i never saw an arrowhead on roanoke mountain until i wore one on my shoulder myself. so unbeknownst to me, i already hard a personal connectihad a p i just needed to be shown. so after that, i was really excited. my sin blings and i would visit all the places that we could. and at one point we scooped up my grandmother and we tooker will to booker t. washington national monument which was a national farm. and it started her to remember back about being a girl growing up in south care. carolina. her stories came to life. and also talk about how she left the south, left anderson south carolina because of the segregation and violence that was in-flinlflik inflicted upon. and so she moved to virginia so that children could phofoe go t school and her grandchildren could experience a better life. so i was on alert to find my connections everywhere i went. i was al bo at booker t. washington monument and then for the first time in my life, i changed my address, i migrated to pennsylvania. real far. started working at independence park and in valley forge. now, revolutionary

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so for example, when i was vice president, we went down near roanoke and provided funding for one to have a cybersecurity proposal. they did it. they got the contract. and now what they're doing, they're training young women and men who get out and good starting jobs. jobs where you can maybe get paid more than 100 grand a year and they're totally capable. so what i've done so is proposed a program for 70 billi$70 billi. it will be available to the hbcus based on their competition to get access to it, but everyone will quality. every hbcu, and they'll be able to do the kinds of things that other universities do. for example, delaware state university is a great university. the president is a young man, he used to work for me. my senate office now. brilliant guy. doctorate. end result of it is though when the university of delaware makes an application for solar energy because it has a significant base, it gets significant injection of technological capability or light metals. they took over an old facility, used to be a ford facility long time ago, they took over a facility, used to

this is dot braden, from lynchburg, virginia, not far from my hometown of roanoke, virginia. she was teaching school in 1942, eldest daughter in a family of four, mom a single mother, her mother, her parents were separated, her mother was supporting their household and dot's salary of $900 a year was supporting her mother and her household, and her two younger brothers were already in the u.s. army. she was overburdened by work and what i love about her story is, it shows how the u.s. army recruiting strategy was wrongheaded, even as it worked. the army approach to recruiting schoolteachers was to send their handsomest young army officers out to lurk in post offices and hotels throughout the south at first, eventually all over the country, with the idea that schoolteachers would see a handsome, young officer, and think, if i go to washington to do war work, i can make a marriage to a man who looks like that. so marriage was much on the military's mind when it was recruiting these young women to come to washington. but dot was trying to get out of a marriage that she was not i

for example, when i was vice president, we went down to roanoke and we provided funding for an hbcu torsecurity proposal. they did it. they got the contract. now what they're doing are training young women and men who will get out in good starting jobs, jobs where you can end up being paid more than a hundred grand a year. and they're fully, totally, thoroughly capable. so what i have done is i have proposed -- and we will get this get this year, $70oposed a 10 billion program for hbcus. that $70 billion will be available to hbcus based on their competition to get access to it, but everyone will qualify. every hbcu. they will be able to do the kind of things other universities to. delaware state university, the president is a young guy, brilliant guy. the result is when the university of delaware makes an application for dealing with solar energy, because it has a agnificant base, it gets significant injection of technological capability, or light metals. storage facilities long ago, they took over a facility long ago. they have people in that facility who are now doing to making that

these things happen, especially in roanoke and i asked them how would you like us tohandle this ? do you want to mention it? is it important for you as a family to say something in the obituary ornot ? things like if there's been several matter marriages and they don't want to yell at them i say how can we do that ? we will put their last names in but you don't need to mention that if you don't want to . i try and i also the other thing and this helps in politics. certainly finding the best in people. trying to find something in people that's okay but the other one is when you're writing an obituary you want to think about what needs to be said andwhat doesn't need to be said . and if there is say, but you also want to capture their personality so for example if there's somebody a running feud with their neighbor, you don't quote the neighbor saying she used to shoot over my head every time i went to check on my chickens. instead, you quote their best friend saying she was just in there and you should have seen her, she fire that done right overthat guys head every day . and it's

for example, when i was vice president, we went down to roanoke and we provided funding for an hbcu toe a cybersecurity proposal. they did it. they got the contract. and now what they're doing are training young women and men who'll get out and good starting jobs, jobs where you can end up being paid more than $100,000 a year. and they're fully, totally, thoroughly capable. proposed,done is i've and we'll get this done, i proposed a 10-year program for $70 billion for hbcus, $70 billion. and that $70 billion will be available through the hbcus based on their competition to get access to it, but everyone will qualify, every hbcu. and they'll be able to do the kinds of things that other universities do. for example, delaware state university is a great university. the president of the university is a young man who used to work for me in my senate office. now, brilliant guy. he's a doctorate. the end result of it is though when the university of delaware makes an application for dealing with solar energy, because it has a significant base, it gets this significant injection of technologic

host: roanoke, virginia. caller: i think the tables are turned a little bit.e look more like nazi germany in the 30's -- 1930's now than we did when democrats were in power. regarding the supreme court, there is nothing democrats can do now. hello? host: they cannot do anything now, so what should they do? we need to focus on electing biden and as many democrats as we can in the senate. i will love to see us put term limits so we can get more legislators actually doing what is good for the country rather onn being reelected and work this gerrymandering so we can get real representative government. host: glenn in virginia. y in new york. caller: thank you for taking my call. republicans have already engaged in a self packing of the court by refusing to even engage in a hearing on garland and now by stealing rgb seat. senate if we win the back and bided wins, for them to increase the size of the court. it will not be a packing of the court because republicans have already done it. it will just be balancing things out. the other thing people should look to is ind

because my father also is a barbados and he's from roanoke virginia by this father was from barbados,d my family had it hard. so in like me, how do you keep that sense of humor? >> guest: the name whitehead, it's not from my barbados side. that name is clark, and so the clark family comes to new york, ellis island, in the 1920s. in talking about the book, i talk about some parts of my family history in virginia, not knowing others, and last summer someone sent me a genealogy that they did for me piecing together from things i talked about. so why did, i'm not sure of the origin but this person traced it back to florida and the before the georgia in the mid-19th century. so before the i'm not sure. i know there are a lot of white people named whitehead. was that a slave masters name? i'm not sure. and in terms of artistic work, i think your writing, you can only get better by doing it. say write a story that is not a successful. annexing can only better. then have a relapse and then you learn from that. i keep a sense of humor about my work. that's my point of view about the world, and