Atversity Faculty Affairs Howard University and this places her in the enviable position of having to say no to everyone. [laughter] she is the former chair of history at howard. She is the former interim dean and professor of history. Her works focus on africanAmerican History and the history of the jacksonian era, the reconstruction. Include theworks emancipation proclamation three views which is now coming out in paperback. The price of freedom, slavery and the civil war. Volume one and volume two. As well as the historical perspectives of the african Burial Ground new york blacks and the diaspora. What i have always found about her scholarship is she reminds us of the humid told of the civil war. We often can float into abstractions or perhaps im speaking of myself and the world look at history from a detached perspective but she is always there to remind us of the humid toll, the humid bring this conflict to life for us. Please welcome and a green medford. Medford. Reen [applause]
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Street, and the same experience that i just read supervisor preston had with regard to a potential Navigation Center in the Fifth District in the heart of our city. So i wanted to ring that note of optimism as we are all rolling in the same direction in different ways, but the people of the city and county of San Francisco should be commended. And with that, supervisor safai has made a motion to continue this to the call of the chair. And we are adjourned. Great. Is our United States constitution requires every ten years that america counts every human being in the United States, which is incredibly important for many reasons. Its important for preliminary representation because if Political Representation because if we under count california, we get less representatives in congress. Its important for San Francisco because if we dont have all of the people in our city, if we dont have all of the folks in california, california and San Francisco stand to lose billions of dollars in fund
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And watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv. On cspan2. Good evening everyone and thanks for being here tonight at Balboa High School in San Francisco. I am susan solomon, i am a kindergarten and prek teacher currently serving as president of the united educators of San Francisco. [applause] thank you so how many educators we have in the room today . Okay, a lot of them. And Community Supporters . Those two. We also have San Francisco board of education member with this allison collins, glad you could make it i see others walk in, zero Gabrielle Lopez another school board member. So happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to hear diane ravitch, i have a couple of housekeeping items. Can trade a retired social studies teacher in San Francisco, taught here at one time, is passing out cards on which you can write questions. So our format is going to be diane and i are going to talk for a little while, and then we will open the floor to questions from the aud