This morning and next up here on cspan a look at the supreme courts landmark brown v. Board of education ruling, ending segregation in Public Schools, may 18 was the 63rd anniversary of that ruling. Educators and historians this week examined the impact of the decision. This three and a half hour forum is hosted by the Thurgood Marshall college fund. Good afternoon. I am its kind of quiet in here. Looks like i walked in and i felt i was at a funeral. We have to do something about this. Were going to the body is not here. You know it was really somber and everything. Id like to welcome you. My name is johnny taylor. Im the president and c. E. O. Of the Thurgood Marshall college fund. Welcome to our headquarters. This is home for us. We share this building with gallop, our partner in the work were going to be embarking upon over the next several years. But we just want to welcome you to our home. Id like to start off, though, before i tell you why were here and turn it over to the paneli
Good afternoon. Its quiet in here. I felt like ways in a funeral. We have to do something about. This the body is not here. You know, it was really somber and everything. I know the weather is impacting us. Id like to welcome you. My name is johnny taylor. Im the president and ceo of the Thurgood Marshall college fund. Welcome to our headquarters. This is home for us. We share this building with gallup, our partner in the work that were going to be embarking upon over the next several years. But we just want to welcome you to our home. Im going to tell why you were here and turn it over to the panelists. Were here toinlt deu introduce of special people in the room. A very special person here is the founder of the Thurgood Marshall college fund dr. Join payne. None of this would happen, we would not be here fit wasnt for her vision to create an organization that would really focus on the historically black college and university community. Our members are the state supported institution
Good afternoon. Its kind of quiet in here. I walked in and i felt like i was at a funeral. Well have to do something about this. The bodys not here. It was really somber and everything. I know the weather is impacting us, but id like to welcome you. My name is johnny taylor. Im the president and ceo of the Thurgood Marshall college fund. Welcome to our headquarters. This is home for us. We share this building with gallup, our partner in the work that well be embarking upon in the next several years and id like to welcome you to our home. Id like to start up and tell you why we are here and turn it over to the panelists is to introduce a very special person in the room. A whole bunch of special people, but a very special person here is the founder of the Thurgood Marshall college fund, dr. Jois payne. Dr. Payne, please stand. [ applause ] payne. Dr. Payne, please stand. [ applause ]o payne. Dr. Payne, please stand. [ applause ]y payne. Dr. Payne, please stand. [ applause ]c payne. Dr. P
[applause] thank you so much. Its great to be here at politics and prose again. This is the fifth installment of our race in america series. I want to thank politics and prose for the vision. A a lot of playings dont have the vision. This book store has set the tone for book stores round the nation to talk about such a sensitive issue, matters of race, and, yes, were authors, and we are people who are real and have dealt with this and written about it, and again issue want to thank politics and prose and cspan to think enough of the series to come out and cover. Dont get these kind of people in this kind of room without getting this kind of coverage. So i want to thank you all for being here tonight for our fifth installment i want you to feel free, feel welcome, feel at home, come to the microphone, and a question, intelligent, civil, and we will answer, and i want to without further adieu introduce the great, great panel. Were do some bullet points on their career and i want to start
Tell us whats being learned in the investigation. I know all of this has been very fluid and a developing situation, but darcy, what can you tell us tonight . Eric a imagine youre riding a metro train on a sunday afternoon and all of a sudden there is gun fire. That is exactly what happened. We are live here on the platform at the tacoma station. That shooting happened, as you said, on a train. It was headed this way. That train has since moved and just a few minutes ago metro has restored service. A quick update on the victim. We know that the victim is a teenage male. We dont know if hes an adult or a child, but we do know he was shot in the stomach. I think its insane. I think its insane. A Police Investigation taking place on this metro train at that time the tacoma station in d. C. , at 3 00 in the afternoon it happened as the red line train was pulling into the station. Riders are shaken up. Does it make you feel ea a little bit. It makes me feel unsafe because that could have be