Gentleman from tennessee, dr. Roe and the gentleman from california, mr. Takano, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from tennessee. Mr. Roe i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. The speaker pro tempore so granted. Mr. Roe i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the chairman is recognized. Mr. Roe i rise in support h. R. 4533 as amended, a bill to designate the collective Health Care Facilities of the department of Veterans Affairs v. A. In lexington, kentucky as the lexington, v. A. Health care system, to designate the Lexington Medical Center lease salsleythe franklin are campus. This bill is sponsored by my good friend congressman andy barr from kentucky and im grateful for introducing this legislation. One Health Care Facility of the department of veteran affairs located at 2250 in leasetown road would be the would be named after private first class salsly.
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It positioned a black family is traditional. They brought you inside a Nuclear Black family in a way that was pathology is our caricatured in American Literature and Popular Culture but also did not show in the difficulties in dealing with the challenges of stigma inequality command race in general. Continuing the tour. This is a kind of interesting story. Currently as i mentioned a part of the collection includes amazing fine art and represents the can of like raise. Aa year and a half ago from the bronx reached out to the curator and said i want to give the schaumburg. Come check it out. This was purchased by the gentleman father in1941 with the original bill of sale for 125 still on the back of this panel. Whatwhat makes it even more interesting is this panel was done during the same year as the great migration series. This series is now exhibition in collaboration with the philips. New york. All 60 panels come together. Jacob lawrence himself heres the thing, not only do we have an
AfricanAmerican History is how bad it is. So the history piece is one thing, but also even in this moment. Thats how i started off right . In this moment its all a about how we are diagnose, right . Slow death dying right . At what point do i have any agency to do anything you know, theres a distinction in the world between optimists and pessimists. Turns out that optimists get things done. Optimists succeed. It turns out that pessimists are right about the world. Right. [laughter] right right right right. And i just want to, i want to introduce a term. This is not an academic term, but its a term that i got from some of the black women that i worked with in detroit who were around 16 years old. And they said theres a difference between a struggle, the struggle and struggley with an ly, and they say a struggle is what we go through as human beings on this planet. The struggle they define as specific to the africanamerican experience in this country. And they said but struggley is when
Next, from earlier this month at the harlem book fair, a panel on africanamerican identity. [applause] thank you very much. And im happy to be in harlem, because theres a lot of exciting things happening here at the harlem book fair and eternally grateful to Max Rodriguez for continuing the tradition. Di the my name is virginia vanessa ando many years ago i was a fashion journalist in rome, italy. I worked for a daily newspaper, and i was coming out of an afro and platform shoes. And i asked my editor, what was the uniform . What was the code of dress to be a fashion journalist covering Armani Versace and valentino . The coverage versus the town she said have expensive jewelry invested in a set of rules but also sensible shoes. Always where black. You dont no how expensive for how cheap that article of clothing is. Asas you can see and you watch television, his around in black. But today the woman on this panel are going to tackle the topic of fashioning the self the image of black. We