we in the african-american community have no time to waste. i am going to stand up with a bold stance. the black press needs to sit down with whomever is running this ship pier that does not know -- this ship here that does not know about oversight. anything other than that would be in dignity. here you have a department head saying it is an oversight. there has been an oversight on the african-american community for 40 years. my name is ace and i'm on the case. i have been here at silly call for 20 years and i have experienced the indignity of the african-american community. in the media, particularly. i meeting today with the city and county. i am in the city hall and now they are trying to get rid of me, y'all. but i done made history. never, ever has there been an african-american organization here. [tone] supervisor campos: next speaker, please. >> i'm the publish -- the publisher of the "west portal monthly" newspaper and the chair of the san francisco neighborhood association newspaper. if you have any questions regarding some of the ne

, an african american woman would protect her man's manhood. there's this interracial romance that happens, black man, white woman, and how this is all viewed. she said how she felt her character had to really stand up to protect her man and as a consequence it became part of the play. the african american woman will not tell earl that his wife has actually left him already and run off with another man. she doesn't tell him that because she's trying to protect his manhood. those are things i think if you are a smart playwright, you really take advantage of your very smart actors and your very smart directors. again, this thing where it's always coming down it ego. at sundance, in every rehearsal process, i like being part of a very generous workshop. if you were in there you would say, wow, it's pretty free-wheeling. for example, you have 9 characters, 9 story lines that all are trying to be pieced together so they all are introduced, they all intertwine and at the end they are all resolved in some form or fashion. it's a delicate architecture.

african-american men and women ran schools. there were a fair number of people who left dc for higher education and went to the north to get educated and then returned and often became teachers. some also worked in federal positions, positions in the federal government, not necessarily -- or not at all in kind of clerical positions, but as messengers. and so forth. and in those roles they actually knew many of the most powerful men in the country and so interestingly, free black washingtonians -- many of them had powerful ties to people who could help them later. and these folks -- the kind of pre-african-americans who lived in washington before the war were poised to exert a special kind of leadership as emancipation took shape. the second population were the thousands of former slaves who came into the capitol from maryland and virginia during the civil war. these people were often escaping from slavery. and they kind of became the backbone of black washington because there were so many people, there were so many thousands of

it is the school board was 50% african-american and soon it was a majority african-american.same is true of the city council. over time, mayor jackie became mayor in overtime, atlanta with many other cities became it lack controlled city. and the theory that the african-american middle class had was that same race representation controlled by african-americans would you progress through the entire race. what is that these was challenging commissioners challenging the premise as early as the late 1960s and 1970s certainly. and i can tell you certainly it was the case the beast in the evolution of the athlete the school board, it became clear to city schools that having same race or temptation was not enough to make the city schools good schools for the majority of children and certainly for children who have the most need. and of course those are typically going to be the children the truly disadvantaged peers at the african-americans who were living in poverty. so i do think that her fears that these majority black school citizens would not desert noted progress were pouring

lots of african-american -- prominent african-american leaders. but this does not stop mathews another wedding in atlanta's housing projects from pushing ahead. they challenge the settlement and name it he resisted and say lawmaking who is the head of the local naacp. he defended it with these words among others. he said if i have to choose between sitting beside whitey and a job that pays, i want the job. matthew shot back quote, why should our children be pawned for a few greenbacks? and us, you can deduct mathews and her neighbors were concerned about their children. she knew they needed they would matter the wealthy, but they did want the opportunity for their children to climb out of poverty and the dot that teresa had to do that was to get a good education and the associated racially schools without opportunity. so they pushed ahead, hired margie. teens who was a lawyer says he did with the aclu to back them up in court, challenging the settlement. mathews confronted and other women confronted powerful lawyers in court rooms. and again, i we

right now, the african-american community is in a state of emergency. that is what i am doing here, a lobbying for the african- american community. you might hear some chuckling in the background and that's ok. the -- we have no advertisement for the black community. we have the sun reporter and of the new baby, we have the paper i used to own called the western addition. all of them i worked for at one time or another. but there is no clarification on how the city administrates into the black community. i would like to make sure you have these, that we have some advertising in some of the black-on the papers. i will be putting together a black paper to talk about the experience of the african- americans here in san francisco. not only that, i'm getting ready to write a book so you can take a look. just one page you have to read and you will be hooked. i am up here definitely lobbying. i am appear showboating and all that because i have this opportunity here. what is coming up to you in a couple of other issues, i want to go on the record that we, the a

protection of african-americans life and property, he argued, was acceptable. this is an allusion to natural rights are civil rights in the narrow sense. but the government should not intervene in matters of quote political rights and social enjoyment. .. >> they said, they called it a matter of social equality and said, oh, no, you can't do that. now, so interestingly, this dynamic put african-american activists in an interesting position. their response to these arguments, for example, when they said, well, we should be allowed to ride the streetcars on a level of equality with equal access, or we should -- we want access to the public schools equally with white children, they argued that that had nothing to do with social equality, right? that they were merely seeking a broader vision, a more expansive vision of equality before the law than their, the people who opposed them or the people who disagreed with them. so, okay. so the overall sort of picture is that the argument that people are having is an argument over the content of these categories. we can't

there's an african-american man casting a ballot. behind him, a republican looking at him with a top hat. behind him, a guy second from the left has a cfa on his hat, a builter former confederate standing next to and kind of supporting the man on the left who is andrew johnson, the president who vetoed the universal manhood suffrage legislation that congress passed for washington and then congress had overridden that veto, and so johnson is clinging to his veto, physically clinging to his veto while the african-american man casts his vote. the second major thread is the impact of urban reform on washington. the book tells a story of the dramatic restructuring of the district of columbia first in 1871 and again in 1874. the restructuring of washington as a territorial government and then a commission form, and i argue that these innovations in the form of government, the first of which was demanded by a bipartisan group of coalition leaders, these innovations were direct responses to or more precisely reactions against the changes, pa

in this community, most women are african-americans. health care providers say it's still a challenge to convince them to get screened. >> i have to go pay the pg&e and rent and buy groceries, i am not coming to get a mammogram. so there was a disconnect. >> the billboards were designed by san francisco high school students. this one, the cure is here and so are we was created by her. >> the research is out there that would help anyone at all. >> the artwork displays the sad statistics. more than 40,000 women died last year in the u.s. alone due to breast cancer. >> it's detected earlier and help them out when you can so they don't suffer. >> studies have shown when it comes to breast cancer, african-american women do worse than white women and black women tend to cancer at an earlier age. >> a university of miami study published found that the likelihood of finding breast cancer in black women at 35 is the same as finding it in white women at age 40. >> there definitely are differences in cancer by ethnicity and the best way for a woma

all the housing, the 10-year plan, it must have african-americans involved with it.ificate saying we did y'all wrong. i want to hear you talk about the community center because that's going to be the first example that we're going to use under the african-american out migration report. the city and county came forward three years ago, came in with your board and you put them in there and you're trying to put out another board. we, the community, must be involved, mr. ross, mr. city hall, anything you're talking about that affect our community, we must be at the table with you. last time you came in there, you stone rolled us and gave us what you wanted us to have. no longer will you come in my community and demand we got to set at the table with you. [bell] president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. >> mark dice dot com has uniquely anointed as best caller in talk shows. rush limbaugh calls him a nut and a kook, says that since one third of americans now believe audit was an inside -- 9/11 was an inside job, his job is to make them look like nuts. i guess the

plus, where do african-americans stand in washington? that's what's going on in our world, starting now. >>> as white house senior adviser and long time friend to president obama, we went to washington, d.c. for this exclusive interview. thank you so much for spending some time with us. >> my pleasure. >> it's no secret, in the last year and a half, the obama administration has taken a few hits. >> it's been challenging. but these are challenging times, in which he is the president, that's true. >> absolutely. in the 2010 midterm elections, obviously democrats took a big hit. >> lashing i think were his words. >> shellacing. >> here's a family in our country who wasn't touched by the recession. worst recession certainly in our lifetime. so that's the circumstance in which the president walked into office. and he had to deal with the hand he was dealt and he took it on, head-on, and he did everything within his power working with congress to try to bring the economy back from the brink of disaster and put our country on a better course. w

he did not care much about african americans anymore. she wrote a book on how to decorate your home. seven men aboard decorating graves. this was how the confederate that our in can home, although bit different. the complex plan. you know, bill, in his introduction, says i talked about reconstruction, and i do because i think you cannot talk about the meaning of the civil war without talking about its aftermath. many people have said, many historians have said that reconstruction was a failure. it failed in giving the promise of freedom to african americans. that is wrong because of failure assumes that there is a chance of success. i mean, the world's failure means that there might have been a chance of success. there was no chance of success because, and you will see in the book, like northerners and white southerners, almost all of them believed in the inferiority of the african. they believed that africans were not suitable to a vote. in fact, during reconstruction eight northern states turned down, turned down an opportunity to give

support african-american non- profit organizations. i went to school here right across the street at benjamin franklin. it is not called ben franklin anymore. i have grown up now. my whole thing is, i can remember hearing the stories about jim jones and how he rated the black community of their properties and businesses. it is very painful to see that. i was born in the 1980's and i saw i whole lot of black businesses when i was growing up, but now, even back then, elders were telling me things were not the same. now that i've grown up a little bit more, and i come from the fillmore, i am seeing less and less black businesses. to me, it is not the same. it gets even deeper than what they were saying. i am seeing less black businesses. please find them if they have good ideas. support the use and support the community. please support them. it is important. the western addition, the fillmore, would not be the same without the african-american community. san francisco would not be the same without the black people. i will just ask you res

she was a strong dissenter in the african-american community. she's at a welfare rights protest there, and what she's saying there is that the civil rights movement has not worked equally well for all blacks. she's demanding an adequate income. she's demanding integrated schools, affordable housing, so the cover is meant to depict the nuances of the book. >> professor, is ethel may matthews still alive? >> she is not. she died in 2005. >> did you have the chance to chat with relatives? >> i did not, but i had interviews with her which was just a joy. >> you did? >> yeah. >> you've been working on this book for several years then? >> absolutely. this book represents a decade of work. i started on it as a dissertation, and worked on it for many years, and the result is this 5-00 page -- >> dissertation. >> that's right. >> in talking with ethel may matthews in doing your research, what was she like 30-40 years later? >> uh-huh. well, she was a remarkably strong woman. she was very passionate. she was very clear in her sense that politicians of all

people ask me how i feel about having an african-american president. i said i had ambivalent feelings. on the one hand, i know that he is only one man and he can only do so much, and he only has four years to do it, but we as a people have to unite locally in the city, and first, you start in the home, and then you go to the community, and our churches, where the movement began, in our churches. i still feel that barack obama is doing the best he can for one man, from what he inherited from the other administration. [applause] >> thank you. first, i would like to say thank you to awele and the san francisco unified school district and the african american center and everyone else involved in bringing this program to the san francisco public library on black history month. secondly, you were speaking about the constructing the narrative paradigm, okay? what indicators and trends? because of your work that you have done in the prison systems, particularly with young people and older african-american males -- since they are under attack, what indicators w

among african-american young men, only about 30% are greg tweeting from high-school. i want you to adopt one of our schools. i want to have mentors for the kids who are chronically truant, who have problems. i am asking you to look at in giving 8 -- to the public school teachers. and bring them into shadow your employees for a month. when they go back, they can have real world experience. of course, give your young person an internship. if you give a young person up an opportunity to shadow someone and the possibilities and if you give them an internship, they're more likely to graduate from high school, they're more likely to go on to college. that is the kind of experience we want. oakland, but this was the number 8 the city with the most woman entrepreneurs. there is an engineering at the academy that cents for kids to mit the in any of the high school in the east bay. they also said more kids to harvard than any other high school in the east bay. they have a very famous pre engineering program. for many years i was worried that there was no women and very few afri

breaking down unemployment figures shed light on a shocking new statistic nearly half of all african-americans are out of work so with that in mind is there any way to fix this growing racial divide next we'll take a closer look at one area of surveillance of it's becoming more and more popular schools using federal dollars investing in ways to track your children so is this move just the latest example of a growing security complex fueled by money or are schools really trying to keep your kids say and then ron paul says i'm in once again but although he's running on the republican ticket i think it's fair to say he's definitely not your typical g.o.p. member but with the tumultuous political climate that our country is facing right now is paul going to be america's new hope for change we'll get to the bottom all all that will make a toast in tonight's happy hour segment but first let's move on to our top story. say the secretary general of the military alliance nato met with president obama here in washington to discuss the ever changing mission of this western alliance so as the two leaders

it is african-american. we have a large population in visitation valley that has moved into what has historically been african-american communities and we have a burgeoning tension, and we do not have to. i would ask that we not hear from the parks, but we hear from the people. the people who have to deal with this. when they -- the good to 16th street, 63, district 6. i would hope that we looked at the cross pollination of these most vulnerable populations in our city and did not be a d-10 issue, but we look at empirical data for were the highest risk populations are, where emerging populations are in terms of immigrant populations. public safety, jobs, health are synonymous with the highest level of needs in our community. we know that. i would ask respectfully, supervisor -- you know i love you. i would ask respectfully that we respect our people first. and we look at generating revenue and ideas. not saying what we need. we're talking about synergy and strategy. we're talking about a more aggressive posi

oh, yes, cheryl dunye is a fine young filmmaker-- african-american woman. and she made this film with some n.e.a. money, some help. and it was a modest film. it was a very loving film about some young african-american lesbians looking for this fictional movie star named watermelon woman, a black actress in the '30s. the scene was very tasteful. i mean, by hollywood standards, you wouldn't even bat an eye. and it was blown way out of proportion. some house of representatives-- oversight and investigation committee-- wanted, again, to hammer the n.e.a. and take all the amount of money we had given away from this filmmaker. to make a long story short, when it got to the house floor, the debate on it, shelia jackson-lee, a fine african-american congresswoman from texas, took the floor and said-- talked about diversity in our nation and the strength of diversity in our nation. and that was the end of the discussion. it was one thing to hammer away at the often disenfranchised group of african-american lesbians in the united states. it was quite another to take o

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but i want to explore because it is home to a sizable african-american middle-class. and i thought and part because the fathers always considered it a place of racial moderation it would be a good place from which to explore the dynamics of the civil-rights movement. >> host: was a success story? >> guest: in the some ways including many members of the black in a class who came of age after the legislation of the 1960's. the story that i tell in my book is more complicated and shows for many african-americans in atlanta of, a city that is one would think would be the perfect place to tell stories about civil-rights success, there is a lot of failure and including a group of african-american women and the third part of the book, not only to challenge the whites but the black leadership to say they have been left out. >> host: when you use the word descent, who is dissenting? >> i talk about three ways ways-- three waves of dissenters at three different historical moments but the first wave of dissenters are the people who are members of the african american middle-clas

in this vacuum in japan town, there was the fillmore district with african americans and a variety of other people and they moved into the community. and then japanese americans get out of camp and they come back to their neighborhood that has been populated and made into a different life and different world and what happens when those two communities overlap and intersect? whose place is it, whose home is it? who is an american? how do we sort of coexist in this post war period where the people from that community are by and large marginalized, yet you have this whole kind of other thing happening where it's -- the war has been won, this is like new things, television is happening, advertising, this whole advertising thing is happening. so you have these marginalized peoples and what happens, is it possible to develop a kind of at that moment a cross-cultural community? is it possible to have kind of a multi cultural community that emerged from that moment? and so, in particular, that's what i wanted to explore. and part of the back drop is there was this extraordinary jazz scene hap

i'm a member of the african- american interest committee here at the library.is our hope that you will be profoundly moved and inspired by what you hear and see today. social justice is concerned with equal justice, not just in the court, but in all aspects of society. this concept demands that people have equal rights and opportunity. everyone, from the poorest person on the margins of society to the wealthiest, deserves an even playing field. every race, every color, every culture. what happened in 1955 is not unlike what is exploding out of the headlines today. it was a young person's death that started the uprising in tunisia. it is young people on the front lines in egypt. slowly but surely, the young people in sudan are following suit and rising up against an oppressive government. it was a young girl who stood still when she was ordered to give up her seat to a white woman, violently taken from the bus, pushed into a police car, ridiculed on her way to the station, and shot inside a jail cell until she was bailed out hours later -- shut inside a jail cel

and yes, i do want our african-americans to hear what comes from this man. i think he's doing a wonderful job. but yet, by his staff or whom ever having a disconnect for me to have the opportunity to interview, to talk to this man. i think it's really disingenuous of his staff. so i'm not here to basher mr. forbes but i am here to request an opportunity to talk to mr. ford to give his interpretation and what he plans to do. we do have a lot of african-americans that are drives,. we want to tell you our story. but yet i want to sit down with mr. ford first. get his i'd. -- forgive me for my attire. i would like people to hear your story. this is ace and i'm on the case. >> i know it's kind of hard -- >> could you state your name? >> walter paulson. >> ♪ they really want to meet you mr. ford want to meet you mr. ford and it takes along mr. ford they really want to see you really want to be with you really want to meet you ford and it takes a long in the bus oh, it comes so long oh come along they really want to see you ford want to be with you ford but it take