University of virginia. It was done with the codirectorship of now the late jeweli i julian bond and myself. Its a project that brought prominent africanamerican leaders to the university in order to talk about their own personal life histories and also to talk about leadership in general. When did you start the project . We started the project well, i first talked to julian about it in 1998 and asked if he would be my collaborator. We actually invited the first guest in the year 2000. The project ended, we did our last interview in 2014. How did the idea come up . Initially, it was my idea. I was creating for the university an institute for public history. And i was trying to design some projects that would fall within the category of public history. Of course, part of public history, oral history is a big component of how public historians think of them Services Going out and collecting materials and stories that would otherwise not be available. And once julian bond came into the hi
Classism. Thats smacking them in the face. They dont have access to this. They dont have access to that. They cant get jobs. They cant get in. So i think thats the issue thats really going to probably be more of a galvanizing force in the future. On that note, thank you very much. Much. Youre welcome. Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 captioning performed by vitac now a selection of oral histories with Africanamerican Community leaders. The project called explorations in black leadership was a collaboration between university of virginia professors phyllis leflerr and julia bond. Its about 15 minutes. Phyllis, what is the explorations in black leadership project . Its a videotaped oral history interview series that was carried out at the university of virginia. It was done with the codirectorship of now the late jeweli i julian bond and myself. Its a project that brought prominent africanamerican leaders to the university in order to talk about their own personal l
We were to have a Third Party Consultant because of the proposed building a potential contributor we are working closely with the team and very please line up on the screen side of the room pleased with the final design we feel it is a strong proposal are more conceptual with the fabric of the existing neighborhood the project present logic challenges a muni elevators on the premises and a muni escalator the tunnel in addition weve agreed were feasible to widen the 14th street sidewalk and setback our building 7 feet from the corner that adds better pedestrian assess around the building is an actual corner with the Church Street as well i have presented to numerous neighborhood groups including getting the support of Castro District and castro merchant and the coalition we presented twice to theyre not currently supportive we fully supported the properties on the immediate west they wrote and letter and support the project in any historical of history it is unusual and jeff mentioned o
In terms of favorable and unfavorable opinions same thing well see here in terms of the opinions of most hispanics tend to favor the democratic party, and you would think well game over. We dont need to discuss this any further. Well, not exactly. Because weve seen how different candidates have done very well in different races, and i have given just three, three hispanic republicans that have done well in their respective states. Actually Governor Martinez and sandoval are extremely popular in their respective states, and they were both reelected in resounding victories. In terms of issues, gop is seen antiimmigrant and thats clear and certainly recent Public Discourse doesnt help in that front. And weve seen, for example, how some hispanic groups specifically Puerto Ricans in the i4 corridor in Central Florida even though they voted in 2004 for george w. Bush reelection they voted overwhelmingly for president obama in his reelection just a few years later. And thats a reflection on t
To make it easier for young people like the ymca to move through the current permit process and open the doors to hundreds of young people and organizations. So despite the good points, there are gaps in the budget request. We should work to address these so we can do more to Work Together on recreational access, Small Businesses in my state that rely on recreation in our economy are confused about some of the priorities in the budget. For example, the Forest Service is proposing to cut road maintenance and is exploring ways to close some of the major recreational routes in my state. This is were going to hear loudly from people on this. I hope we can ask a question and get some details on that. In the same budget the agency is proposing significant increases in new roads. So people are trying to understand the new roads versus maintenance. Without much of an explanation, we want to understand how we make sure that these priorities are met on both sides. I want to take a point of perso