or to the detriment of our health as we all know the sun is by date getting madder at us and angle grier at us and we are getting fat. we got to do something about it. this is the time to do it. we have the best opportunity here with these four guests from the german marshall fund and i was hoping that supervisor chiu would be here. since he is not, why don't we get hans, i'm going to start with hans? no. we're going to start with doug johnson from m.t.c. who has been our partner in facilitating this occasion and, doug, would you please come over and say you're welcoming remarks. >> sure. >> in the interesting of being heard, i hate to stand between you and someone named hans but i will do it nonetheless. delay may also give the supervisor a chance to catch up with us. my name is doug johnson. i'm a senior planner at the metropolitan transportation commission overseeing our programs in land use and social equity. i'm also very fortunate to be a member of the transatlantic cities network, which is a project of the german marshall fund you'll be hearing from ellen. it is a network of 25 ci

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> it's in some minds, there may be a sort of vision of blackness that's the way jesse jackson, pam grier or athletic icons have represented it in recent years. >> these icons of blackness that are representing in a classic, proud way. and that's beautiful. and i love them and they're my icons too. but i want to say, hey, everybody's black. it's not a religion you can be thrown out of, it's an identity you can shape in any way you want. it's portable. >> it's a biological structure. >> it goes skydiving, it goes to the ballet. >> it's a skin color? >> yeah. we look at someone like clarence thomas, we want to throw him out of the race. >> so post-blackness recent cultural norms of blackness as perceived by some group of people, we don't know -- them. whoever they are. >> right. identity cops who want to say, you're not black. >> nobody's ever said that to me. >> the beginning of this book for me, i was in college, i was living in the black house where three people lived. i was an african-american studies major, my girlfriend was a black med school student. i was running this paper that i s

terry grier.s of charter schools in the public schools. how is it working so far? >> it's working well. we've just finished up with year one. our results, we were tutoring all of the students in grades 6 through 9 and we reconstituted nine of our secondary schools, five middle and four high schools and so we provided a tutor, one tutor per two children for 70 minutes tutorial each day in those nine schools and the results were phenomenal. >> you'll put up a couple of the things that you do there. talk about a longer school year and a longer school day as well. more selective and rigorous hiring of principals and teachers. frequent quizzes and also you talked about the tutoring and what's key, is you have a no excuses culture. you're not going to take if somebody is saying oh, you know, we -- we can't make any head way because we're not getting the help of insert certain excuse there. >> no excuse despite high expectations. it doesn't matter where these children come from, doesn't matter about the