[laughter] ' thank you to everyone, lee walton.wife, you can have him back now. [laughter] and let me thank one more time, my mom. because there was no one that would say i should be here or i should have this award, but says i should work with john lewis and be able to serve in congress, that you could grow up to be the son in muslim immigrant who do not know whose name you. despite a. you persevered. you got me through it. by god, we made the best of it. thank you. [applause] [cheering] [applause] wow, john lewis, everybody. to me it makes sense he's an comic bookincomic books becausea real superhero. and little did his arch enemies know that racism just made him stronger. [laughter] only made him stronger. that is a national hero. now to present the book award for poetry is joy, and acclaimed writer and her memoir one the literary award for creative nonfiction. she's the recipient of the award from the academy's of american poets, and she's done work in an album of music and second memoir, that's amazing. she held the chair of e

[laughter] ' thank you to everyone, lee walton. back now. [laughter] and let me thank one more time, my mom. because there was no one that would say i should be here or i should have this award, but says i should work with john lewis and be able to serve in congress, that you could grow up to be the son in muslim immigrant who do not know whose name you. despite a. you persevered. you got me through it. by god, we made the best of it. thank you. [applause] [cheering] [applause] wow, john lewis, everybody. to me it makes sense he's an comic bookincomic books becausea real superhero. and little did his arch enemies know that racism just made him stronger. [laughter] only made him stronger. that is a national hero. now to present the book award for poetry is joy, and acclaimed writer and her memoir one the literary award for creative nonfiction. she's the recipient of the award from the academy's of american poets, and she's done work in an album of music and second memoir, that's amazing. she held the chair of excellence in creative

thank you, lee walton, the engine that drove "march." thank you, chris raz.rybody, at idw, my amazing wife whose sacrifices made my yenned of the deal attainable, my children and their generation who will inherit this earth. and a message -- a challenge to our incoming president. i challenge you to take this trilogy into your tiny hands and allow your tiny heart to bent transformed by it. [laughter] none of us are alone in this, not even you. [cheers and applause] >> i pitched this idea to the congressman when i was 24 years old. i i didn't know any better. know [laughter] when i was a kid, we didn't have money more books, so we would go to the library. it also happened to be the only place that had air-conditioning and that we could use in georgia. i was raised by a single mom, and she couldn't be here tonight, but she made me promise i would sit here and watch this with her at christmas. so merry christmas, mama. [laughter] we did it. [cheers and applause] i want to thank chris for saying yes when i pitched him over the table at a comic book convention. [la

i appreciate the heart felt comments of superintendent lee and commissioner waltons opening words of unity speaking of the needs to keep the families safe and student protected as a integral part of watt we do and the challenge that we have to meet. the part of keeping the students safe and protected as educators means for us speaking out for the right to academic freedom and teaching what we believe to be the truth about history in the very charged political climate and looking forward to exploring that together with you as leaders oof the district affirming academic freedom within the classroom because we need our children to be thoughtful, questioning-we raise thome to be fully participatory citizens in this world. then on another note, i also want to say appreciate the work that went on here at the board of education and within the district which allowed us to the day after election to have a-reach an agreement at our meet and confer wherebe we were offered two percent raise for every member rather than a bonus, which we saw as it is a step forward. it isn't the whole picture, bu

i appreciate the heart felt comments of superintendent lee and commissioner waltons opening words of unity speaking of the needs to keep the families safe and student protected as a integral part of watt we do and the challenge that we have to meet. the part of keeping the students safe and protected as educators means for us speaking out for the right to academic freedom and teaching what we believe to be the truth about history in the very charged political climate and looking forward to exploring that together with you as leaders oof the district affirming academic freedom within the classroom because we need our children to be thoughtful, questioning-we raise thome to be fully participatory citizens in this world. then on another note, i also want to say appreciate the work that went on here at the board of education and within the district which allowed us to the day after election to have a-reach an agreement at our meet and confer wherebe we were offered two percent raise for every member rather than a bonus, which we saw as it is a step forward. it isn't the whole picture, bu

i appreciate the heart felt comments of superintendent lee and commissioner waltons opening words of unity speaking of the needs to keep the families safe and student protected as a integral part of watt we do and the challenge that we have to meet. the part of keeping the students safe and protected as educators means for us speaking out for the right to academic freedom and teaching what we believe to be the truth about history in the very charged political climate and looking forward to exploring that together with you as leaders oof the district affirming academic freedom within the classroom because we need our children to be thoughtful, questioning-we raise thome to be fully participatory citizens in this world. then on another note, i also want to say appreciate the work that went on here at the board of education and within the district which allowed us to the day after election to have a-reach an agreement at our meet and confer wherebe we were offered two percent raise for every member rather than a bonus, which we saw as it is a step forward. it isn't the whole picture, bu

haney and commissioner walton and the board of education and superintendant lee my name is a carolynhe vice president for paraprofessionals united educators of san francisco and a 3re7 i'm here to speak on behalf of owl participants to ask had you meet and confer with wages this thursday, you offer a serious wage increase as you may know paraprofessionals in the front line in our school district some of the most vulnerable kids including students with i e p too much of us are pushed out of the district and the city because they simply can't afford to work here and the we're commodity and seen the impact of the affordability crisis on my school paul revere and had massive teachers out-of-towners this year it is very hard to build and maintain a community when there's an evolving door of educators that come and go every year please respect the work that the teachers and the permit holders do and show us that value our contribution to the district to offer a mooeveng wage increase this thursday we're committed to our students but need your support thank you . >> (clapping.) >> good even

the panhandle in dade county in walton county all the way over to appalachia cola and down along the western coast of florida. from charlotte county and collier county and lee county those heavily republican areas that they would not be able to overcome it. they didn't realize that miami dade county the african american vote would be lower than they anticipated. much lower than had been with barack obama. they didn't realize that so much of the hispanic vote came in early voting something that hasn't happened before. republicans most often vote on election day. and across florida, from coast to coast to coast, they have. the panhandle and the southwest coast of florida and some of the i4 corridor in the rural areas of the state of florida they have ruled the day in florida and florida goes to donald tru trump. what did we say at the beginning of the night? if you're donald trump before you ever get started, you must within flori florida. checkmark. you must win north carolina. checkmark. you must within ohio. checkmark. and then you have to go pick up states on the west coast or around the country somewhere. we'll get to that in just a moment. this election