One of my latest book i talk about, importance of vision, i dont know how she does it. Tickets better and better every year, so thank you for having a vision and i want to thank cspan book tv for being here today and giving us an opportunity to share this wonderful information and lets make sure to use social media and a share, share. Facebook, twitter, center for black lit and next panel starts in about 15 minutes called the black writer in digital age. [inaudible conversations] again, good afternoon. Good afternoon one more time. Our next panel, black writers in the digital age. Black writers in the digital age and im excited about this panel he will be joined by individuals he is going to identify force today, but again thank you so much for being part of this panel. I know you will find this to be very exciting. Could afternoon. I know there are educators here and students, but give a stronger turn. Good afternoon. Love it. Welcome. First it would apologize. They have been held up.
Ready for volunteers to carve. We had a blast in for what we were doing. It makes me feel needed. Sorry, my mascara is running. I was cutting onions. Reporter the man behind this meal is reverend cecil williams. He says theres always a need to help the needy. What are some of the challenges every year . Some of the challenges have to do with how we can say to the world how hunger can be eliminated and it takes all of us and not just a few to say we are going to turn this upside down and here we are. Reporter the mayor and only ed lee also showed up to volunteer. He says there is a lot to be thankful for this holiday season. Thank you for joining over 1000 volunteers who are expressing their love for the city and the people. Painful we have a strong economy. Reporter how big was this even . It serves 2500 people. It is by far its biggest task of the year. This is will tran, kron 4 news. Today is a day of annual traditions. Starting early this morning volunteers showed up to help cut 34,
Manifest. And it was called soap operas because Soap Companies sponsored the shows. So thats how the soap opera title came about. Yeah. Durham, he also wrote for the chicago defender. Thats an interesting story, particularly his firing and how they had i dont know if they were the first also, when you talked about the black Insurance Company that couldnt get it couldnt get funding to there was a show that he did, and the script basically was about this Insurance Company in, i believe it was in philadelphia. Im not sure. But the bottom line was, when this gentleman went to get money to refinance the building this was during the depression they assessed the building that this Insurance Company was in. And this was one of the Major Insurance Companies for africanamericans at the time. And he thought he could get maybe a 50,000 loan to tide him over through the depression. And they assessed the building for like 5,000. 5,000. And it was like okay, never mind. Ill figure out something else.
Im phil matier. We have a lot to cover today. We have unions and bat to talk about the negotiations or the lack of them into the final stretch. Were starting with pg e announcing they will shut down a pipeline in san carlos. The companys own memo indicated originally that it could fail. The pipeline is near britain avenue in san carlos and some in the city are afraid of another san bruno disaster. Reporter as the sun shines over the neighbor, concern about what lies benight. That is not okay. What about them . Reporter a major natural gas pipeline ran underground and killing eight people destroying 38 homes. The city of san carlos provided the emails from a pg e employee concerned about line 147. Whether or not it was damaged by their own Testing Process and whether or not were sitting on a san bruno situation here in san carlos. Reporter city officials met again after declaring a state of emergency on friday when a judge issued a temporary injunction to shut it down. That still hasnt
This week we reveal the second group of five on this year’s list: a goalie, three forwards and a defenseman. One player has played games for the Devils before. Another is making his debut on this last as a pick in this year’s draft.