forgiveness and looking at healing it is my pleasure to introduce you to our panelist first we have kurt frazier he is here. he's been an editor of five different daily newspapers in the south including his hometown paper post and courier at the university of michigan. and is currently marketing and public relations manager. fear charleston your charleston south carolina. he is a professor of history at the college of charleston where he teaches african-american history. he has been a consultant on many historic sites and has served on boards of several history nonprofit organizations. he has been seen in films such as the african-americans and the slavery in the making of america. and leslie of south carolina. her poems had been nominated for multiple awards she is the author of the prize winning children story the cofounder and former president she serves on the editorial board of the poetry series and also joined the faculty member faculty member from austin university who will help shape our conversation today. please join me in welcoming our panelist. [applause]. >> think you so much. we ar

frazier has a preview. kevin: this week, mark wahlberg, kurt russell, and kate hudson lead an all-star cast in telling the worst oil spill in history, and the men and women who survived in deepwater horizon. >> mike, what is that? is everything ok? >> i'll call you back. i'll call you back. kevin: in "deepwater horizon," mark wahlberg stars as mike williams, one of the many crew members facing the impossible when their oil rig explodes in one of the worst man-made disasters in history. experiences, including his death defying leap from the oil rig in its final moments, which was recreated in the movie. >> you can't help but be inspired. you know, you can't imagine what you would do in a situation like that. i would like to think that i would run towards trouble opposed to away from it, but you really don't know until you're in that situation. kevin: the cast also includes kate hudson, and her pa, kurt russell, who were able to find a little light in the intensity of the story because it happens to be the first time the two have ever worked on a film together. >> this movie being on a set with him again for cons