You here tonight on the second letter on the Supreme Court. Were very privileged tonight to have as our host, Justice Kagan. She will be introducing our distinguished speaker very shortly. Let me just tell you a few things about Justice Kagan you may or may not know already. Born in new york, raised in new york, educated at princeton, oxford, and Harvard Law School. Then came a clerk to judge abner mikvah on the d. C. Circuit judge, followed by a clerkship with Justice Thurgood marshall here on the Supreme Court. And a couple years of law practice, then in 1991, entering academia, teaching at the university of chicago law school, where she met professor barack obama. Two years later, invited back to washington tow ork to work for the Senate Judiciary committee at the request of the chairman, then senator joe biden. Two years later, judge mikvah becomes white House Counsel for president clinton. Justice kagan is asked to come to the white house, serve as associate white House Counsel. S
How interconnected these two areas really are. Our Public Health continues to show signs of improvement. Take a look at this comparison for the number of newly reported coronavirus cases and deaths in california. Both are distinctly below average according to state data. And take a look at the trend in the bay area. A yellow line represents a rolling average of newly diagnosed cases. Its continuing downward trend. Thats a very good sign. And one day after business opened, Health Officials say theyre closely watching the case rates following Labor Day Weekend. The mayor today said she doesnt want to turn back the clock and hopes the guidelines are followed. Lyanne has the latest. Reporter the salon in downtown San Francisco decided to wait until tomorrow to reopen. This is our third time preparing to open. After six months, we feel very ready. Reporter mayor london breed warned all businesses to follow the proper protocols if they want to remain open. We dont want to turn back the clock
We feel incredibly lucky were able to offer virtual events, and we wouldnt be able to do that and gather and hear about the king of confidence if it wasnt for you all showing up. So thank you for doing that. Id like to quickly go over our zoom policies for tonights event. We do ask that you keep your video feed disabled for the duration of the event. If you do enable it, well kindly disable it for you. If you enable it a second time, we will regretfully have to disconnect. We appreciate your cooperation. Were going to have a reading by both miles and donovan to start us off. After miles reads from the king of confidence which was actually published this past tuesday and donovan reads from the inner coast which was published early last month, in june, were going to hear an extended conversation between the two of them for about 3035 minutes, and were also going to have a few slides here and there if needed to add some supplemental images, and once were done with that, were going to wrap
Staying safe. A crisis of unprecedented proportion the novel corona pandemic already infected 3 million and killed over 100,000 americans. The scale is staggering, efforts to produce a lifesaving vaccine, not all americans have been impacted equally. Communities of color are not only more likely to be infected by the covid19 but more likely to be killed by the virus. In my home state of new jersey africanamericans face up to covid19 fatalities. This trend was observed not only in new jersey, data from the cdc shows that africanamericans, 3 times more likely to be infected and twice as likely to die from covid19 than white populations. The administrations response to the outbreak has been an utter failure on a multitude of levels. Nowhere is this more acute than in its neglect of Minority Health. Since the onset of the outbreak it has been clear that communities of color are disproportionately impacted. However the impact has been up secured by critical data. Even with this knowledge th
Now i would like to turn it over to my cohost. If you are here for the first time we are covering everyone in between. Our special guest tonight is the founder of the free radical project a Global Network of the former extremists who were they radicalizing others trying to weave the movement by providing counseling. Hes an emmy award producer. [applause] this is your second book and i flew through the 200 plus pages so quickly like a hungry child after school and because i was craving some of this truth. Before we dive into all these truths, the book does share a story from other individuals you encountered whether direct or indirect and i think that we should start with telling your story and how that encounter lead you to the chicago area and americas first organized neonazi group. Thank you so much for having me. It is a privilege and honor a privilege becausanda privilege t often times people dont look like me or have a darker skin color, sometimes they dont get the same Second Cha