in that time she formed a partnership with booker t. washington community center, and momagic to open a computer lab and afterschool program. in 2010 she saw a need for summer activities for the children and started a camp with her own resources and has improved the community. in fact, last year she was recognized by the national alliance of resident services in affordable and assisted house for her work on supporting children and youth in public housing. miss jones was also involved in the pre-development and planning process for the redevelopment of west side courts. her input was critical, and even has helped us as we move forward with the anti-displacement right to return legislation that was heard at land use committee yesterday. miss jones really has helped the community greatly and has introduced the residents to a variety of groups community grows to kaiser in order to need health and wellness and building community. she has accomplished great things in her own life, raising five children and graduating from the hope sf academy and attaine

that being said, the booker t. washington was definitely a very contentious project that i sat on the commission at the time. a lot of opposition may be classified as nimby opposition, but this is not the case of a discretionary review. discretionary review are usually initiated by neighbors, 311 notice. your neighbor wants to add a deck or do something to their prop a

that being said, the booker t. washington was definitely a very contentious project that i sat on the commission at the time. a lot of opposition may be classified as nimby opposition, but this is not the case of a discretionary review. discretionary review are usually initiated by neighbors, 311 notice. your neighbor wants to add a deck or do something to their property and anyone in the city, not just your neighbor, but if you feel like you are going to have a significant impact as a result of the changes that they are making, then you can file a dr. i think the department is attempting to make some reforms so the work at the front-end is better [thr-fpt/] are a lot of contentiousneighborhood issues that result from discretionary reviews that aren't always positive, but we need to keep that process in place and so i support the dr process. >> thank you, miss selby. >> thea selby, yes, i was just today on the street of the citizens general obligation bond oversight committee and we were talking about a variety of different k

is a book about what happened, and it's true, when thomas roosevelt, theodore roosevelt had booker t. washington, the first african-american to have dinner at the white house. and there was a big scandal about it. it was quite something because he had -- he invited booker t. washington to the white house for dinner. >> so this is all the ins and outs? >> and how he did it and why he did it. then our favorite, dolly madison. you know her from the ice cream. >> yep. >> all know that she was the one that saved george washington's portrait from the war of 1812. this is all about her and how she worked things. she was quite a politician on her own. so dolly madison. then if you really are getting a little tired of all the real life things, get the dirt with fiction. so there are two books by political insiders that are just great. the gq candidate. you get a lot of inside scoop there. and then the second book by miss wallace, who worked for george bush and was part of the mccain campaign. and she has a book about a female president called it's classified. that's good. you can read between the lines.

i described this at a hearing at booker t. washington as the wild west in san francisco. because we provide very, very loose timelines, in terms of when people can file a ceqa appeal at the board of supervisors, people sometimes file appeals months or years after the department -- the planning department issues a ceqa determination. this legislation will among other things tighten that timeline, so that people will be required to file ceqa appeal within a certain number of days after the initial approval in the project, not the last approval in the project. everyone will still have their full right to ceqa appeal and to pring an appeal to the board of supervisors as required by state law, but they will be required to do that earlier in the process. so that we can determine the ceqa issue and move forward or not move forward with the project. it will require significantly more robust notice to the public about ceqa determinations by the planning department, so that people know that a ceqa determination has occurred and they can decide whether they want to challenge it. the

are performing at the hippodrome and they will hold workshops with the kids at booker too many washington mid -- shall booker tton middle school. it ties in to red ribbon week. news time is 6:49. the pro life pro choice debate is a sensitive one no doubt about it and a sen isate candidate in indiana set off a fire storm after his comments about a topic at a debate that happened. richard murdock was asked about his pro life stance in instance of rape. here's what he had to say. >> i believe that life begins at conception. the only exception i have for to have an abortion is in that case of the life of the mother. i just struggled with it myself for a long time but i came to realize life is the gift from god and i think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape that it's something that god intended to happen. >> his opponent responded saying god never intends for rape to happen. and the comments were twisted and sick. murdock says wasn't suggesting that at all. mitt romney's campaign distancing itself from murdock despite releasing a tv ad in support of him the day of the debate. >>> more american

it takes place at booker t. washington middle school. and his it willo teammates will teach students the importance of

. >>> and an he can sighting day for students -- exciting day for students at booker t. washington elementary school. ed reed will teach student the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and demonstrate the drills and exercises. >>> they carry some of the hottest crab dishes around. the there's no doubt about it -- there's no doubt about it and the doors will swing wide open at 11 this morning at the newest joe's crab shack. this one is in hunt valley. you can see several people have gotten ready and are camping out to win crabs for one year. the first 100 people through the door will get a prize. i can understand camping out for this. >> free crabs for a year. i can do that i don't care if it's cold or anything. i would be out there with bells on. >> i would too. you know what, that's what we should have done. >> exactly. that's what we are going to do this morning. we are dealing withchilly temperatures. we have some wet weather. but it's slowly diminishing and that's the name of the game going throughout the day. in terms of the cloud cover, that's going to be sticking a

in that time she formed a partnership with booker t. washington community center, and momagic to open a computer lab and afterschool program. in 2010 she saw a need for summer activities for the children and started a

one thing we do at the booker t. washington center to where i was recently president, building affordable housing half of had which will be dedicated to emancipated youth. so i think we really do need to look at the root cause of the issue. it's about inequity and how we provide supportive housing and mental health services and drug treatment and really look at the problem from its source. thank you. >> thank you. davis, miss olague and miss selby. >> currently any member of public can review a project. critics say this results in costs and limiting supply of housing. opponents say discretionary review is necessary so that everyone affected by a project can be heard. how would you if the all reform the discretionary process? mr. davis, miss olague and miss selby. >> as a board president of booker t. recently we had to seek permission from the board of supervisors for housing and community space. , as much as i would have liked that process to go quicker, as much as i would have liked to see less opposition from some of the neig

town performing at the hippodrome and the actors will hold various workshops with kids at booker t. washington middle school how to stand up to bullies. and we do want to remind you that abc2 is working for you on the website. you'll find a series of games to help you and your family identify bullies and you can be sure to check out the nine biggest myths about bullying. just head to abc2news.com/notothebullies, more screaming siren than usual around gbmc today. >>> part of the emergency drill held at the hospital. that trial is based on a recent reportedly hopkins which showed more than 150 hospital shootings from 2000 to 2011 including one at johns hopkins in 2010. >>> well, in less than two weeks we are heading to the poll. >> yeah, here in maryland there are several keyishes on the bat -- key issues on the ballot you'll be voting on. one of them is to legalize same sex marriage. >> come controversial comment -- some controversial comments now surfacing from a local pastor. linda so is live on federal hill. >> reporter: in the taped speech he said people who engage in homosexual behavior ar

they're going to be working with students in baltimore today at the booker t. washington school. they're going to teach kids to stand up to bullies and what to do if they see someone else being bullied. >>> we buckled up for him and he brought a winning baseball back to baltimore. now orioles' manager buck showalter is getting some much deserved recognition. sporting news named him the american league manager of the year for the 2011 season. he went on to say the team and his coaches were a big part of him winning that award. >>> time now for a check of the forecast, let's go back over to lynette. big stories with you today. >> big stories today. because it's going to be setting up for what we're in store for the weekend. so let's take a look at the big picture here and your eyes go over towards the west. right? you see some snow across that area. this is going to be a player in the game as we go into the weekend. then let me step out of the way. you can see all this cloud cover. this is coming from hurricane sandy. this will be moving up the coast as we go through time as well.

i am booker t. washington, frederick douglass, and i keep those around me to remind me what our obligations are. yours and mine. >> the first time i think i heard you you were talking of the declaration of independent which mr. lincoln a alludes to write out of the gate in the gettysburg address. that's 1863 kutz 1776 when you do the math. many quotes from the declaration and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal that is the language from which the declaration you have thoughts about the declaration and its unfair along side the gettysburg address and the emancipation and the constitution as self to tell us a little bit about how you think about the declaration and it's part of the american story. >> in the beginning we had these rights endowed with certain unalienable rights and we give up some of those rights to be governed by consent. that's critical. for me when i started though it wasn't so much about the government. it's what was the best argument against slavery. it was as simple a

i am booker t. washington, frederick douglass, and i keep those around me to remind me what our obligations are. yours and mine. >> the first time i think i heard you you were talking of the declaration of independent which mr. lincoln a alludes to write out of the gate in the gettysburg address. that's 1863 kutz 1776 when you do the math. many quotes from the declaration and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal that is the language from which the declaration you have thoughts about the declaration and its unfair along side the gettysburg address and the emancipation and the constitution as self to tell us a little bit about how you think about the declaration and it's part of the american story. >> in the beginning we had these rights endowed with certain unalienable rights and we give up some of those rights to be governed by consent. that's critical. for me when i started though it wasn't so much about the government. it's what was the best argument against slavery. it was as simple a

finally according to the record in 1972 lewis published the first of the two volumes on booker t. washingtonn him a few prizes. the silence enceil lopping black writers began to break. it in 1973 became the biography of richard writhe by the frenchman. followed by a biography in 1977 by the american scholar. and in '86 and 1988 came my two volumes on hughs. aided by a archive left behind by hugh, i tried to tell through the lens of one crucial life the african-american story as it had existed and exists at the certain social level. i tried to do justice to the complexity that hn been discounted over the century and the representation of american racial reality. the pick already is quite different now. the 1990s saw a steady rise in a prize winning biography such as william mcafeely. in 1994, and 2001 they one prizes for each of the volumes of his bock. a biography won the pulitzer prize in the field of history. this search in biographical writers is, i think, a dependable index to the shifting and meaning of race in american culture and also to the written dignity of black americans. biograp

according to mike a commission, in 1972 in a story published the first of his two volumes on booker t. washingtonuld win him a pulitzer prize. the violence involving black writers began to break. in 1973, a biography of a novelist. followed by a biography in 1977 of a novelist by the american scholar hemingway. and then 86 in 1988 came might to volumes on hughes. aided by a voluminous archive left behind by hughes, i tried to tell to the lens of one crucial life the african-american story as it had existed and basis at a certain social level. i tried to do justice to the complexities that had been discounted over the centuries in the representation of the american racial really. the picture is quite different now. 1990's saw a steady rise in prize-winning biographies of black americans by writers such as taylor blanched. in 1994 and 2001, won pulitzers for each of his two volumes on du bois. a biography by the late maning won the pulitzer prize and the seal of history. this surge in biographical writing about african americans is, i think, dependable as an index to the shifting meaning of race in