. >> now from the southern festival of books on booktv, journalist john lingen and karida brown cuss race, class, and call noor plain. >> good afternoon. >> i'm linda caldwell. it's my flour welcome you to this session of the southern festival of books forked by humanities tennessee. this is our 30th year to host this festival, so we eave always been able to keep the festival free and open to everybody and the way we do that is through sponsorships and donations. so i hope you'll think but donating to the festival. can use do at that time he festival tent. the headquarters tent. and also you can do it at humanitiestennessee online on their web site. it helps promote literature, helps promote this event free to all and it would be the christian thing to do. i'm very pleased today to be here with these two authors. they're both here for their first books and i'm so excited about both of them and about both of the books. so, i'm go to introduce both of them briefly and they're going to talk a little bit and then we'll leave some time for questions and answers, and we'll close down the s

. >> now from the southern festival of books on booktv, journalist john lingen and karida brown cuss race, class, and call noor plain. >> good afternoon. >> i'm linda caldwell. it's my flour welcome you to this session of the southern festival of books forked by humanities tennessee. this is our 30th year to host this festival, so we eave always been able to keep the festival free and open to everybody and the way we

. >> now from the southern festival of books on booktv, journalist john lingen and karida brown cuss race, class, and call noor plain. >> good afternoon. >> i'm linda caldwell. it's my flour welcome you to this session ofhe