AfricanAmerican History is how bad it is. So the history piece is one thing, but also even in this moment. Thats how i started off right . In this moment its all a about how we are diagnose, right . Slow death dying right . At what point do i have any agency to do anything you know, theres a distinction in the world between optimists and pessimists. Turns out that optimists get things done. Optimists succeed. It turns out that pessimists are right about the world. Right. [laughter] right right right right. And i just want to, i want to introduce a term. This is not an academic term, but its a term that i got from some of the black women that i worked with in detroit who were around 16 years old. And they said theres a difference between a struggle, the struggle and struggley with an ly, and they say a struggle is what we go through as human beings on this planet. The struggle they define as specific to the africanamerican experience in this country. And they said but struggley is when
That collection arrived at the 135th Street Public Library 90 years ago. He was a bibliophile who migrated from puerto rico in 1891 found a job on wall street work in the mailroom saves his pennies and worked really hard and bought anywhere are unique but he could find that was by or about black people. He eventually became famous for this collection. People would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library to borrow from the Library People like Langston Hughes and eventually people like and when the librarian at the library and library decided she had a lot of lack patrons coming to the library and a large immigrant community at the time she said ive got to find material for my patrons and ultimately schombergs collection of 5000 items was purchased by Carnegie Corporation and a variety of 90 years ago and made up the core of what now today is a 10 million item collection at the Schomberg Center. Host how did the Schomberg Center end up at 135th . Guest this was the settlement zone
Edge towards florida. Hurricane matthew passed through the bahamas and it is expected to be near florida tomorrow evening. This is new video into the news room of the bahamas as it pounds it with wind, rain and powerful surf. Tonight, people in South Carolina are listening to the warning to get out of town. Residents filled up their cars with gas before joining other drivers. Now, tonight, all lanes head west mandatory e vac waeugz of charleston and boford counties. How it is impacting the state already. The County Schools will be there. The storm passing farther east than further thought. North carolina is not Hurricane Center with the latest possible pass that matthew can take. We are not out of the woods just yet. Even making landfall directly. There will be impacts. Seeing the latest stats from 8 00. Now, the aircraft was flying near this evening. A weaker storm. 115 miles an hour now. Temporary weakening. Now, there is so much warm water still the wind sheer is light. So, no reaso
Grown gdpwise 5 per year since 2000. Violent extremism is amongst the major risks to economies in part of africa. Tunisias gdp gross has been cut from 3 to 1 . Chads gdp contracted 1 in 2015 from a growth of 5 in 2014. And countries like kenya and nigeria saw a reduction of 25 of tourism following terrorist attacks. We in undp estimate that at least 33,000 people have died on african soils since 2011 as victims of violent extremism. And 6 million are currently internally displaced due to radicalization. Mr. Chairman, over the last two years undp has held a number of consultations, conducted a series of studies and commissioned research to better understand the violent extremism scourge in africa. These various studies and research converge in showing three major findings. One, while the drivers of radicalization are multifaceted and defy easy analysis, their major roots are to be found in the combination of poverty and low human development, a sense of economic and political exclusion
Are at the world famous Schomburg Center for research in black culture. Why is the world famous . Because it is the most important repository to study black history founded 90 years ago. And who is pearl . He is the founding cureateer. He migrated from puerto rico and found a job on wall street working in a mail room. He worked hard and brought any rare or unique books you could find that were by or about black people eventually becoming famous for this collection. People would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library, borrow from the library, people like langston hues and hurston eventually. It arrived 90 years ago and made up the core of what is a 10 million item collection at the Schomburg Center for research in black culture. How did it end up at this location . Because this was the settlement zone, ground zero, for what came to be the negro mecca of the world. Harlem usa four blocks over. Most people today think about harlem in relation to the apollo or the baptist church. 12