please welcome marica chatelain, the author of "franchise the golden arches and black america," and is in conversation with elizabeth taylor. thank you. [applause] >> thank you all for coming today. it is a pleasure it is a beautiful day outside, but it's going to be much more interesting to be in this room as we really dig into this important piece of history, so thrilled to be here. professor of history, georgetown university, that is the initial bio. i just want to say pulitzer prize winner, 2021. [applause] and so, the citation read this way and one reason i'm going to read it out loud is that there was not a big luncheon or anything for the book this year because of covid, so i don't know if you've had a stranger read this to you ever, so i'm going to do it. so, this amazing book franchise, the golden arches and black america, the citation read this way from a nuanced account of the complicated role of the fast food industry played in african-american communities. at the portrait of race and capitalism that masterfully illustrates how the fight for civil rights has been intertwine