morehouse school of medicine is the institution that has been around for 45 years. lead the creation and advancement of health equity. and so part of that is what we have done is we've gone out into the community and we have done events. we started off by doing the civil rights vaccination of our civil rights legends and from there we started doing community events because we're part of the community. and they trust us. and so i think that has been one of the biggest reasons for hesitancy is just the trust. and to bring people where they are and to inform them that the vaccines are actually safe. and we wanted to do that through action. >> such a good point. take action and meet people where they are. tonya, your group totally fascinates me. you're a bunch of teachers in maryland who got together and said this isn't going as well as it needs to. we're going to fix it. you fix vaccine websites, notify the government when that isn't working. what's the biggest challenge you've run up in terms of getting underserved communities vaccinated? >> the inconsistency in the r

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they were at morehouse together. >> that's right point >> mrs. thurman new martin luther king's mother because they were both daughters of baptist ministers and met through baptist circles, and so on. the families knew each other and one thing that was very interesting with thurman, when dr. thurman was at boston university, king was also there finishing his doctorate. >> i didn't know that. >> he went over to the sermons to watch the world series becaeach other. at that point, when he talked with dr. thurman, king and thurman were talking, mrs. thurman asked martin luther king about coming to san francisco to be pastor of fellowship church. >> isn't that something? my question is, what if? what if he had come to san francisco instead of the other? >> he learned that if he had come to san francisco instead, would there have been a civil rights movement at the level it was without king's leadership? quite a question. >> on the surface, san francisco lo lbett place to b quar and there wasn't the discrimination. >> he might have taught, instead. he

i went to morehouse college and it's just a wonderful place.-- i have family that lives in atlanta as well. but for microsoft, when you think about the higher education institutions that you have in atlanta, from georgia tech to georgia state to the historically black colleges and universities, clark, atlanta university, spellman college, morehouse college, right there in and of itself you have these great higher education system there. the quality of living is a great place, it's attractive, the diversity of the economy and the different businesses that you have there, large and small. when you put all of that together with, you know, the rich fabric and the diversity that you have in the city of atlanta, why not atlanta is the question. so for us, as we look to grow, we announced that we are going to have two buildings in the atlantic station, atlantic yards there, where we'll be hiring 2,500 people. we've purchased some property in the hills where we will look to invest and do some things there and part of that area, 25% of it, we will dedic

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solutions at temple university and prior to that he helped physician at columbia university and morehouselege and is the author and co-author of multiple books including the "new york times" best-selling nobody. he holds a phd with distinction from the university of pennsylvania whose research agenda focuses on the intersections between culture, politics, education and the united states in the middle east. the co-author of this book along with mr. hill is mitchell plitnick. he's currently the president of rethinking foreign-policy, political analysts and a frequent writer on the middle east and us foreign-policy and his past roles include vice president of the foundation for middle east keys, founding director of the us office and codirector of the voice-- jewish voice for peace and they are joined by michelle alexander. ms. alexander the highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar and author of the new jim crow which some of you may be familiar with she's a former board foundation senior fellow and justice fellow and has clerked for supreme court justice harry gluckman

i was educated at morehouse college and i still serve in the pulpit of the ebenezer baptist church both in atlanta. the cradle of thela civil rights movement. like those oak trees in savannah, my roots go deep and stretch wide and the soil of waycross georgia. in a word, i am georgia. a living example and an embodimentof its history and hos pain and its promise, the brutality and possibility. mr. president, at the time of my birth, georgia's two senators were richard russell and herman salvage, both art segregationists and adversaries of the civil rights movement. after the supreme court's landmark brown versus board ruling outlawing school segregation, talmage warned theblood would run in the strees of atlanta. his father, former governor of the state famously declared the south lowe's the negro. but his place is at the back door. when once asked how supporters might keep black people away from the polls, he picked up a scrap of paper and wrote ad single word on it. pistols. yet there was something in the american covenant in its chartel documents and its jeffersonian ideals that bend

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lessa taylor, curt inn smith, daevion pullom, detraio dijon whorton, james john del giorno, jessica morehouse, jordan reen, joseph marwan brown, jovanne holman, kevin neal, kimberly marcum, lentaius kor test hall, leonne kellam, lovelle lovelleularramore. i apologize for mispronouncing many of these names, but it is it important to read these names into the record so at least they live in that space. because the numbers aren't moving our colleagues to action. so far this year, just 2021, there have been 9,649 gun-related deaths. these include homicides and murders, accidental shootings, and suicides. some people take issue with the fact that when we talk about the gun violence epidemic that we're including suicides in these numbers and there have been thousands of suicides in the united states this year, but it's important that we talk about these deaths together. again, this evening is not going to be a time to go deep into the question of policy change, but when you do start to explore interventions and causes, you will find that many of the same causes for homicides cause suicides as well.