you have to help me make some decisions. >> that was mamie till mobley.r final thoughts on this, cynthia dagnal-myron? >> my parents also took me to the south every summer so i would witness how they had grown up, we drink from colored fountains and not be able to go into movie theaters and have to go into the back doors of restaurants. the fact we're still talking about these things now, the fact we're still having experiences we are having, when i listen to what mamie was saying and realize this has happened again now after all this time, i don't know what to say. i am outraged and sad. >> i also to bring into the conversation the pulitzer prize- winning author, poet, activist alice walker. in a moment, we're going to be talking about the death of adrienne rich and her significance. first, alice, thank you for joining us at this early hour from berkeley, california. i want to ask about your thoughts on the death of trayvon martin. >> a great deal of sadness, of course, and also by a deepening and ever flowing love for my people. we have suffered so much

mobley this will be an incentive for small businesses to do the kinds of improvements for facades we would like to see anyway. supervisor wiener is proposing some legislation that we just agreed to continue for awhile, looking at the definition of efficiency in its. based on the code advisory discussion this past week, it is revising and refining that legislation further. i suspect it will be back to you in april or may. we will certainly let me know about that. i think really that is about the extent of it. i have included here quite a few references to legislation in the state that we're also paying attention to. that is because, often, they are affecting building codes that will affect us in the long term. yes? >> can you answer questions about one of those. >> i will try. >> ab-184 -- how does that affect our local strengthening efforts? we have been looking for ways to find them. >> i have asked for any particular is on what exactly that intel spirit i have not yet received the details. so i do not exactly know how that financing might affect as locally. >> ok. that would be gre

mamie till mobley allowed "jet" magazine to publish the photos of the brutalized body of her son emmettl who was tortured and kill bade group of southern vigilantes for allegedly whistling at a white woman which is no more a crime than walking home in the rain with a bag of candy. her creative choice sparked a choice that would give rise to the civil rights movement. i thought of her this week as i watched tens o hooded supporters rally in washington, d.c. and new york's union square. coming up, enough of us speaking for black young men, but they are quite capable of speaking for themselves, and some of them will join me right here at my table next. ergent and i found myself using three times more than they say to and the clothes still weren't as clean as with tide. so we're back to tide. they're cuter in clean clothes. that's my tide. what's yours? >> we have been talking about trayvon martin. in the last two days we have seen many organized school walkouts in protest of the killing and mostly in florida. now, we have been talking a lot about young men of color and what it is like for