"the other slavery." 9 heather ann thompson reports on the 1971 uprise aring at new york's attica correctional facility. the winner of this year's national book awards will be announced on november 16th in new york city. .. from the 21st annual texas book festival. we are halfway through our coverage with a few more authors to go and you can follow us on social media to get the complete schedule with behind the scenes photos and videos on twitter. @booktv is our twitter handle. on his to grandma or booktv and facebook.com/booktv. here is jessica luther on the culture of college sports. inaudible conversations]÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ >> good afternoon. good afternoon, everyone. we are going to get started. thank you all for being here, welcome. this beautiful fall afternoon, the great state of texas, we are excited to talk about football. it is fall, after all and i currently we have the longhorns playing texas tech. not sure what the score i

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attica was a very convoluted way. i ultimately met some of the surviving hostages. one of the surviving hostages -- i mean, one of the slain hostages' sons is still a corrections officert attica, and he wanted me to see it. and so it was through him that i was able to get in and see the catwalk, and he showed me, you know, this is where my father was killed, this is where the bullets were. but had it not, again, been for that and, frankly, speaking of privilege, had i not looked like i looked, i would never have probably gotten in there to see that. >> are you aware of the reform passed for prior felons to apply and go to suny college? >> i saw that, and again i think this really speaks to that other legacy of attica which is not repression which is the legacy of, again, reaching into the humanity of the story and understanding that part of, part of this process has got to be healing, and part of this process cannot be abuse -- no. none of this process can be abused. part of it has to be learning, healing, education, recognizing that people in prison are people. >> how are we doing on time? >> [inaudible] >> okay. i love this question. >> oh, dear. [laughter] >> no, y