so we will talk about the book the first i'd like to introduce cora daniels. herb biography could go on and on back to where you are bored. [laughter] and i do need my reading glasses. korea daniels -- cora daniels editor at working mother magazine it currently contributes a regularly to essence magazine. [applause] turning into the land of the shameless with critical acclaim but her first book from "the washington post" is from book reviews and her latest work is "impolite convesations" on race, politics, sex, money, and religion" the book is on us hot-button issues but are rarely heard in public "impolite convesations" is like having a furrow seat to share this most impassioned opinion in challenges "the reader" that they might not typically talk about to of meaningful conversations against race or class. regardless if readers agree or disagree it is a book they want to share their next dinner party so ladies and gentlemen, i present to you cora daniels. [cheers and applause] it is so funny she has this book "impolite convesations" she is one of the most poli

. >> [applause] i am delighted to the conversation with cora daniels one of our finest speakers and journalistic started there.

michael skolnig, editor in cheer at globalgrinder.com and cora daniels. and joining us from st.ed clinical psychologist and president of the st. louis chapter of the association of black psychologists. you've also been with with us from the beginning, from the earliest gays of resistance in ferguson. how would you compare where the city is now to where it was a month or two months ago? >> i would say things have become a little more intense. it's been 64 days since the initial incident. and we've had two more officer-involved shootings where african-american men were killed. powell and now vonderrit myers. as you can imagine, you already had protesters in place marching for justice and answers, to have two more incidents since that time, things have rightfully so become more intense. >> and a level of trauma is is what you have been talking about with us over these weeks. this feeling that it's not only the immediate family who is are traumatized in each one of these officer-involved shootings, but the whole community feels this wound again, which is still not closed because the