i hope you've enjoyed this conversation with fatima shaik and jennifer egan. you haven't had the honor of being able to read this book, "economy hall," the hidden history of a free black brotherhood i absolutely urge you to. it is a treasure. thank you so much again and i hope you all have a wonderful night. >> during a recent program, james o'keefe, founder project veritas, talked about his career as a journalist and the state of the profession today. is a portion. >> a lot of incredible people coming to us. one recent one is documents from the defense department. don't know if you saw this story, we have whistleblowers everywhere, sources everywhere, and the pentagon papers, i don't even know, did the new york times publish these days, to make it look bad? i don't know but a lot of these sources have nowhere else to go? they don't have anywhere to go so they come to us in these documents, you have revelations about gain of function research that was approached, darpa was approached by eco-health alliance to do research on bat born coronavirus is and was reje

i am deeply excited about this conversation where about to enjoy between fatima shaik and jennifer egan on "economy hall: the hidden history of a free black brotherhood." fatima, jennifer, please take it away. away. >> hello, everybody. thank you for being with us. i am incredibly excited to have the chance to spread the word about this book that i've been talking about for some years now that has surpassed my expectations of being a work of history that's an enormous sweep covering a lot of ground and has a tremendous importance and yet is readable and fun. i thought it's a very complex work and i thought the best place to begin is where you begin in your introduction. tell us how this book came to be. it's a story that begins with your father. >> thank you to everybody for being here. i was already a writer by that time and i looked in the closet and saw all these journals and realized this was an important part of history. >> you can you describe what are the journals and what is the organization that produced them? the meeting of the economies and it's an organization that started i

fatima shaik and jennifer egan on "economy hall," the history of a free black brotherhood. i'm excited to be given this honor in part due to the connection with the friends of the brooklyn heights library friends group and it's a robust group that supports the brooklya heights library in so many ways. they had a connection with fatima and i was asked by the friends group president if as a branch we'd be interested in supporting fatima in a virtualpp book launch nor "economy hall". after discovering the story behind the book and seeing the star review and reading the glowing review in the new york times, i jumped at the opportunity to be able to host a program sharing this monumental book. but as the accolades and the publicity grew, so did the importance of this program. then fatima drew her friend jenniferrd egan on board, the brilliant author of manhattan beach and it became a bpl events and we knew it. fatima shaik shares with the world the free black brotherhood in new orleans that supported it -z community through the civil war, reconstruction, white terrorism, and the