We do have some republican governors who are helping us who have expanded medicaid and their state helping us to protect medicaid, because they are out to get medicaid with attacks. Good morning. Blessings be upon all of you. Task foren given the invocation. Let not this prayer be in futility that our hearts are not present. Let it not be a service of the lips when the hearts are not in line. I want you to look into your hearts. Forget where you are come and be in the presence of god for a second. Feel the presence of god and look within your heart. It is important for us that when we pray, we are in the presence of god and humble ourselves. If we look into the words of the , prophetradition mohammed taught us that if the heart is sound and upright, then the entire body is sound and upright, and if the heart is corrupt and ill, then the entire body will suffer illness and corruption, and many times the world we see around us is reflection of the human heart that exist throughout the wo
Plenary. This sponsored Community Partnerships and the preservation of africanAmerican History sites and the National Park Services Second century. It is an honor to be here with plenary participants especially especially mr. Stanton and mr. , franklin. I would like to take this opportunity to underscore our enthusiasm for the park Service Partnership with the association for the study of africanamerican life in history. The park Service Needs this collaboration as we reach to more nuanced exploration of american stories, and sharing those stories with a wide audience in innovative ways. I hope you already know, or will discover, the National Park service is a good partner. Our civil rights initiative, begun this year, offers opportunities for collaboration, and in fact, the park Service Plans to create opportunities to help Park Services interpret interpreters research africanamerican stories associated with parks. The skills as researchers and historiography and teachers, our our ski
A youngster . As i reflect on my background i would think the first person would be my mother. She was not an educated woman but she believed very strongly in education. And insisted that my sister and myself, that we study hard that we do what we needed to do. She believed that we had the potential to do the schoolwork, so she insisted that we concentrate and focus very strongly on education. She was a nononsense county of parent. The report card had to be turned in, she wanted to see the homework. She would visit the school any time. Even though we didnt have a car shed change buses two or three times to come see how we were doing and to interact with the teachers. The teachers that i had and in particular a teacher that i had named miss jordan who was again a nononsense teacher but a very caring person. Miss jordan always used to tell us, dont ever put yourself down, that you can do it, take your time, and put forth the best effort. My teachers also taught me that education was abso
There are hundreds or thousands of folks from your states involved as well. What i want to do is talk briefly about the threat which is a very real threat. I take it seriously and i know all who are here will take it seriously as well, and that threat is why i support the basic pillars of the president s fourpoint Initiative Announced two wednesdays ago. Im going to talk about that, the president s four points briefly. But whatever want to dig into with, i hope you will see my passion coming through my wonkiness because im going to dig into this in a significant way, is a series of six reasons why i think it is absolutely critical legally, or president reasons, for the reputation of our institution, and especially for the servicemen and women we are asking to risk their lives, i think it is critical that congress complete the authorization that it began last week when a boat on the army of moderate elements in syria. It is critical that congress do this. If were going to engage this mi
Keep it from being too strong, but keep it from being weakened on the floor, and because they conducted debate in whats known as the committee of the whole, votes were not recorded by and large, and the only way to know how someone voted was to be there physically and watch, and except for reporters, no one could take notes on paper in the house gallery so the forces led by Clarence Mitchell and others devised a system of gallery watchers, the segregationists called them vultures, but they had to sit there and keep notes in their head who was voting how, what amendment, and in the precell phone era, had to round up family members to make sure enough were on the floor at any one time to defeat hostile legislative mischief, so a bunch of young activists led by a Woman Working for the textiles who is still alive fighting all the fights, would sit in a telephone tree and they heard something was happening on the floor, they would physically go run office to office, going come on, and after