my name is shirley jackson, and i am a retirement teacher for san francisco unified school district,ith early childhood education and after school programs. i have light upstairs and down stairs. it's been remodelled and i like it. some of my floors upstairs was there from the time i built the place, so they were very horrible and dark. but we've got lighting. the room seems lighter. they painted the place, they cemented my back yard, so i won't be worried about landscaping too much. we have central heating, and i like the new countertops they put in. up to date -- oh, and we have venetian blinds. we never had venetian blinds before, and it's just cozy for me. it meant a lot to me because i didn't drive, and i wanted to be in the area where i can do my shopping, go to work, take the kids to school. i like the way they introduced the move-in. i went to quite a bit of the meetings. they showed us blueprints of the materials that they were going to use in here, and they gave us the opportunity to choose where we would like to stay while they was renovating. it means a lot. it's just tha

had not been for reverend al sharptont, running for presid and carol moseley braun and jesse jackson and shirleypaved the way, and i stand on their shoulders. - he never shied away from his blackness. at the same time, he didn't want his race to necessarily be ddistraction or tining thing about his presidency or his qualifications. - if i get support from the african-american community or the white community, or the hispanic community, i don't want it to be because of my status or what i look like, i want it to be because of what i've done and how i've lived and the principles i stand for. - i'd worked on campaigns for 20 years, i was a cynical [bleep] hack, right? i won democratic campaigns. but i went to work for barack obama for free. because i believed in that guy. i knew exactly what he stood for. i knew that he was not gonna be a typical politician. [crowd chanting] obama! obama! obama! - thank you! ♪ - the prararies of 2007-2008 giving democratic voters a choice between two historic candidacies. hillary clinton comes into the election the presumed front-runner. she has a lot of advantages

jackson also among the dignitaries. smokey robinson, who's spoken the last couple weeks so beautifully about their relationship going back to their childhood years. jennifer hudson, stevie wonder. i spoke earlier to shirleyhat it was like to grow up with aretha franklin and being invited to the white house. influential pastor bishop t.d. jakes was part of the opening remarks. let's listen in. >> from the palaces in england singli singing for the queen, to popping up in the backseat of a car in the middle of a commercial, aretha was everywhere. she was classy enough to sing on the most prominent stages in the world, but she was homegrown enough to make potato salad and fry some chicken. in a class all by herself. >> a funeral fit for a queen. aretha franklin's body was bought to this church in a 24-karat gold plated casket. the legendary singer who transcended so many genres died earlier this month at the age of 76 after advanced pancreatic cancer. there have been thousands of people who have come out here at the church who celebrated her life. if you have been anywhere close to detroit in the last two weeks, you will see it. it is palpable that people have been touched by aretha franklin in so many diffe