though, i'm not try to rush you away, i can't recall the entire lines of the poem by langston hughes. in reference to retirement, life is short, aoeltd desert first. [giggles]. mass [applause] >> good evening commissioners : art shanks, hhere with donna milelr, any assist and,thank you on behalf of the

most people see langston hughes as from chicago or new york. but langston hughes did move to ohio when he was in high school. and finished four years of high school here in cleveland, actually, and one of the letters he wrote talks about him going to school and graduating from central high school in cleveland and that he came back to ohio and he wrote and actually he wrote troubled island while he was staying in a hotel in cleveland. so he considered himself an ohio writer, and when the postage stamp that was dedicated to him a few years ago was launched. the national launch was at -- in cleveland. so the ohio launch was here ohioland. ohioland has a wonderful women's history and suffrage collect, one of those that actuall r

though, i'm not try to rush you away, i can't recall the entire lines of the poem by langston hughes. in reference to retirement, life is short, aoeltd desert first. [giggles]. mass [applause] >> good evening commissioners : art shanks, hhere with donna milelr, any assist and,thank you on behalf of the board. i think a vision was created. without vision, there can be no success. when we talk about reducing crime, stakeholder egg people from the community and making them productive, you have to have something you can give them so they can reach back. you did that. vision is critical. without vision there's no hope. without hope there's nothing. you gave hope to these young people. to put them into a meaningful career, something they can take for the rest of their life is vaultible. commitment by people that were in power is very important and very critical. without the right decisions. this could not have happened. this collaboration is one. most profound unificationics i have worked w. i am very proud to work with each of these organizations to make sure we put the best to work on the

, this auditorium was named for langston hughes and he certainly spent many, many years here at the library doing research, contributing original pieces of work to our collection. sylvia sidney benefit from this life and his legacy. chicago also had a dark side and there is a slide that i would like to turn to that will illustrate a little bit of that. part of this history, what makes this a hard story is the racial violence, the abuse, the forward and backwards that the movement of african-americans from slavery to freedom. it turns out that chicago wasn't so different than the south after all in some unexpected ways of those ancestors of michelle obama. and i want to just sort of think of out about something historians called southern exceptionalism and that is the way in which we remember this path through the charred memories of jim crow, slavery and that even today the 21st century, a collective imagination of a racism really is, what it was really about, the harm that it really did this about everything that happened below the mason dixon line, not in places like new york.

some see it with langston hughes who move to ohio and finished four years of high-school in cleveland one talks about him going to school and a graduating. and then on a troubled island. and with the postage stamp that was dedicated to him then national launch was in cleveland. we have a wonderful suffrage collection. running for president before women had the right to go to was victoria who put to to -- was quite a character running for president 1873 and her running mate was frederick douglass. who will lead way ahead of her time. people refer to her as mrs. say 10. she believed women should have equal rights. also the first women -- ii own a newspaper. her father was a shyster referring to him as a snake oil salesmen. then moved to cincinnati and married at age 14, divorced and then it reburied. and then move to england she was very honored and appreciated. at that point* there word disruptions. she was of free love candidate. >> what is the importance of having a library? it records what is happening in our time. preserving the work from one generation to another. will everything

most people see langston hughes has from chicago or new york.ut he did move to ohio when he was in high school, and finished four years of high school here in cleveland actually, and one of the letters that he wrote talks about him going to school and graduate thing and he wrote and actually he wrote troubled island while he was staying in the hotel. with the postage stamp that was dedicated to him a few years ago was launched, the national launch was in cleveland. the ohio launch was here at ohioana. we have a large women's history and suffrage collection but one of the ohio woman that ran for president before women had the right to vote was victorial with paul -- victoria whithall. she ran for president in 1873 and her running mate was frederick douglass she was a woman way ahead of her time and referred to her as mrs. satan. she believed they should have equal rights, she and her sister for the first one and stockbrokers in this country for the vehicle and first women to run a newspaper. she was born in a small town in ohio. her father was a

a haven for poets like langston hughes and louis armstrong and now they're experiencing a new renaissancefood. we talked about it with the featured director for travel and leisure magazine. >> the first thing to do is go to the studio museum in harlem which is incredible. thelma goldman has been instrumental in putting harlem on the map once again. it's a place that's devoted to emerging artists and forgotten artists of african-american descent. this is a place to give you a great taste of harlem. one of the great exhibits for the summer is an exhibit on postcards of harlem. different artists giving renditions of what they see around them. i love that museum and it's a great destination. but don't stop there. now a new draw, people know marcus samuelsson for aquavit, but now he's got the red rooster and then there's another interesting place, ginny's supper club. tell me about the two places. >> the new generation of harlem, he has kind of become a figurehead. he's passionate about the renaissance in harlem. he's made this corner of 125th and lennox the hot place to be, whether you go to

i think about this line from langston hughes.be, but i swear this oath that america will be. this notion that all names are american names, that the bridge, the hyphen between muslim and american is a bridge, not a barrier. >> i heard ben jeles talk about this idea, a great grandfather born a slave and died a senator. one is a sort of expansive story about america. who in the world born into slavery would think, oh, i know. i'll run for office in that government. that sense of hope and possibility, and, yet, valerie, and you i have talked a lot about how post 9/11 violence against women. but miss directed violence that gets directed against the sikh community, when i heard about oak creek, i couldn't remember that it was happening more than ten years later. remind us what it was. >> a gunman cultured in the ways of hate, a product of hate groups in america, walked into a house of worship on a sunday morning and opened gunfire on august fifth. i spent most of the last month in oak creek. six were murdered. the pain and grief is pr

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