[applause] i've lived here for many years in chicago, i went to loyola university. i did cool things in chicago. i bartended and study classes. i still have some friends, three of them here. i thought that was the only people who would be here today, a huge thank you, thank you so much for being here. i'm glad we could do this. >> i was going to quote a little bit. i did not realize that trey had chicago roots instead toys started getting into the book. this is how he describes chicago. chicago is a hard-core democratic city but run like a a ruthless rudy giuliani republican regime. instead of being transparent and honest like giuliana who boldly announced that he is going to clean up new york and bus the smallest petty criminals, chicago democrats were full of crap. they started the rhetoric of the quality, justice, fair share while uprooting entire minority communities there were too close to the white people in the magnificent mile to make way for expensive condos. so he does not mix words. tell us about leola and your roots, and how chicago shaped to. >> in the

. >> although i received my diploma from loyola law school in chicago, i started law school in green bay correctional facility. >> reporter: jarrett was wrongfully convicted himself. he was 17 when he was arrested, accused of sexually assaulting a student at the university of wisconsin, a crime he denied from the start. in these cases, there's always that moment of this will get cleared up very quickly. >> you know, my only encounter with the criminal court system was "law & order." and that theme music comes on, you don't see guys who are wrongfully convicted go to prison. >> reporter: but jarrett did. a 28-year sentence. convicted after his court-appointed attorney chose not to put on a defense even though there was a witness who could have helped clear him. >> when this guy is telling us, look, we know you didn't do it. they haven't proven their case. the best defense is a no-defense strategy. we're like, yeah, that sounds good. because we don't know any better, right? but in reality, it was a horrible idea. >> reporter: a cellmate convinced jarrett to keep fighting. jarrett spent

when i got done from loyola i wanted to go see the world and one of my passions as absorbing as much culture as i could so i learned languages in the process and ended up studying in italy so i learned italian and spanish. i've been held at gunpoint, i've eaten bugs off the streets but it's been a fun ride. it comes out of my love of people and culture. a lot of these anecdotes are in the books as he's not joking. >> [inaudible]come b >> you got a phone call to come back and anchor a television station and from there you t transitioned into clicking where you decided to run for office. >> i wanted to get involved in politics and as i'm sitting here in the summer is there anybodyn that goes in the winter? you are the only person there. >> i left tv news to get involved in politics today have been a radio show opened to the political talk in the morning so i went to the radio show and ito was a conservative radio show i would often times try to push the envelope and i would say share my liberal beliefs on the show and what happened is i got this radio show and i began in one way or ano

loyola what a title well it kind of a thing the title is i wrote that when george died and i did michael george michael died and i didn't know what to do i was in the middle of writing songs i love writing and it's kind of saying i think we're all good people but we've all got crosses to bear in a and it's it's kind of saying that you know we feel sad but then there's a joy in it as well basically so i wrote it in tribute to him a world you know. it was one of those people that i don't know. if you have more life experience than i do but i think when the chips hit the fan so to speak i think you find out he friends are what you made of and i didn't have to see him all the time but when i when i was going through trouble when i left the spice girls he was there for me when i had my first child i had nowhere to live he was there for me and also when i had you know music music to play and i wasn't sure where to go a place to jordan he was very honest with me you had a close relationship he was trouble orson i think we can all be trouble i think in life you know i mean you've probably got a

around the world this is amazing to me and when i was here in chicago after i got done studying at loyola and later in life when i would eventually sell the business, i wanted to go see the world. so, one of my passions is absorbing as much culture as i ever could so i learned a few languages in the process and ended up studying at italy and i learned fluent spanish and troubled pretty extensively. extensively. i'd been heli've been held at gi eating bugs and brain tacos off the streets of mexico in particular but it's been a fun ride. tell us about, you got a phone call to come back in anger a television station and from there you somehow transitioned into life clicking where you decided to run for office. so talk to us about that. >> i left a very comfortable gig in the southwest region of naples ft. myers. as i'm sitting here in the summer does anybody go there in the winter. i left tv news to the communications consulting in boston politics. a radio show opened up to do political talk in the morning so i would do the radio show and it was a conservative radio show but i would often tr

. >> is a graduate of catholic university and learned his law degree at loyola and previously served in the louisiana house of representatives and the lieutenant governor and mayor since 2010. and his under graduate and law degrees are from university of south carolina and previous appointments include at the tender age of 29 to the governor's cabinet as director of the department of probation, parole and pardon services and finally, mayor giles unlike his mayoral counterparts is republican and elected the 40th mayor of mesa in august of 2014 and re-elected last august. he has a bachelor's degree in political science from brigham young university and earned had us law degree from arizona state and sandra day o'connor college of law. welcome to one and all and thus end the biographical portion of the program. now on to the ever so compelling recitation of ground rules. as always we're on the record here. please no live bulldogging or tweeting in short and no filing of any kind while breakfast is underway to give us time to listen to what our guests say. there's no embargo when the ses

earned his law degree at loyola university. previously served in the louisiana house of and asntatives louisiana's lieutenant governor. he's been mayor since 2010. mayor benjamin has been in office since 2010. his undergraduate and law degrees are from the university carolina. his previous government service appointment at the tender age of 29 to the governor's cabinet as director the department's probation parole. and pardon services. mayor giles, like his counterparts here is a republican. he was the 40th mayor of mesa. in august 2014. reelected last august. inhas a bachelor's degree political science from brigham young university, earned his law arizona state university's sandra day o'connor college of law. welcome to one and all, and thus endeth the biographical portion. compelling recitation of ground rules. we're on the record here. please, no live blogging or tweeting or filing of any kind on the breakfast is underway to give us time to listen to what say.uests there is no embargo when the session ends. to help you curb

deniset least is who is a professor at loyola university ireland where she also serves as a director for the new education department. her work focuses on the role of race and urban schooling and activism reform. her research interests include the important sociopolitical context of black political .ducators and the resilience she is currently working on a book about black educators and school reform in philadelphia. these join me in welcoming all of these panelists for a great discussion. [applause] >> hello, everyone. let me find a place for my water. as it was said earlier my researches on activism practically student activism in black universities. there is a biographic theme on this panel. i want to focus on two people who are a figure in my dissertation. the president of greensboro college and the first woman to be a present of a four-year liberal arts college. ofwell as the professor women's studies in english at somewhat college in atlanta. are the two women that i am focusing on. have andhese women continue to have a significant impact on their respective colleges. the only

organizations that fight for the equality of all people including the social justice movement at loyola in new orleans, women living our values every day, now l.o.v.e. patricia boyette. [applause] next we have otis sanford, economic and managerial journalism at the university of memphis and is the author of the critically-acclaimed new book "how race changed memphis politics." sanford serves as the political commentator for tv channel 3, the cbs affiliate station in memphis, and he is a panelist for informed services, a weekly public affairs program on channel 3. plus, he writes a weekly viewpoint column. before joining the university of memphis in 2011, sanford was editor for opinion and editorials at the commercial appeal and formerly served as the paper's managing editor, the first african-american to hold both positions. a mississippi native, he is a 1975 graduate of the university of mississippi with a b.a. degree in journalism. he began his professional journalism clear at the clarion -- career at the clarion ledger right here in jackson. he also has worked at the pittsburgh press