How did I get here. How did YOU GET HERE. THAT Deborah Cox song, that's the song I sing every time I look in the mirror and I see this old face staring back at me that I don't recognize.But if I'm honest, it wasn't the old face staring back from the mirror that first gave me an indication that I was getting old. No, it was when I started showing up to events and young people, younger people started using labels to refer to me that I used to use to refer to people that WERE AGING THAT I LOOK UP TO. They star ...

Time to be a stick in a man's hand can do many things. It can unite a community in a dance. It can command respect. It can cause harm.And yet it is just a stick. This stick is what we call aaron in Imirati culture. But what exactly makes the stick powerful.Is it the wood itself. Or is it the hand that holds it. In the UAE, the appears everywhere.In the Ayala and Yola dances, it dances proudly in the air. In the hands of an elder, it's a symbol of wisdom and authority. And in yet another harsher form, it has ...

It's official. Premiums for 20 million Americans enrolled in the Affordable Care Act will double on average as House Republican leaders passed a health care bill that does not include the enhanced subsidies. This despite an intraarty rebellion where four moderate Republicans join Democrats to force a vote for a three-year extension of those subsidies.Though that's not going to happen until the new year, leaving both sides frustrated. >> It's extraordinary to us. I don't think these people want to win any mo ...

Buffett's legacy is the architecture of Birkshshire Hathaway. His legacy is how he did this. Greg Ael, he's a brilliant guy.He knows how to operate. He's been doing it for years. This transition has been signaled.It's nothing new. Everybody on Wall Street knows. But we're not going to have the magic duo of Warren Buffett and Charlie Mer telling these stories and keeping investors uh focused.Those Birkshshire Hathaway shareholder meetings were also sales uh productions to get people to buy the products that ...

[music] What does real leadership look like. I want y'all to think about that for a moment. I'm going to invite you to please close your eyes and I want you to picture a real leader.What do they look like. How are they standing. What are they saying.When you have that image in your [clears throat] head, I want you to open your eyes. And I want you to have that image in your head as I tell you a story. I still remember one of the first conversations I had about leadership.And it wasn't in the conference room ...

I always say it's important for me to be remembered as a good human," @cocogauff told Forbes, about her legacy beyond the tennis court.⁣See our full interview: https://t.co/iaWEnHWvmy #ForbesUnder30 https://t.co/h0xWp6VXVU ...

[music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> When you hear the word revolution, what do you think of.An American or world war. the Black Panther Party, civil rights marches, or do you think of a country that was built on the backs and shoulders of the ones that they label the minorities. H well, for African-Americans, the greatest revolution was not only fought through war, marches, and wars, it was fought through music.Preserving the legacies of African-American music is the spiritual essence for culture conn ...

[applause] 5:30 a. m. My mother says a brief prayer.Hands are intellect as I prepare myself to make the 43 kilometer commute from Tokaza to Santon. 5:40 a. m.I feel the crisp morning breeze on my face. Index finger pointed downwards to signal to oncoming traffic. One taxi passes, then another, and another, and eventually one stops.With my lunch bag and laptop bag, I quickly make my way into the taxi. Right to the back. By the way, you know, want to be at the back of the taxi.In South Africa, there is no han ...

[Music] Mom, I always knew this was my destiny. Those were the words of my son. Inwardly, I was screaming, "How can this be your destiny. What does this mean for your life. Outwardly, I held him tight and I whispered, "I love you with all my heart." And then I turned and walked away, not knowing when I would see or speak to him again.Because he was about to step into something that would change both of our lives forever. He chose to stand for honesty, integrity, justice, and purpose. That moment was the 12t ...

Distinguished guests, presidents and vice presidents, dear friends, my mom and Mary and I and our families, thank you for being here to honor the good and great man we loved so much. A few years ago, reflecting back on nearly 40 years in public service, Dick Cheney said this. The path I had traveled was partly due to the circumstance of my birth. Not that I had been born into a powerful or privileged family. I wasn't. But I was born an American. A blessing surely among life's greatest. My dad thought deeply ...