i also ran across judson powell.judson powell, sue, and myself became a team to create a program in watts. i would say that it was definitely a group effort that made that little school possible. lewis: the initial idea for the center was to create an art school, and that, i guess, didn't sit well with noah because, i believe, in his mind he wanted to provide this opportunity for the people in the community to express themselves in ways they hadn't done before and through that activity to, you know, kind of get to know each other and then, you know, talk about larger issues. purifoy: art is the most uncontaminated discipline existing in the world. there was excellent opportunity to interrelate it with even poverty. [indistinct chatter] jefferson: ayou have the opportunity to try to live the american dream and allegedly move up, no matter what your racial background, t housing becomes available to the next group that's trying to move. the difference is for african-americans, as we desegregated, what got left behind we

i am jen judson the president and defense reporter. we have a great evening planned to honor journalists, but i want to exercise my privilege as president to offer the 2022 president's award. we have a tradition of recognizing a significant journalist with the president's award. not every year, but on significant occasions. i immediately thought of shireen abu akleh, correspondent for al jazeera killed doing her job reporting in the field. here in washington a world away from the west bank you do not have to go far to find people who worked with her over the years. several of them are here tonight at the al jazeera table. can you please stand? [applause] thank you. i am going to ask everyone to stand and if you turn your phone flashlight on, i will ask you to hold that up and bring the house lights down for a moment of silence for shireen. thank you. these journalists will tell you shireen headed out to cover a story 100 days ago. in many ways, it was like any story she covered the last 15 years. there was an element of danger, the ass

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