Kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth are here with us today courtesy of tom and margaret mr. Garrett graduated from harvard in 1963. He has had a 30 year emmy and peabody awardwinning career in Television News and documentaries. Jeanne ellsworth has a nephd in social foundations of education from the university of buffalo and has devoted her life to teaching from Elementary School to prisms, to universities. The authors live in roxbury new york. Please give a warm savannah welcome avto kent garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth. [applause] thank you for inviting us. The book is called the last negroes at harvard, 61 years ago harvard admitted 18 negroes, thats what we were called then, we were the largest number at that time ever admitted to harvard. We were from all different parts of the country, north, south, east, west, we came e fr different economic and socioeconomic grounds and they had been admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time, most guys would go do their four years
Theauthors live in roxbury new york. Please give a warm savanna welcome to and jean ellsworth. [applause] thank you for inviting us and the focus for the last negroes at harvard and 61 years ago , harvard admitted 18 negroes and thats what we were called then and we were the largest number at that time ever admitted harvard. We were from all different parts of the country. North, south, east and west and we came from economic and socioeconomic backgrounds. And we heretofore they had been letting, admitting blacks to harvard but only two or three at a time most guys would just go and do their four years and get out of town. We leave cameras but was different in the sense that we had numbers. 18 and we could form an individual racial identity as well as a group identity. We were able to become actually a force for change at harvard and harvard, we changed harvard and harvard changed us and that essentially what the book is about, its about our four years here and what happened before and
Rubenstein i began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job. Of running a private equity firm. [rubenstein reading onscreen text] [ ] [inaudible dialogue] all right, you ready . Are we ready . Woman were ready. Ready . Okay. So were here with lloyd blankfein, who has been the chairman and ceo of Goldman Sachs for 10 years. And i dont think any of your predecessors in the last two decades stayed that long. Is that right . No, i dont think they stayed im sure it seemed that long, but they didnt stay that long. Lets talk about your early life if we could for a moment. You grew up in new york city. When you were growing up, you didnt have a lot of money. Was money anything you ever thought about when you were growing up as wanting to have a lot of money . What were you interested in when you were a young boy . I didnt think about money, because i went to school with other kids that were like us, and so i just didnt know what was i didnt know what i dont kno
This is alJazeera America. Good morning, live from new york city, im randall ping stop. Tensions high in st. Louis after another Deadly Police shooting and a night of demonstrations. Angry protestors confronted officers shortly after Police Killed a man who pulled a gun on them. Demonstrators had been out in force to mark the one Year Anniversary of another fatal shooting. Police are still looking for another suspect in that confrontation . Thats right, randall. That suspect was with the dead 18yearold when police confronted them. Police want to talk with that suspect about what happened. The protestors were already in the streets when word of this latest shooting raced through the crowd. St. Louis Police Released this dramatic video of an angry crowd, over 100 strong confronting them in the streets. Protests and looting erupted in st. Louis after police shot and killed an 18yearold they say pointed a gun at them as he ran after they tried to serve a warrant at a home in the citys nort
President carter [ inaudible ] with hispancrow newspaper. I wonder if you have discussed with your family or closest circle how do you see this organization in the future, the Carter Center. How do i feel what . Reporter do you see the Carter Center in the future . Well, i think it will be equal to what it has been in the past. It has been expanding every year, as far as the number of people we treat for terrible diseases and things of that kind. I understand this coming year, well treat 71 Million People on earth for diseases so that they wont have the afflictions they have had throughout their lifetimes. And so we have added that we we are finished a hundred troubled elections to bring democracy and freedom to people, so yeah, we still try to bring peace. We concentrate on peace and human rights and democracy of freedom and alleviation of suffering. And i would say in every one of those areas, the Carter Center overall function and plans for the future are still expanding. And im com