Rises in the back of the pavilion. We are here to listen to peniel joseph. I have the pleasure of interviewing and the 11 on the occasion of the 2010 book dark days, bright nights, from black power to barack obama. It was one of those wonderful, and hurried cspan book conversations. I never met him before and i was so impressed not only by intellect but by his ease, he melody and introspection. I left thinking i am going to read all of that dudes books from now on until the end of time. He is the author of the Award Winning waiting until the midnight hour, a narrative history of black power in america but the book he has come to discuss today and why i am sure you are all here is stokely a life which was described in the New York Times review as an insightful, highly engaging affluent biography, of Stokely Carmichael, the man widely seen as heir apparent in the black leadership hierarchy to Martin Luther king jr. And malcolm x following their assassination. And the reporting committee,
Started by washington and continued by jefferson became pa paramount to law. It was a deeply respected practice and very few considered challenging and no one had succeeded. He was going to retire because he said that he was tired and he was broke. And he was both. He had already designed and was then building the first president ial library in america in hyde park new york which has been restored. I urge you to go see that. It is a fabulous experience. He built a retreat called top cottage at hyde park where he could get away from visitors he knew would come. He signed a contract to write regular articles and was going to write his memoirs and two of the top aids were going to come do this. He was thinking about retirement and he was enjoying. There were third term rumbles about whether or not he might run. But nothing to it. He didnt give it any serious attention. Then as kevin mentioned at the beginning of the book he was woken in the middle of the night, september 1st, 1939 to be t
Largely go unprosecuted. So in the weeks coming up, i plan to have a meeting with the District Attorneys Office to push on him and ask questions about his prosecution rate and will be moving with extreme deliberate force and swiftness on our citys approach to violence and violence prevention. As you know the budget legislative analyst tooted instituted a report and found that we spent millions of dollars on this but none of the city departments have received this money or any form of coordination. That is something that im taking on as a priority and i welcome my colleagues to join me on this. Also want to call into record recognition of a wonderful woman who has been a long time bayview resident recently passed away. Her name was ms. Rosy lee howard born 1926 in edward mississippi and baptized into the saint James Baptist church. At the early age of 16 ms. Lee moved with her aunt and uncle johnny. She met her husband of 50 years, mr. Vernon howard. To this union, three children were b
Of sense except we want to make sure there is not a duplications of leadership involved in these departments and contradict and the Oversight Committee to ensure there is greater participation and the over site body. Supervisor london breed supervisors avalos made a motion. Is there a second. Supervisor yee. There is no other colleagues on the roster. Can we take the amendment without objection . Without objection the amendment passes. Just for clarification madam, that was item 22. Thank you. I just want to thank there are a lot of offices that worked on putting this together specifically supervisor norman yees office and jen low and my office has played a larger role with a lot of Community Groups to make sure we had a body that was going to be strong and made sure we meet the concerns as you had as we bring this legislation forward. Thank you. Supervisor london breed thank you, do we have a motion to move this item forward . Moved by supervisor kim, seconded by supervisor yee. Colle
Better groups in the Common Wealth club in position to pass that information on to future generations. Supervisor london breed supervisor wiener in supervisor scott weiner i will be supporting the motion and i wont repeat the rational by supervisors kim and christian son. I would like to take a moment to welcome supervisor deerden and i look forward to a day that we can take high speed rail and bart to san jose. Thank you, supervisors campos. Supervisor david campos thank you, madam president. I also wanted to welcome former supervisor and thank him for his service to the bay area and you know, its not very many of us have a station named after us. So its quite an honor to meet you in person. Let me just make a couple of points. First of all let me say that i wasnt still totally clear about the explanation provided by planning. I think that the way that it was presented at least to me, just came across as convoluted. I actually though you the council for the project sponsor, you know,