Good evening. Thanks so much for coming out my name is andy grayville director of the Clemen Center for southwest studies here at smu let me start by thanking many people or at least a few of them who have helped make this evening possible starting m with our friend at the center for president ial history withor whom are cosponsoring this event tonight. Particularly jeffrey ankle Brian Franklin and ron that spitz i want to thank ruth and who coordinates things on our end for the Clemen Center so my pleasure to introduce Cameron Blevins who braved last nights weather to fly in from denver teaches digital humanities at the university of colorados campus in the mile high city before moving to front range he was assistant professor of history at Northeastern University in boston, and a core faculty member at the schools mu lab for text map and networks. They learned last night cameron is a nativity of the nutmeg state for those of you anybody knows what that is number of you ii was hoping
And dance. This is an hour and 10 minutes. Maxine waters, the most powerful black woman in america from the 43rd congressional district, lets give a big round of applause to maxine for her time. Wow, lets give a hand for everybody. [applause]. Icht im so proud to see all of you here. We have been presenting young gifted and black for many years, but i wanted you to know this is the 50th anniversary of hiphop. I also want you to know im the oldest person in america who loves hiphop. [laughter] and so, this is happy 50 years this anniversary, to an art form that has inspired us so much and inspired so much of the world. Now, ive had to defend hiphop and rap since long before it became this global phenomenon, since infancy, and when i was elected to congress in 1991, many politicians, including black politicians were either distancing themselves, or trying to sensor rap music. The same year, during a senate hearing, there were members of congress wanting to sensor rap music and so i decid
Engardio. And a Founding Member with me it is fitting we are closing it together as well. Well be joined by supervisor safai shortly. Here he is. Make his grand late entrance. Todays meeting is extremely special we are joind and i think it might be according to commissioner plumber the second time board of supervisors have official low joined in a joint meeting with Youth Commission. I feel very xoit exclude honored to be at the second historic garthing. And i want to welcome this joint session with the Youth Commissions Civic Engagement committee and would like to introduce the 5 members all of whom are present today. We have the committee cochairs. Marine loftus and steven hum. The cochair. Approximate we have members Vanessa Pimentel, utting and e wan plumber. I would like to welcome board of education president. Kevin bog us. We were going to seat you feel fro to stay there if you want to stay there. Okay. And bullly sit in the box so you have microphones and whenever you would lik
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[cheering] thats a good start. Thank you very much. Good evening. Im Bradley Graham the coowner of politics and prose along with my wife, Lisa Muscatine and on behalf of the entire staff, welcome, thank you so much for coming. [applause] hat a marvelous crowd. And what a great space for a book event. Thanks to the werner theater for making this spacious place available. As much as we do enjoy hosting our authors at our store on connecticut avenue northwest, we had a feeling [laughter] we had a feeling a somewhat larger venue would be needed for this one. [cheering] in fact, this is the largest author talk that weve ever sponsored. And tickets sold out in a matter of minutes, so congratulations. You all were the lucky ones. [cheering] since its release a week ago, what happened . Hillary clintons new book about the 2016 election has landed on the best seller list and generated seemingly nonstop commentary and conversation. Some things never change. Hillary has given a number of media in