let me say one or thing about plemon. he's been a part of a number of pilgrims through the world pilgrims organization and plemon has been succeeded by another imam but he also served as the keynote speaker for a worship event we had just a few nights ago right here in the martin luther king, jr. international chapel where we had people that are jewish and muslim and come together and worship. plemon helped to frame that from what it means to be a servant not only of the divine but of a servant of humanity. i present to you, our moderator, plemon el-amin. >> thank you very much. my father went to morehouse. his two brothers went to morehouse. my mother went to spelman. i went to spelman nurse ry school. i grew up two blocks off the campus. we have three wonderful guests. i will introduce each one of them before they give their brief introductory marks. at the end of the introductory marks we'll move on. he is an associate professor of american studies with a joint appointment in african and african american studies at the