Where Live Streaming on facebook on youtube, twitter and you can catch us on axios. Com. You can join us and join us with our handle at axios. As a woman is seen in the streets and cities and in states across our country over the past 11 days theres an underlying problem that is yet to be fully addressed and with adequate reform and justice. So today we bring you four speakers, two with the National Perspective and two with a local perspective to begin to have a conversation about whats next and where we go from here. Let me just tell you that we have coming up today. We have derrick johnson, ceo of the naacp. We have Melvin Carter, mayor of st. Paul, minnesota. We have lovely warren, shes a rochester, new york,k, and web congressman bobby rush of illinois. So first i i want to start with our first guest, is president and ceo of a the naacp, derrick johnson. Welcome. Hes joining us live from jackson, mississippi. Thank you for havingroon me. Thank you so much. The first question i want
Humanity and the dignity of every person. This town hall that we are having today as part of an ongoing my brothers Keeper Alliance town whole series in my brothers keepers will was launched by president obama in 2014 after trayvon martin. The president launched it in the east room of the white house calling on america and everybody to do whatever they could in their power to make sure young men of color knew that they mattered into reduce the systemic barriers that stand in their way and make sure every young person has every opportunity to reach their dreams. Today the work of my brothers keeper continues at the my brothers Keeper Alliance at the Obama Foundation. Where we lead a network of 250 communities and a massive call to action to mayors and other folks in communities across the country, this is to build and have clear pathways of opportunity. We are excited to have president obama sharing his viewpoints today but also gathered a panel of local and National Experts who are fig
Good afternoon. Welcome to the june 9, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Could i have roll call, please. Thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer. Present. Supervisor haney. Supervisor mandelman. Present. Supervisor mar. Present. Supervisor peskin. Present. Supervisor preston. Present. Supervisor ronen. Present. Supervisor safai. Present. Supervisor stefani. Present. Supervisor walton. Present. Supervisor yee. Mr. President. All members are present. Thank you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Place your right hand over your heart, please. I pledge allegiance to the flago f america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. On behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each meeting and make the transcripts available to the public online. What i would like to do is before we go to communications, and before we get into our special order
Protest across the nation and the measured needed to Reform Police departments. Good afternoon. Im sarah cayhill. Im the executive editor at axios. And welcome to our live zoom event. Many of us are joining us live. We are Live Streaming on facebook. Were on youtube on twitter. And you can catch us on axios. Com. And if you are on twitter, you can join the conversation by using the hashtag ax yos events. And be sure to include our handle at axios. So lets get started. Im coming to you live from my home in washington, d. C. And today, we have a very big conversation. Our event is the epidemic of inequality. And today, we want to have an important conversation about systemic racism in our country. The reason were here is because of the death of of george floyd in minneapolis. But as everyone has seen in cities and states across our country over the past 11 days, theres an underlying problem that has yet to be fully addressed and with adequate reform and justice. So today, we are bringing
Lovely born, mayor of rochester, new york, and we have congressman bobby rush of illinois. So first i want to start with our first guest is president and ceo of the naacp, derrick johnson. While come. Hes joining live from jackson, mississippi. Thank you for having me. Thank you so much. The first question i want to ask you, derek, is about this moment. And where do we go from here . With seeing so many protests before. We have seen the beginning of the black lives Matter Protest Movement in the movement begin many years ago. And yet when we think about the problems and where to start, it does seem a bit overwhelming. It seems like so many things are entrenched in our institutions, some would ask you a think whats on a lot of americans minds right now, which is what you think is a first place to start . As we look at the situation in minneapolis, and you are so quick, its not isolated to minneapolis. This is a systemic decades long problem of racism. And for us to begin to heal as a na