now we have the pleasure of welcoming a an old friend to africa town dr. natalie s robertson. she s a friend of advocate hound and we count on her very often to come and share the history and all the knowledge. she s gained about the one team and african town and she is has she has the pleasure also of introducing our speaker for the hour. so let us welcome dr. natalie s robertson thank you very much and good morning african town. the spirit of our ancestors festival has been seated by our ancestors through the efforts and dedication of the festival s founder jocelyn davis. and it is taking root like the baobab tree under whose canopy. we are imparting knowledge about africa town to the world. i am proud to have served as the festivals inaugural speaker and i am equally proud to introduce my successor dr. deborah plant the editor of barracoon the story of the last black cargo author by ancestor zora neale, hurston. dr. deborah plant is an african-american literature in africa
back in the 1980 s from the original founders of the descendents association, and i guess it stopped for a while, so i decided to start it up again. and i was reading the book, the slaveship clotilda and the makers of africa town. that is how i came up with the title. i was looking for a title, but you know, a lot of things were not ringing a bell. when i was reading her book, i was like oh wow, our ancestors just jumped at me. you greeted everyone and there was a point where you had descendents speak. how did you come up with your program? well, growing up here in africa town and attending the missionary baptist church, there was a bust of cudgel lewis in front of our church all of my life, and back in 2002 that bust was destroyed by some kids acting up, and they decided to vandalize, and later, they put up a historical marker, and this historical marker had the founders of union baptist church, and there were several names on there, and growing up, i always heard about
arianna: we are very excited about the authors who will be speaking here. started, please silence your cell phones. we are filming and recording today and we prefer not to have any interruptions. we sure to use a microphone at the end of the event to ask questions. if you have not purchased a book and would like to do so, they are available at the register. after the event is over, there will be a signing line to the right of this table here. if you have been here before, you know we ask everyone to fold up their chairs after the event. here with us tonight is dr. damaris hill. dr. hill is an accomplished explores the work digital humanities. she has written the fluid boundaries of suffrage and jim crow. dr. hill is an assistant professor of african-american studies at the university of kentucky but she is here to talk to us about her most recent work , a bound woman is a dangerous thing. dr. hill honors the lives and suffering of african-american women heroes throughout hi
organization that supports programs to teach history, literature, philosophy and other disciplines, for the people of massachusetts. and pleased to have c-span s booktv, asking questions please know that you are recorded. wait for the microphone to come to you. and at this table, down this aisle, we have copies of invisible for sale it registers in the next room. it is 20% off this evening, this book discount is how we say thanks for buying books that harvard bookstore. to support his father series to ensure an independent bookstore. and i m pleased to introduce william nelson cromwell at yale university. talked for over 30 years and served as a law clerk for thurgood marshall, received eight honorary degrees delivering the web du bois lecture. he is an author of 15 books of nonfiction and fiction which includes violence abuse, confirmation mess, new england and emperor of ocean park. and the bestseller list. he is here to present his new book invisible, the forgotten story o
of how his business has fared over the past two years. but let s start with some publishing industry news. over the holidays three best-selling authors died. joan didion wrote 11 books including slouching towards bethlehem and the year of magical thinking she was known as a leading voice in the new journalism movement of the 1960s. and pulitzer prize-winning biologist edward o wilson of harvard spent his 70-year year career studying insects specifically ants among his numerous books was a 2013 social conquest of earth and his 2020 biography tales from the ant world. and bell hooks focused a great majority of her writing on race and feminism. she released 30 books over 40 years including her 1981 debut entire woman black women and feminism and in 1997 released wounds of passion a writing life. well, all of these authors have appeared on book tv s monthly interview program in depth and you can watch their appearances any time by visiting book tv.org and searching their name usi