bookstore is the oldest black bookstore in the country, just starting our 56 year, the name is from marcus garvey, the black nationalist leader, came here and went back to africa, lots of books in here. and started in 1960, doctors ray and julie and richards who met as teenagers. and wind up in california, my father majored lithography so he opened a printing business, which they hated dierdre. and finding books about black people, looking for these books. they would get books and loan to friends and friends wouldn't give them back and started ordering one copy and eventually started putting books in the window of the shop and it grew into this wonderful institution here and did a lot of printing for black churches and black businesses and moved from that. and this is terry but out of print. so he became a publisher as well. we talk about the 60s one the black arts movement is going on, civil rights movement, black power movement, people were hungry for information and we provide a forum for speakers to come in, organizations to meet, place to organize and share our thoughts and strategies. it wa

the name is from marcus garvey, the black nationalist leader who was from jamaica, came here and started back to africa. lots and lots of books. the history of the bookstore is that it was started in 1960 by my parents, doctors may eventually richardson who met as teenagers and eventually they wound up in california. my father had majored in biography and opened a printing business in the soma district, a black district in the four days after he got out of the army which he hated dearly. he wanted to do something for his people. so did my mom. both of them like to read quite a bit and he had difficulty finding books about black people and you would scour the nation looking for these books. they would get books among them to friends. friends wouldn't give them back they started ordering more than one copy and eventually started putting books in the window of the print shop and it grew into this wonderful as to to shame. he did a lot of printing for black churches, all the black businesses in the fillmore district and then moved from that into publishing very necessary but out-of-print boo

phillip randolph, marcus garvey, certainly malcolm x. but listen to this, guess who else got in the way and annoyed and challenged the status quo. people like george washington are, benjamin franklin, john adams, thomasever son who looked at an unjust status quo and decided that they would foment revolution to change and make the country that we now have. so you know, before we get too upset with these young people, we need to understand the traition addition that they come from and what their ames actually are. . [ applause ] >> our job is to apply the pressure that needs to be applied in a political way, a moral way and a social way. we have to make the nation ask itself some hard questions and face some difficult truths. we are really adept as americans in kind of putting aside not focusing on, not addressing issues that come before us. i gave a speech i remember in february of 2009. people gave me a lot of grief about that about this nation not looking at racial issues being afraid to confront racial issues. i thought it was right th

where did marcus garvey speak, where did malcolm speak and so on.so at any rate, this book is what you get when you drop a north african kid in an afro-latin environment. thank you. [applause] .. what i come away with lots of times is that buddhism is about being detached from social realities and finding your own bless. it's so refreshing to see this book come out on this. caring for the things and spirit of his previous memoir, the adventures of buddhist boy and his book of poems in thailand, it is night. brings humor inside and lyricism to his new collection of personal essays. southside buddhist, chicago streets, southern illinois forests, wrestles with his ever-expanding body and contemplates the complexities of the thai immigrant life. he finds solace with his imagination, his imaginary friend buddha causes mischief with the boys in his working-class neighborhood, battles depression and suicide, and marries the whitest woman in the world who teaches him to appreciate a world blessed by the absence of concrete, skyscrapers, and noise. the book