Honored to have such distinguished guests seated on the stage who will later be introduced by mr. Alan williams, president of the africanamerican historical and Cultural Society. Each year when we celebrate black History Month, we adopt the National Theme of the association for the study of African American life and history founded by the late dr. Quarter jean woodson. Father of black history week that later became black History Month. This year, the National Theme is, the crisis in black education. The executive summary found in your Program Addresses the theme. We will follow the order of the program. Now, rev. Dr. Amos c brown, civil rights leader and pastor of Historic Third Baptist Church will bring the invocation followed by mr. Eldridge anthony, who will lead uswho is the conductor of the Willie L Brown wilson choir leading us in singing with every voice and sing, the Negro National anthem. Please, stand. Thank you. Let us now pause and give acknowledgment to our maker. Oh, unmo
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Before i introduce you to our colleague steve moore, ist wanto remind you all you have pens and papers on your chairs, which you can use for questions for the q a portion of the program tonight. I also want to help set the stage by sharing polling thats commissioned on the American Dream. That really is fundamentally what the book is about. We worked with our friend scott to find that 58 of americans say they feel very proud to be an american. 56 would rather live in a system we call opportunities to succeed and some end up successful, which is the definition of amerri bowltoxy. Ameritocracy. Theres concerning findings as well. Those get at the thrust to the American Dream, which is also a theme of this book. Only 37 agree that america is the stronga force for good in te world. Only 24 are very confident that we have as a nation the ability to fix the problems that we face. And fully 42 believe meshs best days have come and gone. Were looking forward to exploring these types of issues
Fired because he thought his life was in danger. He said he was tracking a deer and tried to leave. Now to the big story internationally. Late breaking details from kenya right now were all shabbat this claiming american citizens are part of a terrorist team that attacked the mall in nairobi. Somalis in america admitted to number about 85,000 have assimilated like other immigrants, but they acknowledge a few dozen young somalis have joined Al Qaeda Affiliated groups. No. Officials say there is confirmation that americans are part of the terrorist team. But somalis in the u. S. Say that it is possible. A lower impressionable kids into somalia. In a Large Community and minneapolis, alleges somali men with u. S. Passports went to join the jihad and get trained. In somalia. Fare about 15 have been killed. The other 25 are still over there. The fact any american would be fluent in english and be able to fit in here at home. Experts guest that they are not on the party list. What they had de