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 want to get to the real meat of this thing today, our key note speaker. i mentioned ear
as the listening sky let every sound loud as a roar rolling sea sing a song full of the faith that the horde has brought brought us sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us facing the rising sun of a new day begun let us march on to victory as one [applause] thank you. i m al williams, president of the board of the san francisco african-american historical society. we d like to join, and trevor, in welcoming you all to this annual 2011 kickoff program for black history month. first of all i d like to say that the chairs to my right are vacant and will be filled shortly. the mayor will be arriving about 11:30. he had another engagement that he was they d at. and supervisors he was delayed at. and supervisors no, that s not them miracle arim aye and coyne are in committee and i understand they will be finishing up shortly and then they will be joining us to bring greetings. i want to thank pastor curran and ms. suites for
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. but i did want to mention we also have with us david campos wh
[applause] [drumming] thank you. omnira institute. they re going to be porping around at a number of locations in black history month. check them out on line too. they do a phenomenal piece of taking frick music and showing parallels in aof some of the african-american gospel. when you can sing those two things in tandem and how they relate to each other. columbia of other mentions we have. naomi kelly was with us. purchaser naomi kelly was here. she is approaching reverend dr. amos brown, former supervisor brown, who is also here with us. of course i really would get assassinated if i don t mention commissioner leroy king, sit sitting with former redevelopment commissioner benny yee. welcome, kim. we are really looking forward to working with kim to get students to come visit the kinsey exhibit. just one second. and also supervisor scott winer weiner is here also. let s welcome him. newly elected schedule. we re back on schedule and graced with the presence of our ne
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. but i did want to mention we also have with us david campos who s joined us. let s welcome su