WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 music 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:07.000 music 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:09.000 Hello everyone, welcome to 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:12.000 hosted by Black Student Union. 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:14.000 applause 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:15.000 My name is Joe Hahn and 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:17.000 Black Student Union. 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:18.000 I use he and him pronouns 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:19.000 or they/them/theirs and I'm 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:20.000 the Heritage Hall 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:21.000 Resident Director as well. 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:23.000 Today I'll be facilitating the process 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:24.000 as we go through each 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:25.000 of our presenters. 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:27.000 So what we'll do is 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:28.000 first I'll just give a why 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:29.000 we're doing this. 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:31.000 I'll then introduce who's presenting, 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:33.000 we'll transition to their presentation, 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:34.000 they'll then present in 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:38.000 about their person or event 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:39.000 or group that they 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:40.000 are presenting on. 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:41.000 And then we'll transition 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:42.000 to the next person. 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:43.000 There'll be a chance for 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:45.000 y'all to ask brief questions 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:46.000 between each presentation, 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:47.000 but it's very brief, 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:48.000 we don't have to worry about it. 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:50.000 So, why 3 Minute Black History? 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:51.000 We wanted to have a chance to 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:53.000 hear stories often omitted 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:56.000 So often we hear these stories, 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:57.000 in very little brief things 00:00:57.000 --> 00:00:58.000 that aren't accurate, 00:00:58.000 --> 00:00:60.000 or we don't hear these stories at all. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:01.000 So we want to be able 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:02.000 to highlight these 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:04.000 experiences of Black folks. 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:06.000 And we wanted to honor 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:07.000 WOU's mission of creating 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:08.000 student success through 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:09.000 transformative education 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:10.000 and personalized support. 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:12.000 So by able to hear these stories 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:13.000 that these students presented 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:14.000 and chose about, 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:16.000 you'll be able to really see 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:17.000 what people care about, 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:18.000 who are these great 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:19.000 historical figures that 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:21.000 have made Black history. 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:23.000 In showcase Black Student Union 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:24.000 in collaboration with 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:25.000 Heritage Hall Government 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:26.000 and the Stonewall Center, 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:28.000 collaboration you all. 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:31.000 applause 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:34.000 Alright so, first we have 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:36.000 Chooky Fuller-Avalos coming up 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:37.000 to present about Rosa Parks. 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:41.000 applause 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:43.000 My name is Chooky Fuller-Avalos 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:44.000 and my pronouns are she/her/hers, 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:46.000 and I'm presenting on Rosa Parks. 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:48.000 Oh my major is psychology, 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:50.000 and I'm the Vice President 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.000 of Black Student Union. 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:54.000 Rosa Parks, there's a picture. 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:56.000 She's beautiful. 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:57.000 Next slide. 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:58.000 laughter 00:01:58.000 --> 00:01:60.000 Some basic facts, her 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.000 name is Rosa Louise McCauley. 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:03.000 She's an activist, 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:04.000 well she was an activist 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:05.000 in the African American 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:06.000 Civil Rights Movement. 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:09.000 She was born February 4, 1913 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:10.000 and her place of birth 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:12.000 was in Alabama. 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:14.000 Her career, she went from like everything. 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:15.000 She was a seamstress, to a 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.000 civil rights activist, and then a writer. 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:19.000 She was in the small percentage 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:20.000 of African Americans who earned 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:21.000 high school diplomas. 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:25.000 So she was smart. 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:27.000 Some facts about Rosa Parks was 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:28.000 she was a civil rights activist 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.000 before her arrest, 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:32.000 She was not the first African American 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:33.000 woman to be arrested for 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:36.000 refusing to yield her seat on a 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:38.000 Montgomery bus, and her 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:39.000 act of civil obedience was 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:40.000 was not premeditated, 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:42.000 unlike we were taught. 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:45.000 So there's that. 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:46.000 She was seated in the correct 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:48.000 section, but because the bus 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:49.000 was crowded, shew as expected 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:50.000 to give up her seat. 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:52.000 I'm not having that today, 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:54.000 so she did not do that. 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.000 hurted either. She just was in a bad -- 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.000 she just had a bad day. 00:02:58.000 --> 00:02:60.000 Her protest that day eventually 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:02.000 sparked a 13-month bus boycott 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:03.000 which culminated with the 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:05.000 Supreme Court declaring segregation 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:08.000 on public transit unconstitutional. 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:09.000 That's it. 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:13.000 applause 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:15.000 Okay, so next, we have 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:16.000 Hailey Silberfarb coming up to 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.000 present about Mae Jemison. 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:23.000 applause 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:26.000 Okay, my name is Hailey Silberfarb. 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:28.000 My major is ASL Studies, 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.000 my pronouns are she/her/hers. 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:33.000 Okay so I did Mae Carol Jemison. 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:35.000 So she was born in Decatur, Alabama 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:38.000 on October 17, 1956, 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:39.000 and then she moved to Chicago 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:41.000 when she was just 3 years old. 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:42.000 She interest in archaeology, 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:45.000 anthropology and astronomy 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:47.000 from like an early age. 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:49.000 She went to Stanford at age 16, 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:50.000 very impressive, 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:51.000 and got a degree in 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:54.000 chemical engineering, and then -- 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:55.000 oh, and African American Studies, 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:56.000 and then went to Cornell 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:57.000 four years later, 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:58.000 and became a doctor of -- 00:03:58.000 --> 00:03:60.000 with a medical degree. 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.000 She practiced medicine as a 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:03.000 volunteer in a refugee camp, 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:05.000 and then she was a medical officer 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:08.000 with the Peace Corps in West Africa. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:10.000 So she was a general practitioner 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:11.000 in LA, and then NASA 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:13.000 selected her for training 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:17.000 which she finished in 1988. 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:19.000 And in September 1992, 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:20.000 she was the first Black 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:21.000 woman in space. 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:23.000 There's a picture of her. 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:25.000 She resigned in 1993, 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:27.000 and founded the Jemison Group, 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:28.000 and she currently focuses on 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:30.000 improving healthcare in Africa, 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:31.000 and advancing technology 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.000 in developing countries. 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:34.000 Those are my sources. 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:37.000 applause 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:40.000 Next we have Osaze. 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:43.000 Come on up Osaze. 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:48.000 applause 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:49.000 Like Joe Hahn said 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:50.000 my name is Osaze, 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:52.000 my pronouns are she/her/hers, 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:54.000 I am an exec member of 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:55.000 the BSU and I'm the 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:56.000 social media coordinator. 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:60.000 My major is ASL/English Interpreting. 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:01.000 And today I'm going to be 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:03.000 presenting on the legacy of 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:05.000 Andrew Foster. He is a 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:09.000 very famous Black Deaf American hero. 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:12.000 So firstly, it's only appropriate 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:13.000 that I show you Andrew Foster's 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:14.000 name sign. So if you put your 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:15.000 hand in the shape of like 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:17.000 an open A or it kind of looks 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:18.000 like a thumbs up, and you 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:20.000 just tap it on your neck. 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:22.000 That's Andrew Foster's name sign. 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:24.000 So now you know. 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:25.000 He is an educator, 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:26.000 a mentor, an advocate 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:27.000 and a leader. 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:29.000 So he had a huge role 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:32.000 in not only the Deaf community 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:33.000 but specifically the 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:34.000 Black Deaf community 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:36.000 in America as well 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:37.000 as in Africa. 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:39.000 He was born in 1952 in 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:40.000 Ensley, Alabama. He became 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:42.000 Deaf at age 11 from 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:43.000 spinal meningitis. 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:44.000 Him and his brother actually 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:46.000 both become Deaf at the same time 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:47.000 from the same thing. 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:49.000 He was accepted into 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:51.000 Gallaudet University which is the 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:52.000 first all-Deaf university 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:56.000 over on the East Coast in 1951 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:58.000 after he applied multiple times. 00:05:58.000 --> 00:05:59.000 But the school was segregated 00:05:59.000 --> 00:05:60.000 along the lines of race for 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:01.000 a really long time so they 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:03.000 kept rejecting him. 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:04.000 And then finally he was accepted 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:06.000 in 1951 which made him the 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.000 very first African American to graduate 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:10.000 with a degree from Gallaudet University. 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:12.000 So I wanna talk about his work 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:13.000 in Africa a little bit. 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:15.000 He did tours in North America, 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.000 Mexico, Western Europe and Africa, 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:20.000 but he's most probably famous for 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.000 his work that he did in Africa. 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.000 He did fundraising in 25 different 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:25.000 African nations to 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:27.000 raise money for Deaf youth 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:28.000 all throughout Africa. 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:31.000 He established 32 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:33.000 and institutions throughout Africa 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:36.000 in 13 different African countries, 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:38.000 which is really impressive. 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:40.000 Okay so the impact 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:41.000 that he made. 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:42.000 So here I have a picture of 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:44.000 the 13 different African nations 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:45.000 that he visited. So you can 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:47.000 kinda see a lot in West Africa 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:50.000 and then a little bit over here too. 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:53.000 This is really impressive. 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:55.000 different signed languages. 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:56.000 American Sign Language is the one 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:58.000 that you're most probably familiar 00:06:58.000 --> 00:06:60.000 with here in our country. 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:01.000 These are all different 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:04.000 signed languages that have evolved 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:06.000 from American Sign Language. 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:07.000 Many of them 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:09.000 are African signed languages 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:10.000 including Morocco, South Africa, 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:12.000 Nigerian Sign Language, 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:13.000 and a lot of those would not 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:16.000 have come to be if it wasn't for 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:17.000 Andrew Foster and the exposure 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:18.000 to American Sign Language 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:22.000 that he brought when he visited Africa. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:23.000 So then when he finished in 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:24.000 Africa and he came back to the 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:26.000 United States, he became an instructor 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:28.000 for the Deaf at the Kendal School 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:29.000 for the Deaf. 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:30.000 He earned an honorary doctorate 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.000 in Humane Letters from Gallaudet 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:35.000 in 1970. In 1962 he was -- 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:36.000 he earned the Man of the Year award 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:38.000 for Alpha Sigma Pi. 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:40.000 He earned the Edward Miner Gallaudet 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:42.000 award from Gallaudet College 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:44.000 Alumni Association in 1975. 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:47.000 So he has multiple prestigious awards, 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:50.000 and he still is actually in the museum, 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:51.000 he has an exhibit in the 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:55.000 Gallaudet University Museum there. 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:56.000 So, yeah. 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:57.000 That is Andrew Foster. 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:61.000 applause 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:02.000 Oh yes, does anyone 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:04.000 have questions? Yes. 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:06.000 So the question was, on the 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:09.000 photo of sign language 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:14.000 there is Black ASL, 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:16.000 it's up here at the top. 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:17.000 And the question that they asked 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:18.000 was what's the difference between 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:22.000 Black ASL and general ASL 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:23.000 that we know today? 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:24.000 What we most are 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:25.000 common familiar with. 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:29.000 Okay, so, Black ASL 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:32.000 evolved from ASL. 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:34.000 But it's taken on many 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:35.000 characteristics of its own 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:37.000 including different grammar, 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:38.000 and there are a lot of different 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:39.000 individual signs too. 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:41.000 So it actually has a different 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:44.000 lexicon than general white ASL. 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:46.000 And it evolved that way 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:47.000 because of segregation. 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:49.000 So when the United States 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:52.000 was serrated, and schools were segregated, 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.000 Deaf schools were also segregated. 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:55.000 And so there was very, very 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:57.000 minimal contact between 00:08:57.000 --> 00:08:59.000 Deaf Black children, and 00:08:59.000 --> 00:08:61.000 Deaf white children, 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:03.000 including even contact with hearing. 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:05.000 There was just no, there was 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.000 no mixing. And so because of that, 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:09.000 Deaf children spent a lot of time, 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:10.000 Deaf Black children spent a lot 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:12.000 of time around their Deaf 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:18.000 And they created language 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:19.000 of their own essentially. 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:21.000 A dialect of their own. 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:24.000 In fact of signers, ASL signers, 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:27.000 especially white ASL signers 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:28.000 in the north, 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:29.000 if they go down south and they 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:31.000 meet Black ASL signers, 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:32.000 they cannot understand them at all 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:33.000 They do not know what 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:34.000 they are signing. 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:35.000 They have signs that they use 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:37.000 differently, how they sign is different, 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:40.000 grammar is different, so -- yeah. 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:42.000 It's, it's really, it's really incredible. 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:43.000 And it's based pretty heavily off of 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:45.000 African American Vernacular English, 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:47.000 AAVE, which is known 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:49.000 by the common name as Ebonics. 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:51.000 So yeah, it's pretty cool. 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:54.000 There is a Black -- as a quick plug -- 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:55.000 there is a Black ASL class 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:57.000 on campus that you can take, 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:59.000 As well as a Black Deaf culture class 00:09:59.000 --> 00:09:60.000 and you can learn all about the history, 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.000 and it's taught by a 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:04.000 Black Deaf queer woman named Tie. 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:06.000 And it's phenomenal. 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:10.000 So, you should take that. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:12.000 Any other questions? 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:14.000 No? Alright. 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:17.000 applause 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:19.000 Excellent, thank you Osaze. 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:20.000 Next we have Tati Whitlow 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:21.000 coming up for a presentation 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:22.000 about Janelle Monae 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:29.000 applause 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:30.000 Thank you. 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:31.000 Hi everyone, my name is 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:33.000 Tati Whitlow as Joe Hahn said. 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:35.000 My pronouns are they/them/theirs 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:37.000 and I am the 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:38.000 Membership Outreach Coordinator 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:39.000 for the BSU. 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:42.000 And, oh look, it's Janelle Monae. 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:43.000 She's beautiful. 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:45.000 My presentation is going to be on 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:46.000 Janelle Monae, and also 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:49.000 I almost forgot, my major is -- 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:50.000 my major is psychology. 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:52.000 Some history about her is 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:56.000 she was born on December 1, 1985 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:58.000 in Kansas City, Kansas. 00:10:58.000 --> 00:10:60.000 She moved to New York City 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:02.000 to study drama at the 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:07.000 American Musical and Dramatic Academy, 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:09.000 attending a performing arts 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:11.000 camp called Freedom Theatre, 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:13.000 which is right now the oldest 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.000 theater there and it's still around today. 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:17.000 She recently came out as nonbinary 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:20.000 in January 2020 using the hashtag 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:24.000 which is still used today. 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:25.000 Still going on, so 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:27.000 snaps all the way. Yes. 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:29.000 And this is what her signature 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:30.000 style, as you can see, 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:32.000 as what I'm wearing right now. 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:35.000 Tuxedos. Because, who 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:37.000 doesn't love a nice suit? 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:38.000 Recently in the Oscars she -- 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:42.000 she went dressed in the lovely tuxedo. 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:45.000 And it -- they asked her, 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:48.000 oh why do you wear tuxedos? 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:52.000 Well I, she said, and I quote, 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:54.000 I bathe in it, I swim in it, 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:56.000 and I could be buried in it. 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.000 A tux is such a standard uniform. 00:11:58.000 --> 00:11:60.000 It is so classy and I -- 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:01.000 and it's a life style I enjoy. 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:04.000 The tux you see balanced 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:05.000 I look at myself as a canvas. 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:07.000 I don't want to cloud myself with 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:09.000 too many colors or I'll go crazy. 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:11.000 It's an experiment I'm doing. 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:13.000 I think I want to be in the 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:16.000 Guinness -- Book of World Records. 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:19.000 and Monae's signature look 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:24.000 harkens back to -- dandyism or 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:26.000 like a -- kind of like a dapper -- 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:28.000 kind of like a dapper man, so. 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:30.000 Yeah, that's it guys. Thank you. 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:32.000 Any questions? 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:33.000 The question was what inspired 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:35.000 me to pick Janelle Monae? 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:38.000 Well, I picked Janelle Monae because 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:40.000 she's nonbinary and I happen 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:41.000 to be nonbinary. 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:44.000 So why not? Yeah. 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:47.000 applause 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:48.000 Thank you Tati. 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:49.000 Next we have Logan Jackson 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:50.000 coming up to present on the 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:52.000 Black Panther Party. 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:55.000 applause 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:57.000 Hi, my name is Logan Jackson. 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:59.000 I am the BSU President. 00:12:59.000 --> 00:12:61.000 My pronouns are she/her/hers, 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.000 and my major is pre-law. 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:04.000 So I am presenting on 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:07.000 the Black Panther Party. 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:09.000 So the Black Panther Party was 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:12.000 a revolutionary political group 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:13.000 that was established 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:14.000 in Oakland, California 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:16.000 in 1966 and operated 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:17.000 until 1982. 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:19.000 So the party was made of 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:20.000 Mostly Black college students 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:22.000 and as an organization they 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:24.000 protected Black citizens from 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:28.000 police brutality. And in 1926 -- oh, 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:31.000 it should be 66. In 1966, 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:32.000 the Black Panthers began to 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:33.000 not only focus on 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:34.000 protecting and arming 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:36.000 citizens, but also establishing 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:38.000 multiple community social programs, 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:41.000 including the Free Breakfast for Children, 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:42.000 which addressed food injustice 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:44.000 and provided morning meals for 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:46.000 all the kids in the community 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.000 before they headed off to school. 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:49.000 And they also created a 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:51.000 community health clinics for 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:53.000 education and treatments of diseases 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:54.000 including sickle cell anemia, 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.000 tuberculosis, and -- 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:60.000 towards the end, HIV and AIDS. 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:02.000 So while the party was 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:03.000 helping and protecting 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:04.000 the community, 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:05.000 the US government, and particularly 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:08.000 the FBI, which was, at the time, 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:10.000 led by a man named Edgar Hoover, 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.000 which is him, 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:13.000 claimed that the Panthers were 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:15.000 the greatest threat to the 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:17.000 internal security of the country. 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:20.000 And he helped supervise an extensive 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:21.000 counterintelligence program of 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:23.000 surveillance, infiltration, 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:25.000 perjury, police harassment, 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:26.000 and many other tactics 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:28.000 designed to undermine 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:29.000 the Black Panther leadership 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:30.000 and incriminate and assassinate 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:32.000 party members, 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:33.000 discredit and criminalize 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:35.000 the Party and drain 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:37.000 organizational resources and manpower. 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:39.000 So the program was responsible for 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.000 the assassination of Fred Hampton, 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:42.000 one of the leaders of the 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:43.000 Black Panther Party, 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:45.000 and is accused of assassinating 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:47.000 the other Black Party Panther members 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:49.000 including Mark Clark. 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:51.000 And as a result, over the years, 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:53.000 the FBI soon dismantled the Party 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:54.000 through assassinations of 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:56.000 Party leaders and sabotage. 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:58.000 So, a couple of facts 00:14:58.000 --> 00:14:59.000 about the Black Panther Party. 00:14:59.000 --> 00:14:61.000 Is, it's often associated with 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:04.000 its male members, but 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:06.000 women actually played a huge role 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:08.000 in the organization of the party. 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:10.000 early 1970s, most of the 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:12.000 Panthers were women. 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:13.000 Women such as 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:16.000 Kathleen Cleaver, Assata Shakur, 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:18.000 Elaine Brown, and 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:19.000 Angelina Davis who wasn't 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:20.000 actually an official member but 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:22.000 she did play a huge role in the party. 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.000 They took on leadership roles 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:25.000 that had a huge influence 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:26.000 on the direction overall. 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:28.000 And the Black Panther Party, 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:29.000 they established a unified 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:30.000 platform, and their goals for 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:31.000 the party were outlined in a 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:35.000 demands for freedom, land, 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:38.000 housing, and employment and education 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:40.000 among other important objectives. 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:41.000 But, I couldn't include them 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:43.000 in this because they were 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:45.000 very descriptive, and very long and 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:47.000 I said there wasn't enough time. 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:48.000 So, yeah. That was the 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:49.000 Black Panther Party. 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:52.000 applause 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.000 Any questions? 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.000 So the question was 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:58.000 one of the leaders was -- sorry, 00:15:58.000 --> 00:15:60.000 Huey P. Newton, was he 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:03.000 assassinated by the FBI? 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:05.000 And I'm not exactly sure, 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:06.000 I do remember that he was 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.000 arrested at one point and after 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:12.000 being released, he kind of, 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:15.000 it kind of got messy, downhill 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:17.000 mentally for him. I do understand, 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:19.000 I do remember that. And he got 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:20.000 kind of involved in like 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:22.000 drug deals and things like that. 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:24.000 I'm not quite sure if he was 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:26.000 assassinated by the FBI though. 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:30.000 applause 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:32.000 Excellent, thank you Logan. 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:36.000 Next we have Suse coming up 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.000 to present about James Baldwin. 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:45.000 applause 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:46.000 Hi my name is Suse, 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:47.000 I use she/her/hers, 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:48.000 I'm the Stonewall Center Coordinator, 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.000 and my -- I'm 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:52.000 a communications studies major. 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:54.000 So I chose to present on James Baldwin. 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:55.000 So just some brief overview 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:57.000 about his life. 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:59.000 He was born August 2 in 1924. 00:16:59.000 --> 00:16:61.000 He was a novelist, playwright, 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:03.000 essayist, poet and activist. 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:05.000 Originally, when he started out, 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:06.000 his stepfather was actually 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:07.000 a pastor and so for awhile 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:09.000 he was super, super religious and 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:10.000 followed along those lines. 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:12.000 But after awhile realized 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:13.000 religion wasn't quite his thing, 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:15.000 and eventually saw the 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:16.000 church was hypocritical and racist, 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:17.000 and then he left. 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:19.000 And then his relationship with religion 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:21.000 shaped a lot of the way that he wrote 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:23.000 his novels, and he even 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:25.000 accused religion of mimicking 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:27.000 American slavery in some regard 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:29.000 in some of his writing. 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:30.000 He kind of traveled between 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.000 America and Paris for awhile. 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:34.000 He left for America, kind of 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:35.000 hoping to figure out his life 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:36.000 and his sexuality. 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:37.000 He lived in France for 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:38.000 most of his life, 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:39.000 where that's where 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:40.000 he wrote most of his 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:41.000 poetry and stories, 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:42.000 but moved in between France 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.000 and United States. 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:45.000 So when he was in the United States, 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:46.000 he was trying to help with the 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:47.000 Civil Rights Movement but like 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:49.000 Baldwin was kind of shunned 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:50.000 from the Civil Rights Movement 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:52.000 because of his sexuality. 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:54.000 And so because of that 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:56.000 he was kind of pushed to the 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:58.000 of the movement. 00:17:58.000 --> 00:17:59.000 But he was also a part of the 00:17:59.000 --> 00:17:60.000 Gay Liberation Movement, 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:01.000 and a lot of his protagonists 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:03.000 in a lot of his work were 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:04.000 gay and bisexual. 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.000 He was fairly open about his 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:08.000 relationships with both men and women, 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:09.000 you fall in love with a boy, 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:10.000 you fall in love with a boy. 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:12.000 And he had lots of famous close friends 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:13.000 like Nina Simone, Langston Hughes, 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:16.000 Marlon Brando, Billy Dee Williams. 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:17.000 Things like that. 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:19.000 And then on December 1 in 1987 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:21.000 he died of stomach cancer in France. 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:22.000 I chose to take up the rest of 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:23.000 the time with some of my poems, 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:24.000 or some of his poems 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:25.000 that I found that I really liked. 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:29.000 One of them is called Paradise. 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:31.000 It says, let this be my summertime 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:33.000 of azure sky and rolling sea. 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:35.000 And just myself enhanced with thee. 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:37.000 And children playing in the glory 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:38.000 of a carefree youthful day, 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:40.000 and sunshine shining 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:41.000 from the heavens, 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:43.000 and tears of sighting fled away. 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:44.000 Let this be my happiness, 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:48.000 let this be my only 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:49.000 solace, just to know you 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:50.000 love me so. 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:52.000 Just to know that we'll go winging, 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:54.000 far above this earthly climb, 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:55.000 hand to hand through 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:56.000 laughing meadows, 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:58.000 let this be my summertime. 00:18:58.000 --> 00:18:60.000 Which I thought was really cute. 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:01.000 And then the other one I found 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:03.000 is called Guilt Desire and Love, 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:04.000 and I really like this one. 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:05.000 It's from Jimmy's Blues 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:08.000 that he released in 1983. 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:09.000 At the dark street corner, 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:11.000 where Guilt and Desire are 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:13.000 attempting to stare each other down, 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:14.000 presently, one of them will light 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:15.000 a cigarette, and glance in the 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:17.000 direction of the abandoned warehouse. 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:19.000 Love came slouching along, 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:21.000 an exploded silence, standing a 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:23.000 little apart, but visible anyway 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:24.000 in the yellow, silent, steaming 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:27.000 light, where Guilt and Desire wrangled, 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:28.000 trying not to be overheard 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:30.000 by this trespasser. 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.000 Each time Desire looked 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:33.000 towards Love, hoping to find 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:36.000 a witness, Guilt shouted louder 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:37.000 and shook them hips, and the 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:38.000 fire of the cigarette 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:40.000 threatened to burn the warehouse down. 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:42.000 Desire actually started across 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:44.000 the street, time after time, 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:46.000 to hear what Love might have to say. 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:47.000 But Guilt flagged down a truckload 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:49.000 of other people, and knelt down 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:50.000 in the middle of the street, and 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:52.000 while the truckload of the 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:53.000 other people looked away, 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:55.000 and wore that they didn't see nothing, 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:57.000 and couldn't testify nohow, 00:19:57.000 --> 00:19:59.000 and Love moved out of sight, 00:19:59.000 --> 00:19:60.000 Guilt accomplished upon the 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.000 standing body of Desire. 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:04.000 The momentary inflammatory 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:06.000 soothing which seals their union forever, 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:08.000 and creates a mighty traffic problem. 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:11.000 applause 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:18.000 Any questions? Cool. 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:20.000 Thank you. 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:23.000 Alright, next we have ZZ 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:25.000 coming up to present about the 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:26.000 Birmingham Bombing. 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:32.000 applause 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:35.000 Hello, so my name is ZZ, 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:36.000 but my actual name's Elizabeth. 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:38.000 But, nobody knows that. 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:41.000 So my, pronouns are she/her/hers, 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:42.000 my major is criminal justice 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:44.000 and I'm minoring in legal studies, 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:46.000 and I'll be presenting on 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:47.000 the Birmingham Bombing. 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:49.000 So, this took place at the 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:52.000 in Alabama. 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:56.000 And it happened on September 15, 1963. 00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:58.000 So just like a little bit of background. 00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:60.000 The 16th Baptist Church 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:01.000 is the oldest Black church 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:02.000 in Birmingham, Alabama, 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:04.000 and my aunt lives there and I saw it, 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:06.000 So the attack took place at 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:09.000 exactly 10:22, while a choir 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:10.000 was getting ready to go perform. 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:12.000 And so there were four casualties. 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:13.000 Addie Mae Collins, 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:15.000 Cynthia D. Morris Wesley, 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:16.000 Carole Rosamond Robertson and 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:17.000 Denise McNair. 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:19.000 Denise was the youngest and she was 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:24.000 These are the people that were 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:25.000 responsible. So at first 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:26.000 there were four suspects, but 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:28.000 they narrowed down 3. 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:30.000 And they were all part of the 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:32.000 Ku Klux Klan -- 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:36.000 and it was a premeditated 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:39.000 and they do now classify it as 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:42.000 like a terrorist basically, 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:43.000 and they should. 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:45.000 And so, did I skip a part? 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:48.000 Oh, oh so -- 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:49.000 this is -- I don't know here but 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:52.000 but Edgar Hoover, Thomas Blanton 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:54.000 and Robert Chambliss. 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:55.000 And the reason why I -- like 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:57.000 chose this to kind of like 00:21:57.000 --> 00:21:58.000 present on was because 00:21:58.000 --> 00:21:60.000 I never learned about it like in school 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:02.000 until I was like, I think I just like, 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:03.000 stumbled upon it. 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:05.000 But, I never really like, learned about 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:06.000 these things. And I think what was 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:08.000 like most sad was that 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:10.000 people didn't realize how long 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:12.000 it took for the police 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:15.000 to find them, but then also charge them. 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:17.000 And so that's what I'll get into next. 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:18.000 For the journey to justice, 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:20.000 so there were evidence 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:21.000 that was collected like 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:23.000 at the scene when the bombing happened, 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:24.000 but a lot of things became 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:26.000 classified, and it was not used in 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:28.000 courts, and plus 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:30.000 like not being able to find them, 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:32.000 was a lot harder. And there was just 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:33.000 a lot of things that were covered up 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:34.000 which made it extremely hard to 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:36.000 convict these people. 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:37.000 When the classified evidence was 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:40.000 released finally -- oh and, so yeah, 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:41.000 they withheld evidence for almost two 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:44.000 decades. And so that was very bad. 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:45.000 But one of the klansmen died, 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:46.000 and so they weren't able to convict him 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:47.000 which is sad because he's not 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:48.000 gonna be held accountable. 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:50.000 But the rest were tried. 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:52.000 So the first one was tried in 1977 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:53.000 which is only 14 years 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:54.000 which is only 14 years 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:55.000 after the bombing, and then the rest 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:58.000 were tried and convicted in 2001 00:22:58.000 --> 00:22:59.000 and 2002, and so that was 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:05.000 So these were just all of the 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:08.000 casualties and it is very sad. 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:10.000 And there were 22 other people that 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:12.000 were injured, and -- one 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:14.000 of the -- I can't remember who, 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:16.000 I think it was Addie, and her sister 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:18.000 was -- she lost an eye to the bombing 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:19.000 and she was in the hospital 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:21.000 for a very long time. 00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:23.000 So yeah, that's it. 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:26.000 applause 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:27.000 Any questions? 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:28.000 Was the Edgar Hoover that 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:29.000 I talked about 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:32.000 was -- was, like, he the same one 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:34.000 that was presented in the Black Panther? 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:36.000 No. But I believe 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:38.000 that the FBI agent that was 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:39.000 a part of, like, assassinating the 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:41.000 Black Panther people and stuff like that 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:44.000 was also an FBI investigator 00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:45.000 in this, and so that's why 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:48.000 everything was covered up for so long. 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:52.000 Yeah. 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:53.000 Alright, so that was the last 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:55.000 of our formal presentations, 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:57.000 so thank you everyone who presented. 00:23:57.000 --> 00:23:58.000 What I want to do is now 00:23:58.000 --> 00:23:59.000 that we're done with all the presentations, 00:23:59.000 --> 00:23:61.000 I just wanna briefly have a chance 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:02.000 for y'all to debrief 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:03.000 on the experience of 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:05.000 So please at your tables, 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:06.000 and those of you aren't -- 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:08.000 pair up please, -- 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:09.000 share what did you learn today? 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:10.000 What's something new? 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:11.000 What challenged your perspectives 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:13.000 from what you learned from 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:15.000 high school or other times beforehand? 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:16.000 And we'll follow up afterwards. 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:20.000 music 00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:24.000 music 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:35.000 music 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:37.000 So what were some of the highlights? 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:38.000 What -- so first we'll just say, 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:40.000 what was one thing that 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:41.000 you really learned, that you 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:42.000 maybe weren't taught beforehand? 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:43.000 So what was something, 00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:45.000 a different perspective you gained? 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:46.000 I'm gonna give you the mic 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:51.000 so we can hear it. 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:52.000 I didn't know about the bombing. 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:54.000 That was completely new 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:56.000 I was really excited to learn about. 00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:03.000 I'm -- I'm familiar with 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:04.000 James Baldwin, and I've 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:05.000 like, always wanted to, like, 00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:08.000 read some of his works, 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:09.000 but I didn't know he was queer. 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:10.000 That was like completely new 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:12.000 information to me. So I was like -- 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:13.000 Yes! 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:16.000 laughter 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:17.000 Excellent, yeah so, there's 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:18.000 maybe bits and pieces of 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:20.000 information that we didn't know before, 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:21.000 but we're expanding our 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:22.000 knowledge base. 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:27.000 Anything this table would like to share? 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:31.000 the bombing, I had heard about 00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:33.000 the bombing, but it was completely 00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:34.000 new information that it took 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:36.000 almost 40 years 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:38.000 to catch who did it. 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:41.000 And that was, like, very -- 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:42.000 kind of like mind-boggling to me. 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:44.000 Because if the roles were reversed, 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:50.000 it would be a completely different story. 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:52.000 What was an expectation, 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:53.000 or something that, 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:54.000 like a take-away from today? 00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:56.000 What's something that after 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:58.000 going through 3 Minute Black History 00:25:58.000 --> 00:25:59.000 that you're gonna tell your friends 00:25:59.000 --> 00:25:60.000 about this event? 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:01.000 What are some things that 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:02.000 you're just, like, thinking about 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:04.000 as you are leaving this space? 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:11.000 I think just like, for myself as well, 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:13.000 and also just for like, my friends 00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:15.000 and people that I interact with, 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:17.000 it's just like getting educated more, 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:19.000 and like seeking that information, 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:21.000 and making sure that, like, your 00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:27.000 an accurate representation 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:28.000 of what actually happened in history, 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:30.000 and not what the white men 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:32.000 are telling you in a textbook. 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:37.000 snaps 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:43.000 Yeah, I was -- I agree. 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:45.000 Like, I definitely think that 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:47.000 Black history should be taught 00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:49.000 in schools more, and just 00:26:49.000 --> 00:26:52.000 again, the right -- 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:56.000 accurate history about what is going on. 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:01.000 Kind of going off of that, 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:02.000 I also think that it just shouldn't 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:04.000 be sugarcoated. I think a lot 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:06.000 of the times, people -- when it's 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:07.000 being taught, especially, like, 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:09.000 Black history or things that like, 00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:12.000 aren't the nicest things to learn about 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:14.000 I think a lot of the times, like, 00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:15.000 they try to make it softer 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:18.000 In reality, it was really hard times. 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:19.000 There -- they weren't good, 00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:21.000 there weren't good things happening. 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:22.000 Like, I just think that we just need 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:24.000 to be more, kind of, I guess like 00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:26.000 blunt about certain things in history. 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:28.000 Because, if you don't, 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:29.000 I feel like you're not actually getting 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:31.000 like the full historical value of it. 00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:32.000 And not actually like learning 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:35.000 from the past mistakes. 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:38.000 I'm just gonna add onto that too, actually. 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:40.000 Because like, I -- yeah I agree. 00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:42.000 I think that like, the -- more 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:44.000 accurate portrayal of history 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:46.000 obviously is necessary. 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:48.000 Something that's more -- 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:50.000 straightforward with what actually happened 00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:51.000 instead of, yeah, like sugarcoating 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:52.000 it and things like that. 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:53.000 But I also don't think that it 00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:54.000 necessarily has to like, 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:55.000 be all bad. 00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:57.000 Because I know that like growing up, 00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:58.000 like when I learned about like 00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:59.000 the Black Panthers, or when I 00:27:59.000 --> 00:27:61.000 learned about, like, Malcolm X 00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:04.000 and stuff -- those two in particular, 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:06.000 were always portrayed as really negative. 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:08.000 Like negative, like it was always like 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:10.000 Malcolm X was pitted against 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:11.000 Martin Luther King Jr., 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:12.000 and like Martin Luther King was 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:13.000 like the good Black guy, 00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:15.000 and Malcolm X was like evil. 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:17.000 And like, as an adult, when I 00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:19.000 got that more, like, blunt 00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:20.000 understanding of those, 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:21.000 and when I learned more about what 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:23.000 they actually like, what they 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:25.000 actually like did and said, 00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:27.000 they became like heroes to me. 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:29.000 Like they're like, they're like idols 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:31.000 and like heroes and role models 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:32.000 that like I didn't have growing up 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:34.000 because I didn't learn who 00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:36.000 they actually were. 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:37.000 And as an adult, now that I 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:38.000 see who they are, I'm like 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:40.000 you're someone that I can actually like 00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:41.000 model myself after. 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:43.000 Which is like a really positive thing. 00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:50.000 So, but I -- yeah, I agree with that. 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:51.000 I kind of agree with what 00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:54.000 Osaze said, and like, kind of 00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:55.000 going off of that, I didn't learn 00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:58.000 about like Black Panther until -- 00:28:58.000 --> 00:28:60.000 the Black Panthers until today. 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:01.000 Because when Logan brought up 00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:02.000 the idea of, hey I'm going to 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:04.000 do Black Panther, I legit thought 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:06.000 so we're gonna have a presentation 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:08.000 about Black Panthers. 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:10.000 In our presentation. Lovely. 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:12.000 And I thought, okay, cool. 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:13.000 And then as she explained me 00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:15.000 what it was I'm like -- oh. 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:16.000 That makes sense. 00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:20.000 And I, kinda learning more about it now 00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:22.000 because I never -- was in my 00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:24.000 that wasn't in my history books. 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:26.000 Like I barely knew what -- 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:27.000 about Malcolm X. 00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:29.000 And I -- and I kind of new more 00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:32.000 about Martin -- MLK than 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:34.000 So it was just me kind of like, 00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:36.000 having to go and Google, and 00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:37.000 Google it myself. 00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:38.000 Which is a time. 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:40.000 And I didn't know about -- 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:42.000 what Osaze presented on -- 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:44.000 Andrew Foster, there we go. 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:46.000 I didn't know much about him either. 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:50.000 So, yeah. 00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:51.000 Excellent, well thank you all 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:53.000 for coming to 3 Minute Black History. 00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:56.000 I appreciate your -- presence. 00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:57.000 Any final thoughts? 00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:60.000 Questions? Comments? 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.000 Reflections? 00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:04.000 Excellent. Thank you all for coming. 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:05.000 Have a great night. 00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:13.000 music