and good evening and welcome. thank you so much for coming. it is an amazing house we have here this evening. i have to say, i m thrilled and honored to take part in this amazing group of people we have here. i am a media studies and film professor here at the new school and i do teach about things like this black power mix tape thing. alley.ight up my so of course, i would love to moderate this. but we are really thrilled to have such an amazing set of powerhouse folks here this evening. don t you think? [applause] so, in addition to thinking our panelists, i would also like to thank you as our audience, because what it means is that you recognize and support this ongoing work and commitment of these cultural warriors that we have here in our midst. and that we are continuing in the struggle for human rights, economic and educational equality and freedom of speech. the struggle continues. tonight, i would like to frame the conversation that we have around this sort of issu
in terms of generationally did not prepare us for the work that needs to happen today. that s the critique i was making about trading on individual success without a sense of social responsibility. who are your parents? my parents are both retired professionals. one was a school teacher and administrator of the chicago public schools for 35 years and my father recently retired was photojournalist. he worked for johnson johnson publishing in the early days, charlotte observer, news day, for past 20 years, new york times staff photographer. are they retired from new york. my mother always lived in chicago. my parent were divorced when i was young. my father lived in new york for over 30 years. what is your lineage? the famous part of my lineage, the part i know as opposed to distantly, i m great-grandson of the founder of elijah mohammed founder of nation of islam. my mother never converted but very much formative to my early years my first cousins aunts and unc
they re not as good as the four-year public institution degree but that they re allowing people who are working without degrees to go back, often times in their 30s and get i think there s plenty of public in most places there s plenty of public options. i worked for free for the university of the people, that is essentially free. and just as good as the university of phoenix which is going to charge you a lot of money for exactly the same amount of educationsive convenience. i think the language that would work in america in american politics you hear the plate tall pundits is the fact that these are not this is not private enterprise. this is corporate welfare. they re getting the public really known cussing on the fact that they re just hoovering up public resources they re not really free they re not really businesses that are standing in competition in the real economy. they re just these just like defense contractors with no bid. they re just something
good morning everyone. good morning. we re going to go ahead and get started here. i want to welcome you all to young america s foundations headquarters in virginia. i am the director of alumni relations here at young america s foundation, and my first entree into the foundation was as an intern at the reagan ranch. so i m happy to be here today for this event featuring martin greenfield. for those of you who are new to our policemans and for programs young america s foundation is the premiere outreach organization for the conservative movement. we introduce thousands of young people to the ideas of limited government individual freedom strong national defense and traditional values through our conferences, internships campus lectures, young americans for freedom chapters, also through our center for entrepreneurship and free enterprise and the national journalism center. many of our interns are here with us today. in 1998 young america s foundation stepped forward to
the u.s. information agency that was part of our show we say cold war apparatus? [laughter] and surveying post-colonial nations and keeping an eye on things so this is a benign side of the cia published topic magazine and richard tsongas was a photographer here taking a picture of james brown and legos nigeria in 1970. he has an expansive body of work and we have the entire collections of the images here are they meet the description of the show which is lesser-known images across the continent starting from pittsburgh to nigeria. it s a pretty the show. there also images of malcolm x for malcolm x for example or elijah mohammad as a rarely seen in terms of what people would find on a google search for example. let s see that elijah mohammad photo down here. this is elijah mohammad at the end, correct? right here, big as life and there is malcolm x. this is a 1961 shot in washington d.c. with a church of god figure. debating the merits of islam. host: do you think we co