People didnt think it would work on pbs. Charlie rose had done well for years and nobody expected for me to make it on pbs. Long story short it would be im still here. Host 25 years or so youve been doing this. 17 books or so you ever written and edited. Your different shows that youve done, what do you think youve accomplished . Guest i hope that what we do every day through our public radio and Public Television work is the same three things that say all the time. I hope, number one to challenge fellow citizens to reexamine the assumption they hold. We all bring assumptions to the table. There is nothing wrong with that. Assumptions and various prejudices but i hope our work challenges people to reexamine the assumptions they hold. I hope our work helps expand their inventory of ideas. I hope our work allows americans to be introduced to each other. This is the most multicultural, multky racial, multiethnic america ever. America is still so segregated in many ways. I hope the work we
The National Museum of health and medicine was founded in 1862 and known as the Army Medical Museum and the mission was to collect specimens of morbid anatomy and send them to washington to study to improve the care of the soldier. At the time of the civil war the museums staff were doing the business of Lessons Learned. They were trying to understand the nature of Battlefield Medicine, and trauma and share it with their counterparts on the battlefield. This museum and its collection started during the war and in the early days, the museum was housed in the Surgeon Generals office. The first artifacts were on a shelf and in a building that we know as the Riggs Bank Building near the white house. But wasnt until after the tragic events of the assassination of president lincoln that the museum moved into its first longterm residence and moved into fords theater before moving to what became the National Mall in a building built in the 1880 that we family call the old red brick in a buildi
Treat us cspanhistory. Take us back 50 years ago today. What was some like . And what led up to the idea of the march to montgomery in the first place . Reverend lafayette well, it was a very extraordinary. Extraordinary period in our history. Because what we were doing was basically giving a voice to the people who are voiceless. And that is what all these movements are about. Helping to give people a voice who otherwise would not be heard. We feel that if the voices of the poor, the voices of the disenfranchised, the voices of the suffering people are heard other people will respond. So, selma, alabama is that example of where people around the country and around the world heard the voices crying out for people not being treated equally as human beings. Now, the reason we were going to my comic alabama i want to make it there is because that is the state capital of alabama. We did not have much is there before from selma, but the reason we had this particular march is because of what
Ill be buried in my grave and go home to my lord and be free no more violence no more violence no more violence over me over me and before i be a slave ill be buried in my grave and go home to my lord and be free i want yall to sing it with me now. Oh, oh, freedom oh, freedom o freedom over me over me and before i be a slave ill be buried in my grave and go home to my lord and be free applause thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Im al williams, president of the board of directors of San Francisco africanamerican historical and cultural society. On behalf of the society and our copresenters, the San Francisco africanamerican chamber of commerce, the bayview ymca, senator mark lenos office, the San Francisco public library, and the Mayors Office of neighborhood services, welcome to the 2013 black History Month program. The 2013 black History Month theme is at the crossroads of freedom and equality, the emancipation proclamation and the march o
And before i be a slave ill be buried in my grave and go home to my lord and be free no more violence no more violence no more violence over me over me and before i be a slave ill be buried in my grave and go home to my lord and be free i want yall to sing it with me now. Oh, oh, freedom oh, freedom o freedom over me over me and before i be a slave ill be buried in my grave and go home to my lord and be free applause thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Im al williams, president of the board of directors of San Francisco africanamerican historical and cultural society. On behalf of the society and our copresenters, the San Francisco africanamerican chamber of commerce, the bayview ymca, senator mark lenos office, the San Francisco public library, and the Mayors Office of neighborhood services, welcome to the 2013 black History Month program. The 2013 black History Month theme is at the crossroads of freedom and equality, the emancipation proc