Conversation, we got to talking about other potential objects on the environment. Uncle is the largest angola is the largest maxim security of manhattan. Ze thousands of people in prison there. Most of them are African American men. We have the opportunity to collect his tower, we jumped at the chance and thought about what that meant after. We had toant is that pieces, in two large the bottom and top and contract with a firm to get clearance to get onto the prison. It was neglected to a defunct part of the prison and they had to cut it in half, truck it up here along with the train car and gets in tennessee placed into the building where was put back together. Watch her step. Your step. [hammering sound] was given to the museum, it was given while it was a combination of a gift for the museum. The help of talk about the Tuskegee Airmen from world war ii. It is a great story of an toforce pilot who wanted find a plan he could play with and together as a hobby. The more he began to put
World against you. The whole entire world knows what a pathetic puny weak piece of filth that you are. The whole world knows that and to know your face as well. Reporter coming up at 6 00 you will hear more from cathy. You also will hear from karinas two best friends. Also the new tool being added to this investigation. For now were live in howard beach, kemberly richardson, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you. There has been another attack on an officer by an inmate at rikers island. The correction officers an officers forearm. It says two officers were assaulted by an inmate who got out of his cell early this morning when his door was open to retrieve his meal tray. A scalpel blade was recovered from that scene. On Eyewitness News at 11 00 we will hear from the president of the officers union. Police are investigating an attack on the subway as a possible hate crime. Investigators say the attacker made antigay remarks as he stabbed a man several times on in Morningside Heights last
I wanted to welcome you and say, listen, what we want to do today is give you an opportunity to see basically the museum as a work in progress. There are about 40 of all the exhibitions are now complete, and were working to make sure that we will be very ready on september 24th. The reality of this is pretty simple, 11 years ago we began with a staff of two. We had no idea where the building would be, no sense at all of any of the collections, unlike almost any other museum, not a single object in the collection. We really knew we had to raise a lot of money, we had no money in the bank, and now as a result of some of the gift of staff youre going to meet and a result of thousands of people, we have raised enough money to complete the building. In fact, by september well be over our target number. We have collected over nearly 40,000 artifacts, of which 4,000 will be in this museum, and instead of two people, there are 200 people who are working to build this museum. And let me ask my
Weekend stabbing that left one woman dead and a man hospitalized. The oneill polili Department Says it responded to a home for a reported knife injury just before 9 saturday night. Two people were taken by ambulance to the hospital in oneill. Where a 37 year old hispanic woman. Was pronounced dead. A 37 year old hispanic man was also taken to the hospital. But theres no word on his condition. Police arent releasing the names of either victim. Ththnebraska statat patrol is helpinlocal investigators in the case. 3 3 the Sheriffs Office in madison county, nebraska is trying to identify Human Remains Found in a field 2 miles east of tilden yesterday sunday afternoon. Hunters found the remains. And the Sheriffs Office says the body looks like it had been there for at least a couple months. It appears to be that of a man. Forensic sts are being done to indedeify the mains. Right now. Foul play is not suspected in the death. 3 3 coming up tomorrow. The next battle in the longrunning legal fig
You think about that period, black communists, black pen africanist, naacp, the vibrance a black policy. Host but lets be honest. Hundreds of people were being enriched, no right to vote, the politics of protest organizations, voluntary associations were also necessitated by the reality of those times that you could not participate. You look at the tradition of Woodrow Wilson kicking a prominent black publisher out of his office in the white house or when Teddy Roosevelt invited booker t. Washington to simply have a meal he was roundly criticized. I can see, we had a spectrum in our committee from center to left, but it was all operating outside of what was then considered the political mainstream. Because you could not participate. Right. We were at the tail end, the complete dismantling. This was 1920 the last black delegate attended the Republican National convention and in the 1880s and 90s, so i also think and this is a healthy debate about the role of the president and Barack Oba