It is my pleasure to welcome you to this program entitled, historically speaking, we return fighting. World war i and the shaping of the modern black identity. Published by smithsonian books, we return fighting is a collection of essays that chronicle of men and women who served the country on the battlefield as well as on the home front and their struggles for civil rights. One of the main things we will learn this evening is that while the Civil Rights Movement was decades away, world war i established important questions of citizenship that paved the way toward future progress. We are fortunate to be joined tonight by the museums Deputy Director and editor of we return fighting. The images are really very powerful, of americans at war and on the home front. It also gives us a different look at the life African Americans faced when they came home after the war. Let me end by welcoming you and assuring you that you are in for a wonderful evening. Thank you for joining us and im sure y
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We return fighting is a chronicle of men and women who served the country on the battlefield as well as on the home front and their struggles for civil rights. One of the main things we will learn this evening is that while the Civil Rights Movement was decades away, world war i established important questions of citizenship that paved the way toward future progress. We are fortunate to be joined tonight by shasha conwell, the s Deputy Director and editor of we return fighting. The images are really very powerful, of americans at war and on the home front. It also gives us a different look at the life African Americans faced when they came home after the war. Let me end by welcoming you and assuring you that you are in for a wonderful evening. Thank you for joining us and im sure you will have a great evening. [applause] ladies and gentlemen please , welcome the Deputy Director of the African Museum of history and culture, kinshasha holman. Good evening. Good evening. Braving the for r
We will get your thoughts, democrats only this morning. The first we begin with news. Brokeks like the newsweek this story this morning that the president a week ago approved a special ops raid targeting isis these are back daddy and the military is saying that he is dead. The president is going to speak time. S at 9 a. M. Eastern livell bring that to you here on cspan. More details coming up on that. First, democrats only. Are you with the 2020 field . We will begin with the New York Times. The headline read anxious democratic establishment asks . S there anybody else the hill newspaper, Hillary Clinton 2020 Whisper Campaign hits new height. If you take a look at the gallup poll, they ask members of the Democratic Party how satisfied they are and according to this poll, many of you are satisfied with a candidates running in 2020. What they found was that three out of four are pleased with the field in nearly meant nearly as many republicans are pleased and satisfaction is higher than