authors discuss theñ/< 1955 mur of emmett till, and the role of these events in the civil rights movement. c-span recorded the panel at the 2018 festival of books in nashville, tennessee. greetings. my name is lee williams, jr. i m an associate professor of african-american and public history at tennessee state university, and i will be the moderator for this panel. first i d like to welcome you to nashville. if you re not a nashville resident, welcome, welcome. and welcome to the greatest library in america. this session will run precisely 50 minutes i am told. so we will give both our authors 20 minutes to speak, and we ll allocate ten minutes for question and answer. i was also admonished to remind you if you re really enjoying yourself this southern festival of books depends upon individual donations. so if you really enjoy what you ve seen over the past couple of days i d encourage you to donate as much as you can. we re in for a treat today. i asked these two gentlem
at evening. thank you for coming. kind of programming coordinator for the library and am very pleased to present tonight program. i would like to thank our sponsor, maryville university barnes & noble, the team from the chesterfield barnes & noble has books for sale in the room. please consider buying the book to make a the book help support the other series and bring more great authors to st. louis. after the talk will just fine you up a row and get it going very efficiently. tonight is presented by the favorite authors series. the program started in 2004 and represents authors of politics, history and sports. .. in which it s very appropriately titled sting like a bee . nero s focus to a somewhat overlooked area of all his life, a conscientious draft objector during the vietnam era and the subsequent legal battle that took him all the way to the supreme court. researched and filled with great suspense, sting like a bee is an inspiring account of the highs and lows of a
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mixtape, and featuring the legendary roots crew. questlove: 584! yeah! steve: and now, here he is, jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] jimmy: thank you very much. oh, welcome. enjoy the show. welcome to the show. welcome, everybody. welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. thank you. thank you. thank you. welcome. [ cheers and applause ] welcome to the tonight show. this is it, baby. [ cheers and applause ] this is the show to be at. welcome, everybody. wow, what a great crowd. guys, here s what everybody s talking about. i saw that al gore met with donald trump today to discuss climate change. [ light laughter ] they probably talked about how climate change could lead to massive floods in places like new york city. trump was like, that s why i live on the 58th floor. [ laughter ] when it gets around 57, i bring the yacht around. [ applause ] the other big news is that trump appointed ben carson as his secretary of housing and urban development. [ laught