[organ music playing] is we remain standing, we prepare now for the wharq servant, theublic honorable Elijah Eugene cummings. It shall be done in a few draping ofter the the coffin by the honor guard. [horn sounds] amen. Was a cummings churchman. We sing to the glory of thgod this morning that opening hymn that meant so much to him. Bishop thomas you may be seated. Let us pray. Lord, we thankyou for your servant, Elijah Eugene cummings, assiduously, sagacious, and with integrity to preserve and protect the sacrosanct founding document of this country, from enemies both foreign and domestic. Lord, we thank you for one who stayed the same wherever he was as he ironically embodied kiplings command to walk with kings yet not lose the common touch. For ruthe praise you and robert cummings. You, thatt, we bless you lived in him, spoke through him, and strengthened him to do the work of kingdom building in the guise of a congressman and committee chair. Father, whereas we come to pay rose tha
Rules that have been around forever. Thank you. One other note on uber. Republican president ial candidate jeb bush plans to hail an uber during his visit to San Francisco tomorrow. He is trying to show that he embraces new technology drawing a contrast with hillary clinton. Clinton has bashed the Business Practices of Companies Like uber. San jose police will be begin testing body cameras in the field next week but critics say it wont work. Kpix 5s devin fehely found out thats because officers wont always have to keep them on. Reporter thats right. Its taken the Police Department years to get to this point. Its on the verge of equipping its officers with body cameras and while that might sound like a major milestone, a watchdog of this Department Says this new policy has major problems. After years of false starts and food dragging San Jose Police will begin field testing body cameras on monday a reform that watchdog groups have long hoped would provide greater accountability and over
Rights and other courses in critical race studies and constitutional law. Shes been a leader in the Critical Race Theory movement. And in fact, founded a think tank devoted to the study of issues of race and gender entitled the africanamerican policy forum. Shes published extensively in this area. A graduate of cornell and Harvard Law School and has a masters degree from the university of wisconsin. To my immediate right, larry gibson is distinguished professor at the university of Maryland School of law. Professor gibson is the author of a book that i hope many of you have purchased and will read and its called Young Thurgood. A wonderful biography of Justice Marshalls years growing up here in baltimore and beginning to practice law here. Professor gibson himself grew up in baltimore, attended Howard University as under graduate, then earned his law degree from l columbia. The first africanamerican law professor at the university of virginia before accepting a faculty position here in
Cases and civil cases here in baltimore and all the way up to the Supreme Court. Hes taught here and at the Wharton School and has received awards for his teaching, scholarship and mentorship. Ill begin the questioning of this panel. Then i would invite people who have questions to come to the microphone. Ill turn it over to the audience as we progress, but i want to start by asking mick the filmmaker, what brought him to this subject. Why Thurgood Marshall. How did you get from Hubert Humphrey to Thurgood Marshall . That was actually a direct route. What happened was we interviewed Roger Wilkins in the Hubert Humphrey film. They were friends. When we were close to the end of the film i was looking for a new subject and i called roger and said id like to do a film on your uncle roy. He said i love my uncle roy. He was just straight, he did all kinds of wonderful work but he was sort of a midrange sort of businessman type. He was a suit and he just its not that exciting a story. If you
For knowing how to put machines together and make them run. He was born into a world of limited horizons. And though he left the farm that might have been his heritage, he never lost his love for the land and the everlasting cycle of seed time and harvest. What he accomplished helped men put the burden of work on machines and broke the barriers of space and time. Of isolation and distance. His life was a paradox. While his mechanical genius helped to change forever the lives of people ever where, he sought to preserve in some permanent form, a record of the world around him and his eve everwidening interest in it. He collected buildings the way others collect stamps. And put them in a village where time stands still. He assembled acres of machines and put them under cover in a vast historical museum. And early, he discovered the astonishing capacity of the Motion Picture camera to document for all time whatever it saw when the crank was turned. In april 1914, at his holland park plant,