collapse of the ecosystem and the social collapse -- >> host: you can clarify for people. we talk about climate change as a kind of building issue whether it is accumulation in the atmosphere with a long time frame. but ehrlich has always sought it's going to be sutphen -- sudden. >> guest: the biologist that studies the eruption of the population and then the crash. biologists often talk about the crash part of that cycle and so he did that but the human population as well. i think that the idea of a nuclear warfare or a massive disease outbreak are more of the sudden responses that he predicted. i think that he would say that -- i guess around point changing the focus on the idea of a to pinpoint the there is going to be the moment things will spiral

out of control. and i guess that is the point i want to make about the idea of the debt. they made a little better but we are also involved in a larger bet about our own future and that is an important point that i want to emphasize about this. one is that that we are all engaged and we don't know what is being to happen and there are a lot of risks and uncertainties associated. >> host: we are all gambling with our future and don't know what's going to happen. >> guest: we are gambling on the future of the planet. >> host: thank you. it was a wonderful read and i think that what and for anybody about what is happening on these issues. >> guest: it was great talking with you. ..

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history. slavery interrupted our history. with that being said reveley -- roughly 6,000 years ago to make excellence provided on the african continent now called each of thousand years for the greeks played into the university system. said the european and global domination of portuguese which show african and kindness to their version of civilization 3t in 65 movie the unrecorded wanted million people lives are lost or scattered from their homes of origin to do the bidding of the colonizers. in 1526 that was the actual first landing of stolen africans on soil and south carolina by the spanish but

they rebelled in joined the indians. six franklin foer the first official enslaved africans reached jamestown to the british then 1865 the legal abolished and a chattel slavery happened shortly thereafter and estimative 500 freedom schools and underground stolen places whither by a tree or a building are created to show the premium that they placed on education. now called done best -- dunbar high school was one of those. the first conference was convened with the primary question if so how to educate the now free stolen africans.

as quoted by rutherford b. hayes irresponsible for their condition on this continent having deprived them of liberty and labor and manhood we have no excuse if our selfishness prompted us to do so. a share this to have the premium for enslavement and afterwards with those that we've base for quality education and under it insurmountable odds. were reflected us in the book to the great race men and women of their times as well as other prominent figures of stolen african history to come down the halls of dunbar high school. with infinite knowledge

written from firsthand accounts by gathering oral history from documented research and written in a narrative for met with the people's struggles and triumphs of this historic institution flows easily off the page and directly into readers hearts. i will even go out on a limb to declare alison stewart has the alumni and her parents brad with the telling of this important story. this first caught my pay attention is p.j. on mtv then on abc, world news tonight albeit midnight to 6:00 in the morning. [laughter] cbs, msnbc she must be a night owl like myself three thru 330amlpbr and nps

console nl at p and p. [laughter] i now bring to you the former p.j., news journalist, the wife, mother , and could have been a model and now author, a alison stewart and her book "first class" the legacy of dunbar, america's first black public high school". [applause] thank you so much. >> than that lovely introduction. i will introduce myself to those who are maybe encountering before the first time. my name is alison stewart and my mom was in the class of 1947 and my dad was a dunbar class of 1946 and my grandfather was the m street class of 1915 if you are from d.c. you heard about

dunbar from a mom or dad and if not the story could be not familiar someone to introduce it why are we talking about this high-school? the story goes something like this. dunbar his goal was a place where ashley educated teachers who had the highest expectations och for their students that produce scholars and went on to college 80 percent of graduates went to college in the '80s. as a result they excelled in a wide range now like to be talking about andover or any school but one of the reasons dunbar is so spectacular because dunbar was a segregated high school in the nation's capital

and.produce some degree is african americans and americans period. so many first came i always feel like half to wind up. the first black graduate of the naval academy, the first black army general was a dunbar graduate, the first black federal judge, the first black presidential with his presidential cabinet member, a jazz musician, find artist and the museum of modern art in santa as important were hundreds of teachers who came out of dunbar then fanned out into d.c. in to the south into the colored school system with this fantastic basis of the education. how many people who have done our graduates and their

families? so you can relate to this story. i wanted to do some interviews for the book i realize the gallery jared's father went to dunbar it got me you to the out how -- into a new one-year i took to the white house but this sums it up. the first time she heard about and dunbar from her father as a very young child was critical of my father's past in his path in life and he gives full credit for having been educated he together with his colleagues had a world-class level any time i would ever say anything grammatically incorrect he would say as dunbar high school taught me, then he would correct me. he is a big believer to do not be lazy with your grammar or do not be lazy period or do not be lazy

with you speaking of that as a young child i remember him telling me stories about dunbar high school to give it credit for the shaping of his life. one of the great benefits of working on this book, the reason i wanted to write it initially i would hear the stories but it was such an incredible story i was fascinated with the idea you have the incredibly educated african-americans speaking in the city could speak french fluently but some person would not let you come in to buy a coke? said that that was such a bizarre contradiction. one of the great benefits i could talk to people who experienced this firsthand

but i realized i was in a race against time because the people who could bear witness to what happened at dunbar in their 70's, 80's, 90's. i tell the story before i got very excited and i decided in 2006 i would do is so started to write letters to get interviews i really did not have myself together so i sent out a few and i won -- and i got one back corrected from a dunbar graduate. [laughter] i was very lucky to have that one happened early but also i came back and checked my voicemail it was senator ed broker would be happy to talk to you about. >> host. >> guest: of the most important experiences in my life. that is the challenge in the

deep -- easy part the difficult is that my protagonist is a school house do you bring that to life? but as a talk to graduates realized dunbar had a spirit a and a soul even though was a building there must be your box i thought i will go over to dunbar high school they have an awesome football team. spores are important but what about the great academics that have come out of the school? in the person had no knowledge in this was a very

smart d.c. person and i thought that was alarming that he does not know. then i understood why. i went to the school built in 1977 nobody stop me. in journalism they say walk like you belong and keep going. i did that. i noticed in the hallway there were picture frames upon the wall in plastic cheap frames tilted and cracked with ed brooks pitcher, just a very sad thing in the cabinet that have rolled faded photographs one of the faces was dr. charles drew there faded and not behind protective class and is struck me this history might be lost if somebody does not write this down or write

this book somebody needs to record the history. for a while i thought should i contact a fantastic greater? i will do with. why not? that is our started my journey. either into law in researching this i spent they know me at the howard library like you would not believe in the sumner archives in the library of congress. what i found so interesting about washington d.c. is washington had been schools for colored children in the 19th century and i say this that i use the language of the era. colored, negro, a black, african-american one of the editors of my publisher said this is making me really uncomfortable. i said good.

that's the point. it shouldn't make you feel a certain way. by washington has very decent schools small, private because of might the south where it was simply illegal to teach someone, a colored person to read, a cover person as i go down to new south carolina to read the slave transcripts llord don't get caught with a pencil and a pen that is as bad as killing your mr. and mrs.. even though there were not going to be public schools provided they would not stop them from learning. that was an amazing thing. i really feel like it is one of the cornerstones why the fiscal was able to be established. you already have learning going on in the district.

after ... a war the local leaders realized we have to do something with the free colored children but there was a group of three black men who saw the opportunity to if we're going to get past grammar school level this is the time to do it. they had to prepare a revised offer coverage use. not given the building so they went to the basement of a church with four students 1870's the first-ever class. then i realized it was about the spirit is there was not a physical high-school built over 22 years. the school traveled from building to building in and out of recycles in the course of that the teachers and principals began very early on to establish it as

a place of academic rigor. among the first three principles was the first blackhawk graduate of harvard in the first black woman to get her four year degree in she was instrumental to start the heavy-duty strict academic curriculum. the teachers at dunbar over old dunbar was extraordinary intellect. many were the first blacks to go to competitive school and hers, yale, harvard hers, yale, harvard, overland , brown, when they would graduate they could not get jobs. they could not go to universities are could not teach because of jim crow law. so many came back tucci chad dunbar. i am sure you have heard stories of teachers with a ph.d. in math and languages.

the first woman to earn all credits for the ph.d. a radcliffe and graduated from dunbar even though even while trying to write her a decent -- dissertation she cannot give in to certain libraries but she still managed to complete it but that was the course it also attracted even people who had a degree in law or medical doctors or one principle was a lawyer when they ask why are you teaching he said ladylike the paycheck. the reputation of the school group and it became a way of life at dunbar there was a certain code of behavior and certain things were expected and one of the things that i

loved reading we're the handbooks with their instructions on how to behave and i will be -- read a little bit. >> being dunbar student was a way of life the strong program was a given the reason why steve behalf -- listed as what it would excel period. they excepted a model for greater in diversity:prosperity the words formed a halo around a woman with a book on her lap and a halo around her head. news students were informed to be at dunbar they had to have a serious purpose to succeed. students were counseled what to eat, wear, how to behave behave, there were all given the small handbook and asked to consulted regularly. far beyond the classroom in making the libertarian and comfortable.

not to gossip, have good manners, a sleeping eight hours per day with the windows open. even how to pick friends'' girls and boys to fail in lessons were careless and habits should not be chosen as companions. [laughter] the away the administration sought it affects student was lucky enough to stay at dunbar they were a representative wherever the student went. two pages was devoted how to act in public. walking down the street street, avoid loud talking, familiar actions or laughter if you desire to converse with friends don't later leave the street corners for traffic. for conduct and social affairs students were told to always greet your host and hostess upon greeting the home in remember the following suggestion boys

ask the girls to dance. boys think your partner and escort her to for see in the valley for in the middle of the floor. [laughter] pearls, remember remove all wraps before dancing. do not accept an invitation to dance with anyone you are not acquainted. gum chewing is in bad taste. avoid it. [laughter] i don't mean to make it sound as if it was easy for dunbar to continue to exist every be victory was hard fought getting the building, maintaining a high level curriculum, the school was under constant fire to roll back the curriculum and at 1.he suggested they exchange robinson crusoe for shakespeare because it may be easier for the negro children to understand. the effort to constantly

wohl into the technical and business aspects. but the principal there fought hard to continue to keep dunbar primarily an academic school. this was to protect the student and prepare the student for the inhospitable world they knew they were going into. let me read from dollar major its father. i got to go to rome in the event on martha's vineyard that celebrated the graduates onstage including her dad and i will talk about which he said then i will read some quick bites. sporting his bow tie and suit told the audience we were always told an almost

brainwashed you can do it. when you leave here you can compete that is the most important thing and we believed it. when you get out you can compete with anybody. harold nelson spoke of the family's involvement in the school. then the school unity of the people i knew when to dunbar. it was a community. there was a bigger laughs when he said he will be somebody the other part is that you will never embarrass me. [laughter] >> this is something that struck me as something i take for granted what adelaide said about the teachers say and what the gift was in she said they

put their faith and hope on the students who came from simple holmes a lot of parents had modest regular jobs and created and allowed people to plan for you could play space if because you having given in education what you want to do? also adjust to have a basic and stable middle-class. but the ability to plan always struck me. the teachers were not shy of that when they got to into is a world of the cocoon that they were so protected from anybody telling them they were lesser when every pretty new that they thought

negros were socially inferior. and then mentioned the first black military commander from the academy was wesley brown and has since passed away but one of the questions i asked this one was a time of year life you knew dunbar had served you well? he describes when he was at the academy he chose not to ruin anybody because he was the first black person to make it through some more haze out so this was interesting. he felt confident with his

high school training especially after witnessing his classmates'' when i went to the academy i knew there were a lot of guys with a straight days in high school who were not doing so well and i concluded a lot of them were not challenged because their schools are not competitive. lot of cadets have poured time management skills and unpleasantly surprised with the curfew on their grades but it taught me how to study i learned how to get to the meat of the assignment as a high-school student he worked as a mail clerk to help support the family his father truckdriver and his mother was a laundress. i had a very limited amount of study i was doing in participating in sports in addition to working the mailroom and running track he was the colonel of the cadet corps. i give a lot of time in the book to the cadet corps

about how important it was to how many of the young men and women of what we think of as r.o.t.c. now, it was interesting. when i found when i was interesting graduates they would say i would have us -- i have nothing to tell you but then tell me so long and fantastic story. leslie brown had one. i was talking about his bravery of the people who went to dunbar and just said i can do this. i am as good as anybody else and i pave the way for my generation. quite literally. he is in the naval academy getting demerits' right and left but on the top half he

gets the merits because we know why. at the time of very interview the 79 year-old brown was quick to say some cadets were cordial or decent to him or had the decency to ignore him. in his home office full of files in history books he did not want to dwell on the negative experience he looks back at that time with the curiosity of a scientist for a cadet for december, some words but why? he would give the answer to himself i don't know. is this guy a natural for racist or because his parents taught him that way? the logic says this does not make sense or are you afraid of the upper class to punish you? jimmy carter helped me with this. [laughter] yap. that jimmy carter.

president carter remembers wesley brown quite well had a nice phone conversation about him and he did use the word brave about him leslie browne was brave and an outstanding person. had he been eric gan or less timid or less courage would not be successful and even before jackie robinson played baseball so a very early time brave, intelligent, and responded to acquire persecution with equilibrium. as they read the stories in to write down that history of old dunbar and the frustrating to write down the recent history. i found up intel whether

"in-depth" reengineering program of the difficulties of the outside world made their way into dunbar '60s, '70s, '80s, of violence of the '90s. but the 2000 story is tough in some kids were trying to steady some trying to teach and some teachers you should not have been there sunday said good home will been frankly -- whoopin' frankly it is at the time the resolve that reform with when michelle v. takeover and do you know, you have

an amazing blueprint three blocks away? why isn't anybody looking at the lessons of dunbar going forward? think of all the social and legal obstacles. we although a brand new school, and $122 million school. there is such a great energy there is some sweet things it was of print it had been knocked down in the '70s in a personal fight most people think it was a parking garage or a prison that will go away very soon they have

a brand new beautiful school. there were blacks all over the floor so the kids can see every single day they left many of them blank that is very aspirational but what i want to do for the new school they are tough because three computers were stolen yesterday in the windows were broken. one of the architects said a building can only do so much. it brought me right back to the teachers which is why i focus on three people that i met at modern dunbar to give you hope. one is the girls' track coach he had been a christian school at a cushy job and asked to comco chad

dunbar and he said he was up for a challenge he said, lest when he needed them as school and if he could not get there and he would pick them up. this is his first reaction with all the talk he said after being around these girls they were intelligent young ladies but the thought was that they we're done and had no clue i just found that was not the case some of them were brilliant when asked why they were trying it was tried and true they said pierre pressure they tried to keep of false image i broke it down how stupid it was nobody owns nothing in d.c. the federal government owns everything you are representing ever

has in projects that carry -- cared nothing about leo not intel he would take them on to workers of colleges with track meets we went to virginia tech to the director of engineering they went to door ramsey and you should've seen their faces. said girls had no idea that life could be like that. my girls have got to go to college the demeanor changes when he thinks of the bigger picture and is very serious the way adults should talk to kids we need to tell the truth. you want to break the cycle of having babies to stay in d.c. going to use section in never leaving the hud. the other teacher he put it so beautifully and simply a young white guy the only white teacher at the school and the kids ask him about his hair a lot.

[laughter] he was part of the teach for america but this was not something he was doing to enhance his resonate. he put it very plainly about what it means how we help kids at dunbar . you stay. the first year as much as anything is getting tested the students want to know what your reputation is from tenth grade they know i am the 12th grade teacher. i come to work every day there is always a lesson and i have been here for a while. if you care that is all they need. thank you. [applause]

>> i am happy to take questions. i know often what comes out of my mouth. be worn to. >> before i ask you a question i would like to speak to the audience. she has written a book that is so important anybody involved in education needs to read it. but there is a problem she is a thief. but you present accurately. >> host: that disproved not only can they learn but equally or perhaps even better in the right condition then we get to the fall of dunbar something you did not mention because it was not appropriate but recognize the person is you brought crack cocaine to

washington d.c. at that point but it shows to extremes and now you have as everyone should visit dunbar high-school to see what a building can do. just to proselytize for a second i have never seen a building in over 30 years in journalism that brought the past and present and future together like that. but then the night before he have this issue. >> that is also a good reminder we can get tied up with this building there is a long way to go. >> that is a perfect segue. i am fortunate enough to know those that work there but what would you recommend probably as well as anyone across the board you now

note that dunbar to have any recommendations or what american can to? they get back to anywhere near those sites. >> the biggest concern that i have is a lot of people ask who is this new school for? it is much bigger than the current population of one to bring in kids from all over the city and that could be great battle to see those kids that have been underserved for so long discarded. i applied the "twilight" academy pulling the kids out to get them up to speed. you will see a repeat of the 30's and 40's when the schools are overrun then they only went to school two or three hours per day than when they integrated in

segregated the rap against those who had a proper education so make sure you take care of the population while you bring in the other whoever fills the other 500 slots. my pollyanna hope you cannot go back maybe you should not is the three men wanted integrated schools. they said are you crazy? i have a hope dunbar could be organically integrated in 15 years of people coming in and a black family's day or people come in from all over the city but wouldn't that be great? people just coming to school together? but i think the key is there is remediation for the

students because you cannot just discard them. >> think you and you have written a brilliant book. >> i got one bad review and is said i was chatty. i said the act. that's right. i am. [laughter] >> dc the pta developing? >> yes one spoke on friday and she said to the parents you have just gotten a $122 million lottery ticket. claman this school. claimed the school. a lot of these kids are in foster's care were the parents are not around the extended school day it is amazing to see when they offer free breakfast it is a huge challenge that was

another piece of the puzzle was parental involvement. the woman from the pta was on fire i think they have a good leader there if anybody will follow her is the issue >> they give for writing a great book. you'' that the '60s and '70s that democratization reducing everything to mediocrity across the board. can you talk about the ideas of academic rigor house the schools in d.c. are or are not allowed to hold a standard? >> that is hard and nasty stuart addressed it in his class. i have a class where is

senior doesn't know how to put the letters together but she came in they talked and she left it was not worth it for her to stay in that class they were at such different levels. in the '60s they were tracking the kids because of what i mentioned earlier with the kids began underserved almost all of black kids were thrown into the basic track so the judge did away with that but a lot of teachers talk about you need to have people at their level to teach their level. ionize sure what the right answer is. my kids will go to public school in the fall should be have done others?

we don't know what to do. i don't have an answer i really don't. it is a magnet school in essence all the kids knew they would go to college went to dunbar they kept the his standard thai or you could not stay there but armstrong, you got a good education but maybe the family could not afford school you got a job afterwards and i think we need to take the stigma of the technical and vocational schools. [applause] >> hi. i'm a third-generation washingtonian. the comment about the tracking is interesting my parents and grandparents all went to. >> host: team. my grandfather went to ann

street -- m street he did have an over court -- overcoat said he had to walk their debut was the highest ranking black in the military as a third colonel and would it help to integrate the armed forces. i went to mckinley which was a track school. we took the same class's as the best western will send students took a and we scored as well or better we had dedicated teachers and if you mess up this story

would get home before you did. [laughter] but now the weekend the technology high school has changed and you don't see so many folks to look like me in that school. so i do raise a question about what is happening at dunbar and in fact, i have been working for the past i don't know how many years to fight to the displacement and this is just the kind of thing that curiously our civic leadership has been doing to us. we elect them and they betrayed us. >> it is important to bring it up. >> if anybody is interested

we have organizations challenging for 10 years on a variety of fronts for people trying to keep their homes we are effective to do this kind of thing but i want to thank you very much for this book. i know it has helped me with research i have to do and something i may end up writing as wall. >> there were so many stories and i had to stay focused. that was hard because i would go down a rabbit holes [laughter] there were so many great stories and i have been getting a lot from people and i put them on my website maybe there'll be another section of just letters. >> you can travel whole section of a bookstore. [laughter] or the acknowledgments in

terms of getting the other books published but thank you so much in and telling stories that need to be told we're not just people who pass through but people like my grandfather who started the houses in the 12th street ymca they help to make washington d.c.. thank you. [applause] and. >> my name is margaret webster by a may 1950. >> i and a 1950 graduate of dunbar. [applause] >> do you know, my uncle? >> the question in terms of the vision of where it is going i and the stand you

interviewed says is a great if you better reaction what he thinks of the new dunbar and the education of students of washington d.c. he should be in touch with her vision and doesn't match what he thinks should be going on? and did you get the inside to what he is thinking? >> what i got from him was he was very concerned that dunbar students did not have a connection to set to set -- dunbar alumni not enough back-and-forth and i could tell in his voice he really thought he and others needed to do more especially

those 2,000 years with the no child left behind five years and narrow and i recorded the whole thing and they go to the class is. 30's, '40's, with 2000 is one or two claps and that really bothered him and what he wanted to work on was to bring in the past where the recent present together. also he felt it is very important as a policy to p&p kids to do for themselves, not to give them everything and he cited an example they said we need speed bumps can you do that? he said i can teach you how to write the letter how to get it done but i will lead to a four you.

-- how to do what i will not do with for you. said it is as far as he got on policy. >> but what kind of leadership he could provide? >> we did not policy at all. >> i am sure if you ran across concerns of leadership in. >> yes. you cannot talking about washington in d.c. the leadership and talking about stuff that is not even in the book that listening to people's concerns and it is i opening. >> he made quite an issue of michelle rhee with his campaign against the past

mayor and that is why i was wondering if he addressed what he thought? >> he did say about her in the book that she did not understand middle-class black people and did not understand what the teacher met to the middle-class black people is a position of respect in the way she talked about firing teachers and she was tone deaf on that issue. >> that is still going on. >>. >> the evening. >> good evening. >> i am a 1957 graduate of this is colbert king pulitzer prize winner.

>> joe referred to me and you referred to me as mr. king and you rectory out that i was not available when you came to interview me. [laughter] i am sorry. i am sorry. [laughter] [applause] thank you very much for a the wonderful book. >> thank you for writing this book i just want to share my father was a graduate and was the contemporary of your grandfather. he thinned graduated summa cum laude day and one of the prizes physics, chemistry, a greek and applied to the army to volunteer for the medical corps and he received a letter back they appreciated his interest but

day had their fill of colored people. that really possessed me off and i still have the letter. he and his brother the first black corporation counsel of washington d.c. with the stories of the civil-rights movement, being attacked as sit-ins' and demonstrations that also upset me. but the brothers and sisters was always about decorum and how you conduct yourself and as i was listening to your lindy from the hand but i did not know there was a handbook. >> that was just one page. >> in that piece that you will not embarrass me? almost every day. [laughter] >> thank you for sharing.

>> tower you today? >> i am very good. thank you. >> you are indeed. [laughter] i did not go to dunbar , my wife, sweet potato. [laughter] my wife's parents and i came up with the great migration that the son of a sharecropper i did not go to school until i was 10 years old but when i got the measles as a child when i was four years old i was in bet for four days and bathhouses were papered with newspaper and i knew the alphabet. so i would spell words in my mother read to me what the words were and that is how i learned to read the first word was m-e-m-p-h-i-s and

and i read every paper on that wall. [laughter] that is our learn to read and i'm mitchell that talking about education and specifically about a problem with blacks, coloreds, negro , who weber i am and education and dunbar represents the top. you have people who got together to set up and according to the book i read the newspaper ad night and one chapter of your book every night and we read everything. my wife is black. that is what we do. i am impressed with what you have done with the beginning of teaching and learning in this city of washington d.c..

one thing is missing. in the mid-50s i hope to set up what was called the city wide social adjustment for children that were put out of schools all over the city. my children i was daddy or pop the to every black child in the world and as you see me that is house they see them and they are my children. i went to the schools for their discharge stand talk to this teacher is an end a disturbing and instructor notice no parent came to the school. i went to the home to see why they were put out of school. i noticed one thing in generally that was unanimously agreed upon upon, there was no reading material in the home, not even the newspaper.

not one comic-book. not a viable. -- bible we all had sunday school books. you read your sunday school lesson. it didn't make sense at the time but you read it. [laughter] and the lyric that i read 40 days and 40 nights. [laughter] no, no, no. i would be swimming. [laughter] but that was a problem among those people and it is still a problem. we don't have any teaching material in the hall were those children came from we worry why they don't have anything else to think about and learning begins with thinking and you have to have a mind a stimulus to do something because it does

not work that way. >> that is why i like the extending of the school days they can stay at the school longer if there is nothing to go at home with of on their school-- starting at dunbar . >> i will take the class to my house for lunch and a sweet potato would be there to welcome them. we have been married 62 years. shave raise mine for children. [applause] another thing about blacks black man have a problem to be can -- to become an intergenerational because we did not want to patterned after the men that we saw a i did not want to be anything that i saw in the

movie and i did that see anybody else at. >> at dunbar there was the incredible role model every day they used to bring in people to speak to students of the time about careers and options. it was really something. thank you. [applause] >> wait. wage. wait. >> there is a line. [laughter] >> my wife was a social worker and we noticed in those homes there were no fathers and eight or nine children in day did not have anything in there to read and i'm a dancer my child had dr. seuss is the crib with him or when he came out or had a children's book i just wanted to call that to your attention that we do

need to put books and reading material in the homes of those children. >> thank you so much. [applause] . . one of the things i am very concerned about when i heard you this morning is the do the students at dunbar know their

history and know that history of the school? one of the things i'm finding has been very upsetting to me after attending the march on saturday and seeing the number of students and college students who marched we had that group from howard when we had the "washington post" yesterday. the kids -- our children don't know their history and because of that, they have nothing to aspire to. this great mass came before them and paved the way. have you had the opportunity to present your book to the students of the school? >> not yet and is very interesting. i got a note today from the pen faulkner association that wants

to buy a lot of books and put them in the schools and have a top. i said i would be happy to and give the students the chance to read the book and process it. yeah, i found it so upsetting, to match. that was another reason i wanted to write the book is i feel like it is an awful and pernicious life and so many kids have bought that sticker. >> of the leader of the school as far as i'm concerned i know now with the first day of school the open the state of the hart building. you should have been there and addressed the student with this book. you can have a pta and all that but if the parents don't also know the story we have babies

raising babies and if the parents don't have some idea of the history of the richness of the building and the people who came before we are going to lose them. the school is not going to be for those students who are most at risk. that is something that i hope everyone here will keep in mind as we move forward. i wish you well in your book. i'm taking it to the college where i teach. my students are going to read this. >> thank you. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. i had an opportunity to meet you briefly friday and i look forward to reading your book. after your statement about what the mayor had to say, i had to come up and see.

i have to represent my decade and i agree disappointed in the lack of support. what i have tried to do is leverage the excitement of the new building to reach out to the connection from the 90's and in 2000 to get them free engaged to help them see that they play a role in preserving the legacy in protecting the brand. >> with dr. russo you had one of the greatest principles at dunbar. >> i was under dr. russo in the training program. i grew up at the park and i pretty much grew wet that cooper's home. i lived on second and t st. my friends or family and descendants of ms. cooper. so i was in the home all the time and lysol old books and pictures and everything. so, that is what i'm really

looking forward to to get that extra history that i didn't get. but i just wanted to let you know that we are here -- >> i will. and all of the members of the federation, you will be seeing more of me and we can find ways to better engage. [applause] >> i am eleanor smith and i graduated in 1950. your mother was in the class with my brothers and sisters. as i sit here and listen to the tales about dunbar, i feel sad because i don't think that it can be what it was, which it can

be. the past cannot be with the future is. i am concerned that the high school has taken a lot of cream of the crop. as i look at the wall with the pictures of the previous graduates, i felt it was impossible for the school because a lot of those people -- i'm wondering what was done our offer in terms of compared to what it was? >> i am by union to the idea that dunbar's past will help in

spider and fuel the future. they have been very plain to me. they said you know what? these kids aren't going to go to colombia that they are going to go to compton and they are going to get to the next step. that is the next step. we need to get all these kids in college. it may not be the college you think is an ivy league school but they are going to get educated and that is where we need to get educated now. getting his roles in a college. and, you know, it is a long process. it's hard to think that things have been that tough but it was 30 years to get there and it might be 40 years to get back the other way. >> [inaudible] >> i hope you enjoy it. >> good evening, everyone. i am a fisher robinson.

i learned a long time ago because of slavery times that its most important for you to remember who you are and to say all of your name. there is so much i would have liked to have told you when you interviewed us. one thing i forgot to tell you is that my paternal grandmother, mary fisher graduated from dunbar high school in 1878 -- 98, and lawrence graves who was the coordinator for all of the class's found the program of my grandmother from that graduation and she was in the school of business which didn't last very long.

but i am so happy that you have written this book. there are so many memories as you know. my husband and i and so many others were here in the class with jo jo and my brother was in the class with your mother in 1947 but we are members of the class of 1946. my husband and i have so many memories about anbar and i know there is a saying that you can never go home again. we can't go back. but the memories are very strong for us who are 85-years-old now. there were many things our class did upon graduation. we did try to act as mentors to the class's. we had a scholarship fund and

the federation is doing that now. we can only go forward. i know we are sorry about the things that haven't. but we have to go forward with the things we can really do now and perhaps even though we can't go back we can go forward with the things we know and the things we've done and the persons who are still alive and have rinero all the good things that happened at them are and i just want to thank you. >> one of the things i wanted to mention i'm glad you mentioned the scholarships because the federation did a fantastic job with scholarships and i want to do something but i couldn't give money to them because you can't give money to people you write about. i took my advance from this book and i stood a firsts scholarship it's not big or a lot of money but if it helps some kids not to have to work and be able to

study at school it is also open for anybody to contribute to. you can get to it through my website. am i going to find some books now? okay. so, for everyone who might have missed at the did the right up and did an interview with ms. stewart on wednesdays and you might have to go to the archives and check it out. what i would like for us to do is make sure that we sell out of this book. they are available at the front. for everyone who didn't get your question please get a book and then come and talk with ms. stewart. thank you very much. pick up your chair and your trash.

from the collegian senate jerome

and discusses his book bad samaritan the aclu's relentless pace this is about a half-hour. >> jerome corsi is an outstanding author who wrote a best-selling book called unfit for command which was a major factor in the defeat of john kerry in 2004. and he is a prolific author max and he has not only one but two books that he's going to talk about today. quote quote what went wrong the inside story of the gop debacle and what can be next time." number two is "data samaritans the aclu's campaign to erase safe from the public square." please welcome