The resume or via cspan who has asked to broadcast the keynote today. We are absolutely thrilled to reach so many colleagues wherever you might be. It took a whole team to get us here, team of colleagues with more than 17 campuses in broad expanse of our metropolitan region. They and others are volunteering their time and energy during those two days to ensure it goes smthly. We would normally ask them to stand and be recognized but that is not possible this year and if as you see them helping in various capacities please take a moment to thank them for their work. I would also like to take a moment to recognize the enormous effort taken by our assistant director jennifer and office of elearning director of instructional design henry for leading this years conference. These amazing women are so talented and creative im overcome with pride and i know them and get to work with them. Its incredible to see the creative [inaudible] we would like to personally thank the support of the univer
Innovation planning a two Day Conference like this one Record Number of colleagues across the region and for the First Time Ever we had over 1200 registrations and those looking at the keynote address or vs cspan we are absolutely thrilled wherever you may be a Technical Team to get us here team of colleagues and 17 campuses and the metropolitan region volunteering their time and energy we nearly asked him to stand and be recognized by know thats not possible we nearly asked him to stand and be recognized by know thats not possible in various capacities please take a moment to thank them for their work. Also to take a moment to recognize the enormous effort with the assistant director Jennifer Mchenry and director of instructional design work at these amazing women i am over time with i and i get to work with them we would like to personally thank the university of st. Louis leadership the high value on teaching and learning without support we cannot do what we like to do and then to i
In person at 184 south chandler indicated georgia. We are now the new school store for the college but drink the coronavirus we are coming to you live from my home office and atlanta, georgia. We have been doing a whole series of Educational Programs that fall under our mission of fostering Sustainable Community can work you for social justice and encouraging new expression and voices all through the use of virtual formats. We feel very fortunate that we the privilege of talking to authors who live all over the country during this time. We feel it is really, really significant that we continue to the programming that we already had scheduled because folks need history as we move through this historic time. Theres really no, i can think of no better book two of us focused on what the movement from black lights needs right now, what we who are white and what to contribute to the movement for black lives can do right now then this book race man julian bond selected works, 19602015. We had
Under the Circle Mission with the Community Working for social justice and encouraging diverse and marginalized, all through the virtual formats, we feel very fortunate that we have the privilege of talking to authors who live around the country during this time and we feel it is really significant that we continue to do the programming that we are to have scheduled because folks need history as we move through this historic time. There is really no, i cannot give a better book to help us focus on what the movement on right now and what we can do right now, and the books of 1962 and 2015. We have the editor here, michael and pam who is a lifelong collaborator for justice in his widow we hope will be on soon, shes having technical difficulties. Im going to invite you to settling and make yourself at home and we will get to some questions in the chat, please keep your cell phone and you can turn your camera on, you do not have to turn it on but were just going to enjoy some time with mic
Doesnt didnt recognize gay rights. It was it was being gay was seen as a form of aversion and suffering when did you realize you were gay and when did you decide to go public. Probably realize that early on and i think it was a very common thing in our lives or you would tell one or 2 people one or 2 people would guess and then no one else would know so you would compartmentalize everything so that you know he lived it felt easy it felt natural but when i went to live in spraying when i was 2975. Boston i was wild at that time. There were no gay bars which meant that the street certain streets were just filled up not with gay men wandering about and it might have seemed there was repression but it didnt feel like that in spain felt much more open people were much more ready to enjoy their lives and arlen there was always a guilt or. To be describes this guilt very well he honors his characters in the struggles many of which are universal. Even if for instance fled poverty and suffered