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The Butler - A Witness to History by Wil Haygood
Narrated by Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, Lee Daniels 

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Listen to this exclusive excerpt of Oprah Winfrey performing Wil Haygood's essay exploring the history of black images on celluloid and in Hollywood.

Summary:

The story that inspired the major motion picture...read by its stars David Oyelowo, Forest Whitaker, and Oprah Winfrey

When acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 election, he thought he'd highlight the singular moment by exploring the life of someone who had come of age when segregation was so embedded in the culture as to make the very thought of a black president inconceivable. He struck gold when he tracked down Eugene Allen, a butler who had served eight presidents, from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan.

Forest Whitaker narrates the story of this remarkable man who, while serving tea and supervising buffets, was also a witness to history as decisions about America's most momentous events were being made.

With a foreword by the Academy Award-nominated director Lee Daniels, The Butler also includes Wil Haygood's essay exploring the history of black images on celluloid and in Hollywood, read here by Oprah Winfrey.

©2013 Wil Haygood (P)2013 Simon & Schuster

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Oprah Winfrey performs The Butler: A Witness to History by Wil Haygood

This week, internationally renowned fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg comes to NYPL for a conversation with Rhonda Garelick, award-winning scholar and author of “Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History.”  Together, von Furstenberg and Garelick discuss success, women taking the lead, and what it means to be a fashion icon.

Diane von Furstenberg on Confident Women

Shonda Rhimes goes behind-the-scenes of her audiobook YEAR OF YES: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person. 

Shonda Rhimes on her YEAR OF YES audiobook

In the first chapter I dive into my initial introduction to dieting and falling prey to simplistic information.  Oprah Winfrey and Bob Greene changed dieting culture fundamentally with the idea of not eating carbs and night and, for me (and a lot of other folks from the clients we talk to daily) it became confusing constantly hearing contradicting information so I walk you guys through that process a bit.

Killing the Diet Industry-Oprah And Carbohydrates (Ch1)

We’re bringing you a special talk with Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Robert Caro, whose book “The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York” was hailed by Time magazine as one of the hundred top nonfiction books of all time, and is considered one of the most revealing biographies of the 20th century. In this conversation with essayist and columnist Frank Rich, Caro talks about power, corruption, and the men who shaped the urban landscape of modern-day New York City.

Robert A. Caro & Frank Rich on Power & Corruption

Yanis Varoufakis considers himself a politician by necessity, not by choice. An economist and academic by training, he became Greece’s finance minister amidst the country's financial crisis, creating an image for himself both beloved and reviled. He came to the Library last April to discuss this complicated role and his recent book, And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future. He was joined in conversation by  renowned academic and theorist Noam Chomsky.

Yanis Varoufakis and Noam Chomsky on Money and The Sickest Joke in the History of Humankind

Cathy O’Neil, data scientist and author of the new book Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, discussed how some algorithms can have an invisible, but important and destructive impact on people’s lives.

Media and Politics Podcast

Cathy O'Neil: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

The original Antigone may be from antiquity, but our current era abounds with women fighting unabashedly for what they believe. This week on the podcast, we welcome  journalist, feminist, and author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, Mony Eltahawy. As you’ll hear  is a force to be reckoned with and an embodiment of this spirit. She is joined by yet another fierce and powerful author and journalist, Yasmine El Rashidi.

Mona Eltahawy and Yasmine El Rashidi on White Feminism and the Privilege to Protest

This week, we’re bringing you a conversation with author and policy advisor Tim Wu. In his new book The Attention Merchants, Wu makes the case truly paying attention is both incredibly rare and incredibly valuable. He’s joined in conversation by conversation by writer, documentarian, and Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens, Douglas Rushkoff.

Tim Wu on How the Internet Is Not Really Free

For this week’s episode we’re bringing you a conversation between two Nigerian authors whose works include plays, novels, poetry, essays and more. Chris Abani is known as an international voice on humanitarianism, art, ethics and our shared political responsibility. Wole Soyinka won of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 and has received accolades for his work in writing and advocating for human rights. The two recently sat down at the Library for a on the intersections between art, writing, activism, and politics.

Wole Soyinka on Hollywood, Reparations, and Morgan Freeman

This week we’re bringing you a conversation with songwriter and guitarist Robbie Robertson. As an original member of the seminal music group the Band, Robertson has helped shape American music and culture profoundly. He’s joined by Stevie Van Zandt of the E Street Band for reflective conversation on the history of rock and roll and the way it continues to shape their lives.

Robbie Robertson on Six Nations Inspiration, Bob Dylan, and Goals of the Soul

Sarah Sze is an internationally acclaimed artist, whose signature visual language challenges the static nature of sculpture and questions the value society places on objects. She joined NYPL's Paul Holdengraber this spring for a conversation spanning her body of work and what it says about space, architecture, art, and most importantly, how humans relate to all three.

Sarah Sze on Scale, Gravity, and Value

Olá, nobres literatos!

Neste programa, recebemos um novo reforço para os nossos quadros: o escritor pernambucano Jacques Barcia! Jacques e Fábio Fernandes leem e analisam as primeiras páginas dos contos:

Alquimia, de Tayla Olandim (agora a versão correta!) - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BziNoHVaH1kVWUlKNVpEVnhHM0k

A (in)Justa Lei de Edgar, de A J Oliveira - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BziNoHVaH1kVZUF3NlR3UEtUb28 

Tecnomacumba, de Eduardo Regis - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BziNoHVaH1kVX0NFQ3didWJSc1k

Se você quiser ter seu texto lido e analisado, mande a primeira página dele para contato@trespaginas.com.br.

Três Páginas

Três Páginas #09 - A Alquimista, a Dura Lei e a Tecnomacumba

If you’ve ever made it through a full Seder, you know that celebrating Passover can last as long as the Exodus itself. Today, on day two of the annual holiday, the NYPL podcast has a measure of comic relief for you in the form of an all-new Haggadah called For This We Left Egypt? It's written by Dave Barry, Alan Zweibel, and Adam Mansbach.

Like Passover, But Funnier

An interview with Bernstein finalist and Guardian editor-at-large Gary Younge. His book is called Another Day in the Death of America: a Chronicle of Ten Short Lives.

An interview with Bernstein finalist and Guardian editor-at-large Gary Younge. His book is called Another Day in the Death of America: a Chronicle of Ten Short Lives. On an average day in the U.S., seven children and teens will die from gun violence. Younge picked one such day in November 2013 and told the stories of the ten young people whose lives were lost in that 24-hour span.

Gary Younge, Bernstein Award Finalist

Oprah Winfrey addresses the Harvard Alumni Association in Tercentenary Theater during the Afternoon Exercises of Harvard University's 362nd Commencement.

Oprah Winfrey Harvard Commencement Speech | Harvard Commencement 2013

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