, 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.

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

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

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

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

from the dispersal of africans throughout the world.e exhibitions, public programs, and education programs. our goal is to celebrate and present for appreciation to our broad and diverse public the controversial energy contributions of people of african descent to world culture in all aspects in all areas, including politics, culture, economics, education, just in all aspects of cultural forms of expression. >> one of the fascinating things since 2005 when the museum was established, is that it has become clear from science that all of humanity originates in africa. how does that influence the education programs or presentation here at moad? >> obviously, being able to attenuate that, and there is a sign at the door that says, "when did you know that you were african?" our point is that we share a common dna, and it connects us on a number of different levels. this institution is an institution available to everyone, a resourced for everyone. >> you have both permanent and temporary exhibitions, right? >> we do. our temporary exhibition

community -- african- american community and the chinese community. we were also able to recommend a neighborhood paper, and in addition to those papers we recommended, the board added the "bayview" for the african- american community and others for the asian and chinese community and the western addition as the second neighborhood l reach newspaper. in addition to the bidders to bid last year, we did it additional outreach to neighborhood newspapers, the central city extra -- the "west side observer" andy -- and of the "single side light." we received one new bid in day hispanic community -- they did not bid last year but have been in prior years. we did receive for new bids for a neighborhood outreach -- we did receive four new bids for neighborhood outreach. we are pleased to recommend the response of bidders this year and the new responsive better was in the neighborhood area, "marina *." and the company that bid for them and the "no. * san francisco." there is no change in the reasons and the other communities were unresponsive. for all of the no

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

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