did. tonight. he asked me to keep it short. even offered me 10 bucks if i keep it under 10 minutes. that's a switch of president being offered hush money. i'm gonna leave the jokes to the pros. let me conclude. on a generally serious note. roy was burned and birmingham born in birmingham, alabama. he graduated from a great hbcu, florida a and m started in journalism following the footsteps of his father, roy wood sr. who covered the civil rights movement. during black history month. this year, i hosted the screening of the movie, too. the story of emmett till and his mother is a story of a family's promise and lost in the nation's reckoning with hate, violence and abuse of power. it's a story that was