to be up here with malia cohen, who is going to create many, many new stories to come along with all of san francisco and the other supervisors up here and the oop leaders and al williams and the historical society who are doing very important work to document the contributions so that we can justify why we need to make a special effort to make sure that there is no outmigration, to make sure that there are jobs. to make sure we protect the family structure. because from my heart and where i come from and what my family is all about, i know what it is to be helped by the african-american community. i know that that s been a strong tring and thing and we wouldn t have survived without that kind of kep help. so i leave you here today to let you know what s in my heart and mind and let s kick off this celebration to unite everybody in this city and be broud proud of who we are, and thank you very much. thank you, mayor lee. we are about to bring up our keynote speaker. b
the gee graval and cultural landscape of this city. how fitting that we celebrate black history month today, which is also the same as lunar new year and also an opportunity opportunity to reflect on the diversity of this city and how happy we are to be in a city which is so inclussive. so without forth delay i would like to welcome you on behalf of mator s office of neighborhood services. mayor lee will be joining us later. with the invocations, we would like to invite pastor stacey kerns. good amp. let us pause for a moment to invite the presence of god. shall we pray together? god, our help in ages past, our hope in years to come, we invite your holy presence to bless this celebration of african-american history month. we give up thanks and praise for the legacy, the creativity, the genius and contributions of african-american people everywhere. we pray that you would strengthen this organization and strengthen all organizations that support telling the story of black
society who are doing very important work to document the contributions so that we can justify why we need to make a special effort to make sure that there is no outmigration, to make sure that there are jobs. to make sure we protect the family structure. because from my heart and where i come from and what my family is all about, i know what it is to be helped by the african-american community. i know that that s been a strong tring and thing and we wouldn t have survived without that kind of kep help. so i leave you here today to let you know what s in my heart and mind and let s kick off this celebration to unite everybody in this city and be broud proud of who we are, and thank you very much. thank you, mayor lee. we are about to bring up our keynote speaker. but i did want to mention we also have with us david campos who s joined us. let s welcome supervisor camp ovements and dr. veronica hunnicutt is here also the so with that we re at the point where we really
stewart. from the public library. and pete fitzsimmons and tannish col hollins and camille dawkins. camille is over here. without camille and tannish rkt , none of this happens. so let s give them a round of applause for their wonderful effort. the society s primary mission is to enlighten, to inform, to inspire and to empower. we achieve that mission in a variety of ways. almost always in partnership with others. through our current partnership that trevor spoke to with the finance kinsey foundation shall the san francisco public library, and the california council of the humanities, we are now hosting an incredible exhibition of art and artifacts from the kinsey collection, the kron that chronicles the story of people of frick desnent america. if you haven t done so you owe it to yourself and particularly to your children to visit and see this important exhibit which is at our library in the frake american african-american art and culture complex at 762 bolton stree
gas station. these are the kinds of stories that need to be told because it is not just about recognizing african-americans, it s about what african-americans have been doing for us as a society for many, many years. so when i have a chance to talk about my life because i m just new rookie payor, wants to know how am i thinking, where am i coming from, i m going to tell about these stories that never get told because they re about life. they re about contributions. they re about how we relate to each other and so i am so proud to be up here with malia cohen, who is going to create many, many new stories to come along with all of san francisco and the other supervisors up here and the oop leaders and al williams and the historical society who are doing very important work to document the contributions so that we can justify why we need to make a special effort to make sure that there is no outmigration, to make sure that there are jobs. to make sure we protect the family struc