Our family was from alabama. I always felt that i had Something Special. Back then very few africanamericans in 1937 had cameras. My grandmother said my mother did not have a father, but she had a camera. She took pictures all the time. I always knew this was Something Special she had put together that she left the family and left the world. Mr. Evans has brought in what. Amounts to a visual social history of black life in brooklyn, new york, preand post postworld war ii. And the variety of scenes that his mother took. So, kids on street corners just at play or posing in a playground or trips to the beach. Going to coney island. Going to coney island. Young couples that are literally clearly according. There are a range of activities and scenes. The background constitutes this as a social history of brooklyn and the black experience in a time of immense change at around world war ii, a time of gender changes as well as economic and social changes. We are looking at a window of black li
Elsewhere, so it is a onceinalifetime kind of collection. An opportunity to see. It is an awesome responsibility for the museum to be the caretaker, the steward of this collection. Find out where cspans citie s tour is going next. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Each week, american artifacts takes you the National Museum of african American History and culture is currently under construction. An expected open in 2016. The museum has hosted several event since called save our 2008 African American treasures. People can bring in family artifacts and talk to curators about how best to preserve them. We talked to museum staff and participants at the museum and washington, d. C. My name is esther washington. I am the director of the museum. Here we are with our save our africanamerican treasury program. We invite the public to bring three objects. We have reviewers here find out , the history, the materials they are made from and they tell the pub
From about 23,000 in january of 1965 to over u. S. Military 180,000 by the end of the year. During the current academic year, this marks the second occasion on which Johns Hopkins has been privileged to welcome our chief executive of this campus. Ladies and gentlemen, i present the president of the united states. [applause] [applause] president johnson senator tidings, members of the congressional allegation members of the faculty at john hopkins student body, my fellow americans, last week, 17 nations send their views to some two dozen countries having an interest in Southeast Asia. We are joining those 17 countries and stating our american policy tonight, which we believe will contribute toward peace in this area of the world. I have come here to review once again with my own all the views of the american government. Tonight, americans and asians are dying for a war where each people may choose its own path for change. This is the principle of which are which our ancestors fought in
Emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine, the drug often touted by donald trump as a potential treatment for coronavirus, despite medical warnings. Agency says they believe the dosing regimens are, quote, unlikely to produce an antiviral effect, end quote. We have our team of reporters here to cover all of this. We begin with the breaking news. This historic ruling for lgbtq rights by the Supreme Court today. Now, this was not a split decision. It was actually 63, including a vote from a recent member of the court who came from the Trump Administration, neil gorsuch. The court ruling of discrimination on the basis of Sexual Orientation or gender identity, that is, people who may identify as trans. If you are discriminated against just for that, that is now formally and officially, the court says, illegal, under a very old law, 1964 Civil Rights Act. Before todays ruling, members of the Lgbtq Community did have, we should note, employment protections in 21 states around the co
Were going to build a wall. Dont worry, were going to build a wall. Were going to build the wall. Good sunday morning. Welcome to am joy. Now on saturday at 6 00 p. M. In virginia, donald trump was making a not so joyful noise about building a wall. But according to buzzfeed and univision, earlier in the day at trump how tower in new york he sang a different tune telling members of the newly formed Hispanic Advisory Council he was in fact open to creating a path to legalization for undocumented migrants. They are disputed that report and with a reporter, and the Washington Post ej deon and campaign sur gas steve cortes. And who i emailed you at 11 00 last night, so sank you so much for coming in it and give us this report about the meeting at trump tower where he changed his views on immigration. I think the reason this stands out is because where trump had been that no candidate had gone before. So building the wall and deporting everybody was the stance that he had repeatedly talked