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the novelist marvin james and lela waldman. [applause] >> we will begin the ceremony this afternoon with the book trace, whom we have the pleasure of its author joining us to talk about race, memory, history, race and the american landscape. she will tell you more about this extraordinary work. but i would like to emphasize too often, certainly the way we articulate our individual identities is restricted to a temporal understanding of history. we are all very sensitive to not just what i am saying and the meaning of these words but also the time and the place in which we exist, what might be described as deep time, the formation of the book itself. this also plays a role in our understanding of ourselves and how we relate to one another and our concepts about what is possible to communicate and what is not. this book, trace, perhaps or than any other contemporary work, brings those elements into play. it is a great pleasure to introduce to you the author of trace, lauret savoy. [applause] >> thank you. i never imagined this, t

i'm lela kite, i'm your room host for the day. wearing a little weary by time but glad to be here. i'm also chair of the brickle avenue literary society. turn your cell phones off, please. thank you all for coming. let's thank our sponsors. we need to do that in every session, because they are so important to the success of the fair. so big thanks to knight foundation, ohl, the bachelor foundation, the deging ro to ot -- degroot foundation. as always, thank you to all of the friends of the book fair. we hope everybody in this room will be a friend by next year so you can enjoy all the activities that are available for friends during the year. we thank our volunteers, we thank the staff of the book fair and super big thanks to miami-dade college. [applause] okay, thanks to all. [applause] we have a big crowd for a mighty important, prize-winning author, so let me start by introducing his introducer. marsha dunn is a longtime miami resident, and she has been, talk about good examples, a friend of the miami book fair since the very first year. how many of you are founding book fair fr

cnn's muhammad lela is live. tell us what you're seeing there and the plan for the evacuations. >> reporter: victor, it's been a slow-moving weekend. finally this weekend we're seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. we see the buses that have entered the rebel held portions of eastern aleppo ready to take them out of the rebel held portion of the city into the countryside. what started as a simple plan to get them outside of those areas has morphed into something more complicated. we're dealing with evacuations from three or four other towns, some towns have been besieged by islamist rebels for more than a year and a half. what we're seeing is a simultaneous evacuation from those towns which makes it more complicated. the flow is not going one way out of aleppo, it's going in several directions. whenever that happens, you're dealing with many more complications on the ground. you need to get security clearances from all of the different fighting groups. all it takes is one rogue element to start firing a wea

just to personalize it, for the past five years, we have had children like this for 5-year old girl lela peterson, who was sitting on her grandfather's lap in milwaukee, wisconsin, and if she was shot through the head. we have had 25 lakh children under the age of five killed, not by marauding police officers, but by other blacks. the black community suffers a 911 every six months. there are 3000 blacks killed by other blacks every six months, so we have a 911 every six months. most of the people in those neighborhoods suffer as a consequence of the vilification of the police. thirteen years ago in cincinnati, ohio, when a white police officer shot a young black man who turned-- he thought he had a gun and so civil rights leaders came in an organized a boycott of cincinnati. they also vilified the police, so what the police said after that is since we are going to be accused of racism, we will not be as aggressive in those high crime black neighborhoods and with a result, the murder rate went up 800% in the black community. the low-income black community. it did not affect the neighborho

lela is up next. you're on. >> caller: i want to thank you for taking my call. i'm also very happy to see that mr. woodson who is talking about poverty of black people is a black person. i think that the problem is we need to be well educated. we need to try to put ourselves into decision making positions. we do need to start businesses and we need to make sure in our local community working with our organizations such as the naacp that jobs especially like police officer jobs and everything else is leaning toward the proportion of the ethnicity of that city. in the dallas morning news they show even though the police are the white population may be 40% that the police make up 80 to 90% holding the jobs. be white police officers are. you ask why it's important. it's taking money out of the families of african-american males and women who can hold those jobs to support their families. i think that's important. >> i'm saying to black america we must stop victimization. we must stop complaining about what white folks have done to us in the past and sign in ink our

it's the same so-called therapy that ohio teen lela alcorn was forced to undergo before walking into traffic this past december. she said the only way i will rest in peace is in one day transgender people aren't treated the way i was. white house adviser valerie jarrett says president obama was moved by the store of leelah's suicide. a staff attorney for national center for lesbian right and born perfect campaign coordinator joins me now and we thank you for being with us. let's start with this especially as the name suggests converse therapy seeks to change the orientation of gay and transgendered teens but some say it goes so far to fix or repair them as well. kind of insinuating that they are broken. what -- what does it entail? >> yeah absolutely. thank you so much for having me. conversion therapy at its most basic is just a set of dangerous and discredited practices designed to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of a person usually a child. it can take place in this case in a doctor's office with a mental health professional. it can take place in a church basement

is going to happen without a specific set of partisan things in regards to -- you can think of the lela alcorn act being put into place, but only after she killed herself. how is this going to help me as a queer person? how many more queer people have to die before real change is going to happen? the democratic party is failing queer people beyond the very agreeable point of gay marriage. we are very much left out of a lot of political movement. >> i might just get a comment from arizona's standpoint. in arizona, one session ago, we had a bill that got out of our legislature that said you couldn't do anything to stop businesses from being able to discriminate against someone for being gay. i can just about promise you that it would have lost in front of the voters, it would not have been successful. why the disconnect? because the majority of the legislature is elected by 4% of the people. they are captive to them -- they can't speak to the general electorate because they can't get reelected if they do. then when you combine that with the caucus, where they become afraid the moderate re

meet lela haza. >> 60 years ago there are probably half a million lions in africa. today there's less than 0,000. if we don't do something soon, there are going to be no lions left, maybe in 10, 15 years, who knows? i spent a year living in the masai community to understand why people were killing lions. it brings a huge amount of prestige to the warrior and they were kill lions in retaliation for livestock that were killed. they started opening up and telling me stories. that's when it clicked. if we want to conserve wildlife we have to integrate communities. our organization converts lion killers into lion guardians. [ speaking in foreign language ] when we first hire lion guardians they don't know how to read or write. we provide all of that literacy training and technical training. they track lions so they can keep very accurate ecological data on lion movement. we never imagine we can transform these lion killer to the point they'd risk their own lives to stop others from killing lions. >> wow, what an amazing mission not just because of the need but what it ta

. >> hi my name is lela, woirk with cbn national a nonprofit t i'm also a volunteer local government committee person and i'd like to know how we can engage individuals to be part of local government and other areas where where your leaders actually do come from. how can we engage people who are the most effective -- affected who may not have access to technologies? >> thank you so much. yes, sir. >> my name is anthony prescott, i'm a student from clayton, ohio. i want to know what we could do to possibly gain the respect, the proper respect, from our country. >> that's all. ok. yes, sir. >> that's good. >> my name ladell reese, i'm a washington, d.c., native. you talked about the militarization of the police force. i want to know why in june did the congressional black caucus te 80% against the grayson amendment that would have prevented the pentagon from transferring military arms and equipment to local and state police. >> we have these questions. we have the congressional black caucus support of the bill to help militarize police. we have the question on the simple task of how do

. >> my mom, she was teaching lela how t play mopoly and my mom cleaned her clock. shwas about 7ears old and she said why would yr mother do that and my mom said we're not doing her any favors by letting her win. >> i le that. >>t's not always about winning. not everybody get ace trophy. you ha to be tgh and sometimes th coach onhe soccer field or the teacher isn't alws going to like you or the boss tha isn't always going to like you and youave to deal with it. >> it's like ithe credibles, once erybody is super, then nobody's super. >> oh, very wise. >> very wise. >> i love thisext story. so there's in woman that' writn this ok. she is from seattle,mbracing the 19th century. >> okay. >> she n lives a holy viorian era life. for the last four years, sarah, she is 3 years old. this is the after picture. >> she's a little fuzzy on top. >> ye. >> is like a sweater. >> we just wanted to make sur it wasn't too explicit. nothing that anything is pping out. >> things are a littl more explicit. >> but it's anged her figure. she went from a 32 inch waist to a 22 inch waist. >>

things as a dad and i know i've been guilty of this with my older girl, courtney and my middle daughter, lela, when they come to me with a problem, i want to fix it. a lot of times they just want you to listen. >> absolutely. women like to process things. and they like to process their feelings and their thinking. and men tend to get to the bottom line with a solution. and that can cause some problems as well. >> i think also, though, this is the 21st century dad. we've got a generation of dads that wants to be involved and do housework and be part of the child bearing. that's a different expectation of man and i think it's redefining masculinity. it's an exciting time. >> and one of the things dads can do for their daughters, you said you noticed in this research is that girls want their dads to help them foster their independence. >> absolutely. a girl wants to be seen and heard. by her dad. it's very important. and so that she then will have confidence in herself and her own abilities. and her dad -- and this is happening -- is treating her and teaching her everything he would do with his