I know one of the things we need is Extracurricular Activities for more advanced accelerated students because right now all we really have is activities such as tutoring or mentorships for students who are studying struggling in school. I brought this up yesterday but i did not get an answer. [laughter] [applause] they said something about j. O. N. But i am really scared. [laughter] you are doing great. You are doing great. Ok. [indiscernible] [applause] [crying] you can do it. M. , i am not allowed to use it. I think it is weird because when i go home, i cant do certain activities. That is what i have to say. Thank you. [applause] i will try to give you an answer you did not get yesterday and appreciate you having the courage to speak up and continue to challenge us to do better. We have to do academic enrichment for kids who are behind and who are struggling. We need to give more opportunities for children to learn native languages, all of our young people. We also need to make sure
Functioning yet, its probably as well as its going to function right now, because it hasnt really completely been unrolled. But to help them understand a just basicabout economics and why, if you just a Grocery Store without any prices on anything, all the first,at would be taken and there would be nothing left. In other words, there would be no way to coordinate the thing. Problem with not only obamacare but with the Health Care System in this country as a whole. Are other people who are present here, who know much more about that. Question of a differentis question than the question of argumentation. The facts are, the facts and we need to present those reasonably. Winsomeness is saying it in a gentle way that bespeaks respect for the other person. And that can be very disarming. Then it really gets to kind of core values where you can have, i think, a more fruitful conversation and maybe even a more profound disagreement that need not be disagreeable, but sometimes they become disag
Themselves. Now you talk. Reporter governor christie did the same at a bigger table. There are opportunities here. Reporter steps away from the quiet breakfast spot surrounded by city and state leaders, he says they cant win without a state casino competition. With a tremendous loss in its tax base which declined in tandem with casino revenues. Reporter among the recommendings to fix the fiscal crisis, appointing an emergency manager. Marvin williams lost two casino jobs after investing 30 years here. It opens up in other states. I never dreamed these casinos would shut down. Reporter still the time line to bring the jobs and the casino back is on the horizon. The fact is the first thing you need to do is stop the bleeding. Reporter now, governor christie did not comment on stocktons interest to buy the showboat casino. He said what will happen next will be careful review and consideration of both recommendations, possible school, tax and Pension Reforms that could happen by means of e
Preparation for the opening of these museums or, excuse me, for these restaurants the original neon sign for mintons mayhouse was taken off and given to the play mouths was taken off and given to the yet to be opened africanamerican museum at the smithsonian. And i would just like to ask both of you if you really seriously think that harlem can avoid becoming a praise where the schomburg a place where the schomburg is sort of like a synagogue in china town. [laughter] real. Yeah, thats very real. Michael, ive heard you express that before, and i think its absolutely something anyone who cares needs to have their eye trained on. I also think as long as there are black people in the streets of harlem and im just hike, even as i say that, all these encounters i overhear and pass through and cross through in the most amazing poetic ways, like that is its own space making. And i have my own inner debate about, you know, i had a conversation with a friend about the we were looking at the ren
Inspired all the time either work of these young scholars. A day that farah came to speak to our class, the work were studying was pain, which is already one of my favorite books. It was so moving because i realized while she was giving us this wonderful guidance, the first time id been taught literature by a black person, besides my mother who was of course my first instruction in reading and writing but its one of those moments that if you like should be marked and i want to extend my gratitude for that, and you continue to inspire me. Thank you so much. Thats the great joys of teaching, you dont know who is sitting out there in terms of this extraordinarily talented young writer who i would read it many years later without knowing that she was one of the students in the class. So its really lovely to think it also for being here tonight. I wanted to ask farah to share with us the introduction of harlem nocturne. Is really a beautiful way she brings these women onto the page pics i w