Good afternoon. It is really quiet in here. We will have to do something about this. Im johnny taylor. The president and ceo of the Thurgood Marshall college fund. Welcome to our headquarters. We share this with gallup. To our to welcome you home. I would like to start out before i tell you why we are here in turn it over to the panelists, is to introduce a very special person. There are a whole bunch of special people. But a very special person here is the founder of the Thurgood Marshall college fund. Please stand. I dont spend it a lot of time calling out people but at the end of the day we would not be here if it were not for her vision to create an organization that would really focus on the historical black. Ollege and educational we represent all of the community and our advocacy efforts, scholarship, programs, Capacity Building and the like. I cannot thank you enough for having the vision. It is wonderful that we can look to the person who founded the organization and they are
This morning and next up here on cspan a look at the supreme courts landmark brown v. Board of education ruling, ending segregation in Public Schools, may 18 was the 63rd anniversary of that ruling. Educators and historians this week examined the impact of the decision. This three and a half hour forum is hosted by the Thurgood Marshall college fund. Good afternoon. I am its kind of quiet in here. Looks like i walked in and i felt i was at a funeral. We have to do something about this. Were going to the body is not here. You know it was really somber and everything. Id like to welcome you. My name is johnny taylor. Im the president and c. E. O. Of the Thurgood Marshall college fund. Welcome to our headquarters. This is home for us. We share this building with gallop, our partner in the work were going to be embarking upon over the next several years. But we just want to welcome you to our home. Id like to start off, though, before i tell you why were here and turn it over to the paneli
Swearing in for the state assembly of the current board president. And, madam clerk, could you please describe the rules of this election . There are no absent abstention or passes. All supervisors must vote when a question is posed. The lowest vote getter is not obligated to withdraw their name and they will be included on subsequent ballots unless the nominee chooses to withdraw their own name. At any time a nominee may withdraw their own name, the board can adopt a motion to reopen nomination with a majority vote as the president stated. In the event that no nominee receives a majority vote there shall be an additional roll call until a nominee receives a majority vote. And then the supervisors who have been nominated for the election to the office of board president is supervisor tang. So, when your name is called, please indicate your preference from among the nominees stated. In this case there is only one. Again, if no supervisors received a majority of the votes well proceed to
We know from the ethics including as we work for the last 15 years on these challenges that there is so much suspicion about medical research when it comes from the west. We saw what happens with polio and meningitis and we go in with the best of intentions thinking that youre going to hell. Whether the research is sort of just taking blood for all of these virology studies, which can make a tremendous difference, we all know that it happens when we take blood and then people die and then the rumor started. Where the messages have to do with them trying to understand what a placebo is an what youre coming from the United States in giving people nothing and i think that there are people theres more and more people trying to help your, but theres a lot of challenges. Is there anything youd like at a maximum has wanted to take the opportunity to talk about the kind of research that we are doing in liberia and as i said, being part of hopkins, people look to us for behavior change and comm
At that time around clement street. We call the Richmond District the New Chinatown in the 1980s at that time. Just being around the tremendous unique neighborhood, and discovering San Francisco in the 1980s as i grew up, but i also have been very active as a community organizer. I worked in chinatown, and some first jobs also at the Mental Health center in the richmond area Multi Services in the 1980s, and i was also a staff are at the Chinatown Youth Center i was also a staffer. A lot of my work has been supporting community empowerment, especially in an immigrant and people of color communities. Most recently, i have been teaching at San Francisco state. I ran the immigrant Rights Coalition in the city in the 1990s for several years. Im also an immigration attorney, and a lot of my passion is supporting in power met for immigrant communities in the city as well. Why did you choose to live in San Francisco . Supervisor mar a lot of people bring this up, but is one of the most excitin