Good afternoon. Its kind of quiet in here. I walked in and i felt like i was at a funeral. Well have to do something about this. The bodys not here. It was really somber and everything. I know the weather is impacting us, but id like to welcome you. My name is johnny taylor. Im the president and ceo of the Thurgood Marshall college fund. Welcome to our headquarters. This is home for us. We share this building with gallup, our partner in the work that well be embarking upon in the next several years and id like to welcome you to our home. Id like to start up and tell you why we are here and turn it over to the panelists is to introduce a very special person in the room. A whole bunch of special people, but a very special person here is the founder of the Thurgood Marshall college fund, dr. Jois payne. Dr. Payne, please stand. [ applause ] payne. Dr. Payne, please stand. [ applause ]o payne. Dr. Payne, please stand. [ applause ]y payne. Dr. Payne, please stand. [ applause ]c payne. Dr. P
This house looks at like now. Were going to have meliek zoom in a little bit. You can see one of the tampa firerescue trucks is leaving the scene. Thats because the investigators are getting ready to go inside. The fire was put out shortly after it was called in. It was called in around 3 50 in the morning. They got the fire out at 4 17. Im told there were four People Living there at the time, all of them adults. A 73yearold female and the rest were all males in their 30s. One person is in the hospital, a 35yearold male. I am told that he has nonlife threatening injuries. A neighbor tells me that he was out here with the garden hose trying to put the fire out himself. And i want you to hear what she says happened. Yeah, he had no shoes. Hes a spanish so hes pretty light skinned but he was dark. Like, you see the blackness all over him. Nose, i seen the blood coming. And instead he had grabbed a lot of hot stuff so, yeah, im hoping hes okay. But yeah, he went through a little storm. Rep
Maryland, and we created the most beautiful garden. And i was out there every single day in the spring and summer. And just to give you a sense of how beautiful it was, our daughter was married in that garden on june 16th in 1992. It turned out to be the hottest june day [laughter] in 75 years, and theres one photograph that was so wonderful of all the mens jackets on the fence. [laughter] so it was just great. But, yes, i love gardening. But living now in a condo, my gardening is restricted to my balcony. So just a few potted plants. Thank you. We have time for just one more question, diane. So hi. Hi. He had a feeling, i dont know how he had that feeling, but he was right. So i want to preface this by saying that you are looking fabulous for 79. [laughter] [applause] thank you, thank you. Shes looking fabulous for any age. [applause] thank you. [laughter] but my personal experience with aging, i never really knew anyone coincidentally, i lived with a woman over the summer that was al
Own. Dr. Louis sullivan is the founding dean and former health and Secretary Health and Human Service secretary. S hello, everyone, welcome to books at noon. I am jessica strand. The executive director of Public Events at the library and i will thrilled to introduce dr. Louis sullivan and i will have to read the long list of things. He is a policy leader, Minority Health advocate, author, served as the secretary of the u. S. Department of health and Human Services under george bush and the dean of the more house school of medicine and today dr. Sullivan will be discussing breaking ground so welcome we are happy to have you. Thank you. This is a bit different because i often do Fiction Books and occasionally memoirs but there is a lot to talk about here. It is a hard thing to say to somebody hi, can you sum up your life in two sentences. But in some brief way, i wanted you to tell the audience what this book covers. And i will dive in and build on specifics. Thank you very much. It is a
Said, quote, the whites retreated into the niggers. Others were called having to, quote, fix bayonets to stop them. This was a desperate moment for the men in the 4th division, but for the other three divisions, there was now an added element of an enraged enemy that was likely to treat them as accomplices in citing foreign slaves in selection. George kilmer noted, quote, it has been properly asserted that white men fell back into the greater in order to keep whites from confederate vengeance. The 36th massachusetts, quote, mix them up so they, the confederates, didnt show white men any mercy at all. A few days into the battle, charles j. Mills of the 56th massachusetts, spoke for many when he confided to his mother, quote, they cannot be trusted for anything and are, in short, a hideous mistake, i fear. He, of course, was referring to the black division. The three white divisions had spent the morning holding precariously to earthworks in and around the crater. But now their black com