And use actual images so this is something of a departure for me. Here is how the structure is gonna work, im gonna give very brief introductions for the people sitting here at the table with me and i do all of them at once i will have each panel member talk about why they decided to be part of the project and why they selected the image they selected and they will talk a little about the image. Then we will see where the conversation goes after that so very briefly, let me introduce everybody i will start with Carol Reardon who was the professor of American History at penn state university, one of the important books on the military side of history, with a sword in one hand and germany and the other the problem of military thought in the civil war north and to field guide books of the battle of gettysburg and antietam. Next on the line is edward ayres who is a professor of humanities and president of the university of richmond. The most recent publication is a thin line of freedom and
Learn about their history and life. We will look at highlights of some of these stops. We begin in selma, alabama. Alabama,n selma, africanamericans were denied the right to vote. There were folks throughout the south that did not want these people to have the right to vote. They can be considered second class citizens. Poll taxes would be the price you had to pay per year in order to get on the voting rolls. Say i live here in Dallas County and allke 60 dollars taxes are one dollar a year. Raise that isa 40. Thenf my 60 will go i will have 20 which i have to feed and flow my kids. There are not very many black people who will have extra money left over to pay a poll tax. On something when i have an extra dollar left over and i go down to this courthouse and i show up saying i would like to register to vote. I would go to the county registrar, have my poll tax ready. Takes my pollnel tax but he also administers a literary tax. That tests could take many forms. Ask me the name of the pr
Storm steam 4 radar, tracking the chances for storms on fathers day. Could rginisrimina marijnaaws g up in smoke . One of the highest ranking leaders says tstime for a change. And well show you why angry protest interrupted d. C. Mayo mayor muriel bowser. Teenage boy, full of life, gone in an instant, im erika gonzalez. Car hit thestudent, spoke to the teams mom and have more on how hes remembered tonight. Darcy . Reporter his mom tells me he was just 14 years old, crossing somewhere here in this large intersection when he was killed earlier today. We dont know exactly how it happened. But i tell you, so many people told me today theres a major problem here with speeding. And this childs message from his mom is slow down. Killed my son. Reporter family, friends and neighbors gather at intersection where a young teen lost his life. Just graduated from eighth grade at Georgetown Day School in d. C. Mom tells mhe was honor student, ran track. Just steps from home in his neighborhood, cros
At target. I know. You know they were buying all the fathers day cards and that good stuff. Happy fathers day. Thank you very much, molette. Thank you for being here on this fathers day. Happy fathers day to the dads out there. Im adam tuss. Im molette green in for Meagan Fitzgerald this morning. I lauryn, brought him his mic and his ifb box as a gift for fathers day. How nice is that . A you so sweet. You know what lauryn got for me . A bad joke, bm sure. Ng it on. I do have a couple of jokes. I did tell a joke to aaron yesterday. You werent here, adam, you issed it. That will be a teaser for later on in the show. Exactly right. Other tease for today, we have some sunshine out there as that sun is coming up at 5 42. So not too long ago. About 20 minutes ago. But now we arelooking at some rain headed our way. Its a little on the humid side out there. That humidity is going to increa through the day. Lets take a look outside right now. So looks can be deceiving. We have got some sunshin
Bl blue mont. If you are a dad and he had headed there. Sitke outside. An eye to the sky after at 00 p. M. Ths when we will seeom s scattered showers a thunderstorms. Now, i dont think he everyboev will see them. Thats why you want to keep an wneye to the sky or doad that nbc washington app. We have rain on that radar. I will show you in a second a little bit of atherly wind. Thats going to bump up that humidity as we continue through the day today. Temperatures are in the mid70s. So it is going to be warm. If you are hitting the links, look at this. Temperatures ining to be the midtoupper 80s by the time we head into the aernoon hours. So again its going to be hot out there on the golf course. Now, we do have a few light isolated showers along the coi ridor as advertised. Then more scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Lets talk ming coming up in 15 minutes. All right. Thank you very much. Meantime, we are following breaking news out of the t districts morning. One perso