clapping and back in 2004 you look back and now 11 years and think oh gosh a for begun conclusion you know that was not the case it took uncommon leadership we had that in our City Attorney Dennis Herrera that was an honor to work with him side by side welcome our City Attorney Dennis Herrera clapping. happy pride. Thank you kate and mayor ed lee im sure with the great weather were going to or have this weekend what a wonderful, wonderful today i had Justice Harry stewart in my office remember where we were 11 years ago and about the challenges that we knew we were going to face as and began this battle looked at gavin newsom and we stood on the steps midmarket over the course of the years weve had ups and downstairs all of us collectively never waived in doing what was right as ii think back weve uttered the words in this building about the arc of history bends towards justice well, today, it. Came to fruition clapping. i think we need to call a special recollection to the plaintiffs
Special recollection to the plaintiffs and our good friend mary for her tremendous leadership in the United States Supreme Court but we we saw a culmination of something ive said repeating in the course of 11 years the beauty of making the law to make a difference in peoples lives we saw that over the course but it wouldnt have happened without the human faces of all of you if you han or have the opportunity to go and read judicious kennedys opinion this morning ill encourage you to read the introduction it talks about the history of a marriage the history of discrimination to the Lgbt Community has dealt with and you get a sense of the power of humanity and the ability to change peoples lives today everybody succeeded in bring justice to the thousands and thousands of lgbt families and individuals that have suffered from melissa and today it stops. clapping. thats due to the effort of all of you think about the progress 22 and prop 6815 years ago now how many people have come to the r
Humanity and the ability to change peoples lives today everybody succeeded in bring justice to the thousands and thousands of lgbt families and individuals that have suffered from melissa and today it stops. clapping. thats due to the effort of all of you think about the progress 22 and prop 6815 years ago now how many people have come to the right confliction about understanding that everybody is entitle to equal protection under the law eir respect of Sexual Orientation but the kate has said another brick of the foundation of equality it didnt stop here if were going to build the justice side that is more work in terms of inequality and economic less fortunate to deal with racism to understand that today is a wonderful day to be celebrated we have to understand there are still discriminates we have to fight and we need equal protection under the law in federal employment for lgbt individuals thought this country to make sure the efforts of people like jim harry necessarily and robert
Of us thank you. Thank you, david were not done. clapping. providing tremendous leadership on the board of supervisors and tremendous leadership to the city please welcome the do president supervisor president breed clapping. okay. Well on behalf of the london breed i accept this award. Thank you very much for recognizing what ive done for the city laughter one of my favorite city leaders i love what hes contributed and the support of our entire community our treasurer jose cisneros. Good morning. I join you in being proud im proud to tell you over 10 years im a gay open gay latino here in San Francisco. clapping. and i am proud of what weve done to make this possible i want to share one thing im permanently proud of the last year i was in a legal marriage with my partner mark like so many of you weve been able to make our relationships just as responsible and legal and important as just the same as everyone else in the country thank you fewer proud of the u. S. Supreme court and have
Professor adam rothman talks about the jesuits, Roman Catholic religious order and their history during the 18th and 19th century as slave owners in maryland and the washington, d. C. Area. He also looks at how georgetown founded by the jesuits benefitted from the slave economy. This 90minute la tee sha woods brown memorial lek kmur is given annually to honor the pioneering africanamerican educator and historian and was part of a conference on washington, d. C. History. Id like to begin by thanking the Historical Society of washington, d. C. For the opportunity to deliver this years latisha woods brown lecture. Professor brown was a champion of the africanAmerican History of washington, d. C. And its a real thrill for me to be able to honor her work and life in this forum. It was really just touching and moving to hear your recollections of your grandmother. And i cant tell you how happy it makes me to hear from you that she would approve of and appreciate the work that were doing at g