what made you choose spelman? she looked at me and she said, dr. cohen, i'm going to be an astrophysicist. and i did not want to have any professor looking at me and saying, or implying, honey, are you sure you can do physics? that's what happens at a women's college. nobody looks -- well if that person does, they need to leave. you don't stay in any way, by words or by implication, you do not do what you have set up to do. . there's this expression. i sought -- thought about it a lot when senator kamala harris came into the spotlight of our country. on a woman's campus, you see the truth in this expression, day if you can see one you can be one. when ruth symonds was the president of smith college, think about the number of young women, and especially young black women who said, if i can see that in ruth symonds, i can see that in myself. >> doctor? simmons >> well i can't say it any better than that. >> it is for women in general. seeing other women performing at the highest level was the greatest source of inspiration in terms of having the wher

so i think things are going to remain relatively stagnant but china will march ahead through that spelman road initiative even though it's had some bumps in its recovery is far far better than what we will be able to muster within the same time periods and i think that we're going to be seen a rise in china very very quickly and we're seeing it this effect now have it have been a ripple effect even in europe europe is going to probably look more toward china and the far east than it has to go in the united states we already know that in the waning days of the of the church is raising the mass and then they don't sit by and it's not in terms yabby but they did know that the page is already been heard here i think that american foreign policy is so confusing for an outsider that you better start you can say that you have to start hedging your bets right now it's not only foreign policy but they don't see markets in the us any longer that europe is a is an export in country and they ate exporting countries and there we have italy already a member of the belt road initiative that's the beginn

and so she helps them get into more than women in her family go to spelman and she considers him to the education even he cannot become a reverent without her so to say this is her husband's church when he inherited from her it is a misunderstanding of history and then with malcolm x. like i said earlier this is what she was raised upon the notions of standing up for your freedom fighting against colonization. she finds her path. that's where she meets her husband because they are both activist not because he is and that's how they come together even after he dies and malcolm is young he continues to witness his mother stand up against the racist attacks is not to raise the men for the fathers are sons but why are we erasing them on monday clearly had an important role to play? >> if that relationship existed today is that erasure still as blatant. >> that's only because my own personal experiences i know what it's like to be associated with what people know well not only am i erased from the story but in with what was featured in the documentary with boston on my mind but even the film

so she helps him to get into the house then go to morehouse the women go to spelman and through his education even he cannot become a reverend without her. so to say this is her husband church and he inherits it it is a misunderstanding of history and finally with malcolm x. of what she was raised upon the notions of standing up for your freedom fighting against colonization and white supremacy and that's where she meets her husband because they are both activist not because he has but that's how they come together and then continues to witness his mother stand up against the racist attacks to raise the importance but while we had an important role to play. >> do you think these relationships existed today erasure would still be as blatant. >> honestly unfortunately i do but only because my own personal experience not just a representative of me but i know what it is like to be associated with a famous man or someone that people know well and how often i am erased from his story but how much his mother and aunt are waste from his story recently we were featured in a documentary called boston

, there was so much purpose that i found once i got there that school, and the neighboring school spelman college in the university were also lbcu, and they all three of them were very intentional about teaching us as young black people that -- we were full people. and that we mattered and that we got to sort of choose who and what we wanted to be. and then i got my first job coming out of morehouse at google. and so i moved from -- atlanta to oakland is where i lived in lake merritt and i took funky google bus up and down i guess that was the 101 i can't remember now but down to san jose silicon valley in mountain view headquarters and my purpose there -- became to be whatever google wanted me to be. and i was the culture of silicon valley companies like google is so all encompassing it sort of enveloped my entire life at that time as a 22-year-old so far away from home and friends that my purpose was really just to be a part of the club. however i could. you know, every company has a club, and it is the people who seem like they're on the right track who feel like they -- set this socia

no school is better represented than spelman, and there were very traumatic things that happened to theseve women who went to prison and, to jail, to the city prison farm, and so they had been central to the movement from the start. and so i just want to make sure that we called out that history. and i just, it's just a profound thanks, you know, to mr. black, to reverend moss. we could not have told this book without the help of those that were there. it would not read as it does, and, you know, we just, we treasure our time reasoning to them and learning from them. and so, you know, i just wanted to get that in, just how grateful we are to them and their heroism. >> well, mr. black, given your endorsement of the book, we do also have a question: are the movie rights available, and will the kendricks accept a check? [laughter] >> we just hope people read it. we just wanted to share the story as much as we can. because, again, the students forced this to happen the make sure people could not turn away from civil rights inequalities, that it couldn't get put on the back burner. .. certainl

. >> could i just mention one other thing, we've been encouraging our students at spelman, for example, somebody's going to want to write the lgbtq history of spelman, and we've been encouraging our african students to give us their papers, and you know, they look at us like what papers? and it is amazing. it is amazing what they have shared with us, and we've gone back -- we're going to be able to trace that history because we have identified the young, the students who were there and of course they took everything home, and of course they really don't want to let it go, but undergraduate students on our campuses have very important stories to tell both at hbcus and at majority institutions. that's something we can do easily is to get young people, scholars and even undergraduate students to see that what they've been accumulating is really, really important. >> so if i can piggyback on that, i think that repositories have to make an effort, especially if we want to capture the thoughts and experiences of young people to turn our attention to born digital materials. so people aren't -