Belva Davis: Um.
Belva Davis: Commentator: and you were born to a teen mom and you were, you called it "farmed out" but -- Belva Davis: Yeah.
Belva Davis: Um-hum. You're a woman -- Belva Davis: Commentator: and you managed to become -- Belva Davis:
Belva Davis: Commentator: The first black, female news reporter on the West Coast.
Belva Davis: Commentator: talking to ?
Belva Davis: Um-hum.
Belva Davis: Thank you.
Belva Davis: A wonderful introduction.
Belva Davis: I think it's because we live in a time when so many young people are giving up.
Belva Davis: Um-hum. So why don't you share with us -- Belva Davis: Yeah.
Belva Davis: Yesterday I listened to Tavis Smiley talk about his life story ?
Belva Davis: Commentator: in the process.
Belva Davis: but the difference is there are people like you who they can see ignored the stereotypical drumming of what it means to be black in America and say, "You can succeed
Belva Davis: in terms of investing more in education, in terms of offering more opportunities.
Belva Davis: There were a number of touch points.
Belva Davis: And I, I think made one of the smartest moves in my career.
Belva Davis: the question.
Belva Davis: So those were, those were big developmental points as I moved forward and eventually did land a job over at the CBS owned station.
Belva Davis: Um-hum.
Belva Davis: Um-hum.
Belva Davis: Well I started -- you know I was a single mom with a couple of kids and trying to figure out how I could be relevant at a time when the Civil Rights Movement was
Belva Davis: kind of lesson and he loaned us the crown for the Miss Universe Pageant for our first Miss Bronze.
Belva Davis: Yeah, so that was just one of my diversions, a totally volunteer effort.
Belva Davis: Um-hum.
Belva Davis: Um-hum.
Belva Davis: Well the story of how -- I wrote it during those days of looking for a job in television --
Belva Davis: Yeah.
Belva Davis: Um-hum.
Belva Davis: Um-hum.
Belva Davis: Um-hum.
Belva Davis: Um. Commentator: Tell us what you think or kind of embellishing or helping things that you do in -- Belva Davis: Um-hum.
Belva Davis: that often would end up in our reports.
Belva Davis: Um-hum.
Belva Davis: Um-hum. Some day -- Belva Davis: Um-hum.
Belva Davis: Well there's something that no technology can replace and that is the gnawing in the heart, the stomach to produce information that has value.
Belva Davis: Um-hum.
Belva Davis: Justin Houser: Hi, Ms. Davis, My name is Justin Houser and I just started here at Google in September.
Belva Davis: Oh my goodness, yeah.
Belva Davis: "No matter what happens take your naps at this age."
Belva Davis: Male Audience Member #2: Thanks so much for coming and sharing your wisdom with us.
Belva Davis: Well that's a truly long story and I talk about my childhood of --.
Belva Davis: Oh of course.
Belva Davis: Yeah, I mean I of course I'm not -- Commentator: Male Audience Member #2: It could just as easily --
Belva Davis: No, but I know I could have become a pessimist.
Belva Davis: Female Audience Member #2: It's an honor to have you here.
Belva Davis: Um-hum, um-hum.
Belva Davis: Well other than being given the Berkeley beat which I was given as my first major assignment in -- of course you know what went on in Berkeley during the late
Belva Davis: indeed if this was the business that we should be in.
Belva Davis: Female Audience Member #3: Hi Ms. Davis.
Belva Davis: Um-hum.