downstairs is a display honoring toni morrison and that belief in tomorrow. anything is possible.as once asked by xi xinping how to define america in one word. one word, possibilities. the singular power of example shows our daughters, granddaughters, not a single thing a man can do that a woman can't do as well or better. i can say without fear of contradiction, the time my daughter was born, our daughter was born, to the time our granddaughters were born i told them every day they could listen, not a single thing they can't do. i want to talk about my granddaughters. more influence on them at such an example. i am fortunate to have been a part of. i went to introduce the first lady of the united states, everybody knows i love her more than she loves me. i will tell the story. when we first got to the vice president's office as those from washington no, looking into the vice president's office, they are 16 feet high and 12 big panes of glass and four of them in the crosshairs and so jill's favorite day of the year is valentine's day. she gotten as a teacher, got that erasable pai

downstairs is a display honoring toni morrison and that singular belief in tomorrow.ar belief that in america anything is possible. i was onced asked by xi jinping in china how could i define america. i said, yes, in one word, god's truth, in one word, possibilities. we believe anything is possible in this country. and that singular power of example shows our daughters, our granddaughters not a single thing a man can do that a woman can't do as well or better. and, by the way, i can honestly say without fear of contradiction from the time my daughter was born, our daughter was born, until the time our four granddaughters were born, i've told them every day they could listen that there's not a single thing they can't do. and i mean that from the bottom of my heart. and they are living proof of that that truth. i want to start talking about my granddaughters now if i can -- [laughter] you know, especially the women i'm honored to introduce and who has more influence on them and asset an example that i think i'm just fortunate and they're fortunate to have witnessed to b

there's a campaign poster, books by toni morrison and a display.e exhibit there is also ella fitzgerald and a jacob lawrence painting that hangs here on a permanent basis and significant in this moment, a judicial oath signed by justice thurgood marshall, whose life's work influenced my own. in fact, his portrait hangs currently in the official office of the vice president of the united states. [applause] and a bust of his figure is in my ceremonial office as well. as we gather here today and prepare to confirm another historic first to the nation's highest court, let us always remember we stand on the shoulders of giants, giants in our history, in american history and in this room. black history month let us recommit to honoring their legacy with action. let us continue for justice and equality and opportunity for all so that it may stand on our shoulders and reach even greater and, reach even greater heights. i believe it's a relay race be y race. we've been passed the baton with which we run our part in pursuit of progress and we will then pass

one is i hope it encourages more people to write books like these toni morrison says she wrote, you know, the books she wanted to read. and i, i don't think, i think one reason why it took me this long to write these books is because i never thought that these books could have been possible, even if i were to write them. and i, that's one thing. i do hope that i'm more and more people more and more writers. right. you know, rick recognized that the mythologies just lurking right behind them are rich for, you know, for their own, you know, for their own literature. and in terms of, you know, our readers, i, you know, i just, i hope that on the, the, the media that we have, that we can empower us whether it's even twitter or social media or so on that we use more because one thing is i've realized and you're going to realize it if you're writing a caribbean novel and african novela native american novel. there primarily speaks in a voice that you know was in your head is that. 6 the audience you will find an audience is always been there. ready and waiting and ready to hear you that doesn'

tomorrow, the national book critics circle will present the black poetry group with the inaugural toni morrisonievement award saying no institution has played such a definitive role in showed thing -- in shaping the poetry of it when he first century. the co-founder is poet cornelia ziti. why he continues to shape the landscape of the american literature, he is expanding his own artistic pursuits. jeffrey brown spent time with him for arts and culture series, canvas. ♪ >> cornelius is a poet who has always been drawn to music . we reach him -- we recently watched a rehearsal of songs he wrote in the last two years. what he calls pandemic folksongs. >> that is what art is about for me. trying to find a way to translate your experience. >> now he has another project, to help reserve the place of poetry and it will larger -- in the larger culture. a library and cultural space. one of the country's largest dedicated to poetry. poets, poetry lovers and anyone curious can explore some 70,000 volumes, attend readings and meet up. last august, and made already tough covid times, a burst pipe in the bui

the state of freedom and liberty in america, between mask mandates and seventh graders reading tony morrisonis your time to stand up. now is your time to usher in a renaissance time of freedom. >> i've got news for you, school board president, your power does not supersede that of the u.s. constitution. and the first amendment rights of the citizens of this great nation. >> attention, board members. our nation is a republic. we are the people. we have a voice. we are americans first and we will be free always. >> wow. how stirring and inspiring. how patriotic and brave. watching that i realize there's perhaps no more abused word in contemporary american politics than freedom. everything nowadays from covid vaccinations to being asked to use a trans person's correct pronoun is a pitched battle between freedom and tyranny. it's bonkers, of course, but it's also oh, so infuriating because if you want to see what actual tyranny looks like, all you have to do is look at what's going on inside of russia right now. some 14,000 anti-war protesters have been detained in the last two weeks. the kremli

american writers that i think we you know henry david thoreau's my favorite and herman millville, tony morrison my angelou, you know, so people like deeply admire you get the time i read every day all that's all i do in an informs my history books, so i'm reading writing. silent spring revolution on rachel carson, so i'm trying to figure out what was it like in the 1950s when we had the trinity explosion in new mexico than hiroshima nagasaki you have atomic fallout. we're testing weapons in nevada. eventually we find out people get sick. we're spraying ddt and mccarthyisms going on and then there's some people that are saying this is the greatest prosperity ever in the 50s, and then there are people saying we are destroying the planet at a rapid rate. usually it's the novelist to come up with that the destruction narrative ones, you know, the i read a book for example, that's not that well known. that's really good called earth the bides by george r stewart in heat deals with what happens when a strange virus takes sober and kills everybody except a few people and he was in the novel is a unive

national book critics circle will present the black poetry group "cave canem” with the inaugural "toni morrisonward," saying,“ no institution has played such a definitive role in shaping the poetry of the 21st century.” the co-founder of that group is poet cornelius eady. and, while he continues to shape the landscape of american literature, he is also expanding his own artistic pursuits. jeffrey brown spent time with him, for our arts and culture series, "canvas." ♪ ♪ ♪ >> brown: cornelius eady is a poet who's always been drawn to music-- these days, alongside guitarists charlie rauh and lisa liu. we recently watched a rehearsal of songs eady wrote in the last two years-- what he calls“ pandemic folk songs.” >> that's how i got through it. that's what art's about for me. right? you're also trying to find a way to translate your experience. >> brown: now, eady has another project-- to help preserve the place of poetry in the larger culture. he's director of poets house in lower manhattan, founded in 1985 as a library and cultural space, one of the country's largest dedicated to poetry, where po

it a step further inside it appeals as well to the fanatics that are anti-lgbtq and want to ban toni morrison. here's the thing, josh ali was not wrong when he brought up legitimate questions about the judicial jurisprudence of this judge, probably soon to be justice, when he pointed out that it wasn't about the range of sentencing guidelines, which we saw play out in front of senator graham too. she tries to make it sound like there were variable she took into account come about as senator graham pointed out she went below it. so as you talk about what congress prescribed for certain infractions or felonies, why is it then that she would impose a sentence over two years less than the minimum guidelines that congress had for someone who disseminated child pornography images of his own 10-year-old daughter? why would she prescribe the very minimum for someone who disseminated images -- images of a child that was less than five years old. the list goes on. these are valid questions and they are valid cases get the mouse not on the racial come but qanon. it's the choreography between the white h

books were for me and then of course, i mean i don't have the skill like the way alice walker and tony morrison and others have been able to conceptualize new ways of being new ways of relaying as humans new like describe shifted collective thinking and consciousness is so powerful. now that you've written your first book are there other books that you're already thinking? i want to write this is something that i need to put in this form. no. yeah, i'm not you like you i don't like ready. um, so i i this is it for now, maybe 50 years now right part two before i go, but i just want to learn since the first place 50 years worth. but no, i think i'm more interested in storytelling and other mediums like tv podcast like etc is because writing is so lonely in isolating and hard and eternal like took a lot. so if i had something to say i would do it again, but i don't know what else i have to say at least for the couple years. i'm good. we're gonna break for the book reading so that more people can have some time to ask any questions that they have and then we'll get back to some of the other audienc

would sit in arthur miller's house and talk with them about why he wrote that novel we meet with tony morrison. we we meet with lawrence ferling getty who who just passed we had i got involved waylon jennings on the bus i had kinky friedman towns fans aunt beau diddley did a seminar and i thought i'd have. doers people come and do a seminar. i was waylon jennings like oh whelan's hosted us all to a party in california, and then we went to his concert and i i a guy named myron crockett an african-american student. thought it was hilarious that that there was just being so that duke's of hazards, which the whalen had done a theme song for and he had said, i'm gonna see what wayland he's got to do the dukes of hazard song and it wasn't normally i think in wayland's thing but waylon said, oh if you want to hear that, i'll play that for you tonight, and he did it. he was a really nice man a man. i got connected to wayland through a friend who you know, but what beyond seeing wayland jennings and concert i went in and to talk about buddy holly and the crickets and early rock and roll and you know, a

would sit in arthur miller's house and talk with them about why he wrote that novel we meet with tony morrison. we we meet with lawrence ferling getty who who just passed we had i got involved waylon jennings on the bus i had kinky friedman towns fans aunt beau diddley did a seminar and i thought i'd have. doers people come and do a seminar. i was waylon jennings like oh whelan's hosted us all to a party in california, and then we went to his concert and i i a guy named myron crockett an african-american student. thought it was hilarious that that there was just being so that duke's of hazards, which the whalen had done a theme song for and he had said, i'm gonna see what wayland he's got to do the dukes of hazard song and it wasn't normally i think in wayland's thing but waylon said, oh if you want to hear that, i'll play that for you tonight, and he did it. he was a really nice man a man. i got connected to wayland through a friend who you know, but what beyond seeing wayland jennings and concert i went in and to talk about buddy holly and the crickets and early rock and roll and you know, a

toni morrison and her epigraph to beloved underscores the ethical ramifications of our choices. about who we identify with quoting romans. 9:25 morrison declares. i will call them my people which were not my people and her beloved which was not beloved. in the spirit of morrison's memorial to beloved. i invite you to remember jeffrey brace. whose birth name was barrero branch. on a sunny day in 1758. boreo is celebrated his 16th birthday by swimming and playing watersports with 13 of his friends in the nijer river. when they ascended the riverbank to head home a party of slave catchers with dogs sprang from the forest and grabbed the terrified boys. three managed to escape but the human traffickers secured the other 11 with ropes. gagged them and tossed them into a small boat that stank of filth and dead fish after four-day journey. they reached the atlantic ocean and transferred the boys to a large slave ship. the traders spent several more weeks gathering human cargo before the ship set sail for the british colony of barbados. over the next 50 years. barreiro branch renamed je

favorite books a mercy by toni morrison the fire next time by james baldwin and narrative of the life of frederick douglass an american slave by frederick douglass. currently reading as she mentioned a minute ago the bible the new international version. harlem shuffle colson whitehead's new book the sweet fly paper of life by roy decar carava and langston hughes beaufort delaney and james baldwin through the unusual door. this is edited by stephen wick swing times by zadie smith and the price of the ticket by james baldwin mr. baldwin's name came up three times. on your list cheryl cash and why is that? well, nobody beats james baldwin is a you know 20th century writer for for me. for the power of his language for the truth-telling it would and and his own emotion and passionate would just jump off off the page, you know. i've worked very very hard fifth book. to be a writer and to be a good writer who's i have literary ambitions and you know, i find myself going back to baldwin and he he was also a writer who was engaged with the civil rights movement engaged with the civil rights of

like tony and premier daniel andrews has offered a state funeral to shane warne's family. the australian prime minister, scott morrison now and all over the world. chinese rights holders have told the english premier league they will not broadcast english top—flight matches this weekend because of the league's planned shows of support for ukraine. for manchester city's oleksandr zinchenko, the issue is more personal. the ukranian began his playing career in russia, but now finds himself fearing for family and friends in his homeland. oleksandr zinchenko told the bbc�*s gary lineker he's proud of the way his country, is responding to the crisis. there was rumour, speculation for months that russia would invade ukraine. they constantly denied they were going to do it. was it something you feared it would have stop obviously, the news, social media, people were talking about the russian armies on the border. nobody would expect — russian armies on the border. nobody would expect that _ russian armies on the border. nobody would expect that they _ russian armies on the border. nobody would expect that they were _ russian

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