it's a pleasure to have you here and a pleasure to be hosting nadia lopez here to discuss their book by bridge to brilliance." if you have any is nomaking device -- noise making devices take a moment to silence them. nadia will discuss her book for 30 minutes and we'll take questions. we encourage questions of just other use this microphone here by the pillars so everyone can hear and for the c-span audience. after the question and answers it's a great help if you fold up your chair and just place it against the bookshelf and come up and get your book signed and say hello and the becomes are for sale right where you walk in. nadia lopez is the founding principle of mt. haul bridges academy. she committed to creating a an environmenty students, staff, work together to create successfully engaged adults. the bridge to brilliance tells both her story and the school's, from nadia's only middle school days where the kind in as staff help her to achieve. please welcome nadia lopez. [applause] >> good evening, thank you so much for having me. can everyone hear me in the back? so i guess shy

on behalf of the entire staff is up pleasure to have huge year and to post nadia lopez her book "the bridge to briliance" how one principal in a tough community is inspiring the world." please silents yourself so she will discuss the book about 30 minutes and then take as many questions that she can use this microphone. after the questions it is a help if you fold up your chair to place against the bookshelf and get your books signed. nadia lopez bounding principle of the academy committed to creating an environment where students staff work together it tells her story can the school from her own middle school days to her efforts for her own students to find a place of caring and support. [applause] >> good evening thanks for having me. i should start off by explaining why i wrote the book in the first place and really came down that it was about the community that i served in brooklyn. i may brooklyn girl and i am proud of was born and raised . bet growing up by had to deal with gangs and the crack era. and my parents separating, but i was able to succeed literally because my parent

nadia lopez discusses her work at a school in brooklyn. in 10:00 p.m. the former attorney general alberto gonzalez sits down for book tv afterwards program he discusses his new book true faith and allegiance it's about his time in the george w. bush administration. we wrap up book tv at 11:00 p.m. with political cartoonist. he discusses his use of donald trump as a character. that all happens tonight on c-span to book tv. >> good morning everyone. how are you today? i just want to thank you for coming out the new york library caucus is here with you today and we have a very great here for you and our panel consists of stacy whiteman publisher of two books, we also had an author in the new book coming out. we will let you know all about it. our discussion today in your presentation and handout today in 2013 i'm referencing i actually have another date that's even better every 200 chiller books published this is only according to the children's council and of those 3200 bucks 93 were about african-american children in addition to that there was an article

political cartoonist gary trudeau talks about his use of donald trump in his comic strip, and nadia lopez discusses her work as a principal at a stool in brooklyn, new york. plus, a look at the lessons u.s. presidents earn during their first year in office, how new york city was hurtful and helpful to the union you during the civil war, and the positive and negative aspects of studying abroad. now, that's just a few of the programs you'll see on booktv this weekend. for a complete television schedule, go to booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. it's television for serious readers. and now we kick off this weekend with a panel on history of civil rights. this is from last month's mississippi book festival. [inaudible conversations] >> welcome, everyone. i'm chris goodwin with the mississippi department of archives and history.f if you've not already, please silence your cell phones. welcome to the civil rights history panel number two. sponsored by the mississippi humanities council. we thank them, we also thank the mississippi legislature who lets us hold this book

nadia lopez discusses work as principal in brooklyn and at 10:00 p.m. eastern time former attorney general alberto gonzÁlez sits down for book tv's after words tv program and talks about his new book, truth faith and allegiance, time in george bush administration. we wrap up book tv in prime time at 11:00 p.m., it's political cartoonist gary, the use of donald trump as character. that all happens tonight on c-span2's book tv. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening. good evening, thank you so much for coming out here to politics and pros. thank you so much for coming out here to politics and pros to yet one of our enlightened off the talks, you can't hear me, okay. please let me -- please silence all your cell phones at this point and also let me just go through a few other housekeeping details. so the author will speak for about 20 minutes, 20 to 25 minutes and we will break into a question and answer period. during this question and answer period, we kindly, kindly request for you to use the microphones over here by the pilar and then -- just that o

please put your hands together for nadia lopez.as simple: open a school to close a prison. now, to some, this was an audacious goal, because our school is located in the brownsville section of brooklyn, one of the most underserved and violent neighborhoods in all of new york city. like many urban schools with high poverty rates, we face numerous challenges, like finding teachers who can empathize with the complexities of a disadvantaged community, lack of funding for technology, low parental involvement, and neighborhood gangs that recruit children as early as fourth grade. so here i was, the founding principle of a middle school that was a district public school, and i only had 45 kids to start. 30% of them had special needs, 86% of them were below grade level in english and in math, and 100% living below the poverty level. if our children are not in our classrooms, how will they learn? and if they're not learning, where will they end up? it was evident when i would ask my 13-year-old, "young man, where do you see yourself in 5 ye

on tuesday, at politics and prose book store in washington, dc, nadia lopez will cause her work as a principal at a school in brooklyn, new york. on westerns, joseph stiglitz will look at the future of the euro at barnes & noble in new york city. on thursday, at the hampton history museum in hampton, virginia, four african-american women whose compute additions were integral to america's victory in the space race. on friday, we finish the week in the nation's capitol at politics and prose book store where baker talks about his experiences as a substitute teacher in maine's public school system. many events are open to the public. [inaudible conversations] >> okay. good evening, everybody. can everyone hear me? yeah? okay. good evening. my name is zoe, thank you for coming out tonight and support your local independent book store. we're thrilled to have you. another ask arch to please turn off or silence your cell phones and i'll tell you our event is full of interesting author talks like the one you'll hear tonight, on monday we'll hear from clear ya and steve vaccine axelrod. if you

tonight, new york city principal nadia lopez talks about starting in inner-city middle school in her book the bridge to brilliance, how one principle in a tough community is inspiring the world. she gained national attention when she was featured in a post on the humans of new york website which subsequently went viral. then, former u.s. attorney general alberto gonzalez talks about his life during the george .. bush administration he is interviewed by the "wall street journal" legal affairs reporter. >> or have been several memoirs written, people's perspective out there, and i thought it might be important to add mine for my son's sake. quite honestly. there has been a lot written and said about me. some of it true, some of it not, and i wanted to get my perspective about the events that shaped me and really affected their lives as well. sunday, political cartoonist garry trudeau discusses his new !: 30 years of dunes very on donald trump." go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >> representatives from the state and treasury departments testify on cash payments made to

and nadia lopez discusses her work as a principal at a school in brooklyn, new york. plus, a look at the lessons u.s. presidents learn during their first year in office, how new york city was helpful and hurtful to the union during the civil war and the positive and negative aspects of studying abroad. now, that's just a few of the programs you'll see this weekend on booktv. for a complete television schedule, go to booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. >> next, a look at the fight for 15 wage movement with service employees international union vice president david rolf. >> hello, everybody, welcome. i am so, so happy to see you. good evening. >> good evening. >> good evening. thank you, good evening. i know. hopefully, everyone has enjoyed some wine and some food x this is a lovely, lovely room this evening. so it's not every day that we get these kinds of moments to pause, to ten back and reflect -- to step back and reflect on our gains and actually celebrate, because we need to and we should celebrate the amaz

at 9:00 p.m., nadia lopez discusses her work at a school-- her work as a principal and a school in brooklyn. alberto gonzales sits down for book tvs afterwards program discussing his new book. it's about his time in the george w. bush administration. and we wrap up book tv at 11:00 p.m. with political cartoonists discussing his use of donald trump is a character in his comic strip doonesbury. that all happens tonight on c-span2 book tv. >> this gives me great pleasure to welcome you to this particular conversation this evening. the center for arts and culture teams up with the new press to present "pushout: the criminalization of black girls". this conversation is deeply meaningful to both restoration and the new press as we share a commitment to amplify and spotlight marginalized voices and stories. we want to thank diane and the new press team, particularly for their incredible partnership in tonight's conversation. thank you so much. a round of applause, please. [applause]. >> also want to note that books are for sale following tonight's conversation to my left and drove right. gloria st

eastern, new york city principal nadia lopez talks about starting an inner-city middle school in herce" how one principle is inspired the world. she gained national attention -- and then at ten p.m., afterwards former u.s. attorney alberto gonzalez talks about his life in the george w. bush administration at in his book true faith and allegiance. a story of service and sacrifice. he is interviewed by a legal affairs reporter. . . ... >> next, a house oversight hearing on the federal response to flooding in louisiana. after that, a look at the congressional agenda with new york congressman tom reed. then new york congressman, gregory meeks talks about the 2016 campaign and outreach to minority voters. now the august 2016 flooding in southern louisiana and the federal response. fema officials and john bell edwards discussed the displacement of thousands of people and the response of federal aid. this house oversight hearing is almost

eastern,night at 9:00 new york city principal nadia lopez talks about starting an inner-city middle schoolool -- middle school in her book "the bridge to brilliance." she gained national attention when featured on "humans of new york." afterward, former new york attorney general alberto gonzales talks about his book "true faith and allegiance." by the walliewed street journal legal affairs reporter. >> there have been several memoirs written, perspectives have been there. i thought it might be important to add mine. there has been a lot written and said about me. some of it true, some of it not true. i want to get my perspective about the events that shaped me. >> sunday, political cartoonist book trudeau discusses his "yuge!" combs on elected u.s. presidents and their first year in office. gregoryausbaugh and malveaux. go to booktv.org for the complete schedule. ist: joining us now congressman tom reed, a republican from new york state. .e is a donald trump supporter he is here to talk to us about that, as well as congress' agenda. thank you for joining me. guest: thank you so much for ha

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saturday night at nine eastern, nadia lopez talks about starting an inner-city middle school in her bookthe bridge to brilliance, how one sensible in a tough community is inspiring the world. she gained national attention when she was featured on the humans of new york website that went viral. then at ten, "after words" former u.s. atty. general talks about his life during the george w. bush administration in his book true faith and allegiance him of the story of service and war and peace. he is interviewed by brett kendall. >> there has been several and moores written and people's perspectives have been out there and i thought it might be important to add mine for my son's sake but honestly there's been a lot written and said about me. some it's true and some of it's not true and i wanted them to get my perspective about the events that shake me and affect their lives as well. >> sunday at 745 eastern, five eastern, cartoonist discusses his new book huge, 30 years of dunes very on trump. he uses donald trump as a character in his comic strip. he speaks at -- gregory malvo on the positiv