Laughing before you said 10 years ago when you first started you had hair. Guest not a lot but i had hair. Host what started you down the road to actually put it ebony and ivy together . Guest its actually a long story that i can make short. I had just been moving from one job to another in a teaching position and i had just finished a book project and i started out on what i thought was going to be simple book, simple article actually. I was just going to explain how black abolitionist got their education given the fact that they were excluded by race from american colleges. I was just going to tell the story and some of them went to europe. Some of them went to new england and studied privately. Some of them studied privately in the atlantic and they became ministers and teachers and doctors and all sorts of things. But in fact one of the things i got more interested in if they started that project was why they were excluded from these colleges and universities. These colleges in fac
For one another, for her daughters and for her sons. If we push hard, this next wave can be the last ways. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders. [applause] i think weve seen what it takes to be a global phenomenon. First, and extraordinary business. A second extra antibusiness and on the level of impact on a global stage that all of us would love to have. I think we cheryl, you can see its not just your intellect. Its not just your experience. It is the whole cheryl. It is followed her. Mr. Charisma, leadership. Im proud to have worked with her and im looking forward to working with you about the new things are going to do. What an extraordinary leader, sheryl sandberg. [applause] looks to be fat, Oscar Goodman to discuss his memoir, being oscar. Mr. Goodman talks about cases he handled during his career as a criminal defense attorney and share stories from history terms as mayor of las vegas. This is about an hour. Being oscar is the name of the b
Enslaved black people. He has more slaves than faculty. He has more slaves than trustees. Accounting, honest a bubbly more slaves than students. Today we speak with m. I. T. Historian greg Stephen Wilder about ebony and ivy race, slavery, and the troubled history of americas universities. And we look at traces of the trade, a story from the deep north. One know in my family realized were that the walls were the largest slave trading family in the nation. They brought over 10,000 africans to the americans in chains. Half a million of their descendents could be alive today. With katrinaeak brown about how she traced her familys shocking history. All that and more coming up. We turn to a new book 10 years in the making that looks at how some of the countrys major universities, harvard, yale, then, rutgers, williams, university of north carolina, just to name a few, are drenched in the sweat and sometimes blood of the african slaves that were brought here. The book is called ebony and ivy
Enslaved black people. He has more slaves than faculty. He has more slaves than trustees. Accounting, honest a bubbly more slaves than students. Today we speak with m. I. T. Historian greg Stephen Wilder about ebony and ivy race, slavery, and the troubled history of americas universities. And we look at traces of the trade, a story from the deep north. One know in my family realized were that the walls were the largest slave trading family in the nation. They brought over 10,000 africans to the americans in chains. Half a million of their descendents could be alive today. With katrinaeak brown about how she traced her familys shocking history. All that and more coming up. We turn to a new book 10 years in the making that looks at how some of the countrys major universities, harvard, yale, then, rutgers, williams, university of north carolina, just to name a few, are drenched in the sweat and sometimes blood of the african slaves that were brought here. The book is called ebony and ivy
Way he was doing things the could have elevated the two chairmen or ceo but you never know. It is what it is i am happy as i look back with mostly great satisfaction. Host most i think would say you havent had a very successful career. Are you really retired . What is next . Certainly i will not be an executive and a Major Corporation but i am a contributor to force, d. C. Contributor i write a column for a magazine and a board member for a variety of companies and two consulting and i am now involved man with a partner in producing premium mens watches and one of which is right here starting a small automotive venture. I have plenty to keep me busy. Host why i dont call that retired. You have a lot of wisdom that Somebody Just starting a new one to follow in your footsteps of what was a your party words of wisdom be male or female with leadership . First of all, be passionate. If you are passionate about fashion or the furniture business go with that. If its about the hospitality go i