she graduated from the first mfa class of the san francisco art institute in 1961.he was good friends with joan brown and jay de feo. shes what an integral part of the art scene in north beach. she was also part of the first argot lin artist's in residence program in 1967 and spent the better part of the '70s deeply devote today community arts and activism. she was part of the founding member of scrap, and she was involved with the neighborhood arts program during its insanction. -- inception. she went on to found the san francisco cultural arts center and she is the first director. i am excited to share with you i'm working with the asian american women artists association and film maker madelein limb to bring you the world of bernice bing, a documentary we're working on now about her life and work and it's going to premiere in june of 2013. thank you so much for this honor. it's long overdue. (applause) (applause) >> good evening. it's an honor to accept this award on behalf of the bernice bing estate. thank you. (applause) ♪ ♪ ♪ >> again, congratulations. now we'

three years ago and is now our production coordinator, and i am proud to say he is about to get his mfa, master of fine arts, go trojans. >> i want to say how grateful i am to be a part of a show that reaches out to young students and young voices and allows them the opportunity to contribute to a meaningful production like this one. tavis: we are glad to have you on. >> we are glad you could join us tonight for a conversation with conversation david steinberg, coming up. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminate hunger, and we have a lot of work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: as anyone who has ever tried to be funny, commonly separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls. making it look easy, one of the best in the business, davi

>> cab, i was teaching an mfa program says teaching writing and i was also teaching a hip-hop class for undergraduates. you know, i don't know that i fully understand the question, but i will attempt to answer it anyway. i think that vernacular, the way we speak is always changing. it's always in flux. language is always evolving and i think there's a lot of gatekeeping around that evolution. what i see particularly in the world of friction is a resistance to precisely the kind of instinctive natural ability to coax to match up high and low culture, which is the hallmark of the hip-hop generation speaks in tanks. occasionally a writer will be praised for doing this. occasionally juno diaz will publish a book and there will be this rhapsodic response to the way kafka tommy at "the new york times" cited for not just of calle west as if he was with lightning flashing and a body and was attempting with con a list of the western canon in the way people speak of the street. they were not viable in stacker two steps and collapse, but they want out into the world. it's like now, this is how eve