We are going to have a great night tonight. We are honoring literary liens, emma white will be honored, a big night for the Massive National Book Foundation for literature, culture, a big night for all of us. When i have the ability to stand in front of people i mention my mothers name jean christian. She is the reason i like to say about my mother i am the man that i am because she is the woman sheis or was. My mother was my first teacher. My mother graduated from college at the age of 17, the first person in her family to go to college. For me to be a wellknown literary advocate in this nation, a place where only a scant few generations ago it would have been illegal for me to read is no small thing. [applause] literature is the birthrightof every single one of us, no exception and if you can read in at least one language youare in my definition free. That is to say , no one can pull the wall over your eyes. No one can give you a set of what they want to call alternative facts and co
Historically, the few instances in which iran has backed down under pressure, its when its faced against significant multilateral pressure. Rose and we look ahead to super bowl li with peter king of Sports Illustrated. That is what we have been trying to figure out. At age 39, dan morino, jim kelly, john elway, they were all retired. Peyton manning threw 11 touchdowns and 17 interceptions when he was 39 years old, his last year where he limped to a super bowl championship. But think about it, tom rady this year right now, 33 touchdowns, four interceptionings at age 39. Now, a lot of people will make fun of brady. He eats pristinely. You know, for him, you know, a wild night is a bowl of avocado ice cream. So i think were now seeing the result of all that for tom brady. He simply is beating age as well as every other team in the n. F. L. Rose we conclude with raoul peck, the director with the new documentary about James Baldwin. Ten years ago, i decided to make this film because i felt
David, why are they doing this . Will it be successful and what will it achieve . Charlie, they are doing this because they want to set a new tone and they want to do so right away. You heard from general flynn, the National Security advisor. He issued a Statement Today in which he said that the old method of watching a missile firing and then gathering the United Nations general assembly, or Security Council together to issue a pronouncement against iran, that those days were over. That that was ineffective. He announced a series of sanctions that quite frankly, looked a lot like the sanctions the Obama Administration issued a year ago. The difference was that in announcing it, they revealed a little bit more about what they knew about the networks of suppliers that the iranians have for their missile program. Blowing the cover of a number of Front Companies and signaling to the iranians, we know where you live and you are in a new era now where we can make your life more miserable. T
Really details in the early part what makes why she is compelled to collect this literature. But read everything. You have time. They are reset all the other ones i love. But i think we see these contradictions. We see hurston the biographer, hurston who has who takes black people in the western hemisphere so seriously and is the first to say we do is a religion. And this is why. Why. These are components. And yet, hurston who has moments of american nationalism about the u. S. Occupation. Hurston who is so u. S. Centric do and how she sees the caribbean. So i think you get all the hurstons we have been talking about in and i agree with the characteristics, just because this just so wonderful to see you take so seriously and how you going to a blacks house and everything is on an angle or how we turn nouns into verbs. And right whenever i you hear someone use a word conversation i think of the world hurston. Thats not bad language, if there were doesnt exist we make it exist. Hurston h
Booktv wants to know what youre reading this summer. Tweet us booktv or post it on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. Welcome once again, to the next panel discussion. May we have you listening please . Thank you, so much. This panel, i love myself when im laughing a century or more, a century and more of Zora Neale Hurston. I had the pleasure of using the moderator todays discussion. Farah jasmine griffin. She is author of five books. The focus of her stud study of cultural history. D she is professor of english and comparative literature studies. She has a book, comparativehe history of black women. Ladies and gentlemen, far a jasmine griffin. [applause] thank you and good afternoon. I know youre here because you love hurston, not because this is one of the only cant hear . Is that better . No . I will keep talking until you can hear me. I will try to speak a little more loud did i. Is that Getting Better . Food. I know youre here because you love Zora Neale Hurston, not becaus