His memoir is a most inspiring book written by most talented young, south carolinian. The cars tells me history in 2006. We had a just 22 years old. He defeated a 26 year old incumbent state representative to become the youngest member of the South Carolina state legislature in the youngest African American elected official in our country in 2014 the democratic nominee from Lieutenant Governor and the state of South Carolina bakari is a talented political analyst and was recently named after the cnn political analyst and i know mad at you all get to see him as you read and hes recently been named two times forty under 40 minutes. His followed the footsteps of his father civil rights leader, and im proud to say my friend Cleveland Sellers and his tireless commitment to service by promoting progressive policies to address issues ranging from education and poverty to preventing Domestic Violence and childhood obesity. Bakari is a practicing attorney in columbia, South Carolina and a very
His memoir is a most inspiring book written by most talented young, south carolinian. The cars tells me history in 2006. We had a just 22 years old. He defeated a 26 year old incumbent state representative to become the youngest member of the South Carolina state legislature in the youngest African American elected official in our country in 2014 the democratic nominee from Lieutenant Governor and the state of South Carolina bakari is a talented political analyst and was recently named after the cnn political analyst and i know mad at you all get to see him as you read and hes recently been named two times forty under 40 minutes. His followed the footsteps of his father civil rights leader, and im proud to say my friend Cleveland Sellers and his tireless commitment to service by promoting progressive policies to address issues ranging from education and poverty to preventing Domestic Violence and childhood obesity. Bakari is a practicing attorney in columbia, South Carolina and a very
His memoir is a most inspiring book written by most talented young, south carolinian. The cars tells me history in 2006. We had a just 22 years old. He defeated a 26 year old incumbent state representative to become the youngest member of the South Carolina state legislature in the youngest African American elected official in our country in 2014 the democratic nominee from Lieutenant Governor and the state of South Carolina bakari is a talented political analyst and was recently named after the cnn political analyst and i know mad at you all get to see him as you read and hes recently been named two times forty under 40 minutes. His followed the footsteps of his father civil rights leader, and im proud to say my friend Cleveland Sellers and his tireless commitment to service by promoting progressive policies to address issues ranging from education and poverty to preventing Domestic Violence and childhood obesity. Bakari is a practicing attorney in columbia, South Carolina and a very
[inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. and racial congress. he is one of the most revered members of the congress. about 20 years ago, we were working to develop the idea of an international african american museum. congressman club learned was as busy as anyone in the congress. if you have been to his office on capitol hill in grand central station, people are coming and going. they went to ask the congressman if he would consider being chair of the african american museum. he was so busy that i was timid to ask. he said, let me ask emily. he was the congressman s dear wife who we lost, sadly, a few years ago. adam great respect for his wife, because he was busy moving into washington and south carolina. two weeks later, he called me back and said, joe, emily said yes and i will. jim clyde never missed a meeting at the museum. those meetings were in charleston. as busy as he was, not only did he not miss the meetings but he was prepared and ran everything to the board memb
and it belongs to all of the family learn more about first ladies online at c-span.org slash history. african-american museu m. good afternoon, welcome to the how and why, the making of the international african american museum. i m carrie taylor, an associate professor of history at the citadel. mayor joseph riley is co-teacher for the semesters exciting course. mayor riley will introduce our special guest for this weekend, but first i wanted to briefly explain today s format. mayor riley and secretary lonnie bunch will engage in a fireside chat style conversation, after which will open it up for questions. we ask that you put your questions in the chat function, and all relay those to secretary bunch. with that, i ll turn it over to my colleague, mayor joseph riley. thank you very much, professor taylor, doctor bunch. ladies and gentlemen, is a huge honor for me to introduce to you a great american, lonnie bunch, the second in the founding director of the national