thank you, the children and youth of king garvey co-op. >> thank you cliff. beautiful.ext we have a poem from alecia >> good afternoon i am alecia and i attend sa*pbt john's school. the title of the poem is i am who i am. i am a young african-american female and very proud of my heritage. i am a californian. that is where i grow up. i 30 for knowledge and. >> >> share my knowledge with others. as a born leader i live in the western edition. i am a 4.0 student. at 13 year's old i attend college. i am different yet the same as everyone else. i am like a river i go with the flow. i ln of to stories. i am somebody. (applause). >> give alecia a hand. amen. thank you. next we have a another poem. >> good afternoon. i attend sa*pbt john's middle school. at this point i would like to thank cheryl davis for everything she has done in our community and miss yokmam i am a young african-american woman. i am proud to be who i am. i strife for greatness. i am a 4.0 student. i am a young lady who will fight and strife for a better education. i am who i am and that's all i will be. (ap

garvey, and mary mcleod iii. >> by being at the courier, i had a chance to have luncheon with nat king cole. >> while working at picture taken with duke ellington, billy eckstine, lena horne. >> and lionel hampton and ella fitzgerald or cab calloway, marian anderson. >> joe louis, jackie robinson, jesse owens. >> satchel paige and roy campanella and many, many others. after a while, you got so used to it that you didn't look up especially, but i just remember that part of it. it was as if the whole world, and particularly the people in the black world, all walked through the editorial rooms of the pittsburgh courier. >> narrator: celebrities shared the spotlight with the courier's own reporters. >> the courier paid better than many other black newspapers, because it was very large. it was highly successful, but the main reason they did it wasn't for the money. it was because they were stars out there. they were known. their names and pictures appeared somewhere. on a column, they had a picture of the person and the name. people knew you. you knew them. and they looked to you to take up their banner and to fight