langston hughes web dubois luther king, jr.so when i think about the measure of the american so what would this nation be without the trumpeting voice of martin luther king jr. trumpeting the truth trumpeting brotherhood and sisterhood trumpeting civil disobedience trumpeting anti-violence, you know and non-violence. and the ways in which we go about trying to make and remake american society and so in that sense, our performances have been the balance of sanity and redemption for a nation that is often desiring and designing to undermine us to distort us to subvert us to leave us on the wayside while we continually contest for the center of american art craft vision history. projects of politics and public policy and so i wanted to measure the way in which we do that across the board in so many genres under so many rubrics as we call forth the black excellence with which we are guided by which we are inspired to help inspire the world to help reshape the world to participate as full-fledged citizens of a democracy. that doesn'

the poet langston hughes understood we could close the gap between what is promised and what is done and i quote him, but my land to be a land where liberty is crowned with no false patriotic briefs, that opportunity is real and life is free. a quality is in the air we breathe. so our goal is to make sure that the american dream, and by the way with jersey flavor and attitude, amen to that. [applause] make sure that that dream is alive and well. it's about moving people forward without leaving people behind. it is about raising together with a backbeat that you cannot miss. it's about taking away obstacles and adding seats around the table with possibility of prosperity and about filling the air we breathe with real opportunity and full equality. throughout the course of the past 40 years, i've had the great privilege to talk with and far more importantly listen to literally thousands of new jersey ends. this by the way is a good lesson for all of us in public office. we can all listen more including yours truly. but no matter where they live, no matter whether their family has been

years of starting ninth grade derek lindsay a mission high school graduate is now a freshman at langstonity in oklahoma. it could be stressful. you make it but i feel like it it only is what you make it even in the midst of a pandemic and with the often dreaded online learning the graduation rate for that class. grew african american students. saw the greatest gains what's different the school district has been tracking students from the eighth grade through graduation going all the way back to middle school to figure out which of our students are already set up to be successful. that's gpa. that's attendance. that's suspension. and that's call high school readiness indicator with that information. they know who needs academic support and intervention. thanks to federal state and local funding and grants. the school district has added several year-round programs. one of them is called black star rising offered in the summer derek started the program in eighth grade. they made the classes in school way easier because we already went through it in advance. and it wasn't as difficult. it wa

all message is that corporation and we all for, it wouldn't be like, we'll start to strengthen the langston immune response. the only problem for many other vaccines. the study shows around 3 in 4 of those vaccinated with sputnik v, had antibodies against on the crone. i left people with twice as money, antibodies on the funds, a short ahead of splitting the benefits. the gun when i research institute told us more about the study and it's results when the arm across strain came to europe and then to russia. of course, there was a desire to look at how sputnik he would protect against the 1st we studied in our institute sierra from those vaccinated with spun again. the study showed that 75 percent of russians vaccinated with spanish v had enough antibodies to be protected for mama kronen among those who bought sputnik light as a booster job. the number is 100 percent around 3 months after the booster. after that, italian colleagues from the spell ends on the institute proposed join studies of sierra from those immunized wood sputnik v, and those immunized wood pfizer. the conclusions in the

message is that the corporation and we're offering would make, like we'll start to strengthen the langston immune response on the cross for many other vaccines. while the study shows around 3 and 4 of those vaccinated wisp wouldn't v have antibodies against omi, called, and left people with twice as many antibodies than the pfizer shot the head of sputnik developers. the delay research institute told us more about the study and its results. meg, her, when they all my constraint came to europe and then to russia. of course, there was a desire to look at how sputnik v would protect against it. first we study in our institute serum from those vaccinated was sputnik ve, the study showed the 75 percent of russians vaccinated with sputnik v had enough antibodies to be protective mo micron. and among those who got sputnik light as a boost the job, the number is 100 percent around 3 months after the booster. after that, italian colleagues from the spell on zoning institute proposed joint studies of serum from those immunized with sputnik v. and those immunized with pfizer, the conclusions in the a

our message is that the corporation and we are offering wouldn't like both 3rd to strengthen and langston, immune response on the chrome for many other vaccines. what can journalists trying to convince the public that russia wants to invade neighboring ukraine are committing criminal negligence? that's the view, at least from moscow, where officials have consistently denied the allegations. it's amazing how american gen lest speak was all certainty about russia's attack on ukraine. and seemed to have never heard about nato expansion to the east or the obligations of western countries to the indivisibility of security. it is as if they did not know anything about the provocations of the key aversion and washington support. well, is this holy simplicity or impermissible? neva, t. i think it's criminal negligence. what media hysteria that murray is a horrible mentioned there has spread across the west like wildfire over the past several months and bite and seems to be just as captivated by this idea of some sort of russian invasion as his friends in the western media are who seemed to be in

message is that the corporations and we are offering wouldn't look like we'll start to strengthen and langston, immune response to on the chrome for many other vaccines. you think of the manufacturers will be receptive to that offer? well, i think so we already have partnership disastrous anica, and we are working very closely with astrazeneca. we've done lots of clinical trials. we have done clinical trials in argentina with my they're not, we've seen the farm. and some of it seems that shows that combination of extreme shorts gives better results. so yes, we definitely have partnership with astrazeneca, and we believe that other vaccine manufacturers will be great partners to slow it. so good news, isn't it for sputnik say 5, but you anticipate that you would have to modify sputnik in the future? is that something that could be easily done? well, 1st of all, again, we have to be realistic about on a chrome. so there will be increase in cases just us in the rest of the world in russia, but the key is to control hospitalizations and you were correct and the previous news claimed that hospitali

derek lindsey, a mission high school graduate, is now a freshman at langston university in oklahoma.> i feel like it only is what you make it. >> even in the midst of a pandemic and with the often dreaded online learning, the graduation rate for that class grew. african-american students saw the greatest gains. what's different? the school district has been tracking students from the eighth grade through graduation. >> going all the way back to middle school to figure out which of our students are already set up to be successful. that's gpa, attendance, and that's what we call high school readiness indicator. >> with that attention, they know who needs extra support and intervention. the school district have added several year-round programs thanks to grants. one is called black star rising, offered in the summer. eric started the program in eighth grade. >> it made the classes in school way easier because we already went through it. -- derek started the program in eighth grade. >> it made the classes in school way easier. >> black star rising is an example. we stay with that student

yes lizzy the langston hughes poem. yes, which was called. right. yeah, i think or a dream deferred i think was the one yeah exactly. thank you so much. wonderful. this this play was based on her family's own experiences her father had faced racial covenants against his purchase of a home in washington park chicago it then became a supreme court case hansberry versus lee in 1940 lorraine always said that her father who died when she was 15 had been killed by american racism. a plate concerns housing discrimination, but also pan-africanism at that moment when africans were tearing down imperialism hansberry was equally interested in us civil rights and freedom for africans from colonialism. proactivism had first emerged at the university of wisconsin where she integrated a dorm and joined the communist party becoming active in the cause of willie mcgee a black man sentenced to death in 1951 for having a relationship with the white woman. does anyone want to share anything about that poem which was called lynch song and i have it here if there's anyth

. >> reporter: langston brooks is also worried about soaring prices. >> what grade would you give presidentm for improvement? >> he does. >> reporter: fletcher smith commended the president for passing a covid relief bill. his advice now, more direct outreach. >> we will continue to be with him, but he needs to be with us walking side-by-side, not behind us, not necessarily in front of us, but side-by-side as martin luther king did. >> reporter: it's not just in south carolina. our nbc news poll shows black support for president biden has dropped 19 points since april. now it's down to 64%. >> what do you say to these black voters who say that you do not have their backs as you promised on the campaign trail? >> i have had their back my entire career. i have never not had their back. >> reporter: south carolina congressman james clyburn urges patience. >> he was elected to a four-year term and he has been in office for one year. i think it's a little bit, let's say, disrespectful to expect that everything that he laid out is going to be completed in the first year of your term. >> reporter:

host: this is langston in washington dc who opposes.e it because honestly most people have already said it, you really don't have a means to look back and see what led this country and what brought us to where we were during that time and if we remove these statues it is a little bit like burning the literature and that was a precursor to world war ii. we remove these statues, we should be able to remove any kind of literature that has to do with anything negative that comes from jim crow, any type of civil war literature because what we are seeing because our history is blemished, has dark marks we should be able to remove them and once we remove them we will be fine and that's not how you get rid of a disease. if the system is messed up, you need to work on the system. changing the figureheads or what you see on the front is just gilding it and it's not going to get rid of the issue. why remove the issue but not remove the racist system that is upholding all of it? host: langston in washington dc, and now on our support line from penn

du boise, langston hughes, doctor martin luther king, junior, thurgood marshall, catherine johnson, toni morrison, congressmanvi john les at the university with me, and vice president harris. we must preserve and protect hbcu's for the sake of the next generation of changemakers and forne those yet unborn. i look forward to working with my colleagues to ensure they receive the support they need so that they can assure that that happens. additionally in the future, we will hold hearings that showcase the contributions and accomplishments of tribal colleges and universities and minority serving institutions, which also play an important role in the higher education landscape. i want to thank our distinguished witnesses again for being with us today and i , will now yield to the distinguished ranking member doctor murphy for his opening statement. doctor murphy. >> thank you, madam chair and for those excellent remarks. i want to also thank the members of the committee coming to testify before us. historically black colleges are an important and critical landscape to that of higher educatio

i'm reminded of a poem by langston hughes, a poem that my father-in-law were cited to the -- recited to the students of berry jr. high school in october, 1967. the poem is called mothers and sons and in it, i can hear all of those who marched before us, all the years and prayers of our ancestors fortifying us now. well, son, i will tell you, life for me ain't been no crystal stair. it has had splinters and boards torn up and places with no carpet on the floor. but all the time i am climbing on and reaching landings and turning corners and sometimes going in the dark, where there ain't been no light. so boy, don't you turn back, don't you sit down on those steps because you find it is kind of hard. don't you fall now, for i'm still going, honey. i'm still climbing. we will not allow our elected officials to add to the tacks and splinters while we climb. as my father-in-law dr. king told those young people that day, you have a responsibility to seek to make your nation in which to live and to seek to make life better for everyone. he urged them to see beauty and truth. if you were here

dubois, langston hughes, dr.tin luther king, jr., thurgood marshall, katherine johnson, toni morrison, congressman john lewis, who went to fisk university with me, and vice president kamala harris. we must preserve and protect hbcus for the sake of the next generation of changemakers and for those yet unborn. so, i look forward to working with my colleagues to ensure that hbcus receive the support that they need so that we can ensure that happens. additionally, in the future, we will host hearings that showcase the contributions and accomplishments of tribal colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions, which also play an important role in the higher education landscape. i want to thank our distinguished witnesses, again, for being with us today. i now yield to the distinguished ranking member, dr. murphy, for his opening statement . dr. murphy: thank you for those excellent remarks. i want to thank the committee for coming to testify. historically, black colleges are an important and critical land