Much like the leader in Residence Program seeks to bring script to the world and the world to scrap by finding the intersection between the intersection and scholarship in society and culture. Presenters often linked to academic curricula and linked to issues that are vital to faculty, race, literature, and the arts. Programs provide a forum for Community Engagement and the exchange of ideas beyond the classroom and nurture the environment for inquiry ideas and intellectual exchange. While shes been on campus for the last few days, lisa has been meeting with students and faculty and sharing her perspective of the executive director of the National Book foundation and the former editor of the magaze. Im re that her conversation with argus script community will inform tonight discussion. I want to tell you that she tweeted today that claremont has been an exceedingly Pleasant Place [joining her on stage is poet, robin lewis was voyage of the voyage won the National Book award in 2015. Sh
Departments and minority communities that they serve is because we ask the police to do too much and we ask too little of ourselves reporter [inaudible] racism and discrimination remain real and pressing problems. None of us is entirely innocent. No institution is entirely immune. That includes our police departments. We know this. Reporter former president george w. Bush also made an appeal. We want the unity of hope. Reporter while acknowledging the countrys division. Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples by judging ourselves by our best intentions for. This audience saved the welcome for chief brown. He leaned on lyrics by steve vie wonder ive got to say always, ill be loving you always. Reporter right now, president obama on his way back to d. C. He closed his remarks saying while we cannot match the courage of those five officers who lost their lives, we should strive to match their devotion to their community. Meantime, weve learned that the funeral for philando
Go to booktv. Org. The before Columbus Foundation presents the winners of the american book awards in San Francisco, calif. I am the chairman of the board of directors and i want to thank our friends for their sponsorship for this afternoons awards and my colleagues on the board of directors for their presence and persistence and devotion to this very worthy and necessary and urgent and i would say even medicinal organization. At the beginning of this year january, the United States lost one of its most innovative and exciting writers, mary barracca twice winner of the american book award a strong supporter of the before Columbus Foundation. His last appearance in San Francisco was a fundraiser not far from here to raise money for the before Columbus Foundation. Still in our embrace of the panorama of American Literature and history of this afternoon unlike to dedicate my portion of the program to the memory of appellates and writer, amory bar barracca barracca. We have quite a harvest