go to harlem and you plant trees and when we showed up in harlem no one was interested in plantingtrees . everyone showed up except for the boss who was nowhere to be found but no one was planting trees. they were telling investment war stories and the thing we went to harlem to do but then of course the boss shows up an hour late, the guy at the top of the food chain which by the way goldman sachs ward tailored shirts they don't wear rolexes, they wear these cheap black rubber wrist strap digital watches as a show of humility but anyway he shows up not only with that watch but gucci boots and says we're taking pictures get out of here. that's what we did. we went to a bar nearby and started drinking and i asked one of the associates. i said we wanted to call it a social day we should have called it that rather than calling it service day and his response with me. he said have you ever ever heard of the golden rule ? i said you treat others like you want to be treated and he said no . the golden rule is this. he who has the gold makes the rules. and that stuck with me, i called it the g

and people love them or sodom dope right here he got nancy pelosi equivalent to harlem heroine dealer of the 1000 breaking the law, giving away money to her friends, trading on inside information, openly scandalously acting as anti american chaise. worse than any chinese spy. what she or by the way, employees in her office or had recently, i don't know if i agree with these assertions about it blows. yeah. i've had my criticism. silverado about i characterize it the way that you just did, however. ok, well well let history be be the judge of this, the it out that so far back the 1013 years up and down there. every frickin club, the crowd of cloth out within 3 years as me there, you know, face serious jail since now let's talk about del lithium lithium or it's needed to deliver electric cars. a great deal. the u. s. supply is on sacred, tribal lands and nevada. they don't want mining, i think lithium was the reason we were in afghanistan, dyson wiggly, we, we lost that we loved a $5000000000.00 worth of military hardware. i think i did the math. that's julia dollars. that was from me p

go to harlem and you plant trees and when we showed up in harlem no one was interested in plantingtrees . everyone showed up except for the boss who was nowhere to be found but no one was planting trees. they were telling investment war stories and the thing we went to harlem to do but then of course the boss shows up an hour late, the guy at the top of the food chain which by the way goldman sachs ward tailored shirts they don't wear rolexes, they wear these cheap black rubber wrist strap digital watches as a show of humility but anyway he shows up not only with that watch but gucci boots and says we're taking pictures get out of here. that's what we did. we went to a bar nearby and started drinking and i asked one of the associates. i said we wanted to call it a social day we should have called it that rather than calling it service day and his response with me. he said have you ever ever heard of the golden rule ? i said you treat others like you want to be treated and he said no . the golden rule is this. he who has the gold makes the rules. and that stuck with me, i called it the g

. >> a lot of harlem renaissance literature that's kind of thinking about this. one of my favorite novels is called black no more by george skyler who was an author and actually really kind of critical about the idea of like he was critical of the idea of there being distinct black culture, but sort of in this novel sort of begins in this mixed-race jazz setting and one of the characters -- she's like, no. and they're like, oh, they are here bowknot going to go all the way. it was a science fiction novel because it's about the procedure where you -- all the black people turn white. but also, there's a novel in heaven which has like this glossary and all of these, but has all of these jazz terms that you're supposed to -- i don't know if you're supposed to reference them as you're reading the novel but it's like, honky is a white person. but it's all in that setting and it's very inflict bid jeff and really thinking about the sort of cross racial of that. but that is just to say that i'm not a jazz expert but there's so much interesting stuff there that i think re

and you know, i remember back in the studies when dealers on harlem with us, our own with us, our own with us away turkeys away. thanks. joy driving away tran. and we took people, loy tucker them boy, to understand why turn don't boy turn right boy. right, boy, right boy took out nancy pelosi k equivalent to i think harlem hair when dealer than i think the thing the law we're law giving away a lot of money to way by law or france law, trading on small side and slaw, in finance, slice and small ation and small and small, and small, openly scandalously acting as anti american circuit circuit, just worse than a chinese spy. what a spy, what is she a by the way, employee, and play it in her office? or at recently? i don't know if i agree with breeders. she's a 6th grader, she's a sick bridge about it had by criticizing some sub or i'd sort of our a tear i'd characterize of the way that garage did arise of the rise of horizon horizon horizon horizon horizon like it was the rise of global for isaac well, the riser bullet horizon is horizon. her eyes of the, of her eyes of the feel be the ju

there is no aristocracy with her i 1st heard of hart, i led into a problem, a physician who was at harlem hospital. and she was talking about infants that were born addicted to crack. and that they were buried in shoe boxes a 1000 at a time on hard island. and at that time, hard island was open to journalists and to academics. and so i decided that i was just going to get there. and it just so happened that that day was the very 1st day that these inmates had ever been on hard athletics. and these were a young man convicted of misdemeanors like turnstile jumping graffiti. so you know, they're not felons or anything like that. they're young men that couldn't afford a good lawyer. or i used to live in ringo that was one of the bad neighborhoods about about a return only brooklyn new york city in who's crazy in 89. it was cracked and stuff like that. and we used to, so we'd in drugs and stuff like done in our one of getting caught with possession and i wouldn't have going on right on him for a little bit of time in those days it was, it was a, do you get anything you get a knife robe, anythi

and i will always remember the afternoon bob and i spent in harlem a few years ago talking about history in the writing process. there is a greater appreciation for his book. now his archive is at the new york historical society i can't wait to visit. who knows bob maybe you could give me a tour of the exhibit. in all seriousness i want to thank you for all you have done to help us expand our understanding of the past, the present leading to our ability to envision the possibility of the future. i wish you a wonderful celebration in many more years of continued good work. >> thank you bill. >> thank you louise. this is such a thrilling day for me. to have people that i so much admire talk this morning about what is called my archive. bob douglas, bill, lisa, jane, i said what i wanted to about each of you. i could use up the entire time a lot of the syllogistic from the bottom of my heart you given me a day i will never forget and thank you. to have people i so much admire here to talk about me makes the stay that is accurate. today is thrilling because it's an announcement that my paper

i live in harlem to 125th street is a very magical station. if you've ever been to the hundred and 20 for three to has most beautiful mosaics on the wall. i encourage you to see it. 125th street and it was considered dangerous to go when i was growing up. but i've been to 124 throughout my life. for me it's a place of james baldwin and duke ellington, all of the really great new yorkers and great americans. i feel really lucky to live there. can ask for one anecdote? [laughter] whatever you want. [laughter] >> you don't make your family and parents a very special relationship to the subway that did not make it into the book her to have the audio file were making a tiny between the lines of podcast you can listen to on the podcast that subway book review. please tell everyone what your families relationship to the subway is? i'm crazy about it. >> of course there like 14 things i can talk about. yes my parents had a really little jewelry store on broadway when i was growing up. it's smaller than this table. [laughter] my primary memory of my cu

one of his heroes was mark antonio, a member of congress from east harlem who was a member of the american labor party. i consider myself lucky to come from that kind of family not only loving but gives you a good sense of mission and purpose. >> that rebellion is that one of the reasons why you were so anti-establishment or anti-entrenched interests? >> how i got into politics, i never thought i'd run for public office. i was a student at public college. i had a wonderful professor david truman, i took a government course. and the assignment was you have to write a paper an your congressional leader. i want to know everything. i want to know its boundaries, who lives in that district, the socioeconomics of that district. i want to know everything about the congress person in that district and i want you to interview the congressman that represents you. and so i began to work on the paper. and my congressman was charles buckley. i figured i'd go to his district office and ask for the opportunity to interview him. lo and behold there's no district office. so i call his office in washington

because thehe 250 pages she knocked out, i can use for the next book which would be the history of harlem. so she did me a service in one sense. i think she's gone on to bigger and better things, and, i mean i don't know about bigger, but she's gone on, i think she's with "bon appetit" now, oh, my goodness, conde nast, she's in highgh cotton, ridin' high. deservingly so. a very fine woman. i started off with the idea of having four black women here with me, and four black women responsible for me. and i'm'm looking out in the crd and i see so, so many african american presence here, and that's important, because we need you as we push hard into a whole arena of publishing in this country. it's a struggle that we have waged going w all the way back zora neale hurston. zora, i mean, she was just indefatigable in her struggle. we can talk about all of her books and it would exhaust theb time we have together here. but certainly with looking at how they jammed and stopped that book for all those many years, and now to have it available. in one way it connects with amistad, it connects with am

. >> i live in harlem, so 125th is a magical station. if you have ever been to 125th street, it has the most beautiful mosaics on the wall, so i encourage you to see it. 125th street, it has quite a lot, so i remember when i was growing up, it was considered dangerous to go, but i have been to 125th throughout my life, and for me, it's really a place of james baldwin and all of the really great new yorkers and great americans. so i feel really lucky to live there. >> yeah. >> can i ask min for one more anecdote? >> whatever you want. >> well, you told me your family and your parents have a very special relationship to the subway, and it didn't make it into the book, but i have the audio file, and we're making a tiny between the lines podcast which you can listen to on instagram at subway book review, but please tell everyone what your family's relationship with the subway is because i'm crazy about it. >> of course, i'm thinking of 14 things i can talk about. but one -- oh, yes. my parents had a really shitty little jewelry store on 30th