first i'd like to introduce you to carol jenkins. carol jenkins, author of black titans and making of a black american millionaire. a writer and producer and an emmy award winning former w. nbc-tv television anchor and correspondent and founding president of the women's media center. she is executive producer of the pbs documentary what i want my words to do to you which won the freedom of expression award at the sundance film festival in 2003. carol jenkins enjoys an award winning tenure in several new york city news department including 23 years that w. nbc tv where she coanchored the 6:30 p.m. newscast. she was most identified with reporting of national political stories including from the floor of the democratic and republican national convention that yielded president carter, reagan, bush and clinton. give a round of applause to carol jenkins. [applause] >> next up we have dr. julianne malveaux, author of surviving and thriving 365 black economic history. she is the fifteenth president of college for women leaders' unrecognized

give a round of applause to carol jenkins. [applause] >> next up we have dr. julianne malveaux, author of surviving and thriving 365 black economic history. she is the fifteenth president of college for women leaders' unrecognized for progressive observation. she is an economist, author and commentator and described by dr. cornell west as the most iconoclastic public intellectual in the company. doctor malveaux's contributions to the public dialogue on race, culture, gender and economic impact our shaping public opinion in the twenty-first century america. a round of applause for doctor malveaux. [applause] >> i bring you the conversation, black wealth past and presence, the politics of black wealth. >> thank you for your great work. i love what you produced. hi am a friend on facebook. >> thank you for the opportunity to be with you. i love you all. thank you so much. >> i would say if ever we needed an economist today is the day we need an economist. i felt in the last few weeks we needed to go back to school to take courses in economics to try to understand

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i am carol jenkins. >> includes a solar red lunch tomorrow at nine eastern.participants include attorney general, eric holder, urban monk president, mark murrell and reverend jesse jackson. live coverage is on c-span at noon eastern. also live on c-span at noon on friday as a luncheon honoring women and civil rights, pitcher b. to criticize king. speakers include dr. christine king farris, bernice king, epa administrator lisa jackson and my angelo. >> the dedication ceremony for the memorial two.your king is at 11:00 a.m. on sunday. the 40th anniversary of this i have a dream speech. thousands are expected to attend the event and hear from president obama, representative john lewis, joseph lowery, andrew young, members of the king family and others. >> now, a discussion on the state of the book from the gaithersburg book festival, this is more than an hour. >> i've been in the book business for two decades. i am pleased to say that five of those colleagues are assembled here on the stage to discuss the often frustrating industry we love. next week in new york

give a round of applause to carol jenkins. [applause] >> next up we have dr.ne malveaux, author of surviving and thriving 365 black economic history. she is the fifteenth president of college for women leaders' unrecognized for progressive observation. she is an economist, author and commentator and described by dr. cornell west as the most iconoclastic public intellectual in the company. doctor malveaux's contributions to the public dialogue on race, culture, gender and economic impact our shaping public opinion in the twenty-first century america. a round of applause for doctor malveaux. [applause] >> i bring you the conversation, black wealth past and presence, the politics of black wealth. >> thank you for your great work. i love what you produced. hi am a friend on facebook. >> thank you for the opportunity to be with you. i love you all. thank you so much. >> i would say if ever we needed an economist today is the day we need an economist. i felt in the last few weeks we needed to go back to school to take courses in economics to try to understand what i