Somewhere a place for us peace and quiet and open air wait for us somewhere theres a time for us someday a time for us time together with time to spare time to learn time to care someday, somewhere well find a new way of living well find a way of forgiving somewhere theres a place for us a time and place for us hold my hand and were halfway there hold my hand and ill take you there somehow someday somewhere theres a place for us theres a place for us a time and place for us hold my hand and were halfway there hold my hand and ill take you there somehow someday somewhere present arms. O say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof to the night that our flag was still there o say, does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the hom
Means to be american. Sudden and since, the best museums in history help us recognize that the story that we tell, regardless of what the community is, the stories of us and inform us will make us better as a nation. I think part of what youre doing is you are illuminating some of the dark corners of the american experience. In many ways, the discussion around slavery, slave trade, and really the origin of americas contested. Some people dont want to have these conversations. Yet, i would argue that you cant understand who you are as americans, not understanding that early history. You cant understand how our politics, really our foreign policy, our culture was shaped by slavery and struggles over slavery. In many, ways i think the work that you are doing is really valuable because it really allows us to understand something that often we dont Pay Attention to. The other piece i think is so important is that part of what we are trying to do is make sure that people understand how this
Founding director of the National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture. Good afternoon. Welcome to the how and why, the making of the international Africanamerican Museum. Im carey taylor, associate professor or this history at the citadel, and joseph is reillys coteacher for this semesters exciting course. We will introduce our special guest this weekend, but first i wanted to briefly explain the format. Mayor reilly and secretary lonnie bunch will engage in a fireside chat9style conversation after which well open it up for questions. We can ask that you put your questions in the chat function, and and ill relay those to secretary bunch. So with that, ill turn it over to my colleagues, mayor joseph reilly. Thank you, professor taylor and secretary bunch. [inaudible] the secretary of [inaudible] the director of the national Africanamerican Museum of National History [inaudible] secretary bunch is the director of the chicago [audio difficulty] his connection [inaudible] [inaudi
Good to have you here today. Let me get you right to the newsroom with ms. Carol costello whos in washington. I am. Thank you, chris. Newsroom starts now. Good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. Its not getting any easier in Southern California as firefighters scramble to keep thousands of homes from going up in flames. Its a dangerous combination. Record high temperatures hovering around 100 degrees. Bonedry conditions and gusty winds. Its all fueling nine separate wildfires. Already theres a state of emergency declared in san diego county. Oh, my god oh, my gosh oh [ bleep ] omg is right. Nearly 10,000 acres have already burned. Tens of thousands of people have been told to leave. Wildfires dont usually hit Southern California this badly this early. This is something i have not seen in my career. Ive been in this fire service for 27 years. I havent seen it this dry, this hot for this long in may before. And weve had extraordinary numbers of started fires, a
Shinseki. Hes on the hot seat. He will address allegations of a coverup at Veterans Hospital and secret lists and destruction of records to cover it all up. Stunning emails showing that irs targeting scandal was directed out of washington and not cincinnati. These revelations contradict entirely the claims made by the woman at the center of it all and that could spell even more trouble from lois lerner. Where this goes well find out. Im bill hemmer. How you doing . Im jewely banderas in for martha maccallum. It reveals repeated efforts from top democratic senator carl levin to scrutinize specific groups because of their politics. Bill the emails, make, what do they tell us about where it started and where it led . You will recall blaine, cincinnati was the administrations narrative. Emails from former irs officials on july, 2010pas wrote, could you please let cindy, a director in cincinnati and sharon, what senior manager in los angeles know how we have been handling tea Party Operatio