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Africanamerican history and culture hosts this event. Its an hour and a half. It is such a pleasure to be here. I want to thank you so much for joining us in this celebration. Were here tonight to celebrate two important cornerstones of our democracy. One, of course, is the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights act and as mr. Ellis said, also the 75th anniversary of the Legal Defense fund, and i positioned them as two cornerstones of our democracy. One is obviously a law that helped to transform...

Thats one. Two, two, im actually intrigued by the wonderful statements that you made which is that we didnt and never have had the guts to enforce the punishment provision of section two of the 14th a i mendment. I think that is absolutely true. Probably less inclination to punish today than ever did. I cant imagine that happening. It is the same provision that i just described that is used to support expel and disenfranchisement and yet we would really never marshal the power that is right ther...

Guest this particular study came out of a longstanding set of research of mine on why some people finish college and other people dont. I have been interested in that question for most of my career, one of the things that experts have said matters to how students do in college is money. But when they examined the effects of financial a program they dont find very much. For some reason the effects of Financial Aid like when measured with official a statistics they dont like to be that large. In 2...

Guest this particular study came out of a longstanding set of research of mine on why some people finish college and other people dont. I have been interested in that question for most of my career, one of the things that experts have said matters to how students do in college is money. But when they examined the effects of financial a program they dont find very much. For some reason the effects of Financial Aid like when measured with official a statistics they dont like to be that large. In 2...

Its an embarrassment to be a witness of what the police does and is allowed to do on the streets of San Francisco, going around and killing people. The police are here to the job of the police is to help, to assist, and it prevent the killing of people, but instead what we see happening is that they are going around the streets killing people as if they were animals. Its very saddening for parents, for mothers and fathers to hear that their loved ones have been assassinated on the street by the ...

Has barricaded himself a nows. An Armored Vehicle and helicopters have been deployed. They have been called in to help. We will be following this story and update as you get more information. Governor matt mccrory is taking the fight to the Supreme Court. Hes asking the justices to reinstate the law that was struck down by the Fourth Circuit court announcement yesterday. Whats he telling you today . Reporter russ, the governor knows were less than three months away from the election and he not o...

Issues in the south similar or different when it comes to wildfire . Again we talked about neopolitical boundaries answer with lots of wildfires do not as large but they are all catastrophic when we have them. We have again at the impact on the budget effects those states not in the west just like it affects the states in the west. If we look at the state and private programs and the mitigation efforts and the employment of the service forsters and others were doing work for the private land own...

Including the beautiful witnessing of the structure that is across the way that will house the history of the people in this country who have done so much to bring its truth to reality. In this country who have done so much to bring its truths to reality. So many of you may know the Legal Defense fund for its masterminding and being the architects of brown versus board of education, but our legacy in the area of Voting Rights is equally powerful. For decades we have worked to enforce and expand ...

Sf, doca, grantees, pathways to grantees and the Language Access network so you know we have been were in year two of our pathway to Citizenship Initiative which is to try to get as many of the estimated 100,000 legal permanent residents in San Francisco on naturalized and thus far this collaboration of Community Based organizations has reached over 5,000 san franciscans who are eligible. They processed 15 new applications for citizenship and the doca grantees have reached almost all of the 5,00...

Initiative which is to try to get as many of the estimated 100,000 legal permanent residents in San Francisco on naturalized and thus far this collaboration of Community Based organizations has reached over 5,000 san franciscans who are eligible. They processed 15 new applications for citizenship and the doca grantees have reached almost all of the 5,000 estimated doca eligible youth and processed 600 applications and i have to commend the Unified School District because without christina and th...