Rights activists. This is just under two hours. Good morning. Of the best city in the world. Welcome the o National Action network to washington, d. C. You all to my me hometown and your nations to thank and want recognize our reverend al for his leadership. P al reverend al for h vision, and our reverend al for of us. Ng up for all over the last several months, reminded of the values we have to fight for. Weve all been reminded of reverend dr. Martin luther king and what he stood for. We had to ld us that look k beyond ourselves, beyond our own generation for sure this was a america us all. We have to fight on a local level, state level and the ederal level, and thats why were truly blessed that reverend al has called us together. Remind us that its not where but where we are growin growing. Im proud that the nation look to us in. Our city we cant rely on the ederal government and we dont have a state government. We are the city, council, and once. Tate all at and because of that, we
Rights activists. This is just under two hours. Good morning. Of the best city in the world. Welcome the o National Action network to washington, d. C. You all to my me hometown and your nations to thank and want recognize our reverend al for his leadership. P al reverend al for h vision, and our reverend al for of us. Ng up for all over the last several months, reminded of the values we have to fight for. Weve all been reminded of reverend dr. Martin luther king and what he stood for. We had to ld us that look k beyond ourselves, beyond our own generation for sure this was a america us all. We have to fight on a local level, state level and the ederal level, and thats why were truly blessed that reverend al has called us together. Remind us that its not where but where we are growin growing. Im proud that the nation look to us in. Our city we cant rely on the ederal government and we dont have a state government. We are the city, council, and once. Tate all at and because of that, we
Donald trump the wind went out of the room. Stewart garson who is the Cuyahoga County democratic chair spoke to the crowd shortly after the announcement. I can tell you there was an audible gasp, a gasp from the crowd when the numbers came in and ohio was given to trump. Ho, ho, ho, everybody relax it is gonna be a long night. This thing is far from over. We saw these numbers and Cuyahoga County is coming in two for one for hillary. So apparently we did our job up here. I have a couple of candidates i want to introduce. It is going to be a long night, and we have this rolling situation going on. The west needs to report. There are multiple paths to victory. Ever relax everybody relax whatever happens is gonna happen and there is nothing we can do in here to worry about it. Lets just take a deep breath. Reporter they are taking a a deep breath. They cheer every time a win comes in for clinton. It may not be enough. Lets go to Paul Orlousky who is covering another aspect of the trump cam
Im so thrilled to see all of you here in centennial hall. Also id like to welcome all of the people in the overflow area which is in the back of the second floor. And if any of you get tired of standing, there are seats Still Available there. Actually, i am just absolutely thrilled that Dale Russakoff chose the Newark Public Library to launch her brand new book, her muchanticipated, her absolutely fascinating, brand new book, the prize, with the subtitle, whos in charge of americas schools. This is the very first event that she will be doing. Shell be doing a series of programs and interviews as she travels across the country to introduce her book to the public, so we are really honored to be the first. And were also honored to be the venue where an extremely Important Community conversation will be taking place tonight. After all, a Critical Role of libraries as you know is to invite Community Members to engage in discussions of important issues to that community. There is no doubt in
[applause]. [applause] back to back via [applause] please join me one more round of applause for these people that have shared in theire jo the musical talent. All [applause] the ensemble by chuck and the Orange High School choir. [applause] before we close i would like to highlight an event at the nixon library. On sunday december 6 at 12 noon in the east room of the Nixon Foundation will host the sixth annual honoring hometown event where we recognize those that have given their lives in military service from california honoring the gold star families we invite you to attend and join us in honoring them. As inspired as i am by his presentations into the incredible warrior i highly recommend you purchase a copy of the book. Thank you for being here and god bless our veterans and the United States in america. [applause] next a Panel Discussion on race and politics from the 17th annual harlem book fair. Im going to begin by introducing my fellow panelist briefly and then we will just ge