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-July 1st.
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After the great earthquake, the neighborhood has become a refugee camp. The whole community is populated with families who lost almost everything.
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January 24. Ground was broken yesterday at the corner of Ocean Avenue and Granada. The building cornerstone was laid.
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March. The new building is complete, including one of the best gymnasiums in the Bay Region.
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January 12th. We have lost several of our members who have moved back east.
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-San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission regular hearing for Wednesday, May 4th. Would like to take role this time. Commissioner President Wolfram? -Here. -Commission Vice President Highland. -Here. -Commissioner Hawes? -Yes. -Commissioner John. -Yes, here. -Commissioner Johns. -Yes, here. -Commissioner Matsuda. -Here. -And Commissioner Pearlman. -Here.
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-God bless you, Pat. Hey. -So how you feel? -No, How are you feeling? Hey. -How are you doing? -Good. You drew all this stuff?
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-Good morning. How you doing? -Nice see you. I'm good. Thank you. You're very welcome. All right. April 10th. San Francisco is effectively closed off to non-whites. Ingleside becomes a refugee area once again. -You can't tell the history of African-Americans in this city, or anywhere else, without engaging in narration. Narration simply connects through telling.
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-July 1st. Give.
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Author Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award for fiction this year for his novel "The Underground Railroad."
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January 9th. The gymnasium ceiling, heating plant, and primary department room needs attention as soon as possible.
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I want to first of all pause and give you an opportunity to call out names of persons that we can include in this prayer for today. Let's do that now, please.
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Robert, Stanley, Charlie, Ester, Brianna... Phyllis, Gina, Gail, London, Ginny... Rodney. Lena Horne. Duke Ellington. Bessie Smith. Prince. Jackie Wilson. Maya Angelou. Bob Teeler. Dolores and Charles. Dr. James Noel. James Johnson. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dick Gregory. Billy Epstein. Donnie Hathaway. Cynthia Jones. Malcolm X. Harry Belafonte. -If a task is once begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the label great or small. Do it well or not at all. There's one room that's never filled. And that is the room for improvement. Why I'm citing this history? African-Americans have excelled in spite of that kind of a toxic, mean, racist attitude and done an outstanding job. And we should make sure that in this contextual statement, it is mentioned that we achieve in spite of that. -Thank you. Sorry. Thank you very much. -That's not fair to all the other speakers. -Patrick. Thank you. -Thank you very much. -Thank you. -And I might say lovingly right here and respectfully. I hope the next time I come before this commission there's a black face on it. -Thank you.
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-October 2nd.
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-This is a test. -Evictions, rent increase, and development projects produce a new, tragic, demographical shift in the neighborhood. Black population reduces to less than 5%.
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-Item 9, for case number 2015-007219DES. The Ingleside Presbyterian Church and The Great Cloud of Witnesses initiate landmark designation. -
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December 20th. The building and its interior have obtained the city's historical landmark status. As long as San Francisco is a city, the building and its interior will be safeguarded. 1345 Ocean Avenue. One of the places where wild imagination began and continues. This is the surface of this film. I have seen in my 40 years of working with young people, they need role models, especially of their own culture, achieving so they can get the image of themselves achieving. And I got the vision. They might not read the black history books, but they'd read the wall. Nothing but positive images.
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October 2nd. Don't worry if its too much or not enough -- give what you can. But keep giving, don't stop. Don't expect something in return. Don't calculate nor quantify. And don't financialize. This is radical generosity. This is infinite giving. This is hand-written history found in our session records.
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