andre williams, when i showed up as the principal at thurgood marshall -- this is my third year -- i showed up, and you get to kind of take a little bit of stock of who's there and who does what. and it became very apparent ho our community in our school. so i'm very, very honored because i've learned a ton from him as a principal, and that is invaluable to me and everybody else. our p.t.o. president, we call her jam affectionately, miss magnone, brought this award to the table, and everybody said absolutely. this is something we knew he'd be honored for. so andre williams, congratulations. thank you very much. [applause] >> i don't have a long speech. i just want to say thank you for the recognition. to see all these people out here, it's really warming. we do it for the kids. the people that are here, they know why we do this, so for me to stand here and just talk a lot, we do it for our babies. if you ain't doing it for them, then why you doing it? so thank you. [applause] >> president cook: let's congratulate again our rave award winners. [applause] >> so i'm going to make a brie

circuit judge and then for justice -- thurgood marshall. then jumping to teach at the university of saqqara -- chicago. general andor supreme court justice. >> use get the fear. [laughter] -- you skipped a few. [laughter] i couldn't keep a job. [laughter] for years i was off doing something else. i am looking forward to keeping this for a while. [applause] >> from an outsiders point of view, it looks like a dream life. in the times you failed. andyou tell us about those how you deal with disappointment? >> you look at my resume and to see the jobs i got but you do not see the ones i didn't get. truly. for every job i got there were two that i did not get. law school i did very badly my first semester. i thought law school has finally outed me for the fraud i have always been. [laughter] it wasn't true. i turned myself around and figured it out. nobodys -- maybe somebody you know. i have flitted around a lot. people are going to do one thing and get one job and it will be perfect. i will do that for my whole life. if that is what makes you h

you had the wonderful fortune of clerking for justice thurgood marshall. you described him as the greatest lawyer of the 20th century. what was it like clerking for him and what was the most meaningful experience you had with him? justice kagan: i think for sure he was the greatest lawyer of the 20th century in a few respects. first, if you ask about great lawyers, who did the most justice in their life, and i don't know anyone who did the most justice as a lawyer than thurgood marshall did. [applause] then he was just a phenomenal lawyer. he is a lawyer of the kind that you don't really see anymore. we have become a specialized profession. people who do appellate work don't do trials and vice versa. people who do civil cases don't do criminal cases and vice versa. he did everything. he argued almost 20 cases from the supreme court and won almost all of them. he would crisscross the jim crow south, stopping in these little towns, small courthouses, and represent people who were being charged with criminal offenses. mostly african-american defendants being

he is working on a biography of thurgood marshall. gloria is a professor of constitutional law at john jay college of criminal justice. she has authored many books and articles. two books that have really made a mark are the voting rights for andy the naacp ongoing search for justice. i chose that book because it is a groundbreaking work, connecting racial justice over 400 years in the area of education, voting rights, property rights, criminal justice, a host of themes that involve african-americans, latin americans and native americans. she is almost done with a book that is coming out called she took justice about black women and the law. she is also working on a documentary of the same title that will accompany the book. as she has already told you, she is a u.s. supreme court correspondent. she is a member of the national press club and is also on television. you might have seen her as an analyst for msnbc, cbs, abc. she is a member of the 400 committee. lastly, roger fairfax is a senior associate dean for acumen academic affairs

as you mentioned, i've been doing some work with thurgood marshall and watching him operate. i think part of what he does with the naacp is begin to leverage this growing desire for change in the african american community, and unwillingness to accept things as they are. through his work and the court cases he raised and in supporting the african-american community, you begin to see change. thurgood marshall through the naacp and with others begins to change the voting laws in the nation and allowing african americans to vote, and that is a huge shift. so much -- so often we focus on the brown versus board of education case as a critical case in terms of naacp work and of marshall. but in fact, even more important was the breaking through the texas white primary, because until then african americans have been excluded from voting in primaries in the south, especially in texas. as a consequence had little impact upon the political system there. by breaking through that, getting the supreme court to say that's illegal, that african americans need to be able to allowed to regist

he's currently working on a biography of thurgood marshal. gloria brown marshal is from john j college of criminal justice. she's authored many books and articles. her two books that have really make a mark, the voting rights war, the naacp and the ongoing struggle for justice, and "the race law and american society 1607 to the present". and i chose that book because it's a ground breaking work connecting racial justice over 400 years in the areas of education, voting rights, property rights, criminal justice. a host of themes that involve african americans, latin americans, latinos, asians, and native americans. and she's currently working or almost done, i guess, she is done on a book that's coming out called "she took justice" about black women and the law. and she's also working on a documentary of the same title which will accompany the book. as she has told you, she's a u.s. supreme court correspondent. she is a member of the national press club, and she's also often on television. you may have seen her as an analyst for msnbc, cbs, cnn,

. >> her writings are right here with thomas jefferson, with thurgood good marshall, with all of thesether people. her writings are right here. >> the u.s. constitution states that only congress with levee taxes and impose tariffs. but since he came into office, president trump has been imposing tariffs on his own. in each case declaring a national security emergency. one of the latest emergencies involves one of the world's most famous cheeses. seth doane got a taste of the controversy in parma, italy. >> reporter: could your spaghetti dinner be getting more expensive? this is a warehouse where thousands of wheels of parmesan, the real stuff, parmesano reggiano are aged for years before being shipped around the world. and now the cheese destined for america is also headed for a price hike. the price of their parmesano reggiano was already at a premium. after all, they control each step here, tracking which cows ate in which fields and were milked on which day. >> is piece of italy. >> reporter: nicola bertinelli is the fourth generation to run his family business in this specific regi

among the heroes of that movement were lawyers like thurgood marshall. i said i want to do that work, so i decided to go to law school. when i graduated, my mom, who raised me and my sister, she said, what are you going to do in your fight for justice? i said i have decided to become a prosecutor. the reason is because i have known this is a system that has often done justice and often done injustice and needs to be reformed, so i want to go on the inside and do that work. inlso said i also want to be a place where i can be a voice for the most vulnerable and voiceless. i started my career in the alameda county district attorney's office in california, an office once led by earl warren. from the first moment i walked into a courtroom and almost every day thereafter, i spoke five words. kamala harris for the people. that phrase for the people i think really captures the spirit of our system of justice in two important ways. one, we have rightly said that a harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us. therefore, no one should be made to fight al

link to the embattled oligarch and thrilled to be joined by nancy, one oof two women to win the thurgood marshall. good day to both of you. judge and professor, i would ask you first the importance of these witnesses in the context of those who are in the cabinet and have the duty to testify anyway. >> well, first of all, the constitution doesn't say much about what this is supposed to look like. but it does use language that -- it does say that the impeachment is to be tried in the senate and elsewhere in the constitution we know what a trial is supposed to look like. and it says that the senators are supposed to take an oath above and beyond their oath to the constitution that they take when they're elected. so, this is an oath of impartiality. but the precise rules are the rules that are determined by the senate. >> i'm going beyond -- i'm just going to jump in to say beyond those rules there is a coequal branch power to make current officials testify that's even beneath that. >> well, but there's no question about that. there's no question that when someone like mulvaney says if the senate ca

side-by-side with the papers of frederick douglass, abraham lincoln, mary church terrel, and thurgood marshall. rosa parks lived a life dedicated to equal rights and social justice, and she helped change the country with examples she said. as a statue of rosa parks stands with pride in the capitol rotunda, in this exhibition, you will see her standing tall, quite literally, as her photos, images of her papers and video tower more than 12 feet above you. none of this would have been possible without the generosity of the howard g buffett foundation who made the rosa parks collection a gift to the nation. jesse started when holland, a journalist at the time, learned that the collection was stored away in boxes in a warehouse. he wrote a story about it and his story was read and seen by mr. howard buffett, who bought the papers and gave them to the library, so that they could be preserved, scanned, and seen by everyone. jesse is now a scholar to resident in the library of congress's john w center. that deserves a hand. [applause] a collection comprises 10,000 islands drawn from both miss parks pr

you are clerking for thurgood marshall on the supreme court. and then it is jumping to teach at the university of chicago. i think i'll become the dean and then supreme court justice. >> you skipped a few too. (laughs) i couldn't keep a job, really. every four years, i was off doing something else. i'm looking forward to keeping this for a while. (laughs) (applause) >> it looks like a dream life. i'm interested in the times you failed. can you tell us about those and how you deal with disappointment? >> you look at my resume and you see all the jobs i got. you don't see all the jobs i didn't get. for every job i got, there were two that i didn't get. starting from law school. loss goal, i did very badly my first semester. i thought, law school has finally outed me for the fraud that i've always been. it wasn't true. i turned myself around and figured it out. there's nobody who has, there's nobody maybe somebody i have flitted around a lot. some people, it's more like i'm going to do one thing and get one job and try to be purchased perfect. i w

according to thurgood marshall foundation, hbcu's account for % of the current bachelors degrees granted to african-americans, moreover, among african-americans, 13% of c.e.o.'s, 40% of engineer, 40% of health care professional, 50% f teachers, 50% of nonhbcu professor, 50% of lawyers and 80% of judges and 90% with bachelors degrees in stem subjects graduated from hbcu's. the economic impact of hbcu's, she says, is equally impressive. a report by uncf called hbcu's make america strong, a positive economic impact of historically black colleges and universities show that hbcu's generate $14.8 billion in economic impact annually. so hbcu's are vital to the students who attend them and to the entire country which makes use of the valuable skills that these graduates bring to the private and public sectors. our nation must continue to invest in hbcu's and minority-serving institutions and i submit this for the record on behalf of our chair of the congressional black caucus from california, congresswoman karen bass. with that, ma tam chair, i want to yield to representative danny davis from il

thurgood america civil rights attorneys, thurgood marshall and oliver hill as well as virginia's first african-american governor. langston serveled as the first president of what today is virginia state university in petersburg. langston was encourageled by both white and blacks to run for the u.s. house of representatives in 1888. initially appeared to be that he lost. he contested the results due to voter intimidation and fraud. the u.s. house of representatives eventually declared him the winner and he took his seat september 23rd 1890 and was only able to serve the few remaining months in his term. he lost bid for re-election and left an indelible cause on freedom. a par trait hangs in my office, a invisible reminder of one of the many visionary black virginians and americans, helped shape a more perfect union. we may never know all of the names and stories in 1619 but as we remember mourn and honor them, let us also remember the trail blazers like john mercer langston who followed them, believed in and, believed in and fought for a nation to live up to its creed. i hope that refle

nation's first black law school and alma mater and two of virginia rights civil rights attorneys, thurgood marshall and oliver hill who have heard about as well as virginia's first african-american governor l. douglas wilder. langston served as the first president of what is today virginia state university in petersburg. langston was encouraged by both white and blacks to run for the u.s. house of representatives in 1888. initially it appeared he had lost. but he contested the results due to obvious voter intimidation and fraud. the u.s. house of representatives eventually declared him the winner and he took his seat on september 23rd, 1890 and was only able to serve the few remaining months in his term. he lost his bid for re-election, but he had already left an indelible mark on the cause of freedom. a portrait of john langston hangs in my office. a avilesible reminder of one of the many visionary black virginians equity helps shape a more perfect union. we may never know all of the names and stories of the men and women who are brought here for comfort in 1816, as we mourn and honor them, let's

. >> her writings are right here with thomas jefferson, with t r thurgood marshall, with all of theseom she was awarded back at the white house in 1996. this exhibit opens today. it's free to the public, and it's well worth a visit. anthony? >> and i really, really want to go. thank you very much. no accidental activist. not at all. we'll be right back here on "cbs this morning." kerrygold has a taste so rich it can take you to ireland's lush, green pastures. where grass-fed cows produce rich, creamy milk for a truly delicious taste. kerrygold. the taste that takes you there. >>> before we go, a sweet moment between santa and one little boy in illinois at a mall. >> you're okay, buddy. you're okay. >> santa helped calm down baiz weertz when he was too nervous to meet him. he was hiding in a shopping cart to avoid it. the 8-year-old has autism and an anxiety disorder that makes it almost impossible for him to talk to people he does not know. even santa. santa gave him treats and stroked his head. his mom told "cbs this morning" that he is happy to finally meet the real big guy in red w

it's thurgood marshall through the naacp and others begins to change the voting laws in the nation and allowing african-americans to vote. that is a huge shift. so on we focus on the brown versus board of education case as a critical case in terms of naacp work and martial. but in fact an even more important was the breaking through the texas white primary. because until then african-americans had been excluded from voting in primaries in the south, especially in texas. as a consequence had little impact upon the political systems there. but by breaking through that, the supreme court saying that's illegal, african-americans need to be allowed to register to vote, it changes the nature of how politics has to be thought about. it changes the nature of the way the politicians have to think about african more than community. you've seen this happening in northern city more and more in chicago, aas the african-american community grows and they can vote, they have to pay attention to their contributions and needs and concerns because they will they can be a swing vote in a tight election. t