the old white guys was the smartest person in the room. I was more interesting than the critics damper 1st novels with faint praise and condescension early reviews says shes got a great talent one day she limit it to only writing about black people like. Her to write about black people to be able to black. I prefer the word but im tired of people asking the. Oprah winfreys book club to make more sense a household name her novels became bestsellers and 97 her masterpiece beloved won the Pulitzer Prize the tale about the lasting trauma of slavery was turned into a film produced by and starring Oprah Winfrey sadly film critics didnt know how to handle morrisons story of an escaped slave who kills her daughter rather th
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Religion that also impacts us politically and socially. Numerous occasions and i thought of that theme and thought my good colleagues and friends totalk about the top stories so i am pleased to welcome again jim hopkins from lake shore baptist. Good to be here. And great to have you in oakland. And Dale Witherspoon of richmond. Good to be here and happy new year. I am glad that you when i asked you you call. I mean you come. And i am glad for that. Yeah. So lets begin with the stories. Lets go with you jim what do you think some of the top stories of the last year. I he doesnt know how political we are supposed to get but one of the top stories is the resolute meof trumps president trumps evangelical base to support him. Even in the face of his very iewn easy relationship with the truth. Even with his proclivity to racist things and even with the inhumanity of some of his policies, they hang in there and find narratives to support him. Hes our cyrus and you know he is appointed by god.
Us politically and socially numerous occasions i thought of that theme and i thought of my good colleagues and friends to come and talk about some of those top stories. So i am pleased to welcome, again, jim hopkins from lake shore baptist. Good to be here. Great to a have you in oakland. And Dale Witherspoon in eastern Hill United Methodist Church in richmond. Good to be here and happy new year. When i asked you, you come. And i am glad for that. Yeah. So lets begin with some of the stories. Lets go with you jim what are some of the top stories. I he doesnt know howpolitical we are supposed to get but one of the top stories is the commitment of trumps president trumps evangelical base to support him. And even in the face of his very uneies relationship with en withs proclito racist things and even with the inhumanity of some of his policies. They hang in there and find narratives to support hem. He is our cyrus you know he is aappointed by god and king and who can question gods appoin
And arts programs. There at metro art and i am the light thrilled to be in conversation with these authors this afternoon. Yes, and so were going to do brief introductions going here down the line. We have ta faye. Hello. Ill be superbrief. My name it ta a black southern writer from jackson, mississippi. Wrote a novel called Long Division Ethic Division how to those in america, and have a memoir coming out tuesday called heavy thank you all for coming. [applause] hi im ray paris from carson, california. And i was a professor at Michigan State and i just went to seattle now a profess at the university of washington, and this is my first book. [applause] my name is Rochelle Riley im the media. Ive been a a journalist my whole life. I was a tar heel study journal i feel at the university of North Carolina at chapel hill work at six including Washington Post in Dallas Morning News and louisville, kentucky im not a columnist for the detroit free press, and i have decided that after all of t