1619, the First Official group of enslaved africans reached at jamestown, virginia. 1865, the legal abolishment of chattel slavery. Shortly thereafter, an estimated 500 freedom schools, to show the premium that stolen africans placed on education. 1870, the Preparatory High School for colored youth, now called Dunbar High School, was formed. 1890, the first mohawk conference on the negro question. How to educate these now free stolen africans. That is quoted by rutherford b. Hayes. Having deprived them of their labor, liberty, we have no excuse for neglecting them. I highlight the premium stolen africans placed on education before enslavement and afterwards, as well as the struggles we faced to get quality education in the face of insurmountable odds. To ensure highquality education that reflected us, in the book you will read the names of great race men and women of their time. As well as other prominent figures of stolen african history to come to the halls of Dunbar High School. Wri
Before reading on the toronto said he wanted to work with european leaders to resolve the crisis peacefully he helps improve Security Cooperation with the germans be someone calls japans pro active contribution to peace over the next week. Abbott will also visit britain portugal spain france and belgium. The European Union added fifteen more people to its sanctions list for their role in the crisis in ukraine they include general valerie dear awesome auntie for the russian general staff and Russian Deputy Prime Minister to meet recalls that. Eu representatives say the move was in response to russias failure to take concrete action to reduce tensions in ukraine. Also on the list is dannys push allin of pro russian leader in ukraines Eastern Region of donetsk its believed he has contacts with the group occupying local government offices that the new. And the United States also agreed to step up sanctions against russia the u s sanctions target before sixteen twenty eight was the presiden
Fighting the cartels in mexico. The astonishing story of an unlikely vigilante. [ music ] we begin with breaking news about the West Virginia leak that had hundreds of thousands told not to drink the water. Since the spill authorities have been testing for a chemical. Tonight investigators reportedly learnt of a second previously undetected material that may have seeped from the chemical storage tanks into the water supply. Lets start with Jonathan Martin who is in charleston. We are learning about all of this. This is coming to light in the last hour. We talked to the Governors Office in West Virginia. They confirmed with officials with Freedom Industries, the cop at the center of the still, pa pph, a second chemical, was mixed in with the chemical that was reported mch. Remember, this is all what leaked from a storage tank at Freedom Industries, two weeks ago along the elk river. It came to light. State authorities received a document from the company indicating the presence of this
Make her big debut today, saturday, january 18th, 2014. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. And im erica hill alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. And we want to get right to todays top story, that suicide bombing in afghanistan. Annabel roberts is following developments for us from london. Annabel, good morning. Reporter good morning, lester. Well, it was friday night, the restaurant was busy when a suicide bomber burst in and detonated explosives. Eyewitnesses say two gunmen followed, firing indiscriminately. At least 21 people were killed, 13 of them foreigners. Among them, two u. S. Citizens from the American University of afghanistan. That organization has issued a statement, saying they are devastated by the news. Also killed, the imfs top representative in the country and four u. N. Personnel, making this the deadliest attack against foreign civilians in afghanistan since the war began nearly 13 years ago. The restaurant was conside
Now, what can someone do who finds themselves many thousands of dollars in debt and doesnt want to be there . Well, theres still more education. Now, on the one hand thats helped people get even more and more in debt and get in bad places, but if youre a sociology major 60,000 in debt and you decide you really dont want to be there, well, theres the Colorado School of minds for you, and go mines for you, and go get a degree in mineral engineering, get out there in north dakota where the average salary has increased by 40 because of the oil and natural gas boom out there. So i think its a tough question. I dont think we should be in the business of forgiving student loan debt. I think theres a personal responsibility element there that is the orthodoxy. I agree with david that we shouldnt be forgiving it as a matter of public policy. But unfortunately, we already are. We have Public Service loan forgiveness, we have teacher loan forgiveness, we have a myriad of loan forgiveness programs