That collection arrived at the 135th Street Public Library 90 years ago. He was a bibliophile who migrated from puerto rico in 1891 found a job on wall street work in the mailroom saves his pennies and worked really hard and bought anywhere are unique but he could find that was by or about black people. He eventually became famous for this collection. People would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library to borrow from the Library People like Langston Hughes and eventually people like and when the librarian at the library and library decided she had a lot of lack patrons coming to the library and a large immigrant community at the time she said ive got to find material for my patrons and ultimately schombergs collection of 5000 items was purchased by Carnegie Corporation and a variety of 90 years ago and made up the core of what now today is a 10 million item collection at the Schomberg Center. Host how did the Schomberg Center end up at 135th . Guest this was the settlement zone
Next, the announcement by National Trust president stephanie makes followed by a brief history of the library. This is 40 minutes. [applause] [laughter] good day. Welcome everyone here to Howard University for another momentous occasion. Specifically the president of the National Trust Historic Preservation. I want to thank you for your partnership and stewardship of this arrangement and what we are about to announce. Is anunders library iconic building on college campus. Represents aer major symbol of the university. It ensures everyone understands what has happened in this building over time. This building was designed with inspiration from independence hall. That was not done by accident. That was a building that housed the constitution of the United States of america. At the time he used that as inspiration because blacks in this country at that time, despite what the constitution said, were not operating under an equal system. The building was designed with that in mind. I have to
Investigationay of his son to a tier of cory barron , since the iteam story thursday, they have received tips. We got several calls one that might have potential identified one of the individualsv in section 541 thousand thousand cory barron died after falling down ad garbage chute at a jason aldeang concert in 2014 is a body found found in a landfill four days laterer. Investigators, former federal agents spent eight months looking into his death and they dont believe that the 6foot two cory barron got into it voluntarilyo they believe how. After about 45, something happenedd. He said he had bruises to the death andadd told by witness in section 541t that shortly before he was missing he was seen arguing with a young man, they said that when he left he was followed by the men and friends. More people we talked to for more information we will get. They showed pictures of others sectionon these are witnesses that they need to contact. The family, say that they just want to know what hap
Is trying to change that through legislative advocacy and education, with a particular focus on young people in communities prone to gun violence. Here today is leah gunn barrett, executive director of new yorkers against gun violence, the organizations education director, as well shaina harrison. Thank you, all, for being with us this afternoon. We appreciate it. Of course, youre doing wonderful work here, and what we really think is particularly interesting is that you have taken your program into the schools. Tell us about that. Well, we figure that its not just enough to do the policy work, which is very important, clearly, but its also educating young people who are living with gun violence on a daytoday basis about the problem and to let them know that there about it. They can become advocates and activists in their community. They cant change where they live, but they can change how around them. So thats what our programs are doing, and they are a semester long or year long, and
Hometown of baltimore at the Union Baptist church and we will hear him afterwards. Tanehisi coates there is a reaction when our children hear something that has a racist component to assure them that somehow everything will be ok, that some justice will win out in the end. My study, my very elementary, pedestrian, autodidact extent study of history does not demonstrate that to be true. My own life does not necessarily demonstrate that to be true. My belief is in the chaos of the world, and you have to find your piece peace within the chaos. Even within the chaos, with no assurance you will see any victory within your lifetime. Amy Tanehisi Coates for the hour, all that and more coming up. To democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Today, we spend the hour with Tanehisi Coates, author of an explosive new book about White Supremacy and being black in america, called between the world and me, written as a letter to his teenage son, samori. Tanehisi coat