thousands of people gathered in dorchester filling garvey park with candles and prayers.me from across the world. people reached out to us in solidarity, offering messages of healing and hope. next week thousands of runners and millions of our friends from around the world will come to boston. the 118th boston marathon will be a living breathing celebration of our cities resilience. we still hurt. we hurt from trauma, we hurt from grief, we hurt from loss. we hurt whenever violent hits our streets anywhere in our city and our kids become victims. we hurt now as we mourn the loss of two of our firefighters in a fire. just last week, another hero lost, a young boston police officer injured at the scene in watertown a year ago was honored for his bravery and is suddenly gone. we hurt when brave first responders you that they're all. weeping may adore for a night, but joy comes in the morning. after a dark night and a bitter winter, spring is here, the snow is gone and the red sox are back, and in a week marathoners will be too, running for martin, for family, for friends, fo

marcus garvey has the first mass black movement. the back to africa movement.and while he is scorned and all, but marvin to king went to waco wreath on his grave in jamaica and, because the black movement someone, so even as late as the 1920's we have carryovers where kirby actually places they see as committee american colonization society and praises the white. -- but the main issue that chapter raises is the need to uplift and elevate free blacks and the more so that they will be capable of achievement. and i . out how not only frederick douglass james mckuen smith to goes to scotland and becomes a very successful doctor in new york city, very, very important, but we have various kinds of the 1850's, enormous free black achievements in this effort to uplift the free black population. this is obscured by the dread scott decision, various things in the 50's. >> and you also place a lot of emphasis on the importance of futures, fugitive slaves in town that contributes to an emancipation. >> oh, yes. >> could you not bring on that? >> of course, the most famous

so i'm taking -- paul is republishing the garvey book. i'm going to share that information next week. there were people who will discover if you were unaware of it and that's how information is spread. that doesn't happen as well on social media. you've got a boatload of money, absolute. if your celebrity, scheuer. but if you're obscure, unknown author, you've got a challenge. it wasn't always like that. >> we have a black education network that we're starting nationally and this progressive black educators who were bringing quality back to our schools. schools. >> please be no meet and share that information. >> i just want to add quick. i think it's important, it has been like, we've been publishing 40 years. before that we operate in the bookstore. been publishing 35 years before. the thing about the bookstores that troy pointed out and we don't want to loose track on this, we also were one of the artist plaque bookstores in the country but most of those bookstores, almost all of them, and i know, i guarantee i know 90% of them, rose t