And managed to rise to such great heights and be an inspiration to all americans. He was a writer, he wrote every form of the language and wrote it well. He was the speaker, he was the first person in his family born in freedom. Both of his parents weres slaves. He became a voice for his people. He did so by writing about human dignity. He actually were wrote most of his work, focused on the dignity of all people, and in particular the humanity of the black man in america. Deegan has always been important to Paul Laurence dunbar and Paul Laurence dunbar has always been a beautiful adjunct to the possibilities in vegan because paul lived in eight locations, he managed to travel and was like a sponge. He learned very early in life to absorb from his environment, to absorb from his contact, to learn and grow. This is the Paul Laurence dunbar melting hole. This is something he learned when he was in england. When he returned from england he situated his study in a similar fashion that he c
Carter g. Woodson library in chicago. We thank you for being here today. Its such a joy to have this project between book covers now. You know, its been so long. And, you know, weve been talking with michael, you know, and eventually going get this project done. Each step of the way he keeps saying, you know, one day were going have that big event at the library. Here we are. Its finally here. So im happy to have all of you here with me today. And thank you for coming out on a saturday afternoon. Today i want to begin by talking about how i found this project. Sort of how it found me. Tell some of the background how the negro in illinois was conceived. The individuals who carried it out, then read some passages from the book. My wife and i moved to town to 2004 to urbana champagne, it didnt take me too long to find the Harsh Research Collection. It was straight up the interstate. I came here pretty promptly. I was interested in a fascinating figure. He had been a harlem renaissance poe
Some white smoke over those tree lines right there. This is we dont know a lot of t. Fire fighters arrived on the scene. Its a house. When they walked in they saw fire and flames coming out of the front door. Its a house on irving street. Near the 880 and 280 interchange. You can see the white and black smoke coming up. Trying to get the information for you. Follow the breaking news and its been the latest. These pictures a little more dramatic, these into the newsroom. Massive flames roaring out of the home in mountainview. This was given to us by a neighbor. Details in this fire also limited but we do know the fire small at first and suddenly the garage opened and the blaze engulfed the rest of the house, and its located very close to el camino hospital, again in, mountainview. Another how is that were monitoring and well bring you more information as soon as we get it. New at 5, one of the biggest and most expensive developments in the history of the bay area. Also a big secret. The
All the data as creepy as it sounds, is being accumulated. There is different ways to bundle it and look at anomalies and trends. It gives us information that we used to have. The Atlanta Public School story started out as a discovery that test scores had dramatically turned around in a short time. Data allowed us to discover it was statistically impossible for that to happen. That was what the team uncovered. Putting those scores together paint a picture that was impossible. They had dated different from data different from the data of others that you recall. I would Say Something about families. The Sulzberger Family owns the New York Times. Those families have maintained their commitment to quality. That is an exception in an america today. So many families, for many reasons, tax reasons, sold their companies. Thank god for the sulzbergers and the coxs. I cant tell you how many few owners would make the statement that alex just made. We understand the role of the watchdog in our new
Can see the water marked tower on sea wall lot 330 in blue and the blue color encompassing here and the piers 3032 and indicating from the beginning we looked at this in a holistic way. This indicates the typical relationship you have along the waterfront when you look down a pier. You typically take the long view down to the water and this is something that occurs here, but there is something that occurs on 3032 which is unlike any other pier and thats this very spectacular north south access that you view access that you experience as you walk onto the pier and spectacular view north up to the bay bridge so this shapes the way we approach the Site Planning for the development. This is an early diagram that appeared in the press in the spring of this year. It was before we started design for the project but it actually illustrated how a Typical Development on a pier might occur and you can see in blue the indication of the event arena and the orange for the mix use and Retail Developm