that it needs to have but also the care that it needs to have so we can start passing those types of treasures on to our customers. the economics and the time period that we opened acorn books did make it a little bit difficult, and we didn't want the facts to deter us from doing something we felt dover really, really needed. the customers in the county, in dover and even outside of the dover area really said that, you know, this town has to have a bookstore. and if the customer base is going to be that strong and that outspoken and that supportive, we didn't want to put too much doubt in them, you know, over just some economic numbers. ..

there is an arc to marketing, not trying to sound pushy to the customers but let everybody know we are here, we try to get whatever is they need. bigger organizations, schoolteachers and libraries, letting them know we are there to support them as well. it gives us somebody if they want to open up a store, don't

be hindered by all the talk of e-books and e. reeders and computerized this and that, they have a place. we are not against them at all. just that we talk around here, books being scared of the e readers, just because new technology comes out doesn't mean that the old technology is going to go away. there are still people who love the idea of holding a book or being able to highlight a book or make notes on a book. go with what your community says it wants or the customers say they want. if they are not happy, nobody is happy. and not necessarily what you want. as it gets established we would really like to see in the future that it is a gathering place so to speak for people who want to

share their ideas and talk with people and hang out and i love the idea that i have this place that no better -- no matter what somebody wants to learn or find out, i can be that platform to find it out. it doesn't matter if it is a biography on peanut turner or politics or what is going on in baseball right now or the history of world war ii, anything somebody wants to know i can get them and i really hope that the community, that we are here, falls in love with the idea that we are open books. if they want to find it out and they can find it out here. >> local author vincent depaul 11 israel is next on booktv. he said down in a recent visit to dover, delaware. his book "hearts away, bombs

away" details the career of his father, world war ii bombardier and a love story between his parents throughout the war. >> i was starting to review my father's military background. like a lot of world war ii veterans he served in the war, came home and never thought much about the war. i knew little about his accomplishments or his crew's accomplishments until after he passed away in 2003, some of the original crew members began to share with me some of the excitement that occurred in the skies over germany and occupied europe. i began to research my dad's mission and their missions, i was very interested in finding out more about it and i remember as the youngster my parents saved their correspondence from the war years and was tucked away in my sister's attic.

i retrieved them and read every single one of them thinking of the story but what i discovered was he couldn't write about emissions. that would have been a security breach but he wrote about life in general in the military. where he trained and how long he trained and my mom would write about events back home during the war but the thing about the letters, something of wasn't even looking for, a beautiful love story poured off the pages. i set out to write a war story but this love story grabbed me in such a way i couldn't ignore it. gee, i miss you, try to come home soon, love you. if i don't see you pretty soon i don't know what i am going to do. there are a lot of times i think i will go crazy but then i get your letters out, start to read them all over again. the story of my parents, powered they met and fell in love this center around old chesapeake and

potomac telephone co. in baltimore. she was an operator during the war and he operated out of high school. he met in an elevator and the rest is history. they had their first date in march of 42. proposed by april of 42 and they would have been married by that summer. man who raised him would not give a 19-year-old permission to marry. at that time he needed written permission. it was either enlisted or be drafted so he enlisted in the army air corps, forerunner of the modern day air force. in june of 42. but was called to duty until november of 42. they were engaged at that time and went to basic training in nashville as a young cadet and if they were still engaged. seven months later probably, he has gone to santa ana, calif. back to the texas area, my mom

went to texas where they were married a week later. they said their goodbyess in nebraska. he was shipped overseas after being in new england, ultimately the and his crew went to ireland to deliver their new aircraft and on to england. my dad would write a letter from abroad or my mom would send one to england and sometimes take five weeks to arrive. when i was born in may of 44, before i was deployed, he didn't know that i was born for roughly 12, 14 days and then he didn't know the details of the birth for another three weeks. following my birth. that is different from today with e-mails and cellphones and international calling, skype where service men deployed and keep connected to the family. it was a different time.

another illustration is first thanksgiving away, he was down in california. my dad spent five hours in line waiting to call home on a pay phone. can you imagine waiting five hours for your turn and you call home and there's no answering machine, no guarantee your fiancee at that time will be home. five hours you have been resting and gone home might have been for naught if nobody answered the phone. how much difference is that today, dial a cellphone and leave a voice message or text message. it was a very different time and i talked to so many people on the book tour to have the letters from their husband or boyfriend or wife or girlfriend but they don't have the return from the girlfriend or wife to the spouse etc. and keep in mind if a guy is running around

europe, he doesn't have the wherewithal to carry a batch of letters. my dad being in the air corps had a different situation. he stayed in the clowns at hud for the most part overseas or perhaps here and he would save the letters and to his credit he saved whatever he wants and bring the mall back. i have the complete story of the letters and his responses to her. he was on the inside of the fence and she was on the outside but these are the methods that appear and i can tell you having read the 1100 took me six months, every night was a new surprise, a new little twist. given a new talk by a captain who had come back from active service and had seen plenty. i want to pass along what he told us. through him my outlook on this

war has really changed. after listening to him we are far from winning this war. i hate to say that but facts are facts. eoplth don't realize what our soldiers are againsand what our boys are going through. george sharon, one another, the movies of the day and which ones we enjoyed, like bing crosby gone my way and i would say make sure you see that and he would write back it was great and he recommends something to her. and some interesting people along the way. in santana, met mickey rooney. until his wife came over and pulled him away, that was mickey rooney. that was an interesting time for my dad. he heard the andrews sisters singing live and heard glen miller play at a uso function in august of 44, the very week that

glenn miller was promoted from captain to major, tragically four months later glenn miller's plane went missing presumably over the english channel never to be found. he also got to see joe dimaggio who is head of recreation and training at one of the bases my dad was that. these little tidbits of life back in the 40s. my mom would write about in the backyard how it would rain but they didn't have a dryer. would stay out on the line because it was going to get wet anyway so it would draw all over the place again. these are interesting things that take the reader back to a different era in our nation's history. i saw how much they were in love and wanted a family. my mom predicted they would have five children and sure enough they had five children. she wrote on one letter for

example her prediction of three boys and two girls, had the total but in reverse order. willing to have two boys and three girls. they were very prayerful. a two promises when he first went in, to write off and then spray often and they certainly roads often because that is proven by the volume of letters and when you read their letters cover to cover which i had the opportunity to do you see how much faith they had in the good lord praying to him that god and his crew would make it back safely. there was so much tragedy occurring in the skies over germany and europe, in that campaign, there were some injuries along the way, every one of those original crew members made it back to the states. having read the letters, became

more humble and certainly more appreciative of the sacrifices that generation made in world war ii and sacrifices are made every day because when a young man or woman in uniform is deployed they don't have a say as to where they go. they don't know the political agenda or why they are fair but they go and defend their country, they served with great distinction. it gave greater appreciation. keep in mind i was born may 26, '44. this is on my 6 months birthday and my dad rights -- the nickname all kids had -- had the birthday, sun. sorry i can't be there in person. too little to understand that they tell me there is a war on and i have to be there and you there. won't be long, we will be together in again. mommy tells me you are growing

into a big boy and can do just about everything but what can talk. won't be long before you doing those of that. played in july and around before you do either but things like that can't wait. they just happen. take good care of mommy for me and tell her i love her. at the birthday, i love you dearly, i don't know if i saw that letter as a youngster or heard about it, even as a young boy, but to find that 60 years later, open up out that your was to you and wanting to be there it was quite an e. emotional thing. >> on booktv's recent trip to dover we spoke with bradley skelcher whose book "african-american education in delaware: a history through photographs" tells the history of african-american struggle during the post civil war era through the great depression.

>> because really there wasn't any other history book written on african-american education in the state of delaware. it started the work when they received a grant through the delaware state, a fully developed historic context for african-american education statewide from 1770 through 1940. there was an overall neglect when it came to educating african-americans. not just in delaware but throughout the country. they still pursued education, they still struggles, with very limited resources manage to create an outstanding educational system for

african-american children in delaware. the challenge to african-american education in delaware from the very beginning many sought educating african-americans as a threat to the societal order at the time where white men were at the top of the power structure of the country. and degraded to african-americans and african-americans enslaved. delaware was a slave states even though over the years there were strong abolitionist movement's to abolish, by the time of the american civil war only 3% of the african-american population was enslaved. still there was a struggle within the states whether to educate african-americans, in

particular friedman -- freedmen between religious organizations, the quakers, from almost the beginning provided some sort of educational opportunity for african-americans. and also the other is particularly the agribusiness group and state farmers who rely upon african-americans as farm workers from their need to provide an education for african-americans, essentials the a strong back and a weak mind was how they viewed educating african-americans. they wanted them in the field following the american civil war in 1866. however, there was a growing movement to establish an educational system for

african-americans in the state and much of that group from the freedmen's bureau and the civil war, the 4 rail experiment in south carolina, sea island where abolitionists from new york, delaware, went to south carolina and they experimented with redistribution of abandoned plantations and educator in the freedmen. from that grew what became known as the freedmen's bureau and the freedmen's bureau paid particular interest in providing educational opportunities to the new the freed african-americans. delaware saw this as something that they wanted to follow,

especially the religious leaders of the state wanted to provide education opportunities for african-americans in the state and the 1860's 6 a group of religious leaders invited a group from baltimore to come over and explain how they were establishing educational opportunities for african-americans in baltimore. they met in wilmington and from that meeting grew the delaware association for the moral improvement and education of the colored people. this was modeled after the baltimore association for the moral improvement in education of colored people. delaware shortened, remove the moral improvement seeing the obvious problems with that ensure did to the delaware association for the education of

colored people. that even became shortened to the delaware association. from this organization grew a movement to establish educational opportunities for african-americans throughout the state. they secured support from a variety of organizations and private interest businesses from the delaware rail road that provided transportation of surplus hospitals provided by the freedommen's bureau so the delaware rail road transported those materials to various locations throughout the state where local volunteers would pick up the materials and deliver them to sites and typically the sights were next to churches in the state.

whether they were african, methodist, episcopal churches or methodist episcopal churches, typically the lands that the school houses were built upon were provided by the churches and so throughout the state you could go to the local african-american church and next door was a school house. they were closely related. in looking at the deeds and so forth, quite often found that the church trustees, often the school trustees and typically the church would sell the school, the land, or simply donate that land to the school, the delaware association school

and when the schools opened, typically the minister of the church would be the school teacher. this was a long tradition within the state even before the civil war. and quite often the church provided the education for the children in the form of sunday school. as a matter of fact quite often the first public school systems or movements were called sunday school movement and almost from the very beginning in the late nineteenth century delaware saw the need for professional teacher, school teacher, trained at what were called normal schools, teacher preparation schools and eventually the state saw the need to prepare and

train delawareians to teach in the school and when delaware state college as it was called, state college for colored students, the state of delaware, was established in 1891, one of the first programs in delaware state university added was a normal school to prepare teachers who would go out into the local school to teach. initially these were some of the challenges. one very important challenge to the african-american community in delaware was providing the funds to support the schools, keeping -- keeping in mind a delaware association was a private organization that relied upon a contribution to support the schools.

and quickly the african-american community saw that they could support their schools if they could direct their taxes, property taxes to supporting african-american schools rather than their property taxes supporting the white schools. essentially this was the public school system in delaware much like it is supported today, was supported through real-estate taxes and african-americans paid real-estate taxes but those taxes went to support the white school rather than the african-american schools which were supported by private charitable organizations and in 1874, a group of african-americans, the white coats methodist episcopal church on slaughter street which is now

baptist church and had a convention and the convention came out with some demands. one demand was for delaware to support the pending civil rights bill in congress which later became the 1875 civil-rights act and also demanded that the legislature passed a law that would allow african-americans to keep their taxes to support their schools. and eventually the state of delaware did a path of legislation in the 1880s that provided public support for the african-american school. with that said, the next challenge was that the tax collector to collect the taxes and for a variety of reasons,

many of the county tax collector's would not collect taxes on african-american property. one reason why they didn't collect taxes, and then eventually in form of property owner that you may lose your property, was to keep them from voting. poll taxes. if you didn't own property were required to pay a poll tax and give you a owned properties that meant you were a property owner and could vote but if you were not paying your taxes you couldn't vote. this was a way to disenfranchise african-american voters in the state. the other was to, the taxes imported the local education system and with opposition to educating african-americans any way, not collecting the taxes

would mean that possibly not be able to conduct school in the local area. one incident occurred in the 1880s to the north of dover of group of african-american men came together and because they were having a difficult time finding the newcastle county tax collector to pay their taxes for the property, they knew if they didn't pay their taxes what that would mean. they could lose their right to vote, they could lose their property and above all else, they could support their schools or their children. so the group got together and

they tracked down where the tax collector was. he left the state and when to philadelphia for business so they found out where he was staying, traveled to philadelphia to the hotel, knocked the door down, entered the door and by gunpoint forced the tax collector to collect their taxes. that is how important education was to african-americans in the late nineteenth century and continues to be so. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to dover it, delaware and many other cities visited by local content of vehicles go to c-span.org/local content. >> sarah weinman discusses the

recent ruling against apple for e-book price-fixing. federal judge ruled apple violated antitrust laws guilty of polluting with five publishers to raise the cost of the books. give some background on what the ruling means for apple and book publishers. >> april of 2012 the department of justice to five publishers which were penguin, macmillan, simon and schuster, harpercollins, conspiring with apple to raid e-book prices as part of setting up the agency and getting there books into apple bookstore and what ended up transpiring over a flurry of legal documents in a three week trial that took place over june was the department of justice trying to prove that apple was essentially the ringleader of this conspiracy and in meetings with publishers over a six week

period, e-mails, phone calls and other communication that they conspired to raise e-book prices. five publishers have actually settled with the department of justice before hand, apple had not decided to pursue this in trial and what was interesting was just before the trial happened the judge indicated for a, quote, tentative view, children conspiring with the doj ruled apple indeed conspired to fix prices so it is interesting in that it seems the judge was trying to mitigate against the industrial viewpoint but in this end this was handed out and the trial ended on june 20th and on july 10th vote ruling came down so the tentative view became a permanent view and apple was found guilty.

>> you mention the agency model. we mentioned this in the past but for viewers just learning about this case can you give us a brief understanding what that means? >> sure. the way that e-book prices were handled under what is called the wholesale model where publishers have a price the retailers are free to set the price however evade shoes and when publishers were upset amazon was discounting a best sellers and titles at a significant discounts of publishers' fall wholesale model was not working for them and was cutting into their business and was going to affect profit margins or the like. the agency more on the other hand, the publisher sets the price, the retailer takes particular cuts, apple takes 30% which they did with the itunes store and that is what they did with the i bookstore.

retailers can't change the price, what they can do is consolidate and essentially acting as the agent. what was interesting was the agency model may have produced smaller revenue but boosted profits for publishers and gave every retailer, apple or independent bookstores or sony or you name it extra skin in the game so what happened thanks to the agency model was because prices were across the board there were more entrants into the e-book market whereas in 2009 it looks like amazon was going to dominate and no one else was going to enter the picture. >> you talked about publishers who are also part of this case, they settled out of court and apple decided to hold out following this ruling, the apple

spokesman said when we introduce the i bookstore in 2010 we gave customers more choice injecting innovation and competition to the market, breaking the amazon's grip on the publishing industry. he goes on to say we have done nothing wrong and will appeal the judge's decision. as apple advocate for appeal? >> it will be interesting to see if they do. the judge was clever. she made it very clear that all she was moving on was what transpired on the weeks before late 2009 and 2010. silent observers and apple were worried that this could potentially be a broader ruling, a way to do business that would affect their ability to use the most favored nation cause. that came up during the trial because that was one of the key tenets of apple's deal to publishers. they basically said if we do and agency model we want to make

sure some other retailer decides to change the price, essentially have first dibs matching it as well. there was warning that msn might be in the employ as a result of this at least from our original read it seems that opinion was not as he put it -- it will go to appeal but it seems she set herself up to have a fairly airtight case so even if she had her hands with the tentative view we spoke about earlier in seems as if there may not be as much latitude for the court to rule on but i am not a lawyer and we haven't seen what apple will file and i am sure there will be many interesting arguments as to why the judge should be thrown out. >> what does it mean for apple's

chief competitor amazon? >> amazon has always been calling this the big win. and they finally adjusted their e-book prices in accordance with their settlement with the department of justice so it seemed prices have gone down and discounting but it is important for viewers to note that what this case has done is it has not drawn the agency model way the dollar has done is a specific deal these publishers, by proxy the manager of penguin, what it has done is made from renegotiate deals and come up with a different spin on the agency model. we call the agency right because he essentially the retailers are

still acting as an agent per se but still grooming latitude for discounts to happen so it is an amalgam of agency and wholesale models. not like the wholesale model has totally come back. >> the agency model is not did. publishers's thoughts on this and do publishers think the current price of e-books is sustainable? >> it is important to point out nine 99 was something of a metaphor. there were many e-book place even in 2009 by amazon that were higher than that. the key is many of the brand new titles, the best sellers, the ones that kept coming up with stephen king's under the dome. at the time simon and schuster felt threatened by the fact that amazon was discounting a book that was over 1,000 pages long which analysts price of $45 and

they reselling it at such a low cost and that is why they did something. the e-book release. it doesn't seem likely windowing is going to come back especially now that all the publishers are working out deals with retailers and other things concerned them that will help now that there ceo has resigned. but great many things are already settled. publishers have either paid us the money entirely or they settled and set it aside so they can pay them down later. >> are there publishers working on the new model and how reticent are they'll to work together after this ruling? >> i have no knowledge of what if any additional models they might be working on and in terms of working together there will probably be even more lawyers than there were already. >> final question, have real

consumers notice the market difference due to this rolling? >> one thing that is interesting to point out which was brought to our attention by a particularly savvy observers, let's say apple rules is a the -- loses the ruling and our hits with millions of dollars the publishers that settle in total settle for $66 million. apple would likely be on the hook for many several times over that. hundreds of millions of dollars would be given out in a settlement and this would be the department of justice because their charges were not based in terms of monetary value and collusion and conspiracy and the like. this settlement goes forward, it

would operate where e-book consumers would see a credit in their balance from a different retailers so say each got the ball park of $2 per e-book that was questionable. a fair amount of money and as a credit it has to be sent. it will be sent to the retailer. total benefit from customers spending money, publishers. it may act with the stimulus package for the publishing industry which is not what the department of justice intended. >> sarah weinman report on the publishing industry, follow her at twitter@sarah weinman and visit publisher marketplace website at publishersmarketplace.com. sarah weinman joins us by skype from vermont. >> thanks very much for having me. >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs you see here on

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i just finished conspiracy of one by peter ran about world war ii incident with a low-level council employee and cables between churchill and fdr and starting the coup, 1953, cia and the roots of view it -- u.s. and iranian rations -- relations. c-span covered several events in which ed snowden came up. watch those by searching for ed snowden on c-span.org. courtney brooks post on facebook the tragedy and hope of africa by a journalist powered french, some guy picked up in d.c.. jim rhodes mentioned monument men, allied heroes, and nazis, thieves and the greatest treasure hunt in history. a few years ago booktv covered an event with robert to talk about the monument men. you can watch that on line at booktv.org. what are you reading this summer? post on our facebook wall, tweet as to the snow is on your

reading list. visit our social media sites to see what others are reading and we might share your posts here on booktv. >> welcome to booktv live coverage of the fifteenth annual harlem book fair held in the langston hughes auditorium on the corner of malcolm x boulevard and west 135th street in harlem, new york, new york. several author panels and had they and several author called in opportunities as well. here is the lineup which can be seen live on c-span2 as well as booktv.org. in just a minute we will introduce you to max rodriguez, the founder of the harlem book fair. and the first panel of the day on science and health. after that one of the panelists, harry at washington will be joining us here on stage, has written a couple books including

deadly monopolies and medical apartheid. after that conversation between professor e. are shipped and dr. carl heart who appeared on our afterwards program a few weeks back. his book is called high price, it is about drugs in america. he will be joining us for a call in program. following that a panel on african-american history and the twenty-first century. joining us then will be sarah griffin on twenty-first century historian. it is coming up this fall so we will get a preview and the call in opportunity. legacies of rosa parks and islandat a robinson. jean cote harris has written a new book on rosa parks and joining us after that for call in and the final offer panel of the day at a harlem book fair is on politics and religion.

after that, aubrey hendrix will join us for a call in, he is one of the panelists, a professor at the new york theological seminary, politics of change is the name of the book. that is ahead at a harlem book fair, fifteenth annual. now we introduce you to the founder of the harlem book fair, mr. rodriguez, how did you get the book fair started and why? >> 16 years ago i published the book review and an extension of that when we moved the business to harlem we realized there was no outsource celebration of black writing and black writers in the home of the harlem renaissance. how could this be? we began that event 15 years ago. we started with about 30, 40 exhibitors and 800 people, it has grown to hundreds of exhibits and hundreds of thousands of people, the largest african-american book festival in the nation.

>> host: besides the festival's hear what is going on outside? >> guest: books, authors, poetry, children's books, music, food. is an outsource celebration. it is a street fair but it is also a street festival. you have to capture that intention. when you turn the corner the first thing you are hit with is all the people. >> host: mr. rodriguez, is there a large pool of offers for you to draw from? >> guest: there is. we have always been both a community that has been quarrel in its history and always risen. yesterday we awarded the awards in the 1800s, the first african-american published poet so we have a long history of

writing this story. it isn't written, it hasn't happened. we are very keen on telling our stories. there is a huge pool of stories to tell. >> host: when did you start working on this? >> guest: we work year round, six months out. i say with every book festival, it is worth a thousand hands. it is a community celebration and we partner very nicely with institutions like columbia university, even with t mobile, supporting gusts for the digital mobile access to reading and developing the incident. so many communities, many different communities come together to support the conversation of books and writing and where do we go from

here? >> host: what is cue the art? >> guest: is our answer to those publications that historically at least in the past did not review books for people of color. not by intention but i would turn to the cover, the index, and look to see what books looked like me and most times i wouldn't find them. i say why doesn't exist so i began the book review. it is an online publication and you can see what is current and what is the upcoming and it is a way to see what is hot and what is not. >> host: you talk about your sponsors, but you always felt the author, inside author in the

center. >> it is probably the most preeminent research center for black culture in america. it was started by a black -- he collected his books in the 1930s, 1920s, the public library gathered, took his collection in and house tim here but this is a research center for just a lot of intellectual query's. >> host: talking with max rodriguez live at a harlem book fair. this is the fifteenth year booktv has covered the harlem book fair so we are fees to be a partner in that sense. >> we're pleased to be here. >> we will let max go to introduce the first panel of the day. we want to let you know if if

you do happen to be in the area we have a booktv bus crew upfront, on the street, wes 135th, passing out booktv book bags. stop by and say hi and grab a book bag, live all day coverage of the harlem book fair begins with the first panel of the day and it is on science and health. this is live coverage on booktv. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

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[inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the fifteenth annual harlem book fair. thank you. [applause] >> i am max rodriguez, founder of the book fair and i can't tell you how pleased i am that you all have supported the book fair in the way that you have through your advocacy for books, through reading books and reading authors, by allowing the harlem book fair to be on the book review, to be a resource for you in your reading, in your walk through life, you use books to figure out how to get from here to there. this event would not be possible without the support from the center for research and black culture and also from columbia university whose new partner

with the book fair and so very happy about that and we certainly worked hard but to have columbia university embrace the harlem will fare as a possibility and a conversation of what is so, really makes me happy. it validates us in a very different way and along with that, also, the corporate community hears the voice, t mobile is supporting the book fair this year and they understand the shift in how information is delivered so they understand mobile, they understand access, they understand books, they understand reading, they understand access to information so we are very happy to have t mobile also join us today. i would like to introduce first larry -- clarice from the shattered center --shamboug

sender. >> it is my pleasure. i am the programs manager, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the schaumburg center, those who may not know, we're one of the four research libraries of the new york public library and our mission is to collect, preserve and share the wonderful history and culture of people of african descent. our collection holds ten million items divided across different divisions so please come back and view schomburg as your research history and culture. congratulations to max rodriguez for reaching such an important and wonderful landmark, 15 years, very good. give him a round of applause.

[applause] >> also i would like to saying on behalf of the schomburg center, for continuing the tradition of coming here and actually bringing the harlem book fair to at national audience. thank you. and lastly, welcome to our newest partner, columbia university school of the arts. would like to work with you on this project and we get to work all year huang around other events. we are happy today to celebrate books, black authors, black scholars, most of all the host in this wonderful space in this auditorium, engaging and wonderful conversations so now please, let's have marcia from columbia university give a few

words. thank you and enjoy the day. >> good morning. so exciting for columbia university school of the arts to be a partner in this amazing project that max has a glimmer in his eye 15 years ago couldn't have imagined how much it had grown and the impact it would have. it is indy also at amazing opportunity for us to parter with the schomburg, literacy partners and c-span in being part of the conversation around books. columbia university school of the arts has four division, film, theater, visual arts and writing in fiction and nonfiction and extremely right for us to be part of a project that engages people around ideas and around books and the important books the talk about the cutting edge issues that are happening of our time and

particular early that columbia university can engage in the conversation focusing on the issues important to the african-american diaspora. you may not think about columbia university in that way given its history, having been here since 1754 before new york city is even a city, and the united states as a country before the declaration of independence were written, but we are a university around these areas, it is a lovely part of being an associate dean where you can say i am an amazing fast who helped consider these programs and our associate director in the school of the arts in outreach and education has been working tirelessly incubating and give him a round of applause.

it is also timely for us all, given so many issues happening today talking about the president stepping forward. and issues of race and its impact in context and find with each of the panels today we are going to put all of this in context, extremely excited to be part of this and i applaud you again for 15 years for a wonderful event. [applause] >> thank you so much. i would like to introduce kerri hayes, vice president, general manager, t mobile, northeast region. >> thank you, max. we want to thank max and harlem book fair for letting us be part of this great event.

this community has been very good for us adopting our service ended is great to be part of something and give back a little bit. we believe we can be a real catalyst, real help when it comes to getting books out given the explosion in smart phones and mobile internet. we feel we can be a great contributor to helping expand books in the community. congratulate max on his 15 years and thank you for letting us be part of this great event. thank you. [applause] >> our first panel is titled methodology of race, science and health. before i introduce our moderator i want to acknowledge rich who worked with me tirelessly in pulling these panels together. ..

>> and civil, civil liberties. he is a professor of humanities and social sciences. he says here at wfts university, so you have me there. >> tufts. >> oh, that's tufts. you know how these academics write. [laughter] okay, and visiting professor at brooklyn kenneling. please well -- college. pl