toni morrison's work shows through pain all the myriad ways we can come to love that is what she does with the words on the page. toni morrison the pieces i am gives a personal powerful portrait of an artist who changed the canon. and my colleague scott roxboro has joined me in the studio to tell us more about the piece is i am welcome scott how did this film resonate with you and what do we learn about 20 more well i think you learn a lot about her as a person it's all of this a lot about her work but so much of this is a is an interview with toni morrison and it was really fascinating for me to see about her life as a single mom about the struggle she had to make at 1st the publishing industry and fighting against chauvinist editors and critics and also to see this image of this incredibly strong self-assured a black woman who's also obviously having the time of her life so wonderful it's very much about her personal journey but also very much about how she changed our view of literature full stop and it's so interesting perhaps for the younger generations that so many of the issues

well her writing career is all inspiring tony morrison a nobel prize winning author and from today's perspective it may be kind of hard to imagine how long it took for her author of the bestselling novel beloved to give the african american story its rightful place in the american canon well now a new documentary about her life the pieces i am puts her work into context and when it's over you feel as if you've spent 2 hours in her excellent company. it was illegal in his. words. this new documentary traces the rise of the best selling author hewlett's or a nobel prize winner and force of nature toni morrison. before becoming a writer made her way up the male dominated world of new york publishing always fearless she soon realized that she not any of the old white guys was the smartest person in the room. i was more interesting than the critics damper 1st novels with faint praise and condescension one of the early reviews says she's got a great talent one day she won't limit it to only writing about black people like really it's women for her to write about black people are going to b

well her writing career is all inspiring toni morrison a nobel prize winning author and from today's perspective it may be kind of hard to imagine how long it took for her author of the bestselling novel beloved to give the african american story its rightful place in the american canon well now a new documentary about her life the pieces i am puts her work into context and when it's over you feel as if you've spent 2 hours in her excellent company.

well her writing career is all inspiring tony morrison a nobel prize winning author and from today's perspective it may be kind of hard to imagine how long it took for her author of the bestselling novel beloved to give the african american story its rightful place in the american canon well now a new documentary about her life the pieces i am puts her work into context and when it's over you feel as if you've spent 2 hours in her excellent company. and it was illegal.

hello and welcome to our latest news from arts and culture toni morrison is america's 1st lady of letters and a cultural force since her 1st works of fiction were published back in the early 1970 s. well now a new documentary illuminates the brilliance of the writer outside of her books we'll talk about that and here's what else is in the works. yet another documentary shows off the prussians cultural heritage foundation's vast collection of artifacts from all over the world comprising what is known as berlin's treasure trove. and italian photographer dan brown you know as work is a feast for the eyes and a rather off kilter mirror of the soul of his famous inspirations. well her writing career is all inspiring toni morrison nobel prize winning author and from today's perspective it may be kind of hard to imagine how long it took for her author of the bestselling novel beloved to give the african american story its rightful place in the american canon well now a new documentary about her life the pieces i am puts her work into context and when it's over you feel as if you've spent 2 hours

i think in part that is a response to toni morrison. i've heard her talk over the last few years, even in our writing, writing more about what is joy? what is happiness? having stories about that in addition to the stories of the pain and the violence and the hardship, so it's finding that balance. i have some other thoughts around the elasticity, the kind of dorothy roberts point, which i think is important. it just pushes us to really understand the limitation of the facts or the data around something, around even our project of being teachers. what is data good for but what isn't it good for? you know, i'll leave you with this last reflection. that has to do with colleagues who out at stanford who wrote a great set of papers about how just presenting people with data about racial disparities in the criminal justice system actually doesn't lead them to want to support reforms in the system. specifically white america. they did a study in new york showing america about disparities and asking white americans, the respondents, so now are

hello and welcome to our latest news from arts and culture toni morrison is america's 1st lady of letters and a cultural force since her 1st works of fiction were published back in the early 1970 s. well now a new documentary illuminates the brilliance of the writer outside of her books we'll talk about baton here's what else is in the works. yet another documentary shows off the prussian cultural heritage foundation's vast collection of artifacts from all over the world comprising what is known as berlin's treasure trove. and italian photographer dan by nino's work is a feast for the eyes and a rather off kilter mirror of the soul of his famous inspirations. well her writing career is all inspiring tony morris the nobel prize winning author and from today's perspective it may be kind of hard to imagine how long it took for her author of the bestselling novel beloved to give the african american story its rightful place in the american canon well now a new documentary about her life the pieces i am puts her work into context and when it's over you feel as if you've spent 2 hours in her ex

this was in the '90s when clinton was president, tony morrison had said, he's the first black presidentjim cleburne said, we're still looking for the first black president. that was back in 2008. that had an effect. hillary clinton's numbers crashed in south carolina. bill clinton had a lot of damage to make up for. transformed his campaign. had a lot to do with how that campaign went in south carolina. had something to do with jim cleburne. >> steve kornacki at the big board, speaking of names in southern politics, i said heflin, i meant talmadge, i apologize. steve, we cannot wait for your trip to continue on south. >>> coming up for us, if your friends are people you met in politics, you may need actual friends instead. the first survivor of alzheimer's disease is out there. and the alzheimer's association is going to make it happen. but we won't get there without you. visit alz.org to join the fight. >>> last thing before we go tonight. politics is an incredible business. there they were last night in orlando. marco rubio and lindsey graham. it's all, well, nothing to see here, love

this was in the '90s when clinton was president, tony morrison had said, he's the first black presidentd, we're still looking for the first black president. that was back in 2008. that had an effect. hillary clinton's numbers crashed in south carolina. bill clinton had a lot of damage to make up for. this was the primary result. suddenly a close race became a 30-point blowout for obama. south carolina '08, obama got almost 80% of the black vote in south carolina. that was the night you knew not only did obama have a shot at the nom paying, he had a shot at winning support among black voters everywhere. transformed his campaign. had a lot to do with how that campaign went in south carolina. had something to do with jim cleburne. >> steve kornacki at the big board, speaking of names in southern politics, i said heflin, i meant talmadge, i apologize. steve, we cannot wait for your trip to continue on south. >>> coming up for us, if your friends are people you met in politics, you may need actual friends instead. before discovering nexium 24hr to treat her frequent heartburn, marie could on