Good morning everyone. Good morning. Were going to go ahead and get started here. I want to welcome you all to Young Americas Foundations headquarters in virginia. I am the director of Alumni Relations here at Young Americas Foundation, and my first entree into the foundation was as an intern at the reagan ranch. So im happy to be here today for this event featuring martin greenfield. For those of you who are new to our policemans and for programs Young Americas Foundation is the premiere Outreach Organization for the conservative movement. We introduce thousands of young people to the ideas of limited government individual freedom Strong National defense and traditional values through our conferences, internships campus lectures, Young Americans for freedom chapters, also through our center for entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise and the National Journalism center. Many of our interns are here with us today. In 1998 Young Americas Foundation stepped forward to save the western white
We continue our celebration of black History Month with a look at the Schomburg Center for research in black culture where historical artifacts have chronicled the black experience for nearly a century. The latest exhibit, digging up the past a history of the Schomburg Center, marks its 90th anniversary. And joining us today is dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, the director of the schomburg. So nice to see you again. Thank you so much for having me. So tell us about this this newest exhibit. Its sort of a continuation of sure. So every now and then we have founder Arturo Alfonso schomburg, an afropuerto rican, arrives in new york in 1891. This year happened to be extra special because it is our 90th anniversary. People often forget, too, that our 90th is also the 90th of the annual celebration of black history began in 1926 under the leadership of carter g. Woodson. Origin story, to look at some of the early artifacts and books that Arturo Schomburg collected is a special occasion to really
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The complexity of being multiethnic is explored in this powerful conversation between host Maiysha Kai and theGrio's Natasha Alford. "American Negra" is part memoir, part cultural analysis, and all truth as Alford shares her experience navigating two worlds. Not just culturally but also economically. Alford talks life after Harvard and the unrealistic expectations she felt post-graduation, and she also gets vulnerable about her recent health struggles. This Grio crossover is full of Black girl magic.