Photographs in the newspapers archive. Some of these were published in a hugely popular multimedia series, unpublished black history. It explored the history behind the photos garnering 1. 7 million views and thousands of comments from readers. Were thrilled to welcome tonight two of the authors involved with creating the book inspired by their story, unseen, unpublished black history from the New York Times Photo Archives available for purchase and signing following the program. Darcy evely is a contributing photo editor at the New York Times and creator of the lively morgue. And rachel ellesworns writes about race and Race Relations as a contributing writer for the New York Times, author of american tapestry, ancestors of my shell obama published in 2012. Moderating this evening, rea el co combs. She also serves as the head of the museum earl w and ammanda Stafford Center for media arts. Please join me in welcoming them. [ applause ] i would like to echo laurens wonderful comments an
I am an assistant professor of history at the university of maryland. Im going to be chairing the panel. Im going to offer some brief comments, some thoughts and questions i had to start generating conversation. Our threeto introduce presenters. If we are going to go in the order they appear on the program. They will speak for roughly 20 minutes. Our first presenter is going to be Graham Hodges. He has written on africanamericans and labor in new york city. He has written a political biography on underground railroad activities. He is working on a book and we will hear his ideas about the the secondrea printer is going to be as associate professor of history at northwestern university. U. S. After the war and emancipation. Our third presenter is going to be philip prop. Troutman. He is working on a project that essentially explores of the literature and the images of radical antislavery during the antebellum period. We will hear about his approach that combination of literature and ima
Ask your devine guidance and comfort to First Responders and others. We ask, lord, that were worthy of your praise and blessing and that we conduct ourselves this afternoon in ways that well honor you. Ask . Ask in jesus name, amen. Appearing before the committee will be mr. Collin stretch, general counsel of facebook, acting general counsel of twitter and kent walker, Senior Vice President and senior counsel of google. We are in open session. This will only unclassified matters. We appreciate the public and media interest in this committees work. We expect proper decorum at all times. We ask the witnesses to stand and raise their right hand. Do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you give to this committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so hop yelp you god. Ill recognize myself for five minutes. Thank you for being here today to discuss a very important topic and thats russias use of your social media platforms during the 2016 election. As you kno
Morning. Live look 270 at falls road, no issues northbound or southbound. Brand new crash in my ear 270 southbound well talk about that in a second. Right now lets talk about something nice like the weather. Great looking day to be outside today. Got a little fog here this morning. Suns up in 14 minutes. Have some fog around here early this morning. Not too thick in and around the metro area. Pockets of thicker fog. Advice biltd under a mile there. Visibility under a mile in la ray. Four things in four days. Tomorrow it will be warm and dry. Saturday, hot little hint of early summer humidity around. Maybe a stray shower or two on saturday afternoon or sunday, but no weekend washout is coming. For more on the good news about today, lets go to sheena. Good morning, chuck. We like todays finally the sun has returned and its going to be with us all day long. Once the fog clears up later on this morning, youll notice all the sun around. A little bit of a glare while youre driving. 7 00 a. M
I will be chairing or moderating the panel. After the three papers i will offer some brief comments, some thoughts, some questions i had in order to make it hopefully start generating conversations for us for the q a portion. I will introduce our three presenters. We will go in the order they appear on the program. The presenters will speak for roughly 20 minutes, and that i will speak for a few minutes and open things up. Our first presenter will be Graham Hodges, the George Langevin professor of history at Colgate University. He has written on africanamericans and labor in new york city, and more recently written a political apathy of david robles, and important figure in railroad activities. He is working on a book that reframes the underground railroad and will hear about his ideas about reframing, thinking about the underground railroad and a larger context if reading freedom making. Kate mazer, associate professor of history at northwestern. She has written on emancipation and wa