Gleams thrown in ultimate glory, youre a city of mist and a city of dreams. Welcome to the 10th anniversary of the closing ceremony of black history celebration of San Francisco lets give yourselves a round of applause. [cheers and applause] we want you to feel inspired. We want you to feel uplifted and we want to you feel curious about the history of this wonderful city by the bay and how black history is San Francisco history. We are celebrating the trailblazers, you know that came from San Francisco have been still coming from the gold rush era to wwii. When tens of thousands of African Americans including my parents came to San Francisco as part of the great migration, they came from the south and the west and midwest. They came for better way of life. They came to celebrate their gifts can and by the end of wwii, the filmore district had earned the title of harlem of the west. Now although the numbers of African Americans have dwindled and decreases in years, there is no way no how, that we can erase the proud ancestors who made this city what it is today. [applause] no way tonight, we will embrace the many colors and hue of those ancestors, they left the stones behind and many of us take for granted as we travel through the city, we dont know where the stones are lead but they are, the stones are there for us to see and tonight im going to bring out a few of them. Did you know that we had trailblazers such as this amazing gentleman by the name of William Alexander lays dwarf. Yes, aha, nobody knows who he was. He was awe brother and in the 1800, he was one of the earliest African Americans to come to california. He was one of the founders of this city, yes a black man. There is a street named for him and its twoblock alley between montgomery and samson. Lets say it together, lead us dwarf, kind of sounds a little german. Do you think they know he really was a brother . Anyway, well have to do a 23 and me later on. Yes, those stones have been laid. If you go to 465 california street, in 11857, there was a california saving Land Association building. And brenda, you ought to know about this. Where is brenda at . Brenda ms. Wells fargo . Its now called the Merchants Exchange building. And that was a site of the first africanamerican owned bank in San Francisco. Its president , a brother Henry Collins was one of the wealthiest black leaders and owned a lot of land in the city. There is a lot of city history around and if i was a smart person i would get myself a spran and do a San Francisco black history tour, you think it would work . Is theres a lot of floor to see right now. Yes yes yes. Were working on it. You know, covid reek havoc on San Francisco and oakland and all near by sdaoez. But you know, that waunz the first time, uhhuh, San Francisco was destroyed by fire, not once not twice but seven times in between 1849 and 1851. If you use your imagination, can you imagine the people there having to build the city all over again . Seven times. And each time the people rebuilt, we tried more and more methods and hightech methods to prevent fire. 1906 earth quick, once again. It happened in 1989 with the earthquake. Weve got to learn from our history and we need to learn from our disasters, am i right about it . No . Were going to let the city just mess up . We have to learn from our disasters and learn how those people had a mind to rebuild the city. Were not in a construction era, were in a reconstruction era. And as soon as we accept that, we can Work Together to keep dreaming, keep innovating, keep creating, keep fighting not one another but keep fighting for this city and fighting to make it a better city in the future by looking at the history of our past. And African Americans were right there in that history. So i would like to leave inspired tonight and ready to work. Because San Francisco has long been the inspiration for many people and theyre still coming. A black woman came to the city back in the 40s, and in the 50s, they became the first cable car operator. She danced, at the purple onion before moving to San Francisco, her name was margarite anne johnson. But once she came here, she realized she had to change her name. And if you close your eyes, allow this voice to speak to you, you will feel her spirit. Close your eyes and imagine. Human family, i know the obvious differences in the human family. Some of us are serious, some drive on comedy, some declare vandalism as true and other claims they really lived the real reality. The variety of our skin tone can confuse, amuse delete, brown and pink and beige and purple and tan and blue and white. I sailed upon the seven cease and seen the land, ive seen the wonders of world not yet one common man. I know 10,000 women called jane and mary jane, i have not seen any two who were really the same. Mirror twins are different although their feature jived and lovers think different thoughts while lying side by side. We love and lose in china, we weapon on englands moore and laugh and moan in guinea and thrive on spanish shores. We seek the sense and finland our born and die in maine, in minor ways we differ in major were the same. I know the obvious differences, between each sort and type, but we are more like my friend, than we are unalike. We are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike. We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike. Wow. Maya angelou, ladies and gentlemen. [cheers and applause] and in 1959 she joined live Memorial Church and made that her home. And here with us tonight we have the glide memorial ensemble please put your hands together for them as they come. [cheers and applause] [music] hmm hmm hmm, yeah yeah yeah, aha, i feel spirit over me i feel your spirit all over me its in my hands, in my soul, down in my feet, yeah, i feel your spirit all over me come on, i feel your spirit, all over me yeah, i feel your spirit, all over me yeah, its in my hands, my soul, my down in my feet, oh yeah yeah yeah, oh yeah, i feel your presence all over me. I feel your presence all over me [singing] is thes in my hands, in my soul, down in my feet, lord i feel your presence all over me come on choir. I feel your preference all over me. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel the presence all over me. My soul, down in my feet, oh yeah, i feel it moving, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah, moving, down in my toes, yeah, come on put your hands together. [singing] oh, i feel your glory all over me aha, i feel your glory all over me. My hands, my toes and down in my feet, i feel the glory all over me. Come on choir. I feel your glory all over me. Yeah yeah yeah, i feel the glory all over me. I feel it in my hands, my toes, my down in my feet. Yeah yeah, yeah, oh i feel your power all over me. I feel your power all over me. Its in my hands, my toes, yeah, down in my feet, i feel your power all over me. Come on, i feel your power all over me. I feel your power all over me. I feel it, feel it, oh yeah. Down in my feet. I feel the power all over me. Oh yeah, i feel it moving. Moving all over me, yeah. Moving, moving, moving, moving, yeah. Moving, moving moving, yeah yeah yeah. Ooh, yeah, i feel it moving, moving, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, move, move, move, move, move, move, move, yeah yeah yeah yeah, moving. Down in my feet. Yeah yeah yeah yeah ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah. Aha. Ooh. [cheers and applause] ladies and gentlemen, the glide memorial ensemble do you feel the spirit . Moving all over ya . All right at this time, were going to ask them to stay and help us sing as all of you stand i ask you all to stand as we bring the black National Anthem to lift every voice and sing. [singing of black National Anthem lift every voice and sing] lift every voice and sing. Till earth and heaven ring. Ring with the harmonies of liberty. Let our rejoicing rise, high as the listing skies, let it be resound, loud as the rolling sea. Sing a a song full of faith that the dark past has taught us. Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us. Facing the rising sun of our day begun, let us march till victory is won. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us. Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us. Face ing the rising sun of our new day begun, let us march on till victory is won. Until its won yes memorial ensemble make us proud to have us sing that anthem. Very very proud. It is truly a pleasure to stefsh as your mistress of ceremony. Our real guest is london breed, our state controller malia cohen. Supervisor Shamann Walton and new to the committee, our San FranciscoDistrict Attorney, Brooke Jenkins. It is their vision that we celebrate our Small Businesses and Community Involvement of course that is you. And we continue to celebrate those that make an impact in our city. So glad to see representatives from our Fire Department, and Police Department and every agency here. It gives my heart joy to see you in a happy place, not in front of the press, not where you have to deal with all the stuff that we know you have to deal with but you can come and celebrate with us because you very well are part of our citys history too. Lets hear it for every one. Every one that is here today that are working in the trenches to make our city a good city. And i cannot believe i said our city because im from oakland. Since ive been here ever year, they might not come back over the bridge but honestly i feel a very strong connection with all of our cities because theyre all going through a lot and we all want the best for our families, for our businesses and one another, dont we . Yeah. Alrighty, our first artist is going to celebrate here with us, lets see if i got the right notes. Yes. Hes a hiphop artist and actor and entrepreneur who includes the message of hope in social justice and everything he does. Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for stuner o2 that man o2 thank you, so much, mayor. If youre all feeling good, let me get an oh yeah, okay, so we came to celebrate unity in here and my name is dj west coast, if you dont know who i am, im dj west coast im o2 official dejay, weve been coming all through the coast spreading positivity and eating healthy. We have a song called eat a salad and another song that is representing unite throughout San Francisco and its called big step in if youve been to a 49ers game, this young man has been one of those pioneers in the community that has been able to push us forward into a new light. But im a young person and i see all of this beautiful success and entrepreneurship, i see a lot of my peers in here. I see a lot of people who may be older than me who can show me the way and it gives me hope for me and my friends. Im 23 years old, out here, you know what im saying. So when i see people like the mayor and chief of police, we have the same skin color, he gives me hope that i can be more than in this life. Enough about me, we hear for stuner man o2, you all say with it, steel, steel, when i say come, you saul say together, come, come, come, everybody right now, i need yall to get on your feet, i need you to make some noise, we have stuner man o2, dj can you drop one time for my people. Everybody get loud. Everybody stand up. Everybody stand up. Lets go ha. Hahu big weapon [singing] i need yall to hit it harder, come on, what we doing hey, hey, put the guns here, finish and ive got to get now. We got a bot, just to have some fun now. [rapping] hey im trying to unity but what is the use, want to hear the truth thats why we get money and then we laugh about. Reputation and then ask about it and if they got a problem, we got the money. Now im chilling make it og, 8723, we need everybody to turn come on. [rapping] we be stepping, ah, come on, get it, get it, listen to the a, say go mayor, go mayor, go mayor go. Go mayor, go mayor, go mayor. Say go mayor, go mayor go. You can cut it up there, you can cut it up there. Shout out to the mayor. We having fun, shout out to the dj west coast, hey man. You know it wouldnt be right if you did an event in San Francisco without sentimental and still winning it. You all make some noise real quick. Before i leave. I do want to do something very special, you know, i dont know about you all, but i love seeing all of these Beautiful People. Let me take my glasses off. Oh shoot oh wait, running back, he got to convince that too, running back, running back one time, play it again. Come on im gig let me see you see your, ah, ah, come on. Im big stepping, look like ahah big weapon, come on. You can cut it there, you all make some noise. Hey man, at a bangles going to be my favorite team, shout out to joe. But, i aint going to keep you all much longer. What i want to do real quick, i know we got some high energy. But real quick, i want to have a moment of sigh license and its for our black women because unfortunately, our black women theyre treated the worse, theyre talked down the worse. Unfortunately, people are pinning the shape of San Francisco on our mayor and she is doing the best that she can. [cheers and applause] you know, what im saying. They not talking about all the other gentrification and pushing people out that happened before her rank, so you know, during black History Month, lets have a moment a moment of silence if you lost a black woman in your life, if you have seen a black women that has been hurt talked down on because they not going to tell you, black women graduate college at the highest rate. Come on now. They not going to tell you 60 of success fortune 500 companies have majority black women running it, they not going to tell you all that. So real quick, if you all could, close your eyes and lets have a moment of silence and this moment of silence is going to appreciate our black women. [moment of silence] the way they talking about our black women, im beg them to stop t beauty in every shape from the light skin to chocolate, try most of these flavors but something about that chocolate got to keep one in my pocket, glowing all that me lonin, underappreciated and aint nothing, navigate and seas something like, first they said they haid you and then they said they hate you, man just want to date you, champion how you play it, no way they could equate you, tom brady but they could never deflate you. Something about these black women i love them from the start, fabulous in their essence we would never be apart in order to see the light, hi to put faith in true black queens, yall make some noise for these black women. I go by sentimental too, and if you ever get down and look yourself in the mirror and say, yay yeah, all right. Stuner o2 ladies and gentlemen. I like that, i like that a lot. Im honored to now officially introduce our host, who has been working hard in our community to make a difference. The first africanamerican women and 45th mayor of the city and county of San Francisco, work to go create a more equitable and just San Francisco, not just for black people but for everybody. Please welcome the honorable mayor london breed [cheers and applause] up next, we have the chief officer of the 5th largest economy responsible for to account for and protect the state financial resources, please welcome california state controller malia cohen [cheers and applause] proudly representing the San Francisco 10th district, invitation valley neighborhoods, please ladies and gentlemen put your hands for supervisor Shamann Walton [cheers and applause] and new to our committee, serving as the 30th District Attorney of San Francisco no strange tore d. A. s office, 7 years from 2024 to 2021, where she began doing misdemeanors and handling those cases and later served as a hates crime prosecutor and proud to know that she is a trailblazer in our city, please welcome District AttorneyBrooke Jenkins and she is a mom too [cheers and applause] you guys look good tonight. How are you feeling . Well listen, i want to just welcome you back one more time into the peoples palace, welcome to San Francisco city hall [cheers and applause] im so happy to see you, im so glad that you continue to come out to support this event. Did you know that this is the 10th anniversary . [cheers and applause] ten years, this event has been growing. And it has been easy, but i want to recognize one woman in particular, dia na roberts right here, you, come on up. Come on. [cheers and applause] this is the woman that pulls it altogether, she has been with us nine out of the ten years. Nine out of the ten years. She is the one that helps us find the talent and puts the program together and writes the program and does the advertising, you name it. Did you come to have a good time . [cheers and applause] thats good, because we have some history making acknowledgment first. I want you to recognize mayor breed, this woman. [cheers and applause] now im not campaigning because that would be illegal but im just letting you know im voting for mayor breed. Im not campaigning because that would be illegal, im just telling what you im going to do so i hope that you will be inspired and know what to do too [cheers and applause] now im not campaigning but another race happening, im here to educate. I want you to know that you need to cut through the noise and im going to make it easy for you, Brooke Jenkins is your current District