It hints at a story beyond just two years of service and fighting over there. Actually, exactly. We return fighting, the africanamerican experience in world war i. The key to that title is, number one, you dont see the word military because it is not just about soldiers, it is about soldiers and civilians. It is about men and women. Its about young and old. Its about white and black. So that is the long title. But the short title we returned fighting speaks to what happened after the war and how africanamericans use world war i as a transformative event for them just like it was a transformative event throughout the globe. And well explore that story throughout this hour of the washington journal. It is day five of museum week on the washington journal with our friends at American History tv on cspan3. Throughout this segment we invite viewers to join us, phone lines split up regionally. 7027482000, and a special line set aside for africanamerican veterans 2027488002. We would love to
Last train to memphis and careless love. Theyre here discussing wills new book colorization 100 years of black films in a white world. Publishers weekly calls it an engrossing account of a vital but often slated cinematic tradition full of fascinating lore and Dwight Garner writes for the New York Times. This is sweeping history, but in hagoods hands, it feels crisp urgent and paired down like a good movie. It pops from the start. Were so pleased to be hosting this event tonight. The digital podium is yours will and peter. Thank you. Thank you. Well, its great to be here with you. I wish we were here in person. And congratulations on the book. Weve known each other a long time. Weve known each other over 30 years. And all that time, you know, i feel like weve been not so secret santa asks. Yeah, last youve come out and declared yourself, and i wondered if you always had. Book like this in the back of your mind. Big book resting on the twin pillars of art and social history and storytel
Last train to memphis and careless love. Theyre here discussing wills new book colorization 100 years of black films in a white world. Publishers weekly calls it an engrossing account of a vital but often slated cinematic tradition full of fascinating lore and Dwight Garner writes for the New York Times. This is sweeping history, but in hagoods hands, it feels crisp urgent and paired down like a good movie. It pops from the start. Were so pleased to be hosting this event tonight. The digital podium is yours will and peter. Thank you. Thank you. Well, its great to be here with you. I wish we were here in person. And congratulations on the book. Weve known each other a long time. Weve known each other over 30 years. And all that time, you know, i feel like weve been not so secret santa asks. Yeah, last youve come out and declared yourself, and i wondered if you always had. Book like this in the back of your mind. Big book resting on the twin pillars of art and social history and storytel
35 years ago on april 12 19 81, spatial columbia lifted off from the Kennedy Space center in florida with two crew members on board, launching a new era in manned spaceflight. Shuttle, a 32 minute story on the launch of the Space Shuttle. Shuttle program was retired in 2011. Sunday, april 12, 1981. Kennedy space center, florida. The Space Shuttle, 14 stories high, 2000 tons, poised on the pad for its maiden flight. This is columbia, the Space Shuttle double bit the earth that will orbit the earth. Boosters, theet largest ever used on any launch vehicle. The first to be employed in a u. Manned flight. Liftoff, the solid rocket boosters together with the three main engines will unleash more than 6. 5 Million Pounds of thrust needed to launch the first reusable spacecraft. Never before has a winged vehicle been launched like a , returning to earth through frictional heating in it sets of 5200 degrees. Toll aerodynamically sound be launched again and again and again. If it succeeds, the Sp
Astronaut flying today. Although robert has over 4000 hours of flying time, this will be his first time in space. The astronauts make their way across the access arm towards the shuttle in the predawn hours before launch. An american spaceship has never carried a human crew on its Maiden Voyage. At the Launch Control center three miles from the pad, final steps are being happening for before cap them. Theyre made in mission and control position, where the launch will clear the tower. There has not been a manned launch for Kennedy Space center since the apollo test launched in july of 1975. Aboard this launch, young and robert launched controllers at the tape and Flight Controllers in houston will experience the most dynamic space series launch ever undertaken in a space program. All in less than nine minutes. Profile challenging ever to be flown by a space vehicle. Photographers, film and television crews, plus newspaper and magazine writers from around the world, nearly 2700, are here