what an honor it is to teacher alice walker. the first african-american to win the pulitzer prize for fiction, alice walker was born the eighth child of sharecroppers in georgia. she became the valedictorian of her aggregated high school class despite a childhood accident that impaired the vision in her left eye. before transferring to sarah lawrence college she attended for two years where she became a political activist, met doctor martin luther king jr. and participated in the 1963 march on washington. her formidable body of work includes poetry, novels,short fiction, essays and children stories . her writings have been translated ... copies of her books have been sold worldwide and now gathering blossoms under fire: the journals of alice walker edited by valerie boyd gives us access to five decades of ms. walker'sextraordinary life . as she so beautifully wrote about this collection alice walker is the truth telling word working change conjuring cultures shifting revolutionary artist and citizen of the world. these journals

of his books have been sold worldwide and now, gathering blossoms under fire, the journals of alice walker edited by the late beloved author valerie boyd, afords us access to five decades of ms. walker's extraordinarily life and wrote about this beautiful collection, alice walker is a truth telling, change conjuring, culture shifting citizen of the world and these journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all. moderating the conversation this evening is from the naacp and his genre bending novel long division. and it's been hailed as one of the new powerful voices in american writing, including the essay collection, how to slowly kill yourselves and others in america is a best selling memoir, heavy, which won the 2019 and drew carnegie medal for excellence in nonfiction and named one of the 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years by the new york times. his beautiful writing digs down deep into the human soul. it's truly a pleasure to welcome these two extraordinary authors to arts and letters live. i hope you enjoy the conversation and that you'll take a moment to add a question

copies of her books have been sold worldwide and now gathering blossoms under fire the journals of alice walker edited by the late beloved author valerie boyd affords us access to five decades of ms. walker's extraordinary life stri jones. so beautifully wrote about this collection. alice walker is a truth-telling word working change contouring culture shifting revolutionary artist and citizen of the world. these journals are a revelation a road map and a gift to us all moderating the conversation this evening is kiesi layman recent recipient of the naacp image award for literature for his genre bending novel long division. tsa has been hailed as one of the most powerful new voices in american writing his work includes the essay collection how to slowly kill yourself and others in america. and the best-selling memoir heavy which won the 2019 andrew carnegie medal for excellence in nonfiction and was named one of the 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years by the new york times his beautiful writing digs down deep into the human soul. it's truly a pleasure to welcome these two extraordinary authors

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just search alice walker for gatheringblossoms under fire . >> tonight we are celebrating the naturalournalism hunter thompson at the launch of a new book by peter richardson titled ysavage journey, hunter s thompson and the weird road to gonzo o list by a friend at the university of california press focusing on hunter s thompson development and his unique model of authorship. mister rha

just watch alice walker were gatheringblossoms under fire . >> on sundays book tv brings the latest in nonfiction books and authors. the funding comes fromthese television companies and more. including comcast . >> comcast is partnering with 1000 community centers to create wi-fi enabled lists so students from low income families can get the tools they need to be ready for anything . >> comcast along with these television companies supports c-span2 as a public service . >> lidia candace and author of poetry fiction and nonfiction

amy: the author alice walker was one of those students.of the children's -- those were some of the students i had at spelman. alice walker was in jail. amy: boston university was many years later. why did you almost get thrown out of their? howard: we had a strike. faculty went on strike, secretaries went on strike. they settled with the falty after the successful strike but not with the secretaries. i, and some the other faculty,efused to cross the picket line. five of us refused to do that and were threatened with firing, even though all of us had a 10 year -- tenure. it was a long struggle. amy: going back to your time as professor, you were a bombardier in world war ii. you talk about your final bombing run, not over japan or germany, but over france. howard: we thought that the bombing was over, that the more was going to come to an end. this was april in 1945. remember the war ended in may. it was a few weeks before and everyone knew it would be over. our armies were passed france into germany, but there were pockets of german soldie

for alice walker and womenism t oo. beth ritchie, kathy cohen. some people you have to read in pamphlets. they published pamphlets and not in the publishing industry. maybe they got third will press. -- third world press or broadside press. some people did not get that either. sonya's first book came out in 1969. they could not get black press or white press. they self published pamphlets. fran beale, the third world women's alliance. i used to read mimeographed from her newspaper, triple jeopardy. the mimeographs where the things everybody is true black theory 20 years later. -- everybody used for black theory 20 years later. the crenshaws happen great about giving people credit. this is the intersectionality. >> as you mentioned hooks, the folks we mentioned but don't mention at the same time. as we talk about belle folks and impossible not to think about michelle wallace in the same moment. how it has played out over the years. a question that came up in the q&a that is relevant or when we think about the black arts movement, a lot was about t

just watch alice walker were gatheringblossoms under fire . >> on sundays book tv brings the latest in nonfiction books and authors. the funding comes fromthese television companies and more. including comcast . >> comcast is partnering with 1000 community centers to create wi-fi enabled lists so students from low income families can get the tools they need to be ready for anything . >> comcast along with these television companies supports c-span2 as a public service . >> lidia candace and author of poetry fiction and nonfiction she graduated from columbia university and new york university school of medicine and practices internalmedicine at the university of nebraska medical center . her poetry and nonfiction have been published in ijama, the and annals of internal medicine and great weather for media. she's also the co-author of quackery, a brief history of the worst ways to kill, cure everything. that cracks me up. that with an npr science writing best science book of 2017. her adult historical fiction includes the best-selling novel elthe impossible girl, opium and absinthe and t

i will continue assigning books by herman melville and ta-nehisi coates, alice walker and alison bechdeldia rankine and richard wright -- writers who confront america's past sins to help new generations shape america's future. that's my job. i might even use the words 'critical' and 'race' in the same sentence." those are the words of professor diane roberts. welcome to democracy now! talk about the significance of this where woke goes to die. >> well, i think it is a way for ron desantis [indiscernible] if a professor or indeed a teacher in the primary or secondary school even talks about certain things, it somehow poisons the mind. so if we talk about, i don't know, socialism, they will all become socialists. if we mention the word gay, they will turn gay. he knows better. he knows it is not how it works. he had a very nice educati himself at harvard, yet he seems to have come out of those liberal bastions of woke with his conservatism unscathed. so i think a lot of it is theater, but it had a chilling effect, as desmond meade said, it scares people and scared people don't do what they

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just search alice walker for gatheringblossoms under fire . >> tonight we are celebrating the natural gonzo journalism hunter thompson at the launch of a new book by peter richardson titled ysavage journey, hunter s thompson and the weird road to gonzo o list by a friend at the university of california press focusing on hunter s thompson development and his unique model of authorship. mister richardson alleges thompson's literary formation was largely a san francisco story and in the those of us at city lights across town it can attest to this. thompson was a regular at the cafc across the street from city lights and became a regular basis. his life was intertwined with northeast culture and you can see and go from writer to ramparts cortina etheridge, the former owner of costco so he's done a stellar job piecing together the trace elements of thompson's literary influences in a compelling read so we're glad he can grace our halls. peter richardson has written books about thegrateful dead , also rampartsmagazine , and carey mcwilliams, the radical author and editor of the nation magaz

we do need to reach alice walker and toni morrison and to ladies point, it's even pointed and maurice talked about earlier when he was on the call, you know, toni morrison said it you can't center whiteness we got to stop centering whiteness we got to stop centering white people because we center that and keep putting the conversations around. we are consciously or subconsciously still perpetuating the mythology that white people in whiteness are superior to everyone else. and we know that's a lie that's a lie. and nobody superior. nobody. you know what is superior is the power that some groups have had that have dictated the rest of our lives. but no one is superior to anybody. the stories of that their lives in not superior any of that kind of stuff. and i think that's what the battle's for and i think that that's why you see what we're seeing now with the ted cruz's know blowing up dr. egan's book like the they're saying that we're trying to hold on to white nationalism. we're holding on to white supremacy. we want make a make a make america great again. but it's only for white peo

walker libra. nice missouri release to police with a little. he's that alice. no one picked up the rest of my from on when i had you on that might be annoyed with that i shall to live will what i knew. but normally i wrote a list of sheets that are in the for the year babies, lou state was lead momento, cbc vocal for me. yeah. she and i me says, yes, bush and you go when you ordered we, it was a state of nice vista. yep. i knew my for 10. now hold up. i need personally look for a work at boiler full now or do even that was great. one, the minute we'll do is roll it know to the new person, which was the worst i wouldn't, i should be up at the more liberal, more, but hebrew blueberry and his nightly with no friends. the less than you used when you said they're all say you heard deal, but the more millions that the past lead. no. oh me. oh yeah, i use use the me ah, it wasn't just south eastern ukraine's big cities that came under fire. hundreds of vintage areas became a war zone. peace ended the overnight. it was hard to agree on humanitarian car doors with the u

alice, last week, mitch mcconnell was talking about candidate quality, and there's polling that shows that masters, walkernson are all in the red hot unfavourably. it's up in the air now. it should be a good year for republicans. what happens? >> donald trump happened. and all of those people you just showed were backed by donald trump, supported on all trump, election deniers, and that is not sitting well -- >> -- >> he is -- like it or not he is the titular head of the republican party. he's the one that can galvanize voters for the base in a primary. he can raise money for a primary. the problem is, that doesn't always translate well in a general election. i wish that would have been thought about more on the front and, the what's harming these people that he put up backed by trump, many of them are election deniers. we have herschel walker, had some personal issues. we have odds with some residency issues. so these are things that they're going to have to answer to, and again, i go back to when you are the party and you are looking at who's the best candidate, it can't just get through the primary lin

alice. last week, mitch mcconnell was talking about candid equality in this polling that shows that masters, walkerable take. i was like, wait a minute, the right candidates. so it's up in the air. now they should be a good year for republicans but what happened? >> donald trump happened. of those people you just showed were backed by donald trump, supported donald trump, some of them are election deniers. that is not sitting well -- >> the gop put themselves in this position by going all in? >> he -- like it or not, he is the titular head of the republican party. he is the one that can galvanize voters for the base in the primary. he can raise money. the problem is, that does not translate well in a general election. i wish that would've been thought about more the fronted, but what is harming these people that you put up, they were backed by trump, and many of them are supporters of the election denials, we have herschel walker who has some personal issues. we have lost some residency issues. so these are things that don't have to answer to. again, i go back to when you're at the party and you're