Will speak with local authors about the citys history, starting with its link to booker t. Washington. And in about 20 minutes, the Chemical Spill that contaminated charlestons water system and then in 50 minutes, theWest Virginia teachers strike. We begin with booker t. Washington. Booker t. Washington was for 20 years the spokesman and leader of African Americans in america and at the time we had horrible jim crow race notes in the south, that didnt happen here in West Virginia. It was a different sort of Race Relations and what he observed with his heroes was the building of a black middle class and that became his path, his career path as he went from dusky to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born in a place called hales ford south of roanoke virginia, 220 miles from here and in those first nine years he was a slave boy. He didnt have pants. He wore a slave boys shirt, shoes were two wooden slats with a piece of leather across each toe across thetop. He wanted very much to go
We appreciate the thoughtfulness and collaboration towards taking the city administrator and we look forward to seeing this passed unanimously at the board of supervisors. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning. I want to think the city administrator and president yee for the leadership on this. As a company, i am with post mate, a company that was involved with very early on. It has been awesome to see how we can create a Regulatory Framework, i think were one of the only companies that has applied for and complied within that framework. But also to see now the development of this office which we think will go a really long way in getting the last speakers remarks. When we champion and want to celebrate this office, we have a couple of thoughts based off of our today. One, when it comes to the selection to the director of this office i think this is an Incredible Opportunity of someone that has only worked in the Public Sector prior to coming to the private sector. I think havi
And one of the things that is so striking about this day, that i know a lot of us can see when we see the signs that we are carrying, is that of the 26 transgendered women that have been killed this year, 24 of them are black transgendered women. And with that, there was a speaker earlier today, a performance artist and poet named miss mojo who asked, what do we do when two black transgendered women are getting murdered every month. What do we do . And thats a really important and hard question for us to answer about what we can do. And in that, i wanted to take leadership in trans women of color and what they are saying. And one of the things Racquel Willis is a amazing editor at out magazine. She wrote a post today but all the things we can do. And one of the big things is investing in our communities. Investing in our leadership, putting resources in these organizations, and particularly with black transgendered women. So with that, kicking off transgender day of remembrance is impo
With support from Cable Partners this weekend, we traveled to charleston, West Virginia. Coming up in the next hour we speak with local authors about the citys history starting with the link to booker t. Washington. In 20 minutes the Chemical Spill that contaminated charlestons water system and in 50 minutes the teacher strike. We begin with booker t. Washington. Booker t. Washington, the spokesman and leader of africanamericans in america, at the time, had horrible jim crow race codes in the south. That didnt happen in West Virginia. What he observed in his boyhood heroes was the building of a black middle class that became his path, his career path from teske to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born south of corona, virginia, 225 miles from here. And those nine years he was a slave boy, he didnt have pants, he wore a slave boy shirt, shoes, across the top, he wanted very much to go to school and he wasnt able to do that. He left the farm in 1865 after the civil war end, there w
The committee will now come to order. Good morning. To rest of this hearing is examine how state policies like those in missouri are impacting residents access to comprehensive Reproductive Health Care Services including abortion. Without objections the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. For audience purposes we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn we request and we ask you to respect the proceedings as we go forward in todays hearings. With that i will recognize myself to give an Opening Statement. I would like to begin by acknowledging that this is the First Full Committee Hearing we have held since our friend, our colleague and our beloved chairman Elijah Cummings passed away. Chairman cummings spent his entire life fighting for justice and equality for everyone. He was a fierce champion for womens access to health care. Across the country, extreme forces and State Governments are taking draconian steps to violate womens rig