They were destroyed. Now residents are telling me that they smelled a natural gas leak earlier in the day earlier this evening and then suddenly the unthinkable happened. The flames spread quickly. Residents shared this cell phone video of the blaze with us. Devonte sewell was walking down the street toward the townhome. The flames started coming from the middle of the building. Like every building caught on fire like three buildings. They all just collapsed in. Reporter two people were taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. One was a resident suffering from respiratory problems, the other a baltimore gas and electric employee who was working in the complex. We believe he was working on a potential concern of a natural gas leak or order of a leak and he was investigating and evidently there was an explosion subsequent to that investigation. Reporter its still not clear what caused the leak or explosion. Residents say they could smell the gas before disaster struck. Em
1526, first landing of stolen africans on u. S. Soil in South Carolina by the spanish, but they rebelled, joined the indians. 1619, the First Official group of enslaved africans reached at jamestown, virginia. Legal abolishment of chattel slavery. Shortly thereafter, an estimated , to show thechools premium that stolen africans placed on education. 1870, the Preparatory High School for colored youth, now called Dunbar High School, was formed. 1890, the first mohawk a conference on the negro question. How to educate these now free stolen africans. Russert ted by rutherford b. Hayes. Having deprived them of their , we have noty excuse for neglecting them. Stolenight the premium africans placed on education before enslavement and afterwards, as well as the struggles we faced to get quality education in the face of insurmountable odds. To ensure highquality education that reflected us, in the book you will read the names of great race men and women of their time. Prominent other figures of
Graduate students and night students participated in their graduation. This afternoon, 1020 undergraduates this afternoon, what a stunning achievement by all of you. I cannot be more proud. [no audio] [applause] [applause] let me just say for one moment recognizing current events, the events of this week. When we talk about doing more for christ, by doing more for others, we know that we suffered a tremendous tragedy here in our city this past week. To those who lost family members, we mourn for them. They will never be forgotten. To the miracle of 200 people walking off of that train wreck, we know what is at work. Our fire department, our emergency management, our hospital workers, all of our care workers, they saved lives on tuesday night. Let us recognize the great service. [applause] mayor nutter and so now, it is your time. Over the last four years you pursued your courses of study with fervent passion becoming the person you were meant to be all along the way. Now it is your tim
Leadership in support of peace in defense of liberty, and to further justice. But we must also realize that, that for all our power, we can rarely succeed by simply going it alone. If we want the world to heed our views and follow our lead, we must listen to the concerns of others. We must listen confidently to rising powers such as china, who want to have a greater say in global governance, as we push them to abide by the same rules that we ourselves uphold. We must listen to scientists who say Global Warming is a real and grave threat to our future [applause] secretary albright scientists who believe that conservation is a National Security imperative not a fourletter word. And we must listen to those who argue that globalization should not lead to marginalization of the worlds poor. I have traveled almost everywhere, and i have found that there are essentially three categories of countries in the world today. In the first, people work all day and still dont have enough to eat. In th
As the house of representatives ended session for the year without cutting Immigration Reform, we speak to labor leader Eliseo Medina who long hungerd a month fast on the mall for Immigration Reform. He joined the Labor Movement for decades ago, working alongside cesar chavez. A south africa prepares for the funeral of Nelson Mandela, we look back at how African American workers at polaroid helped launch the Divestment Movement against apartheid in south africa in the early 1970s. We will speak with Caroline Hunter, cofounder of the Polaroid Workers Revolutionary Movement, who opposed polaroid making photos for the id pass books for blacks under apartheid. And by whatever means necessary, we have found corporations, Government Forces of imperialism have aligned. What were are calling for is the same tactics. By whatever means necessary, we as an African People align ourselves, understand the seriousness of the struggle. And we look at how the cia helped south africa capture Nelson Mand