Live from the kgotv Broadcast Center this is abc7 news. Celebration mixed with protestses. Tonight stanford students are vowing to make sure a message against Sexual Assault is heard loud and clear at this weekends commencement following the sentencing of a former stanford swimmer. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Angry over brock turners sixmonth sentence will be front and center at sundays graduation ceremony. Alyssa harrington is live with the protest planning that is underway. Alyssa . Ama and dan some people are staging a protest. A graduation tradition is the nontraditional start to the ceremony. The wacky walk. This is video from 2005. Students deck themselves out in costumes. This year many will beholding signs with a powerful message. I will say one of the signs we have is how will you teach your son not to rape . She is one of the organizers of the wacky walk protest. It is in response to the brock turner Sexual Assault case and rape
We continue our celebration of black History Month with a look at the Schomburg Center for research in black culture where historical artifacts have chronicled the black experience for nearly a century. The latest exhibit, digging up the past a history of the Schomburg Center, marks its 90th anniversary. And joining us today is dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, the director of the schomburg. So nice to see you again. Thank you so much for having me. So tell us about this this newest exhibit. Its sort of a continuation of sure. So every now and then we have founder Arturo Alfonso schomburg, an afropuerto rican, arrives in new york in 1891. This year happened to be extra special because it is our 90th anniversary. People often forget, too, that our 90th is also the 90th of the annual celebration of black history began in 1926 under the leadership of carter g. Woodson. Origin story, to look at some of the early artifacts and books that Arturo Schomburg collected is a special occasion to really
Opinion over nominating a replacement. Sabrina candidates the debate stage with just five days left until carolina primary. Local 5 news midday in hd starts now. We are iowa sabrina good morning and thanks for joining us for midday. Im sabrina today there was a fatal morning. It happened just a semi truck northbound on i35 jackknifed. Killing the driver of the semi. Officials have confirmed that it was a single occupant accident, traffic had to be 56 to highway 28 at martensdale to get into the traffic resumed around 6 45 this morning. Sabrina shooting up in sunday evening. The 100 block of at around 8 pm two people were the victim was air lifted to the des moines hospital. The suspect was taken to a hospital in fort dodge. The names of the victim and the suspect are not being released at the time, pending further investigation. Sabrina new this morning, a snowmobile accident leaves one man seriously injured sunday. Sabrina the man had been part of group snowmobiling west of boone sund
This translates into what politicians in europe too. This translates to the markets. Tom it was remarkable to see the Turkey Bombing and the ivory coast attacks come out the same time. It showed that trend of International Relations drifting into the markets. That will be our theme. Francine lets get to the first word news with vonnie quinn. Bonnie turkey is responding swiftly to that car bombing. It killed 37 people. Warplanes hit kurdish militant camps in northern turkey. No one claimed responsibility for the attack. Rebels carried out similar attacks in the past. Militants linked to al qaeda say they carried out an attack on a resort town in ivory coast. At least 22 people were killed. Its the first attack in ivory coast. Population is evenlys evenly split between muslims and christian. It was a political setback for Angela Merkel. The antiimmigration party had its best showing yet in three elections. Merkel fellangela across the board. A Police Officer it was killed in an ambush. T
Preventing Heart Disease in the black community. Later, a new play that uses humor to tackle the serious subject of caring for a parent with dementia. Were gonna hear from some of the stars of dot. And threetime grammy awardwinning jazz artist Terri Lyne Carrington on her new album, featuring the late Natalie Coles last recording of Duke Ellingtons come sunday. Thats all ahead on here and now. Alright guys. I want to show you some cutting edge technology. Push that tape in and hit play. This is a flip phone. Have you seen these before . Its called a compact disc. Oh. Looks like were getting a facsimile. What year is it to you . Its old. Youd rather use Newer Technology . Definitely. Well, ive got something to show you. This is the 2016 chevy volt. It uses extended range electric technology. The prius hybrid uses Battery Technology developed 15 years ago. Chevy expects volt drivers to get over a thousand miles between fill ups. Its got every technology there is. The prius actually belon