And go home to my lord and be free oh, freedom oh, freedom and we wont be afraid ill be buried in my grave and go home to my lord and be free all right freedom, freedom and we wont be afraid ill be buried in my grave and go home to my lord and be free what are we marching for . Freedom. How long are we going to march . Until we are free. All right freedom, Freedom Freedom come and i want to go home freedom, Freedom Freedom come and i want to go home freedom come and i want to home. Freedom, Freedom Freedom come and i want to go home [singing] freedom, Freedom Freedom come and i want to go home i gain my freedom on the others freedom, Freedom Freedom come and i want to go home freedom, Freedom Freedom come and i want to go home oh, freedom, my lord i will be free we shall overcome [singing] those young people singing the anthem of the American Revolution of 1963 were freedom riders. They were a part of the pattern developed in this revolution, a pattern fashioned by events, more than ev
Remind you, a lot goes into this kind of an event and many people have worked very, very hard, harder than ive worked, to put all of this together. One of the people who could not be here was frank cogliano, because he got stuck in newark. Hell be here later this evening. His cochair is here and shes going to say a few words. Thank you. [applause] welcome. Im sorry that frank isnt here to join me for this further welcome. Just to say how wonderful it is to see everyone here and to work with such an Amazing Group of people. I especially want to thank annette and frank, my cochair, robin, without whom we would sees to function, and also to the Wonderful Program committee, one of whose members is sitting there many are in the audience tonight and they generously of time an talent to put this program together to go through the many proposals that we had. Weir looking forward to what is an exciting, interesting, varied diverse sheer with a lot of different panels and topics. Its a pleasure
On his undergraduate course on the topic of ordinary lives in the American Revolution. And his book, stolen five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their journey home, which tells the true story of five boys kidnapped in the north and sold into slavery in the deep south and that during attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, is being published by Simon Schuster in october. Thank you once again for joining us this evening, and without any further ado, please join me in welcoming dr. Rick bell. [applause] dr. Bell thanks to heather, thanks to cspan for covering this. Those of you who might have been to the Smithsonian Associates before and heard me give other programs wont be surprised to hear my strange accent, which is not exactly a maryland natives accent. I was raised in england yet find myself teaching about the American Revolution as part of my job, which let me tell you is a blessing and a curse, an undergraduate classroom to teach with an accent like this. Im very
Sorry, bad reception. We are not on the phone. Im going into a tunnel. I can still see you. making static sound senator, any comment on the tear gassing . Me no habla the what is the spanish word for english . What did you think of the president s actions . I enjoy violence against the innocent. Gets me off. Senator mcconnell, was the president s behavior appropriate . slide whistle its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, arrest development. Plus stephen welcomes charlamagne tha god, and musical guest Tunde Adebimpe of tv on the radio. Featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from a safe distance, its Stephen Colbert stephen dont get in my light. Youre in that light. Yeah, yeah. Look at it, its completely. Just stay there. And you just you just watch the magic. clears throat all right, you ready over there . Yeah. Stephen all right, good, me, too. Welcome to a late show everybody. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. People are still protesting all across america, a
Reporters were arrested during the minneapolis protests everyone lost their minds like this is so unamerican and when i went to the protest here in washington d. C. Roughly a week ago i remember connecting with a fellow journalist friend of mine and we both kind of chuckled at that like really thats unamerican because im pretty sure thats very american you know this is something that weve had to deal with both as activists but also journalists who try to report on these things from the frontlines places that often times reporters from Corporate Media dont even go you know im thinking about like pipeline fights and things like that where journalists just like the activists that they were reporting on are routinely brutalized by the police and other Law Enforcement agencies so the idea that this is somehow a new is really absurd its just that because of the scale of these protests and because Corporate Media was actually paying attention and then got into the line of fire with other jour