hosting this tribute here. let me bring in melissa harris-lacewell. when you're looking at the tribute for this and the list of people who are willing to get up and lend their names to what an impact she had on the progress of the united states, can you give me any personal -- and i am watching here for president obama to come up and take the podium, so i may interrupt you, melissa. just briefly, the impact she had on your life. >> sure. well, so dorothy height, i think, for many women of my generation, we all have personal stories in that we remember seeing her. we remember seeing her at all of these important moments. earlier it wasn't quite covered, but it was on the webcast. camille cosby, the wife of bill cosby, stood up and spoke about how part of what dorothy height's leadership was about was not only pushing back against racial inequality, but pushing back against patriarchy