She sits in the Domestic Violence court. She spent 10 years as a prosecutor. She is an adjunct professor of law. Before graduating from law school, she was a journalist in washington dc where she one copy number of prizes. Tonight, she will be speaking about Dorothy Ferebee, a civil rights activist. Although dr. Fairly grew up in virginia although dr. Dorothy ferebee grew up in virginia, she attended Simmons College. A number of you are from Simmons College. Thank you for coming. [laughter] she became the president of the National Council of negro women. She is Vice President s and congress. She was a household name, but today is almost forgotten. Discuss her will and her and a national context. Thank you for coming. [applause] that lovely for introduction. Can you all hear me . Ok. Thank you all for coming. On june 11, 1963, president kennedy appeared on National Television to ask congress to enact landmark civil rights legislation. Now remember, this was not the you have towhere fill
Really good now. We decided to reverse our foreign oil. So today we generate more ever and more natural gas than anybody for the first tphaoeupl nearly 20 years produces more of our own oil than we buy from other countries. Oosh news. Hen i took Office America invested far less than china did in Wireless Infrastructure and narrowed the gap and helped and nies unleash Jobs Education and created hundreds of thousands of jobs. 5 of the ago only worlds smart phones run on merica operating systems and today more than 80 do. Nd yes, we decided to fix a system. Healthcare interesting i was alking to some of the studewed executives here and i said the rollout of new healthcare rough. Lace was nobody was more frustrated about with our website than i am. Yet here in Southern California across the state, there are thousands of people every who are getting ealthcare for the first time, for the first time because of this. By the way, the websites working better so check it out. Country, were not po
I know it is not the only answer, but behavior modification is one piece when people start to be rewarded by observation. And i can speak from being a midwesterner myself and seeing a lot of people in this area of the country and this age group specifically respond very well to that. I do not disagree with you at all. My mother had a famous saying a minute on your lips, forever on your hips. I got that a long time ago. Still, that is the way it goes. The bottom line is you can only change your behavior if the environment allows for it. When 600,000 food items have 80 adulteration by added sugar, it is awfully hard to change your behavior in a toxic environment. The toxic environment has to improve in order for you to be able to manifest those changes in behavior. That is what i would say. And to sustain them over time. That is all, thank you. That is all the time we have. I would like to remind you rob will stick around a little bit to sign his book. Finally, i would like to thank him.
Story, and i think that is not any less important. Quite frankly, there are places like that. Think about how many news organizations today have bureaus around the country or bureaus around the world, where people actually work and live, in egypt or in other places, so i think , and the joyhanged of the digital air is the speed and the reach and the ability to take in point of view very and bring that into some story. It is a remarkable opportunity for us all. The downside is clear. Sudden, everybody is looking at the photo of the boston bomber. Theybody knows who is boston bomber. He has been clearly identified. The only problem is it is not him, because it swept through the world so fast, and that kind of accuracy is critical. Especially when decisions are being made so fast. Ok, lets go back for a moment. During your interview, you spoke quite enthusiastically about the local journalism effort. Since the interview, a bunch of things have been announced, and the main thing is that yo
That, and they are willing to continue to work with the afghan troops, and theres really no other way to do it. You cannot mentor from behind a wall, or another base, or over the phone. You have to put yourself out there a little bit. It is one of the unfortunate realities, and it is not something that is taken lightly. Host rick in nashville, tennessee, on our line for independents. Caller i do not understand why we cannot take our troops out of afghanistan, and use our drones, technology, to help with the afghan army. We cannot trust them. We have our kids coming back. We have a Health Care Issue that is hampering the problem. Put the troops on the border, and you kill three birds with one stone and make America Great like it is because at this rate we are going downhill and they will loan us. Us. Guest you bring up a good us. Guest you bring up a good point, while we cannot remove troops and maintain some level of awareness of what is going on in afghanistan and still be able to tar