So the gold award is the highestearned award, as you said. What girls dos look at a problem in their community, a challenge, and they spend over 80 hours doing work to solve that problem. One of the things that we require is that it not only thelps that community bt it has a longlasting effect after they complete it. Ow n i know the gold award has been compared to the boy scouts eagle scout. Yes. Thats not a fairis comparon, though, is it . The gold award is project based. And unlike a rank, you dono haveve earned the other Precious Metals on your way to earn being the gold award. I call it the ph. D. In girl scouti, because it really is about having a girls, what she is curious and concerned about, taking that and making it something that she can improve. So there are 225,s this this region . This year. The girl scouts of the ncaions tal is the largest in the country. We have over 60,000 girls in maryland, virginia, western virginia and the districtf columbia. And it is the highest nu
Negro league specifically. You just walked into an old all part. The only difference in this ballpark is that you will need some new baseball heroes. When you walk in to the ballpark, the first thing that you see is the field. Of legends. He field the field of legends is a mock baseball diamond that houses 10 of 12 lifesize negro league greats. They were positioned at as if they were playing a game. The firstsent 10 of group of Negro League Players to be inducted into the National Baseball hall of fame. That is how allstar teams are chosen. On the outside looking in is the late great john buckle. The only one of our collection of statue set is not in the National Baseball hall of fame, and in my belief he should have capacity, the cofounder of the Negro League Baseball museum is managing this great allstar team that we assembled. In and see this incredible display, and we hope it invokes the desire that, i cannot wait to get out there and walk amongst though statues. Baseballgro League
Mueller investigation costing taxpayers and how does it compare to other investigations . Andrew noble of the Washington Times joins us for that. Live at 7 00 eastern monday morning. Join the discussion. Disher, cspan is touring cities across the country, exploring American History. Next, a look at our recent visit to kansas city, missouri. Youre watching American History tv, all we can, every weekend, on cspan3. The Negro Leagues Museum in kansas city, missouri. Here we document the story of black baseball in america in general, and the professional negro league specifically. You just walked into an old all an old ballpark. The only difference in this ballpark is that you will need some new baseball heroes. When you walk in to the ballpark, the first thing that you see is the field. Here it is the field of legends. The field of legends is a mock baseball diamond that houses 10 of 12 lifesize negro league greats. They were positioned at as if they were playing a game. They represent 10
Graduated in and we had all of 1969. The things the other cities had the panthers, the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, the drug culture, the antivietnam phase. Everything was here. All at one time. One thing i learned about kansas city at that point time was we tended to be softer on all of issues than others. Our riots were not as vast. We came together to put those out and we moved forward. We learned how to get along with each other although in my opinion, we still remain too segregated. We have to do more to bring our people together across color barriers, and we are working on that seriously. But the things that i remember are the things i grew up with, growing up in a time in the city where there was a lot of conflict and watching how the city has dealt with that conflict in a way that kept it together without falling apart and moving forward. Baseball museum, his stork 18th and fine in kansas city, missouri. Here we document the story of black baseball in america i
It is 480,000 people spread across those 318 square miles for a density of about 1,460 per mile, which is pretty sparse when you get right down to it. Were roughly, 29, 30 African American. About 11 latino, 5 various mixes of immigrants and various cultures there. The rest caucasian. Kansas city has variety of neighborhoods. It has an extremely sophisticated purpose and culture. Things that people might not expect. We have tremendous sports teams. We have great art. Its a place of variety and a place of music and barbecue. One thing i can tell you as a mayor is that all cities have similar problems. We have issues that we have to deal with crime. Just like everybody else, too many guns on the street, too much gun violence, too many homicides. We have to deal with that. By educating kids. Because one thing we know is that seldom do you have ph. Ds shooting each other on street corners. You have people who are undereducated and therefore have fewer options who feel hopeless. And when you