Now on bbc news, its hardtalk. Stephen sackur interviews albert woodfox, who was jailed for over four decades for a crime he says he didnt commit. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. There are some human experiences which most of us find it ha rd to experiences which most of us find it hard to get our heads around. My guest today experienced the unimaginable torment of more than four decades in solitary confinement ina tiny four decades in solitary confinement in a tiny cell in one of americas most notaries prisons. Albert woodfox was the victim of ingrained racism and brutality inside americas system of criminal justice. He is now a free man, but what does freedom really mean after everything hes been through . Albert woodfox, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Here you are, in london, asa thank you. Here you are, in london, as a free man, but given everything youve been through, is it possible for you to ever feel truly free . Well, yeah. Philosophically, mentally, emotionally, iwas
Race has affected development. Its 5 00 on the dot and i want to give our last speakers every single time as possible. Here with a keynote on Artificial Intelligence and the new jim code professors Ruha Benjamin and meredith broussard. And with that im going to turn over the floor to both of you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you charlton and thank you everybody for coming today. This has been a really a really stimulating intellectually stimulating day. Its my great pleasure to be here today with dr. Ruha benjamin, an associate professor of africanamerican studies. She is the author of science and rights on the stem cell frontier and a new book called race after technology, Race Technology for the new jim code. Its available for preorder now and coming out in early june. She is also editor of a new book called, captivating technology, race, car serial tech nowhere science and liberty imagination in every day life, which comes out this week. Its my great pleasure to be on stage with ruha
4 million in cornerstone grants. This is Financial Assistance to Small Businesses and nonprofit located in ground floor spaces in newly constructed housing newly constructed affordable housing. 2 million in Small Business fee assistance. This will help mitigate funding. It is help offset some of the fees that businesses have in terms of regulatory fees. That is the annual dph and fire fees and things of that sort. Then 1 million increasing funding for the citys Revolving Loan fund. Increasing funding to our loan program to help more businesses be able to start and or expand their business. Then 2 million to expand our sf shines program. That program has been pretty successful in helping businesses either do facade improvements, tenant improvements inside, expanding on that. As commissioner sharky noted earlier, these are for facades, interiors, signage, ada and anything in relationship to Historic Preservation that may be required. Those were early announcements in regards to the mayor
now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. there are some human experiences which most of us find very hard to get our heads around. my guest today experienced the unimaginable torment of more than four decades in solitary confinement in a tiny cell in one of america s most notorious prisons. albert woodfox was the victim of ingrained racism and brutality inside america s system of criminaljustice. he is now a free man. but what does freedom really mean after everything he has been through? albert woodfox, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. here you are, in london as a free man. but given everything you have been through, is it possible for you to ever feel truly free? well, yeah, i mean, philosophically, mentally and emotionally, i was free long before my actual physical freedom. and so, that was a part of my survival technique. my survival one of my many survival techniques. it allowed me to survive being in solitary confinem
Taraval in response to the merchants concerns about parking and a petition about the bus stops due to the stop spaces consideration so the Parking Spaces at those locations will be retained during the pilot period the proposal for the eastbound stop on taraval were not preceding at the moment so well let you know if this is a way to retain that stop and in the full project the goal of pilot a reminder for safety particular for the people on and off the muni vehicles awhile preserving the parking in the commercial areas and not only the painting on the ground but coupled with education and enforcement so over the next 6 months well be vaulting how this works whether the markings and signage are effective in getting the drivers to stop behind the strain that is the main goal here our specific goal do get compliance up to 90 percent about 72 percent for the pilot if we cant get the compliance up with the various measures the education and the enforcement the signage and the striping then