Father was an educator and when i was born, he was president of ford Valley State College in southern georgia. My mother had been a classroom teacher and then went back to that and stopped again over the course of my early life. But they were the prime influences as parents are with all children. They set very high standards for their children but had a soft hand. It wasnt that you must do this but we expect you to do this. And my father, who had spent a great deal of his career researching the development of leadership figures, had always argued that, if you had an advantage over the massive black people, if you had an education, if you had a good job, then you had some responsibility to use that education and that position to help those less fortunate than you. And so my older sister and my younger brother and i all absorbed these messages from our parents. And never in a hectoring way. But always, this is your responsibility and youve got to do it. And i hope the three of us took th
And then beyond that, there are themes that emerge about the importance of National Causes that catalyze people to see themselves as leaders. Catalysts like the brown decision itself, which black leaders were so heavily involved. And then of course the Civil Rights Movement that generated grassroots leaders who came about and then became leaders for the rest of their lives. So the book has those major themes and i think thats exactly what emerges from the interviews and thats why i wrote the book, to call attention to these themes. But you can also just go to the website and find what you want in these interviews. Phyllis leffler, thank you very much. Its a pleasure. Id like to begin by asking you to recollect as best you can what you think of as being the most important early influences on your own life. My father wasrse an educator and when i was born, he was president of ford Valley State College in southern georgia. Had been a classroom teacher and then went back to that and stoppe
Waking up to the 40s sunday morning, i loved it. Now early this morning, dark out there of course and temperatures once again falling into the 40s at least for much of browa county. As you can see 48 degrees from Pompano Beach down to pembroke pines, even ft. Lauderdale. And then we see the 50 degrees in miami. 45 though in kendall. Thats the coolest spot. Even the 50s down into the keys. Winds are still out of the normal, turning more out of the northeast fof the keys. Eventually that east wind will be back later this afternoon. Thats going to play a role in warming us up rather quickly. For now it is nice and clear all across the Sunshine State. Well have lots of is up. Then well be talking about this next system right here, and this is going to help to bring another developing low over the gulf towards south florida later this week. But for this morning, its a chilly start, heading out to work early today. Take the sweaters would it later today. South florida, yes, continues to shiv
All american sports, and it seems to me, it may not be a good correlation, but a lot of questions they asked about gay athletes were essentially the same questions they used to ask about us. Absolutely. Black athletes. Absolutely. You know . [ applause ] isnt it a simple situation . We have laws in this country and we try to abide by laws. We have different denominations. We have different races. Gender. If youre a law abiding citizen and trying to do the right thing, then how can anyone else judge you . I mean, i think its that simple. You know, i dont cant get into the religious aspect of it to the sexual aspect of it. I look for the as you said earlier, the character of the person, and thats good enough for me, because ive got my own things ive got to deal with. Yeah. I dont have an answer for everything. We are getting pretty close to the end here, and typically at this time, you know, is when the moderator will ask how do you want to be remembered and one thing or another, but i i
Years ago, the average salary in the nba was 5,000. Thats not even meal money now. In the middle 60s, we struck the allstar game, the 20 top players in the league got together and struck an allstar game to form the union. The owners said, no way. We are not going to do that. So we said, okay. There will be no allstar game. Abc television said that if you want us to televise, you get your players on the floor. They said, lets talk to them. So they said, we dont want to lose face. What we will do is if you will play the allstar game, at the end of the year, we will recognize the union. So they vote 119 to play. And we played the allstar game. So at the end of the year we went in to talk to the commissioner. He said, i recognize the players association. But we do not have anything to talk about. Im not going to talk to you about anything. So our lawyer said, i will see you in september. Thats the beginning of the next season. The commissioner said, the playoffs start next week. Oh, no. We