Wizards are back home at the Verizon Center. Changes because of early tipoff, only here on good morning washington, are we giving away tickets. We have the number you need to call, just minutes away. Two tickets could be yours. Wish i was eligible. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] larry exciting time downtown here, 6 00. Fearing up by then . Its going to be very slow. Its going to take its sweet time off the coast, but by gametime is how we get to the Late Afternoon hours we will be seen more peaks of sunshine. This morning, not the case at all. Little cool, you might want to go with an extra layer. Bad hair day with the drizzle in the mist, but the story this morning is that you will need to time into your commute this morning with the pockets of fog. Well tod be more son the west, western maryland, western portions of virginia, areas of Prince William county doing better as we get
Getting underway on campus at the chapel. For an incident they are describing as a racist threat. Several bananas have been found at three different locations on campus. All hanging by a news with the it. Haramba written on the person or persons behind it wrote aka, referring to a predominantly black sorority at american university. A cruel and hateful message they were also found on monday, the same day the newly elected Student Government president took office, the first africanamerican woman to hold that role on campus. She happens to be a member of output alpha kappa alpha. I think it is ridiculous, i came to student because it was one of the most diverse schools i applied to. Liberal and accepting and they talked about accepting everyone. The fact this is the second time this year a banana incident has happened that has targeted minority students, it is on excitable. Unacceptable. Many students we talked to, believe the administration is not doing enough. Months ago, and incident,
Matters as well. Its been a wild afternoon. Its calmed down. Peaceful now. The protesters on the armenian side no longer at the circle which is shut down at this hour here in northwest. Reporting live, im tom roussey, abc7 news. Michelle thanks. Also developing now video showing am wither ad outside the white house. The secret service says she tried to jump one of the fences outside the white house. She never made it to the house grounds. Jonathan now an abc7 exclusive, shocking cell phone video outside of Howard University hospital. Security guards appearing to dump a woman to the sidewalk and then walk away. 7 on your side iteam Investigative Reporter scott taylor is breaking the story and he is here with a story you will only see on 7. This is shocking to see the video. Scott it is. I want everyone to watch the video closely. You can judge for yourself how the security guards treat a woman in a wheelchair. In the video, her feet are sticking straight up. The guards m sidewalk. Stop.
Good afternoon. It is really quiet in here. We will have to do something about this. Im johnny taylor. The president and ceo of the Thurgood Marshall college fund. Welcome to our headquarters. We share this with gallup. To our to welcome you home. I would like to start out before i tell you why we are here in turn it over to the panelists, is to introduce a very special person. There are a whole bunch of special people. But a very special person here is the founder of the Thurgood Marshall college fund. Please stand. I dont spend it a lot of time calling out people but at the end of the day we would not be here if it were not for her vision to create an organization that would really focus on the historical black. Ollege and educational we represent all of the community and our advocacy efforts, scholarship, programs, Capacity Building and the like. I cannot thank you enough for having the vision. It is wonderful that we can look to the person who founded the organization and they are
This morning and next up here on cspan a look at the supreme courts landmark brown v. Board of education ruling, ending segregation in Public Schools, may 18 was the 63rd anniversary of that ruling. Educators and historians this week examined the impact of the decision. This three and a half hour forum is hosted by the Thurgood Marshall college fund. Good afternoon. I am its kind of quiet in here. Looks like i walked in and i felt i was at a funeral. We have to do something about this. Were going to the body is not here. You know it was really somber and everything. Id like to welcome you. My name is johnny taylor. Im the president and c. E. O. Of the Thurgood Marshall college fund. Welcome to our headquarters. This is home for us. We share this building with gallop, our partner in the work were going to be embarking upon over the next several years. But we just want to welcome you to our home. Id like to start off, though, before i tell you why were here and turn it over to the paneli