Book contributor joins Howard University professors to talk about the essay in the book that inspired the exhibit and how the africanamerican experience served as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. First of all, thank you all for coming out on this rainy evening. I know its a challenge, but i think its well wofrt your time to be here this evening for this discussion. Its my pleasure to welcome you to tonights program entitled historically speaking we return fighting published by smithsonian books its a collection of essays that chronicle the experience of men and women who served the country on the battlefield as well as on the home front and their struggles for civil rights. One of the many things we will learn this evening is that while the Civil Rights Movement was a world war i established important questions of citizenship that pave the way towards future progress. Were fortunate to be joined tonight by the museums Dep
Thurgood marshall. This is dedicated in this courthouse where he served on the Second Circuit. We welcome our cspan audience to our proceedings as well. Our gathering is at the intersection of two initiatives which have engaged the courts of the Second Circuit the last two years. Initiatives, which i had the privilege of proposing which have taken life because of the creative and dedicated work of remarkable colleagues of the bench bar and our court staff. But first, the 125th Anniversary Commemoration of the second court of appeals chaired by Richard Wesley has several components, including scholarly values and Public Events as we take stock of our past to better understand how our work has evolved. So as to better meet the challenges of the present and the future. The second initiative, justice for all, courts and the community is a project of all the courts of the Second Circuit. A project which, through a wide range of Civic Education ongoing activities seeks to bring courts and co
There is a new report out now that may make all of that impossible. The report accuses the government of destroying thousands of homes on purpose. Those homes belonging to resident who support the opposition. Dominic king has our story. This is taboo, in the suburbs of damascus. It has been fought over by the government and the rebels repeatedly in the last few years. Like much of syria, it present as picture of bombed out buildings and rubble june roads. But now evidence, suggests that the destruction of property here is not an accident of war. Human rights watch has compiled a report that claims that the government has been demolishes thousands of houses here, in other parts of damascus, and in the city of ham ma. The report using these satellite images to show how extensive the damage is. This is the district of mshad in hama seen in sent 2012, and this is the same place one month later. This is part of the capitol close to the military airport seen in february of last year, move fo
Nine people are dead after a house fire in western kentucky, most of the victims were children. It happened that was about 130 miles southwest of louisville, police say 11 people were inside when the flames broke out around 2 00 a. M. Al jazeera Jonathan Martin is live at the scene, and jonathan, have we learned anything else about the victims . Wilt, dell, those nine presumed dead they range in age from four to 15, right now on the scene, investigators say they have located the bodies of six of them, and searching for the three others, again, all nine presumed dead. As you mentioned 11 people were inside when this started. The father and his 11yearold daughter they were the only two able to escape the fire and get out. At there point they are now at vanderbilt hospital, they were airlifted there, this fire started around 2 00 this morning and it was a neighbor we have learned who called 911 after hearing the commotion. It didnt take First Responders very long to get here. They were ab
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